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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Playback</div>
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      <p class="para_topic"> Use Playback to execute a macro file. Simply select the Playback option from the Macro pull-down menu and select the macro you want to run.</p>
      <p class="para_topic"> To playback a macro:</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> Select Tools&rarr;Macro from the menu bar.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> Select Playback.</p>
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            <p class="para_item"> Select the desired macro from the file selection dialog.</p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Playback from a different location.</p>
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                  <p class="para_td"> When you playback a macro, you should play it back from the same location in which it was recorded. To playback from a different location, click the Record Macro with Reset toggle on the Macro Record dialog when recording macros.</p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Playback using a window with a different size.</p>
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                  <p class="para_td"> If you recorded the selection of objects from the graphics window, and you want to playback the macro when the graphics window is not exactly the same size as when it was recorded, you should specify the resize command line option when starting NX. Otherwise, the selections may not work during playback. The resize switch causes the size of the graphics window to be changed during playback to the same size and shape as when the macro was recorded. You also can turn resizing ON or OFF from Tools&rarr;Macro&rarr;Resize during playback or from the Macro playback file selection dialog.</p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Pre-V16.0 macros</p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Pre-V16.0 macros will not playback on Unigraphics V16.0.</p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Windows and Unix</p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Windows macros are not guaranteed to run on UNIX. UNIX macros are not guaranteed to run on Windows.</p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Specifying print.macro</p>
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                  <p class="para_td">If, after specifying print.macro, NX does not respond, press <b class="uiTerm">Cancel</b> and then continue to <b class="uiTerm">Playback</b>.
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