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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Mill Geometry, Workpiece</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">The Mill Geometry and Workpiece icons in the Create Geometry dialog box perform identical functions. They both allow you to define Part, Blank, and Check geometry from selected bodies, faces, curves, or surface regions. In addition, they allow you to define Part offset, Part Material, and save the currently displayed layout and layer.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">Refer to the next section, <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfggeneral/parent_part_blank_check.html');return(false);"> Part, Blank, and Check Geometry</a> for details on Part, Blank, and Check geometry.
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      <div class="title_division">Part Offset</div>
      <p class="para_division">Part Offset adds to or subtracts from the modeled part geometry by a specified offset value. A positive value offsets the thickness outside the part. A negative value offsets the thickness inside the part. The cutter recognizes the Part Offset as the workpiece and machines to it accordingly. Part Stock and Custom Stock are measured from the Part Offset. This is useful when the model geometry is offset from the part you are machining, such as an EDM electrode or a sheet metal die.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Material</div>
      <p class="para_division">This option assigns a material attribute to the geometry as one of several parameters used to determine cutting feeds and speeds. Once this part material as well as tool material, cut method and cut depth have been specified, the Reset from Table button in the Feeds and Speeds dialog uses these parameters to recommend appropriate Surface Speed and Feed per Tooth values extracted from predefined tables.</p>
      <p class="para_division">The material specified using this option determines the Feeds and Speeds only for operations using this geometry group. The material specified here supercedes the material specified using Tools&gt;Part Material for these operations.</p>
      <p class="para_division">The Material button displays a listing of available part materials to choose from. The contents of this listing is determined by the Configuration File.</p>
      <p class="para_division">Refer to Object&gt;Feedrates described in the Operation Navigation Tool section for details on how the Feeds and Speeds dialog uses this and other parameters.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Layout/Layer</div>
      <p class="para_division">You may save the layout and layer of the orientation. This may be desired because machining the part from a specific orientation may be best viewed by looking at the part from a specific orientation on the screen. This does not allow you to specify this data, but only to save the current settings. To save the layout and layer select the Save Layout/Layer button from the Mill Geometry, Workpiece dialog. </p>
      <p class="para_division">To access a saved layout and layer orientation follow the path below.</p>
      <p class="para_division">Right mouse button click on the object&rarr; Object&rarr; Switch Layer/Layout. </p>
      <p class="para_division">The system changes the working layer and retrieves the display layout that was active when Save Layout/Layer was selected. </p>
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