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      </table><br><p class="para_topicComponent">Pallets are tooling fixtures used to hold electrodes. A pallet can assist in your machining setup or it can be part of your automated handling system. Now you can define a library of pallets to position electrodes developed using Electrode Design. </p>
      <p class="para_topicComponent">You see an extra step, <b class="uiTerm">Create Pallet </b><img align="bottom" src="graphics/create_pallet.gif" border="0">, in <b class="uiTerm">Electrode Project Initialization</b> after you create a <em>pallet library</em> and select <b class="uiTerm">Enable Pallet</b> in <b class="uiTerm">Customer Defaults</b>.
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      </table><br><p class="para_topicComponent">When you add a pallet, it is placed in the mset subassembly of your electrode tooling assembly. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td">&nbsp;&nbsp;mset</p>
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                  <p class="para_td">&nbsp;&nbsp;pallet ◄</p>
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                  <p class="para_td">&nbsp;&nbsp;electrode</p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topicComponent">Features of pallets in Electrode Design:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">When you add a library pallet to your Electrode Design assembly, its position is matched to the workpiece using coordinate systems that you define. </p>
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            <p class="para_item">Each pallet has a machine coordinate system that you can use in your custom CAM automation.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">You can create expressions for the high point of the pallet, the high point of the workpiece, and a safety factor. Electrode Design uses these values to calculate the safe approach limit of a machine tool along the Z-axis. </p>
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