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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle">Operation Navigator</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">The Operation Navigator is a graphical user interface (GUI) &nbsp;that enables you to manage operations and operation parameters for the current part. Operation Navigator enables you to specify groups of parameters that are shared among operations.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">The Operation Navigator uses a tree structure to illustrate the relationships between groups and operations. Parameters may be passed down or inherited from group to group and from group to operation based on the positional relationships in the Operation Navigator. Except for a few cases, you can determine whether or not to apply inheritance.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">The Operation Navigator is found in the Resource bar to the right of the screen in the Manufacturing Application. The Resource bar contains five tab options. </p>
      <p class="para_topic">Click on the Operation Navigator tab to bring up the Operation Navigator. </p>
      <p align="center"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/opt_resorc_tab.gif"></p>
      <p class="para_topic">Double click the tab and the Operation Navigator breaks away from the Resource bar. The Operation Navigator is now ready to be docked wherever you drag and drop it. When you want the Operation Navigator to rejoin the Resource bar, close the Operation Navigator window and the Operation Navigator automatically rejoins the Resource bar. </p>
      <p class="para_topic">When the Operation Navigator is in the Resource bar a pushpin icon is found in the top corner. Click on the pushpin to post the Operation Navigator. Now you can move your cursor outside the navigator window and the navigator window remains open.</p>
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      <div class="title_division">Inheritance</div>
      <p class="para_division">Operations and groups inherit parameters from the groups that contain them. These superior groups are known as parents. In the above illustration, the four operations inherit parameters from their parents, MCS, WORKPIECE, and FACES. The last operations inherits its parameters from it's parents, MCS and WORKPIECE. It does not inherit from the parent FACES because it is not within FACES but at the same level as FACES. </p>
      <p class="para_division">The above graphic explains this in greater detail. From this graphic you can see the following:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The MCS parent contains the MCS and Clearance Plane information.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The WORKPIECE parent contains the Part Geometry information.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The FACES parent contains the Blank Boundary information.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The four operations within the FACES group inherits the MCS, Clearance Plane, Part Geometry, and Blank Boundary information from these parents respectively. </p>
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      <p class="para_division">Within the Operation Navigator, positions of groups and operations can be easily modified by simply cutting (or copying) and pasting or pasting inside. They can also be manipulated by dragging and dropping. When a group or operation is pasted inside of a selected group, it inherits the parameters of that group. When it is pasted, it appears below the selected group or operation and does not inherit the parameters of the selected object. You may cut/copy and paste using the third mouse button (MB3) or icons in the main menu bar as illustrated below.</p>
      <p class="para_division">Use the <b class="uiTerm">Unused Items</b> folder only to store items that you might need at a later point. 
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                  <p class="para_note_body">Generating these operations does not update the in-process workpiece.</p>
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      <p class="para_division">The Operation Navigator Properties dialog (MB3 in the Background of the Operation Navigator &rarr; Properties) allows you to make modifications to the appearance of the Operation Navigator. On the General tab, Toolchange allows you to specify the color in which the row of text describing each operation is displayed for operations where a tool change occurs. The Column tab allows you to specify which columns display in each view of the Operation Navigator.</p>
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