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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle">Text callout</div>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('sheetmetaldes/flat_pattern_flpat_ann_ov.html');return(false);">Flat Pattern Annotation Overview</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('sheetmetaldes/flat_pattern_flpat_ann_dialog.html');return(false);">How To</a></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Options</p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">Select <b class="uiTerm">Text Callout</b> when you want to add text to your flat pattern.
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      <p class="para_topic">The text callouts include:</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Bend Radius</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Data extracted from Sheet Metal Features and Forming/Flattening feature associated with flange edge.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Tangent Length</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Data extracted from Sheet Metal Features and Forming/Flattening feature associated with flange edge.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Contour Length</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Data extracted from Sheet Metal Features and Forming/Flattening feature associated with flange.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Bend Angles and Direction</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Data extracted from Sheet Metal Features and Forming/Flattening feature associated with bend center line.</p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">You specify the above callout type and interactively select the appropriate flat pattern entity and text origin. The information extracts from the model and a standard format text entity is placed on the flat pattern.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">In addition to the above standard callouts, you also have the ability to interactively add your own text callouts and connect them to flat pattern entities.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">You can also edit the standard or user specified callouts. All callouts can optionally include single leader lines and text orientation options. Drafting preferences will control font and size.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">There will be no attempt to establish or maintain associativity between the flat pattern and the text callouts or any individually edited entity display type.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Type</div>
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Bend Radius</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">If you choose <b class="uiTerm">Bend Radius</b>, the menu and dynamic input box are inactive. Then choose <b class="uiTerm">Locate Text</b>. Select a <b class="uiTerm">Bend Centerline</b> on flat pattern and select text location (if <b class="uiTerm">Leader Line</b> option is on). Bend radius will be placed at the text location. 
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Bend Angle and Direction</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">If you choose <b class="uiTerm">Bend Angle and Direction</b>, the menu and dynamic input box are inactive. Then choose <b class="uiTerm">Locate Text</b>. Select a line from the flat pattern that was mapped from a flange feature, and select text location (if <b class="uiTerm">Leader Line</b> is on).
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Tangent Length/Contour Length</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">If you choose <b class="uiTerm">Tangent Length</b> or <b class="uiTerm">Contour Length</b>, the menu and dynamic input box are inactive. Then choose <b class="uiTerm">Locate Text</b>. Select a line from the flat pattern that mapped from a flange feature, and select text location (if <b class="uiTerm">Leader Line</b> is on).
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Select from List</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">If you choose <b class="uiTerm">Select from List</b>, the menu options are available. Choose <b class="uiTerm">Text</b> from the menu, then choose <b class="uiTerm">Locate Text</b> (<b class="uiTerm">Leader Line</b> is optional) and choose <b class="uiTerm">Orient Text</b>.
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               <p class="para_td">Using the <b class="uiTerm">Color</b> option allows you to set the text color.
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Leader Line</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">This option controls whether a leader line creates for the text callout. If <b class="uiTerm">Leader Line</b> is on, you must specify how the line creates: either on the <b class="uiTerm">Right Side</b> or <b class="uiTerm">Left Side</b>.
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Locator Text</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">If <b class="uiTerm">Leader Line</b> is turned on and you choose <b class="uiTerm">Locate Text</b>, it will prompt for <b class="uiTerm">End of Leader</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Origin of Text</b>.
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Orient Text</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">If you choose <b class="uiTerm">Orient Text</b>, then you can select a line to determine text orientation.
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