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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle">Creating sheet metal parts and features</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">The NX Sheet Metal toolbar has a button for each sheet metal feature. Picking the button for the feature brings up a dialog box that contains all the options and functions necessary to create it, just as in any other NX application.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Feature groupings</div>
      <p class="para_division">Certain features within NX Sheet Metal have been grouped together under a drop-down list. For example, the bending features have been grouped together, as have the punching features. If you do not see a feature that you were expecting to see on the toolbar, check the drop down groups by clicking the little black triangle next to a feature button. Clicking this button exposes the rest of the features grouped with the feature shown on the toolbar.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Internal sketches</div>
      <p class="para_division">Most NX Sheet Metal features include an underlying sketch that defines the feature geometry. This works as it does in Modeling, with the <b class="uiTerm">Extrude</b> feature, for example. As a result, the majority of features ask you either to select a section (curve) or to sketch one.
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      <p class="para_division">For more information on these sketch options, see <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('nx_sheet_metal/sm_sketches.html');return(false);">Using Sketches in NX Sheet Metal</a>.
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      <div class="title_division">Dynamic interaction model</div>
      <p class="para_division">Other interface characteristics should be very familiar to NX users: items such as dialogs, drag handles, and value entry boxes behave in NX Sheet Metal just as they do in the rest of the software, conforming to the dynamic interaction workflows available in NX.</p>
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