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      <div class="title_topic4" id="xps10_pagetitle">Dimensions and constraints</div>
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            <p class="defObject"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/commandref/ideas_rule.gif" border="0"><br><img align="bottom" src="graphics/ideas/des_mm_dimension.gif" border="0"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/ideas/des_mm_constrain.gif" border="0"> <b class="uiTerm">Dimension</b>, <b class="uiTerm">Constrain_Dimension</b></p>
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            <p class="para_defMeaning">Constraints and dimensions are part of the Sketcher.</p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/icons/icon-sketch.gif" border="0"> <b class="uiTerm">Sketch</b> (<b class="uiTerm">Feature</b> toolbar)
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><b class="uiTerm">Constraints</b> toolbar
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            <p class="para_defMeaning">See also:</p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_17.html');return(false);">Constraints</a></p>
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            <p class="defObject"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/commandref/ideas_rule.gif" border="0"><br><img align="bottom" src="graphics/ideas/des_mm_part_equations.gif" border="0"> <b class="uiTerm">Part Equations</b></p>
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            <p class="para_defMeaning"><b class="uiTerm">Tools</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Expression</b></p>
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            <p class="para_defMeaning">See also:</p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_33.html');return(false);">Parameters and Expressions</a></p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_34.html');return(false);">Expressions dialog box</a></p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_35.html');return(false);">Linked expressions</a></p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_36.html');return(false);">Conditional expressions</a></p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_37.html');return(false);">Suppression by expression</a></p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_38.html');return(false);">Modeling strategies</a></p>
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         <dt><a name="ndxgenid_roadmap687"></a><p class="defObject"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/commandref/ideas_rule.gif" border="0"><br><img align="bottom" src="graphics/ideas/des_mm_shape_design.gif" border="0"> <b class="uiTerm">Shape Design</b></p>
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            <p class="para_defMeaning"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/commandref/nx_rule.gif" border="0"></p>
            <p class="para_defMeaning">Similar spline shaping functions are found in the command: </p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><b class="uiTerm">Edit</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Curve</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Parameters</b></p>
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            <p class="para_defMeaning">Also see the related commands:</p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><b class="uiTerm">Insert</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Curve From Curves</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Bridge</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><b class="uiTerm">Insert</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Curve From Curves</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Simplify</b></p>
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         <dt><a name="ndxgenid_roadmap688"></a><p class="defObject"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/commandref/ideas_rule.gif" border="0"><br><img align="bottom" src="graphics/ideas/des_mm_annotation.gif" border="0"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/ideas/des_mm_tolerance_analysis.gif" border="0"> <b class="uiTerm">Annotation</b>, <b class="uiTerm">Tolerance Analysis</b></p>
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            <p class="para_defMeaning"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/commandref/nx_rule.gif" border="0"></p>
            <p class="para_defMeaning">To create 3D annotation on the model:</p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">In the <b class="uiTerm">Drafting</b> application, display the model instead of the drawing sheet using the <b class="uiTerm">Display Sheet</b> command. 
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">Use the <b class="uiTerm">Annotation Editor</b>.
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            <p class="para_defMeaning">To create and interrogate model GD&amp;T and other manufacturing data, see the menus:</p>
            <p class="para_defMeaning"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/icons/start.gif" border="0"> <b class="uiTerm">Start</b> &rarr; <img align="bottom" src="graphics/widgets/checkbox-on-menu.gif" border="0"> <b class="uiTerm">PMI</b> 
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            <p class="para_defMeaning">(This turns on the <b class="uiTerm">PMI</b> menus.)
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/08qt_drafting_15.html');return(false);">Creating drafting annotation</a></p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/08qt_drafting_15.html#qt_df_3d_annotation');return(false);">Creating 3D annotation in model views</a></p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">Help: <img align="bottom" src="graphics/widgets/book_closed.gif" border="0"> Design  &rarr; PMI &rarr; Product Definition
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">Help: <img align="bottom" src="graphics/widgets/book_closed.gif" border="0"> Design  &rarr; PMI &rarr; Geometric Tolerancing
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