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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Sheet Metal</div>
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      <div class="title_division">NX Sheet Metal</div>
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      <p class="para_division">The <b class="uiTerm">NX Sheet Metal</b> application provides a dynamic interface to model brake-formed sheet metal parts.
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      <p class="para_division">Standard modeling <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_22.html');return(false);">form features</a> may be combined with sheet metal features to model completed sheet metal parts.
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      <p class="para_division">The Sheet Metal applications also include the older <b class="uiTerm">Sheet Metal Design</b> features found in the <b class="uiTerm">Insert</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Sheet Metal Feature</b> menu in the <b class="uiTerm">Modeling</b> application. These sheet metal features are primarily available to edit sheet metal parts designed in an older version. These features should not be combined in the same part with the newer <b class="uiTerm">NX Sheet Metal</b> application commands.
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      <div class="title_division">Aerospace Sheet Metal</div>
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      <p class="para_division">NX Aerospace Sheet Metal accelerates the design of the most common type of sheet metal part found in airframes.</p>
      <p class="para_division">Users should become familiar with NX Modeling and NX Sheet Metal before using Aerospace Sheet Metal.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Forming/Flattening</div><a name="ndxgenid_roadmap47"></a><p class="para_division">Although the user application is not the same, fabric design tools share some of the same flattening technology as sheet metal. Tools for these flattening uses are found in the <b class="uiTerm">Forming / Flattening</b> application and in the menu <b class="uiTerm">Tools</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Composite</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Fabric Flat Pattern</b> in the <b class="uiTerm">Modeling</b> application.
      </p><a name="qt_app_ship"></a><div class="title_division">Ship Design</div><a name="ndxgenid_roadmap48"></a><p class="para_division"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/icons/application_ship_design.gif" border="0"></p>
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      <p class="para_division">NX Ship Design is related to the Sheet Metal applications to create frames, decks, and bulkheads of a ship.</p>
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