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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle">Connected Face Finder</div>
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      <div class="title_division">Connected Face Finder Overview</div>
      <p class="para_division"><b class="uiTerm">Connected Face Finder</b> allows you to locate the nearest faces on components adjoining fixed spot welds and adds the appropriate connected parts information to the spot weld.
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      <div class="title_division">Where do I find it?</div>
      <p class="para_division"><b class="uiTerm">Insert</b>&rarr;<b class="uiTerm">Welding</b>&rarr;<b class="uiTerm">Connected Face Finder</b></p>
      <div class="title_division">About Connected Face Finder</div>
      <p class="para_division">Spot weld points imported from other CAD systems lose their connected part information and remain in a retained state. Retained state can also exist on an <b class="uiTerm">NX</b> spot weld feature whenever the linkage of the connected faces no longer exists. The weld point retains the connected part information, but loses the location within the assembly. <b class="uiTerm">Connected Face Finder</b> allows you to quickly find all of the faces connected to the weld points and resolve their associations.
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      <div class="title_division">Using Connected Face Finder</div>
      <p class="para_division">Use <b class="uiTerm">Connected Face Finder</b> when you are working with fixed spot welds. For example:
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            <p class="para_item">Before executing a <b class="uiTerm">Weld Advisor</b> check that requires knowledge of the adjoining faces; for example, information about planarity, parallelism, or maximum distance between faces. For more information, see <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('weldassistant/weld_advisor.html');return(false);">Weld Advisor</a>.
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            <p class="para_item">When you import spot welds via a comma separated value (CSV) file, <b class="uiTerm">Connected Face Finder</b> allows you to quickly identify connected parts and remove them from the retained state.
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      <p class="para_division">After you select  the weld points you want to query, choose <b class="uiTerm">Apply</b> on the <b class="uiTerm">Connected Face Finder</b> dialog box to run the search for the associated faces. If you want to run the program against all weld points, select <b class="uiTerm">All Weld Points</b> on the dialog box (this turns off your ability to select weld points interactively.) The search results are displayed in the dialog in tree format, where each point that you selected is represented by a node showing all the geometry information associated with that point .
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      <p class="para_division">After running <b class="uiTerm">Connected Face Finder</b>, you can perform operations on the information in the results tree within the dialog; for example, there are several sort options to choose. To access the menus for these operations, right-click a node in the tree, and select the desired options from the node's shortcut menu.
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      <p class="para_division">The available operations are described in this table:</p>
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                  <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Operation</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Description</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Show All</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Lists all the points checked in a sequential order by Weld ID.</p>
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                  <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Show Passed</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_td">List only the points with full connected part information.</p>
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                  <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Show Warning</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Lists the points with at least one lost element of connected part information or a face that is not found. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Show Saved</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Lists only the points where the information is stored.</p>
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                  <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Show Not Saved</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Lists the points where the connected part information is not stored. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Save All</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_td">To save all of the information listed in the tree to corresponding points in the assembly.</p>
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                  <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Clear All</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Clears the tree list and allows you to perform another search. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Save</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Saves connected part information on the point selected in the tree.</p>
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                  <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Reorder Before</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Reorders a selected face by putting it before the faces under that point.  </p>
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                  <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Reorder After</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Reorders a selected face by putting it after the faces under that point. </p>
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                  <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Reassign Face</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Displays the selection dialog, allowing you to select item in the work space and replace the corresponding information on the tree. If there are multiple nodes selected on the tree, only the first node is updated.</p>
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                  <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Adjust View</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_td">Centers the selected geometry in the tree in the graphic work view.</p>
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