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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle">Electrode Design Overview</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">Electrical-Discharge Machining (EDM) produces mold cavity features that are impractical or impossible to machine with standard milling tools. <b class="uiTerm">NX Electrode Design </b> provides a linear, time-saving, step-by-step solution that de-mystifies the electrode design process.
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      <p class="para_topic"><b class="uiTerm">Electrode Design </b> offers specialized tools that enable quick and easy modeling of electrodes for projects that require EDM. <b class="uiTerm">Electrode Design</b> provides electrode initialization, sparking area design, blank design, automatic drawing generation, BOM, and interference checking solutions. <b class="uiTerm">Electrode Design</b> also supports concurrent electrode design.
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      <p class="para_topic">The <b class="uiTerm">Electrode Design</b> suite of tools streamlines the electrode design process. For information about <b class="uiTerm">Electrode Design</b> tools, see <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nxelectrode_design/nx_electrode_toolbar.html');return(false);">NX Electrode Design toolbar</a>, 
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      <p class="para_topic">Electrode Design product provides the following tools and capabilities:</p>
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            <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Electrode Project </b>allows you to manage the data and the process as the electrode project progresses
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            <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Manufacturing Geometry Specification</b> clearly identify the manufacturing process early in the design cycle.
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            <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Electrode Sparking Head Design</b> allows you to quickly and accurately model electrode sparking heads
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            <p class="para_item"> <b class="uiTerm">Blank Design</b> allows you to leverage knowledge-driven and automatic blank selection, addition to sparking heads
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            <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Electrode Validation</b> allows you to validate the design of the electrode for interferences and proper sparking characteristics.
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            <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Holder Design</b> allows you to access customizable standard catalogs including holders
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            <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Electrode BOM</b>: automates the generation of the assembly bills of materials.
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            <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Electrode Drawing Automation</b> allows you to quickly and efficiently generate electrode assembly drawings using predefined templates. 
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            <p class="para_item">Start a new part, or open an existing part to activate the <b class="uiTerm">Start</b> button on the NX main menu: <img align="bottom" src="graphics/start_button.gif" border="0"></p>
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            <p class="para_item">Choose <b class="uiTerm">Start&rarr;All Applications&rarr;Electrode Design</b></p>
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