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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('mfggeneral/com_vis_dia_options.html');return(false);">Options</a></p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">Use Visualize to see the tool path animated in different ways. In Visualize you can view the path and the material being removed. You can also control the tool movement, display, and verify that the cutter is cutting the correct portions of the raw material during the generation of a tool path. It is important to determine if the finished part is gouged by these moves. Visualize consists of a series of capabilities designed to provide graphical feedback as well as report unacceptable conditions in a tool path,multiple tool paths, or a set-up. Visualize does not take into consideration machine tool kinematics.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Where Do I Find It?</div>
      <p class="para_division">Visualize can be invoked from three different locations: The Verify icon on the tool bar, Operation Navigator pop up menu (MB3, Toolpath&gt;Verify), or by clicking the Verify icon inside each operation. The first two options are two different ways of invoking the same function. To invoke Visualize through these two options you must select existing operations with tool paths. Accessing Visualize the third way, from within an operation, allows you to work with operations that you are still creating and have not yet accepted. The order in which the operations are visualized is always the program order view, the currently active operation is always highlighted in the Operation Navigator. </p>
      <div class="title_division">From The Tool Bar</div>
      <p class="para_division">To access Visualize from the tool bar, select an operation, multiple operations, or a group that contains operations, and click on the Verify icon. This brings up the Toolpath Visualization dialog. The dialog is ready to display the operation(s) you have selected in the Operation Navigator. Accessing Visualize in this way allows you to select a single pre-existing operation or multiple pre-existing operations at one time.</p>
      <div class="title_division">From The Operation Navigator</div>
      <p class="para_division">To access Visualize through the Operation Navigator pull down menu, highlight the existing operation(s) in the Operation Navigator, that you want to display in Visualize. Then select MB3&rarr;Toolpath&rarr;Verify. Accessing Visualize in this way allows you to select a single pre-existing operation or multiple pre-existing operations at one time.</p>
      <p class="para_division">If you access Visualize these first two ways you can select other operations in the Operation Navigator, after you have started Visualize, and Visualize will immediately display the first operation of the new selection. When invoked from the Operation Navigator, selecting the OK button will select the last displayed operation in the Operation Navigator.</p>
      <div class="title_division">From Within The Operation</div>
      <p class="para_division">The third way to access Visualize is by clicking the Verify icon within each operation. This brings up the Toolpath Visualization dialog. Accessing Visualize in this way allows you to display the operation before it is accepted. This way Visualize can be used in the earlier stages of creating the operations and doesn't have to wait to be used until the operation has been saved.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Three Display Modes</div>
      <p class="para_division">Visualize includes three levels of display modes:  <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfggeneral/com_replay.html');return(false);">Replay</a>,  <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfggeneral/com_dynamic.html');return(false);">2D Dynamic Material Removal</a>, and  <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfggeneral/com_dynamic_3d.html');return(false);">3D Dynamic Material Removal</a>. 
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                  <p class="para_note_body">A prior mode, called Static Material Removal, is now obsolete. In order to activate this page in the Visualize dialog go to File&rarr;Utilities&rarr; <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfggeneral/cust_defaults.html');return(false);">Customer Defaults</a>&rarr;Manufacturing&rarr;Visualize and select Show Static Page. For documentation on Static Material Removal go to Manufacturing Miscellaneous&rarr;Visualize Static.
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      <div class="title_division">Parameters</div>
      <p class="para_division">You can change the initial settings for many of the Visualize parameters in Preferences&rarr; Manufacturing&rarr; Visualize. You can also set these preferences, as well as many other initial settings, in the Customer Defaults section. To access  <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfggeneral/cust_defaults.html');return(false);">Customer Defaults</a> go to File&rarr;Utilities&rarr;Customer Defaults&rarr;Manufacturing. If you find that you always want certain preferences set differently, you should change the setting in Customer Defaults. You can make the setting at the user, group, or site level. For more information on Customer Defaults see the Gateway Online Help.
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                  <p class="para_note_body">When selecting the blank keep in mind the blank must be a solid body, a faceted solid (IPW), or a blank distance from the part. It cannot be a sheet body.</p>
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