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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Step 1.  Launch the Project Initialization Process</div>
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         <p class="para_action1"><img src="../graphics/actarrow.gif">On the <b class="uiTerm">Electrode Design</b> toolbar, choose <b class="uiTerm">Initialize Electrode Project </b> <img align="bottom" src="../graphic_library/icons/toolbars/wizards/electrode_design/initialize_electrode_project.gif" border="0">.
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                  <p class="para_td">The <b class="uiTerm">Electrode Project Initialize </b> dialog box is displayed.
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                  <p class="para_note_body">In the dialog box image, the icons that you will choose in the initialization process are arranged in progressive order from left to right, from <b class="uiTerm">Step 1</b> through <b class="uiTerm">Step 4</b>. Perform the tasks in this order. <em>Do not skip any steps</em>. 
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         <p class="para_action1"><img src="../graphics/actarrow.gif">On the <b class="uiTerm">Electrode Project Initialize </b> dialog box do the following:
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            <p class="para_item">In the <b class="uiTerm">Project Path</b> field, enter an absolute path to a folder on your local machine or network server to store the project data. For example
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            <p class="para_item">In the  <b class="uiTerm">Project Name</b> field, enter a name for the project. For example:
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      <p class="para_topic"><b class="uiTerm"> Electrode Design</b> automatically saves the part into an assembly with a link to the product model. You can verify this in the <b class="uiTerm">NX Assembly Navigator</b><img align="bottom" src="graphics/ico_nx_assem_nav.gif" border="0"> :
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         <p class="para_action1"><img src="../graphics/actarrow.gif">In <b class="uiTerm">NX</b>, choose <b class="uiTerm">Format&rarr;Layer Settings</b>.
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