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When processing a plate or part you may wish to select leadins or leadouts.  This might be used if you want to change the characteristics of a leadin; perhaps it needs to be shortened.

1Click on the Processing editor tab.

2Select one of the external spurgear paths.

3Right-click to display the pop-up context menu, and choose Select Similar.  All of the external spurgear paths will be selected.

4Right-click again, and this time choose Select LeadIn.

5The Lead-ins for the spurgears are now selected.

If your Properties window ISN'T showing (Neither free floating nor docked in the bottom left corner of the screen), then

1.Right-click and Click Show Properties. The properties window should now be open. If it is free floating, drag it to the bottom left corner to dock it.

6Change the Leadin Length field to 15mm, and Click the Apply button (in fact you could simply Click elsewhere in the window to apply the changes).  

You have now changed the lead-in length for all of the external spurgear paths.