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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Step 2. Specify the Regions for EDM</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">In this step, you will remove extraneous regions, and specify the regions you want to keep for further processing. The dialog box information window will show a list of nodes. These are the nodes you want to keep. You will delete the rest.</p>
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         <p class="para_action1"><img src="../graphics/actarrow.gif">On the <b class="uiTerm">Manufacturing Geometry</b> dialog box, press and hold the <b class="uiTerm">CTRL</b> key on your computer keyboard and carefully select all the electrode nodes except for two; the nodes with <b class="uiTerm">54</b> and <b class="uiTerm">16 </b>components respectively.
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      <p class="para_topic">Only nodes <b class="uiTerm">02</b> and <b class="uiTerm">04 </b> remain on the list. These are the cavity areas to be burned by electrodes.
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         <p class="para_action1"><img src="../graphics/actarrow.gif">On the<b class="uiTerm"> Manufacturing Geometry</b> dialog box, move the <b class="uiTerm">Translucency </b>slider to fade the surrounding geometry.
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      <p class="para_topic">The working cavity areas should like this:</p>
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