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      <div class="title_topic4" id="xps10_pagetitle">Step 1. Trim the Solid</div>
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         <p class="para_action1"><img src="../graphics/actarrow.gif">In the <b class="uiTerm">Trim Solid</b> dialog box, click the <b class="uiTerm">Bounding Box</b> button.  Click <b class="uiTerm">Edit Bounding Box</b>.  Drag the size of the box to the following. 
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                  <p class="para_note_body">In this case the selected trimming faces do not properly define a proper trimming region that span the box to result in a successful trim operation.  When this condition occurs, the following message will appear, &ldquo;<b class="literalText">Cannot extract region from selected faces!</b>&rdquo;  
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                  <p class="para_note_body">To resolve this situation, investigate and appropriately define the trim faces such that they span the box. </p>
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