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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Using Optimization In The Program View</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">In the Program View, put your cursor on your NC program.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Right click (MB3) on your NC program.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">A pop up menu displays. From this menu select Object.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Another pop up menu displays. From this second menu select Optimize.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The Optimization dialog displays containing three preselected options. These three options are shown here.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Consolidate Tools</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Minimize Tool Changes</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Create Optimization Group</p>
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            <p class="para_item">To deselect an option, uncheck the respective box.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Once you have the dialog customized, click OK.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">Optimization runs the options you have selected in the NC program.</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body">It is possible to manually reorder the NC program after automatic optimization is complete. To ensure the changes are valid, the system provides a constraint-checking mechanism. If reordering of operations violate the constraints a warning message is issued to indicate the violation.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">For information on removing non-Holemaking operations to resequence tool paths click the  <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('mfgholemaking/optim_filter_option.html');return(false);">Filter</a> link.
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