To Break and Merge Cable Tray or Conduit Segments

After you have drafted cable tray or conduit runs, you can break an individual segment, break an entire run, or merge multiple segments. This can be helpful for determining the number of individual segments a manufacturer needs to supply.

When merging segments, you cannot cross fittings to join segments.

Breaking a conduit into segments

To break or merge cable tray or conduit

1. Select the cable tray or conduit, and do one of the following to open the dialog box:
   • Click Cable Tray tab Modify panel Cable Tray Length .
   • Click Conduit tab Modify panel Conduit Length .
   

   Cable Tray Length dialog box

2. Specify how you want to break or merge the cable tray or conduit:

   If you want to…	then…
   apply the length to the entire run	select Apply to Cable Tray Run or Apply to Conduit Run.
   specify a new segment length	select Break.
   merge segments	select Merge.
   select a cable tray or conduit	click (Select Objects), and select specific segments.
   change the length	enter or select a new length for each cut length. The 10 last-used lengths are stored as defined segment lengths. You can also specify the length by specifying points in the drawing.

If you have selected to break segments, the software breaks the selected segment or run into multiple segments of the specified length. If the segment cannot be broken evenly by the specified length, the last broken segment might be shorter.