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      <div class="title_topic4" id="xps10_pagetitle">Corner parameters</div>
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      </table><br><div class="title_division">Overlap</div>
      <p class="para_division"><b class="uiTerm">Overlap</b> is a parameter associated with the parent side butt joint. You can enter positive and negative overlap values. Changing the overlap value will control the parent butt joint length. A negative overlap value cannot exceed the computed maximum length of the parent butt joint plus one modeling tolerance. The computed maximum length depends on the parent and the associate side parameters.
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      <p class="para_division">For <b class="uiTerm">Butt Corner</b>, <b class="uiTerm">Gap</b> is a parameter associated with the associate side butt joint. You can only enter positive gap values. Changing the gap value will control the length of associate side butt joint. The maximum computed gap value depends on the parameters of the parent and associate sides.
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      <p class="para_division">For <b class="uiTerm">Simple Miter</b> corner, <b class="uiTerm">Gap</b> is the minimum distance between the miter faces attached to the parent and associate sides. One limitation to this is that Gap is not consistent when the sum of the phase angle and bend angle changes from less than 0, 180, 360 and so on to greater than these values within a single bend region. &nbsp;In this condition, either the gap will totally disappear causing the miter faces to intersect or it will increase causing the miter faces to become farther away from each other. To avoid this, divide the bend region so that the 0, 180, 360, etc. transition takes place on an edge between two bend regions and not within one bend region itself.
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      <p class="para_division">This allows switching between the two sides. A <em>1</em> will be displayed on the parent side and a <em>2</em> will be displayed on the associate side. You can use <b class="uiTerm">Switch Parent</b> to control which butt joint overlaps the other.
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      <p class="para_division">This button is available for <b class="uiTerm">Butt</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Machinery</b> corners.
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