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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle">Create Body Taper</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">The Body Taper function helps model matched taper parting sheets where there are at least two different parting levels.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">The Body Taper function requires the following input:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">A parting sheet that has already been created</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">The following figure shows a model with a parting sheet.</p>
      <p align="center"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/cpa_body_taper_1.gif"></p>
      <p class="para_topic">Create a step parting sheet by performing the following:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Pick the Casting Process Assistant button from the Mold Wizard toolbar.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Pick the Body Taper button from the Casting Process Assistant toolbar. The Body Taper dialog is displayed.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Click the Edge or Face button to taper a face or edge. Face is clicked in this example.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Click the Parting selection step and select the parting surfaces.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Click the Draw Direction selection step and set the draw direction vector.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Click the Faces to be tapered selection step and select the faces to be tapered.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Click the Unmatched Faces selection step and select the faces that will be tapered. They will be tapered with the Draw Angle parameter input instead of being matched at the parting line.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Enter the Draw Angle for the angle of the taper.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Click the Moveable Faces selection step and select the faces that can be altered by the taper.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Click Apply or OK. In this example, the Match Taper option is checked.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">The following figure shows the model with the taper applied.</p>
      <p align="center"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/cpa_body_taper_2.gif"></p>
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