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               <p class="para_th"> Options</p>
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               <p class="para_th">Description</p>
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Face Group</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Use the options in the <b class="uiTerm"> Face Group</b> tree to select the manufacturing method for your electrode. In the tree structure, first level nodes are the manufacturing methods available to you. Second level nodes are the items assigned to each method. Third level nodes are unconnected geometries, which can be divided into different groups.
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                     <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">EDM</b> .
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                     <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">WEDM</b></p>
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                     <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Hard Milling</b></p>
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                     <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Grinding</b></p>
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                     <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Drill</b></p>
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                     <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Seal Face</b></p>
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                     <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Other</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Search Type</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Under <b class="uiTerm">Search Type</b>:
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                     <p class="para_item">Choose <b class="uiTerm">User Defined</b> to manually select faces to identify specific EDM items.
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                     <p class="para_item">Choose <b class="uiTerm">Auto</b> to allow the program to automatically identify the manufacturing geometry.
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Region Type</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Under <b class="uiTerm">Region Type</b> :
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                     <p class="para_item">Choose <b class="uiTerm">Concave</b> to allow the program to identify the concave geometry.
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                     <p class="para_item">Choose <b class="uiTerm">Convex</b> to allow the program to identify the convex geometry.
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                     <p class="para_item">Choose <b class="uiTerm">Manual</b> if you want to manually add or subtract faces. You can drag a boundary rectangle to find all the manufacturing faces at once.
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               <p class="para_td">Use the<b class="uiTerm"> Direction </b>option to activate the <b class="uiTerm">Vector Constructor</b> to specify directions for the manufactured item.
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               <p class="para_td">Use the <b class="uiTerm">Seed Face </b>option to select a single face and allow the program to automatically find all manufacturing faces that are of the specified type and adjacent to the face you selected. <b class="uiTerm">Smart Select </b>will find all qualified faces until no qualified faces of the same type are found. 
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               <p class="para_td">Use the <b class="uiTerm">Boundary Face </b>option if you are working with an EDM item. <b class="uiTerm">Boundary Face </b> becomes active when you select<b class="uiTerm">Seed Face </b>. This allows you to select boundary faces and terminate <b class="uiTerm">Smart Select </b>. 
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               <p class="para_td">Boundary faces are temporary. For example, each time you switch nodes, or select <b class="uiTerm">Boundary Face </b>again, the boundary faces will disappear.
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               <p class="para_td">Use the <b class="uiTerm">Class Selection</b> option to specify the geometry class to be selected.
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               <p class="para_td">When you select a face, the <b class="uiTerm">Search Level</b> slider appears on the dialog. 
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Translucency</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Use the <b class="uiTerm">Translucency</b> slider to define the translucency value for objects that do not belong to any selected items.
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