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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle">Casting Process Assistant Overview</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">The Casting Process Assistant function helps you model product and tooling features for patterns and core boxes used in creating casting and tooling designs.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">The casting parting sheet functions create some sheets that are similar to Mold Wizard parting sheets. These casting sheets can be used to interactively create parting sheets before the parting process, and you can add them as existing sheets in the Parting function.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">buttons: Casting Body</p>
      <p class="para_topic">Planar Parting Sheet</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">Body Taper</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">You can create the following sheet types with the casting parting sheet functions:</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">In addition, you can use the parting sheets to angle faces on a model (body taper).</p>
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