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      <p class="para_topic"><b class="uiTerm">Normal Cutout</b> has edges that remain perpendicular to the planar face of the part. Normal cutouts are particularly useful when you want to make cuts across bend regions and still maintain a constant material thickness. The feature is useful when you need to <b class="uiTerm">Unbend</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Rebend</b> sheet metal parts, because non-perpendicular thickness faces created with <b class="uiTerm">Extrude</b>-<b class="uiTerm">Subtract</b> may be deformed during <b class="uiTerm">Unbend</b>/<b class="uiTerm">Rebend</b> operations. <b class="uiTerm">Normal Cutout</b> maintains sheet metal part properties by always cutting normal to the top and bottom faces of the model. It also conforms to all other global sheet metal part properties.
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      <p class="para_topic">In many cases,<b class="uiTerm"> Normal Cutout </b>lets you avoid unbending the part to model a cutout.
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