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      <div class="title_topic4" id="xps10_pagetitle">Creating a Contour Profile Operation</div>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgmilling/cont_var_axix_prof.html');return(false);">Overview</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">How To</p>
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               <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgmilling/09topic_73.html');return(false);">Geometry</a></p>
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            <p class="para_item">From the <b class="uiTerm">Operation Navigator</b>, <b class="uiTerm">Geometry View</b>, click MB3 <b class="uiTerm">Insert</b>&rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Operation</b>.
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            <p class="para_item">From the <b class="uiTerm">Create Operation</b> dialog, choose <b class="uiTerm">Type</b>: <b class="uiTerm">mill_multi-axis</b>, and <b class="uiTerm">Subtype</b>: <b class="uiTerm">CONTOUR_PROFILE</b>. <img align="bottom" src="graphics/contour_profile_lc.gif" border="0">. 
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            <p class="para_item">In the <b class="uiTerm">CONTOUR_PROFILE</b> dialog, click <b class="uiTerm">Specify Floor</b> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/floor_icon.gif" border="0"> and select the floor geometry.
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            <p class="para_item">The software automatically selects the walls.</p>
            <p class="para_item">If your part doesn't have floor geometry, skip to the next step.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Click <b class="uiTerm">Display</b> <img align="bottom" src="../graphic_library/icons/dialogs/manufacturing/common/display.gif" border="0"> for <b class="uiTerm">Specify Walls</b><img align="bottom" src="graphics/geomtype_walls.gif" border="0"> to review the wall selection. 
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            <p class="para_item">If the walls aren't selected as required, turn off <b class="uiTerm">Automatic Wall</b> and select your own wall geometry.
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            <p class="para_item">If your part doesn't have floor geometry, define a pseudo floor with <b class="uiTerm">Automatic Auxiliary Floor</b>, <b class="uiTerm">Auxiliary Floor</b> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/ico_vap_aux_floor.gif" border="0">, or <b class="uiTerm">Follow Wall bottom</b>.
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            <p class="para_item">Define any required Non-Cutting Moves.</p>
            <p class="para_item">Avoidance and tool path connections depend on properly defined Non-Cutting Moves.</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body">If multiple pockets are machined in one operation, the Start and End points for Contour Profile will be in different pockets. Individual operations are required to have independent Start and End points in individual pockets. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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      <div class="title_division">Using Existing Variable Axis Surface Contouring Operations</div>
      <p class="para_division">To use an existing variable axis surface contouring operation, change the <b class="uiTerm">Drive Method</b> to <b class="uiTerm">Contour Profile</b>.
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