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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle">Curve Analysis Basic Procedure</div>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/anl_curve_analysis.html');return(false);">Curve Analysis Overview</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Basic Procedure</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/anl_curve_analysis_options.html');return(false);">Combs</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/anl_curve_analysis_options.html#analysis_anl_curve_analysis_options_peaks');return(false);">Peaks</a></p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">The Curve Analysis options let you display analysis properties for selected curves and edges.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Use Global Selection to select one or more curves.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">from the Analyze Shape toolbar or the Analysis&rarr; Curve pull-down menu, click the analysis toggle options you wish to display for the selected curves. You can use the  <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/show_pole.html');return(false);">Show / Hide Poles</a>,  <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/anl_curve_analysis_options.html');return(false);">Combs</a>,  <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/anl_curve_analysis_options.html#analysis_anl_curve_analysis_options_peaks');return(false);">Peaks</a> and  <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/anl_curve_analysis_options.html#analysis_anl_curve_analysis_options_inflections');return(false);">Inflections</a> toggles for basic analysis, and the  <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/anl_output.html');return(false);">Graph</a> and  <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_analysis/anl_curve_analysis_graph_ops.html');return(false);">Output Listing</a> toggles for more specialized analysis.
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            <p class="para_item">Shown below is an example using three curves with the Show Poles, Combs and Peaks options turned on.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">To optionally change the analysis parameters for Combs, Peaks or Inflections from the default, open its corresponding option dialog and specify new parameters. The changes you make to analysis parameters update dynamically and affect all selected curves. Click OK to dismiss the option dialog.</p>
            <p class="para_item">Shown below is the result from the prior example of turning off the combs on two of the curves and then changing the Combs parameters for the remaining curve.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">You can remove any of the analysis display elements from any of the curves by selecting the curves and turning off the desired analysis toggle options (from the Analyze Shape Toolbar or the option switches on the Analysis&rarr; Curve pull-down menu).</p>
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