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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">You may define display formats in the configuration file for Routing Electrical, found in the directory pointed to by the environment variable UGII_RLIST_PATH. This file also defines the import and export formats. This method of defining the display formats provides common formats for all users.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">Note that existing display formats, contained in a part file, will not automatically update if the configuration file is modified. For instance, if a field is added to the default display format named <b class="uiTerm">Full</b> and an part is retrieved with a display format named Full already defined, that display format is not changed to match the new definition found in the modified configuration file. This is because there may be processes dependent on the older format which might break unexpectedly should the change be made without user intervention.
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      <p class="para_topic">To have the modified configuration file take effect (update to the new <b class="uiTerm">Full Display</b> format), first delete the existing display format from the part file through the <b class="uiTerm">Rlist Properties</b> dialog box. The next time Routing Electrical is invoked (it is not necessary to start a NX session), the new display format will be created according to the definition currently in the configuration file.
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