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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle">Linked Posts</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">This tab allows you to define posts you can link to the current post. This functionality is similar to the MACH/command in GPM. The toggle switch <b class="uiTerm">Link Other Posts</b> to <b class="uiTerm">Current Post</b> enables or disables this function. When deselected, the system grays out the page.   
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      <p class="para_topic">With this option create a post for each unique set of kinematics (head or turret). This functionality is typically used to change posts when a machine tool can support multiple kinematics modes. The modes may include turning and milling heads with different spindle axes and machining centers having more than two rotary axes and different kinematics combinations.   </p>
      <p class="para_topic">You need to assign a HEAD UDE to the program or method group that indicates the post the system uses. The system provides a table for you to specify the minor word after the HEAD command (head name) that the system uses with a specific post.  </p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body">When postprocessing a main post that has linked posts, you can't use the <b class="uiTerm">browse</b> option in the <b class="uiTerm">Postprocessing</b> dialog in Unigraphcs NX unless the linked posts are in the directory defined by the variable UGII_CAM_POST_DIR. The system doesn't look for the linked posts in the same directory as where the main post came from.
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      <div class="title_division">Default</div>
      <p class="para_division">This button restores the linked post options to the original settings as when the current post was first created. </p>
      <div class="title_division">Restore</div>
      <p class="para_division">This button discards all edits you have made to the linked posts options during the current visit of this dialog. </p>
      <div class="title_division">New</div>
      <p class="para_division">This button displays the <b class="uiTerm">Linked Post </b>dialog to add another post to the list. You can specify the head name, carrier, or turret defined in NX. You can enter text or browse a pui file for the post to be associated with the head name. The system does not validate the name of the post for existence. The system assumes all posts of a linked post are located in the same directory. 
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      <p class="para_division">To define the blocks or custom commands needed to either start the new head or end the head when switching to another head, select the event markers for <b class="uiTerm">Start of Head</b> or <b class="uiTerm">End of Head</b>.
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      <p class="para_division">In the <b class="uiTerm">Linked Post</b> dialog, enter a head name and a post name and select <b class="uiTerm">OK</b>. The system then returns control to the main linked post dialog and adds your post to the list. 
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      <p class="para_division">The start and end of program are output by the master post of a set of linked posts. The start and end of program in all slave posts are ignored.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Edit</div>
      <p class="para_division">Selecting <b class="uiTerm">Edit </b>also displays the<b class="uiTerm"> Linked Post</b> dialog. Here you can edit an existing post and head. After making your changes select <b class="uiTerm">OK</b>. The system accepts your changes and returns control to the main linked post dialog. Selecting <b class="uiTerm">Restore</b> undoes any edits you made since selecting the <b class="uiTerm">Edit</b> button and keeps you in the editing dialog. Selecting <b class="uiTerm">Cancel</b> undoes any edits you made and returns you to the linked post main dialog. 
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