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               <p class="para_td">Overview</p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic"><b class="uiTerm">Minimum Radius</b> finds where the radius of curvature is smallest on a face or collection of faces on a solid or sheet body. This option is useful for locating a tiny region with a very small radius of curvature (a &quot;hook&quot; or &quot;reversal&quot; in the surface) that otherwise might go unnoticed. You can use this option to detect glitches in your geometry, or to determine the size of the cutting tool needed for machining the part.
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      <div class="title_division"> Solid vs. Sheet Bodies</div>
      <p class="para_division"> If the faces undergoing analysis are part of a solid body, the minimum radius on concave regions on the outside of the body is indicated. If the faces are part of a sheet body, the minimum radius on each side is indicated, and you have to decide which radii correspond to concave regions.</p>
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      <p class="para_division"> The minimum radius of a curvature is temporarily marked with asterisks, but you can select to also create permanent markers (points).</p>
      <p class="para_division"> A conehead vector points in the direction of the minimum radius of curvature. If more than one minimum radius of curvature is displayed (i.e., when the body is a sheet), the conehead vectors are different fonts (solid or dotted). If the minimum radius appears in more than one place on the selected face(s), conehead vectors in the same font appear at those places.</p>
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      <p class="para_division"> The Information window displays the minimum radii of the selected face(s) and the number of points at which each minimum radius occurs.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> Conehead vectors and location markers appear in the graphics window where the minimum radius (or radii) occurs.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> The analysis only reports the &quot;outside&quot; radius of a solid body.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> The analysis reports the minimum radius on both sides of a sheet body.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> If the face is a plane, or has no concave portion, no radius is reported.</p>
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