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      <div class="title_topic5" id="xps10_pagetitle"> Edit slope constraints</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">You can create slope constraints interactively or automatically. You can achieve interactive creation, and deletion, of slope constraints through the <b class="uiTerm">Edit Slope Constraints</b> button on the Routing Mechanical or Routing Electrical toolbar. <b class="uiTerm">Slope Constraints</b> create automatically, when you turn on the <b class="uiTerm">Create Slope Constraints</b> preference and a segment becomes connected tangentially to a fitting port. You can control the display of slope constraint markers through the <b class="uiTerm">Routing Preference</b> <b class="uiTerm">Display Segment Constraints</b>.
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      <p class="para_topic">The<b class="uiTerm"> Edit Slope Constraints</b> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/ico_t_edit_slope_constraints.gif" border="0"> button launches the dialog box.
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      <p class="para_topic">Use any of the methods provided to select the segments on which to edit the slope constraints. Once you select the segments, the <b class="uiTerm">Slope Constraints</b> dialog box allows the creation and deletion of slope constraints.
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Segment Constraints</b> button from the routing toolbar. <b class="uiTerm">Insert&rarr;Routing&rarr;Segment Constraints</b> from the menu bar.
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Multiple Object Selection</b> is enabled and you can select routing segments present in the work part (non&ndash;occurrences). You can only select the segments valid for slope constraint operations. (Segments with existing slope constraints or segments tangential and connected to a fitting port.)
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Create Slope Constraints</b></p>
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                     <p class="para_item">This option creates slope constraints on the selected segments. A slope constraint marker as shown in the figure below appears on the segment.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Delete Slope Constraints</b></p>
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                     <p class="para_item">This option deletes the slope constraints on the selected segments. The slope constraint marker erases from the segment display.</p>
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