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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle">Creating a Pilot Scrap</div>
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      <div class="title_division">Automatically Placing Pilot Scraps</div>
      <p class="para_division">In scrap design, pilot holes are punched through the scrap to facilitate precise positioning of the metal strip in the die. Pins (called locating pins or pilot pins) are aligned with the pilot holes to fix the location of the strip. The scrap with pilot holes is called the pilot scrap. <b class="uiTerm">Pilot Scrap</b> automatically copies a pilot scrap to all stations in the strip layout. If a progressive die does not have a pilot scrap to define the relief (a relief is the clearance created by removing metal beyond the cutting edge of a punch), the pilot pins will penetrate beyond the relief and damage the die plate.
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      <div class="title_division">Where do I find it?</div>
      <p class="para_division"><b class="uiTerm">Application&rarr;Progressive Die Wizard&rarr;Scrap Design</b></p>
      <div class="title_division">Creating Pilot Scraps</div>
      <p class="para_division">This procedure describes how to define pilot holes based on the geometry in a blank layout and then propagating pilot scraps to every station. This ensures that a pilot relief is included at every station in the initial die design.</p>
      <p class="para_division"><b class="uiTerm">Create the Initial Pilot Scrap</b></p>
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            <p class="para_item">On the <b class="uiTerm">Progressive Die Wizard</b> toolbar, click  <b class="uiTerm">Scrap Design</b>.
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            <p class="para_item">On the <b class="uiTerm">Scrap</b> dialog, under <b class="uiTerm">Scrap Type</b> select <b class="uiTerm">Piloting</b>.
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            <p class="para_item">Choose the <b class="uiTerm"> By Edges / Curves</b> dialog option <img align="bottom" src="graphics/ico_d_pilot_scrap.gif" border="0">.
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            <p class="para_item">To create the initial pilot scrap, click<b class="uiTerm"> Apply</b>.
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      <p class="para_division"><b class="uiTerm">Add the Pilot Scrap to the Strip Stations</b></p>
      <p class="para_division"> If the piercing operations are all defined except for the pilot scrap, in this procedure, <b class="uiTerm">Pilot Scrap</b> will automatically place a pilot scrap at each station on the strip.
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            <p class="para_item">On the <b class="uiTerm">Progressive Die Wizard</b> toolbar, click<b class="uiTerm"> Strip Layout</b>.
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            <p class="para_item">On the <b class="uiTerm">Strip Layout </b>dialog, click the <b class="uiTerm">Process</b> tab.
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            <p class="para_item">In the upper window of the <b class="uiTerm">Strip Layout</b> dialog, select the pilot hole scrap listing.
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            <p class="para_item"> Click the <b class="uiTerm">down</b> arrow <img align="bottom" src="graphics/pilot_scrap_downarrow.gif" border="0"> to automatically add the pilot scrap to the existing scraps on the strip.
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      <p class="para_division"><b class="uiTerm"> Pilot Scrap </b>automatically adds a pilot scrap to each station on the strip.
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