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      <div class="title_topic4" id="xps10_pagetitle">Using dialog boxes</div>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('intro_to_nx/uiu_ov_uicomponents_m.html');return(false);">Overview</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('intro_to_nx/uiu_ov_uicomponents_p.html');return(false);">How To</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('intro_to_nx/uiu_ov_uicomponents_op.html');return(false);">Options</a></p>
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      </table><br><div class="title_division">Dialog box tips</div>
      <p class="para_division">Follow these general workflow guidelines in dialog boxes that open when you select commands:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Work from the top down.</p>
            <p class="para_item">Dialog boxes are divided into groups organized by workflow from the top down.</p>
            <p class="para_item">If the dialog box has a <b class="uiTerm">Type</b> group at the top, select a type first. The options in the dialog box may change based on your selection.
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            <p class="para_item">The <b class="uiTerm">OK</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Apply</b> confirmation buttons are at the bottom of the dialog box, as this is what you do last.
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            <p class="para_item">Collapse groups you do not need.</p>
            <p class="para_item">Use the <b class="uiTerm">Collapse Group</b> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/dialog_group_collapse.png" border="0"> and <b class="uiTerm">Expand Group</b> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/dialog_group_expand.png" border="0"> buttons to collapse and expand the groups.
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            <p class="para_item">Hide the dialog box when needed.</p>
            <p class="para_item">If the objects you need to select in the graphics window are covered by the dialog box, either slide it out of the way, or click the title bar to temporarily collapse it.</p>
            <p class="para_item">You can also press F3 to cycle between hiding dynamic input boxes in the graphics window, hiding both the dialog box and the dynamic input boxes, and displaying them both again.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">To redefine a prior selection in the graphics window, hold Shift and click to deselect it.</p>
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      <p class="para_division">Command dialog boxes use several visual cues to help guide you through the selection process:</p>
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            <p class="para_item"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/highlight_color_orange.gif" border="0"> Orange 
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            <p class="para_item">The current selection option is highlighted in orange. </p>
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            <p class="para_item">The objects you select in the graphics window for the current selection option are also colored orange.</p>
            <p class="para_item">The Cue line provides a more detailed prompt for the required selection.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/highlight_color_cyan.gif" border="0"> Cyan
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            <p class="para_item">Objects selected in the graphics window from a previous selection option are colored cyan. </p>
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                        <p class="para_tip_body">The animated picture below is an example of defining a sketch plane. Separate selection options in the dialog box prompt for the sketch plane and the horizontal reference. Notice how the colors change when you switch between the two selections.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/button_default.gif" border="0"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/button_default_small.gif" border="0"> Green
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            <p class="para_item">A button that is the next default action is highlighted in green. Click the middle mouse button or press Enter to accept the default action. </p>
            <p class="para_item">The <b class="uiTerm">OK</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Apply</b> confirmation buttons becomes active after you provide all the required inputs. Typically, the <b class="uiTerm">OK</b> button is the default action.
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            <p class="para_item"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/dialog_red_ast.png" border="0"> Red asterisk 
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            <p class="para_item">A red asterisk next to a selection option indicates that you have not yet made this required selection.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/dialog_green_check.png" border="0"> Green check mark 
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            <p class="para_item">A green check mark next to a selection option indicates either that you have made the required selection or that the software has made an inferred default selection.</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body">You can change the default selection color settings in the <b class="uiTerm">Customer Defaults</b> dialog box. Choose <b class="uiTerm">File&rarr;Utilities&rarr;Customer Defaults</b>. Select <b class="uiTerm">Gateway&rarr;Visualization</b> and then click the <b class="uiTerm">Color Settings</b> tab. If you change the selection colors from the defaults, they will no longer match the colors used in the dialog box to indicate the current selection group.
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                           <p class="para_note_body">Default selection color settings</p>
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                           <p class="para_note_body"><b class="uiTerm">Alternative Selection</b></p>
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      <div class="title_division">Using dialog boxes to edit features</div>
      <p class="para_division">When you edit a feature, you see the same dialog box you used when you created the feature.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Expand each group to see the entered values. The dialog box displays the original feature values in each group.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Click to activate any selection option, and both the option and the objects selected for that option are highlighted in orange. To change the selection in the graphics window, hold Shift and click to deselect any objects, or click to select any new objects.</p>
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      <div class="title_division">See also</div>
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            <p class="para_item"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('intro_to_nx/uiu_dia_box_ops.html');return(false);">Common dialog box options</a></p>
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