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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Part design</div>
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      <p class="para_topic"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/commandref/ideas_rule.gif" border="0"></p>
      <p class="para_topic">In I-deas a basic part design process is:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Create a base reference coordinate system (BORN).</p>
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                  <p class="para_item">Name the part.</p>
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                  <p class="para_item">Optionally create associative copy features from other parts.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Add features.</p>
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                  <p class="para_item">Select sketch plane.</p>
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                  <p class="para_item">Sketch and constrain.</p>
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                  <p class="para_item">Create feature from sketch.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Repeat step 2.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">Depending on your answers to the previous questions, a general part modeling process in NX might be:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Create an empty <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_12.html');return(false);">.prt file</a> container.
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                  <p class="para_item">Optionally create driving <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_34.html');return(false);">variables and equations</a>.
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                  <p class="para_item">Optionally create <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_35.html');return(false);">variables</a> or <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/07qt_assemblies_28.html');return(false);">geometry</a> linked to other parts.
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            <p class="para_item">Create a <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_21.html');return(false);">Datum CSYS</a> coordinate system as a <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_14.html');return(false);">base feature</a>. (This may be included in your new part template.) Create other datum coordinate systems and <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_21.html');return(false);">Datum planes</a>.
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            <p class="para_item"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_20.html');return(false);">Add features</a>. Features can be either:
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                  <p class="para_item">Sketched features.</p>
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                        <p class="para_item">Select sketch plane.</p>
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                        <p class="para_item"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_16.html');return(false);">Sketch</a> and <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_17.html');return(false);">constrain</a>.
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                        <p class="para_item"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_26.html');return(false);">Create feature</a> from sketch.
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                  <p class="para_item">Standard features, called &ldquo;<a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_22.html');return(false);">form features</a>.&rdquo;
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                        <p class="para_item">Select placement plane.</p>
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                        <p class="para_item">Enter feature parameters.</p>
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                        <p class="para_item"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_25.html');return(false);">Position</a> the feature.
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            <p class="para_item">Repeat step 3.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Optionally create <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/07qt_assemblies_8.html');return(false);">alternate representations</a> for specific assemblies.
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      <p class="para_topic">In NX, many new <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_20.html');return(false);">feature types</a> capture manufacturing intent.
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      <p align="center"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/intro/prismatic.gif"></p>
      <p class="para_topic">This &ldquo;prismatic part&rdquo; is a good example. This entire part was modeled using standard features like machined pockets, slots, and counter bored holes.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">These standard features called &ldquo;form features&rdquo; are defined entirely by parameters and do not require a sketch.</p>
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