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      <div class="title_topic4" id="xps10_pagetitle">Reattaching a flange</div>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('sheetmetaldes/smfea_flng.html');return(false);">Flange Overview</a></p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">The flange feature has the capability of being reattached to a different bend edge. When a flange is reattached, all appropriate downstream features will follow it.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">While editing a flange, you may select a new bend edge just as when you create a new flange. Only linear edges that have timestamps earlier than the flange being edited can be selected as a new bend edge. You may not reattach a flange onto a different body. The <b class="uiTerm">Flip Bend Direction</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Adjacent Face</b> options operate exactly as they do during feature creation.
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      <p class="para_topic">The flange width and thickness will be inferred from the new bend edge if the <b class="uiTerm">Infer Width</b> or <b class="uiTerm">Infer Thickness</b> options are used.
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      <p class="para_topic">When you select a new bend edge, all positioning constraints are deleted and you must position the flange on the new attachment face. &nbsp;You may choose between <b class="uiTerm">Automatic</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Manual</b> positioning. With <b class="uiTerm">Automatic</b> positioning, the system will create constraints as it does during feature creation.
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      <p class="para_topic">With manual positioning, you must define your own positioning constraints. For each constraint, select a target edge and tool edge.</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body">The tool edge must be adjacent to two tool faces.&nbsp;Thus, you cannot select the edges where the flange attaches to its parent. You may, however, select the side edges from the flange tool body or the attachment face perimeter lines.</p>
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