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      <h4 class="refClassification">Distortion Scale Factors </h4>
      <p class="para_refTopic">Specifies the distortion scale factors of the axes in the basic coordinate system. </p>
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         <p class="para_refCategory">DISTORTION  dx dy dz </p>
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      <div class="refCategoryContent"><pre class="indent">DIST 0.5 1.0 1.0</pre></div>
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                     <p class="para_td">dx </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Distortion scale factor of the basic coordinate system&rsquo;s x-axis.  (Default = 1.0) </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Distortion scale factor of the basic coordinate system&rsquo;s y-axis.  (Default = 1.0) </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Distortion scale factor of the basic coordinate system&rsquo;s z-axis.  (Default = 1.0) </p>
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               <p class="para_item">If no DISTORTION command is specified, then no distortion is applied. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">If DISTORTION is specified, then all three values for dx, dy, and dz must be specified even though one or two will use the default. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">The distortion factors are applied prior to any of the other scaling commands, such as: SCALE, MAXIMUM DEFORMATION, CSCALE, etc. </p>
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