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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle">Viewing the Channel Lists</div>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">When you open the synchronization manager, you see lists containing the operations you created in the Program Order view of the Operation Navigator. These lists are separated into channels, one for each turret contained in the Tool view. These lists represent the main working area when synchronizing your NC program, and it is in these lists where you manipulate the events to achieve program optimization.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">The channel lists are color-coded to provide you with additional information:</p>
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               <p class="para_th">If the event is colored ... </p>
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               <p class="para_th">... then ...</p>
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               <p class="para_td">green</p>
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               <p class="para_td">it is a synchronization even placed correctly.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">red</p>
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               <p class="para_td">it is a synchronization event that the system suspects could be incorrectly positioned in the event list. </p>
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               <p class="para_td">blue</p>
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               <p class="para_td">it is a dwell event.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">black</p>
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               <p class="para_td">it is an event resulting from the operation tool path. These events cannot be edited, moved, or deleted.</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body">When the system inserts a dwell event, the entire line appears in blue, even though you have only inserted the dwell event in one channel.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">You can perform the following actions with these lists:</p>
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               <p class="para_th">Option</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Collapse all </p>
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               <p class="para_td">Collapse all lines in the channel lists to show operations and inserted events.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Expand all</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Expand all lines in the channel lists to show all events.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Show Machine Code Lines</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Show machine code only. To see the list of events, select the Expand all icon.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Configure columns</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Specify which columns appear in the channel lists. This is used for machines with more than two channels.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Show all columns</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Reveals all available channels in the channel lists. </p>
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               <p class="para_td">Show synchronization mark columns</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Show only those channels involved in a highlighted synchronization event. This button is only functional when a synchronization mark is highlighted.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Go to Synchronization Mark</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Jump to a specific synchronization event. Select the synchronization event number from the drop-down list and click Go.</p>
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