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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle"> Face Tab</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">Use the <b class="uiTerm"> Face</b> tab options to analyze the product model for moldability issues such as draft angle and undercuts.
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      <p class="para_topic">The <b class="uiTerm">Face</b> tab contains the following options:
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      <div class="title_division">Highlight Selected Faces</div>
      <p class="para_division">When you select the <b class="uiTerm">Highlight Selected Faces</b> box and select a draft type in the <b class="uiTerm">Face Draft Angle</b> section, the corresponding faces are highlighted. You can use this display setting to quickly turn highlighting on and off for a specific range of draft angle faces.
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      <div class="title_division">Draft Angle Limit</div>
      <p class="para_division">The <b class="uiTerm">Draft Angle Limit</b> field specifies the threshold that defines two subsets of drafted faces - faces that are more than the specified draft angle and faces that are less than the specified draft angle.
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      <div class="title_division">Face Draft Angle</div>
      <p class="para_division">The <b class="uiTerm">Face Draft Angle</b> section provides tools to highlight and/or set the colors of faces on the product model according to the draft angle or undercut characteristics.
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      <p class="para_division">To set the color of a specific <b class="uiTerm">Face Draft Angle</b> type, check a <b class="uiTerm">Face Draft Angle</b> type, choose the color box to the right, then click <b class="uiTerm">Apply</b>.
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      <div class="title_division">Set Color of All Faces</div>
      <p class="para_division">The <b class="uiTerm">Set Color of All Faces</b> button sets the color of all faces on the product model to the colors selected in the <b class="uiTerm">Face Draft Angle</b> section. You can change the color for a face by selecting the color box for the face and selecting the color on the color palette. The new color is applied immediately.
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      <div class="title_division">Undercut Areas</div>
      <p class="para_division">Faces that are invisible from both the cavity and core sides are defined as undercut faces. A set of connected undercut faces forms an undercut area.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Selected Faces Translucency, Non Selected Faces Translucency</div>
      <p class="para_division">The<b class="uiTerm"> Selected Faces Translucency</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Non Selected Faces Translucency</b> sliders help you view the product model. You can make selected faces and non-selected faces more or less translucent to assist in examination of the product model faces.
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      <div class="title_division">Split Face</div>
      <p class="para_division">Click <b class="uiTerm">Split Face</b> to display the <b class="uiTerm">Face Split </b> dialog, which provides tools to split faces by the <b class="uiTerm">Datum planes</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Curves</b> methods:
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            <p class="para_item">Use the <b class="uiTerm">Datum planes</b> method to select datum planes or define them to split selected or connected faces. Existing datum planes can be selected, defined by a point-to-point method, or defined by a point and X-Y plane method.
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            <p class="para_item">Use the <b class="uiTerm">Curves</b> method to select existing curves or define split lines by a point-to-point method.
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      <div class="title_division">Face Draft Analysis</div>
      <p class="para_division">Click <b class="uiTerm">Face Draft Analysis</b> to display the standard <b class="uiTerm">NX Face Draft Analysis</b> dialog.
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