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      <div class="title_topic5" id="xps10_pagetitle">Pallet library overview</div>
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      <p class="para_topicComponent">A pallet library is a simplified version of the Standard Parts libraries found in Mold Wizard and Progressive Die Wizard. </p>
      <p class="para_topicComponent">The benefits of a pallet library are:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The pallet and workpiece are positioned correctly using named coordinate systems that you create, one in the workpiece and the other in the pallet. You must set up your workpeice properly to ensure this. For more information, see <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nxelectrode_design/03topic_50.html');return(false);">Workpeice parts</a>.
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            <p class="para_item">A named coordinate system in your pallet defines the machine tool orientation and origin. This CSYS may differ from the CSYS used to position the workpiece, as shown below. The fact that the CSYS is named, allows you to create custom CAM automation to set it as the machine coordinate system for tool paths.  </p>
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            <p class="para_item">Electrode Design determines which is higher, the top of the pallet or the top of the workpiece (electrode). The higher value plus a safety factor you can define are used to create an expression giving the safe Z coordinate at which the machine tool must stop when approaching the work. You may link this height expression to a drawing note, or you can customize CAM automation to reference it. For more information, see <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nxelectrode_design/03topic_52.html');return(false);">Highest point calculation</a>.
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