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            <p class="para_item">The <b class="uiTerm">Butt Joint</b> corner will automate and enhance the creation of flange butt joints.&nbsp;You can control the overlap and gap for the butt joints. You can create butt joint corners for a wide range of different flange parameters and states.
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            <p class="para_item">The <b class="uiTerm">Overlap</b> value determines how much the parent, the flange that was selected, will overlap the child.
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            <p class="para_item">The butt corner creates between any two flange&ndash;like features that share a common edge. This means the features can be extrusions, bends, flanges, or combinations of the above.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The butt corner does not have a multistep option.</p>
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      <div class="title_division">Machinery corner</div>
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            <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Machinery Corner</b> combines characteristics of the butt corner along the webs and fills the void area between bend areas of two flanges.
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            <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Machinery Corner</b> does not require that bend angles and bend radius for both flanges be equal.
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            <p class="para_item">A small gap will be applied automatically to the inside edges of the two webs. This is done to prevent a non&ndash;manifold solid error.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The <b class="uiTerm">Unbend</b> feature cannot be applied to a flange that has a <b class="uiTerm">Machinery Corner</b>. 
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            <p class="para_item">The <b class="uiTerm">Machinery Corner</b> does not have a multistep option.
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            <p class="para_item">A taper on the bend face of the flanges are not allowed.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The formed shape of the <b class="uiTerm">Machinery Corner</b> is an approximation of the actual shape.
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      <div class="title_division">Simple miter</div>
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            <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Simple Miter</b> corner will be created on flanges with the same bend radii and the same bend angle only.
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            <p class="para_item">This corner extrudes the bend and web side faces of the parent and associate sides in such a way that the inside edge meets short of the gap distance.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The sides of the corner are perpendicular to the top and bottom faces.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">You will have control over the gap distance.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">There is a multistep option for the <b class="uiTerm">Simple Miter</b>. &nbsp;This allows you to create simple mitered corners on identical pairs of flanges starting from the flanges that share the common edge.
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            <p class="para_item">The multistep option will construct <b class="uiTerm">Simple Miter</b> between each continuous pair of Flanges that have the same bend radii and bend angle. &nbsp;When the <b class="uiTerm">Simple Miter</b> encounters two Flanges that do not have the same bend radii and bend angle it will stop. 
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            <p class="para_item"><b class="uiTerm">Full Miter</b> corner will be created for the flanges with the same bend radii and the same bend angle only.
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            <p class="para_item">The <b class="uiTerm">Full Miter</b> has a multistep option.
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            <p class="para_item">The multistep option will construct <b class="uiTerm">Full Miter</b> between each continuous pair of flanges that have the same bend radii and bend angle. When the <b class="uiTerm">Full Miter</b> encounters two flanges that do not have the same bend radii and bend angle it will stop.
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            <p class="para_item">This<b class="uiTerm"> Full Miter</b> extrudes the bend and web side faces of the parent and associate sides such that the inside and outside edges meet.
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            <p class="para_item">The sides of the corner are not perpendicular to the top and bottom faces.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Both flanges must belong to a body having uniform thickness.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Both flanges must share a common edge.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The maximum bend angle is the one, beyond which the two flange bodies will intersect.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Each <b class="uiTerm">Corner</b> type will have its own restrictions to bend angles, bend radii and corner angles.
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            <p class="para_item">Bend angles cannot be less than 0.5&deg; or greater than 180&deg;.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The side faces cannot intersect each other. If they do tapers may be applied to the flanges to eliminate this intersection.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">The feature that a corner is being applied to cannot be in an intermediate state.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">When you edit a corner you cannot switch corner types during the edit.</p>
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