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      <p class="para_topic">The <b class="uiTerm">Connect Path</b> functionality is accessible from both the standard routing toolbar and the <b class="uiTerm">Edit</b> menu at: <b class="uiTerm">Edit&rarr;Routing Mechanical or Routing Electrical&rarr;Connect Path</b>.
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      <p class="para_topic">With <b class="uiTerm">Connect Path</b> you can highlight all duplicate segments and RCPs occurring in the work part, connect discontinuous paths into a single path, select all RCPs in the work part and merge, and automatically delete duplicate segments. You are able to specify a tolerance value that governs these actions.
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      <div class="title_division">Tolerance</div>
      <p class="para_division">Enter a tolerance value used in determining if two RCPs are duplicates. If the distance between the RCPs is less than the tolerance value then the RCPs are duplicates.</p>
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      <p class="para_division">Duplicate RCPs and segments in the work part, if any, are marked using temporary highlighting. Duplicates in the work part will recompute and mark using temporary highlighting every time you select this button. You can use the user&ndash;specified tolerance value to determine duplicates. The status message tells you how many duplicates it finds.</p>
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      <p class="para_division">This selects all RCPs in the work part. Use this facility to merge all duplicate RCPs in the work part within the specified tolerance.</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body">There is no upper limit imposed on the tolerance values. Given a sufficiently large tolerance value, it can occur that each RCP at the ends of a single segment are determined to be duplicates. If you merge these RCPs, the segment becomes zero length and collapses. Use reasonable values for Tolerance.</p>
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      <p class="para_division"><b class="uiTerm">OK</b> causes a duplicate check on all selected RCPs and they merge as necessary. The system removes duplicate segments. All objects will be unhighlighted and the dialog box exits.
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      <p class="para_division"><b class="uiTerm">Apply</b> merges duplicates among selected RCPs, removes duplicate segments, de&ndash;highlights all objects and returns control to the dialog box for further action.
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