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Breaking Objects

  • Hold down the CTRL key and click on the desired overlapping objects.  

  • Click the Break button. 

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Breaking Objects at the Intersections

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  • The Break tool is used to

Bisect
  • bisectthe selected segments at the

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  • point where they Intersectin

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    • bisects all segments in the design

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  • Hold down the CTRL key and click on each of the overlapping objects.  

  • Click the Break button. 

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  • The objects will break where they intersected.

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  • Each new segment can now be edited separately, such as deleting the unwanted section and connecting the remaining segments with the Join button.

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Join
Definition

The Join button will connect the selected segments together as one object in Trace

The Auto Join Segments button will automatically join adjacent segments together in Trace.

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Break All Intersections

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titleBreak Tool Definition
The Breaktool is used to Bisect the selected segments at the points where they Intersect in the Trace software.

The Break All Intersections function bisect ALL segments in the design at the points where they intersect with another segment.

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Breaking an Object in a Specific Spot

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  • Sometimes Exploding a circuit isn’t sufficient if you need to break an object at a specific spot.

  • Draw the First Line where you would like to break the object, intersecting it with the Object.

  • Draw a Second Line where you want to break the object, intersecting it with the other object.

  • Select the object and the two lines and click the Break button to break them at the intersections.

  • Delete the unneeded segments and edit as desired.

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titleBreak Tool Definition
The Breaktool is used to Bisect the selected segments at the points where they Intersect in the Trace software.

The Break All Intersections function bisect ALL segments in the design at the points where they intersect with another segment.

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