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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Process for Part in Process</div>
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               <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('sheetmetaldes/pip_ov.html');return(false);">Part in Process Overview</a></p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">You can use a process to define all of the stages that your part goes through from hide to fully formed product. There are always two default processes: <b class="uiTerm">Unform All in Part</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Form All in Part</b>. You can execute either of these at any time by simply double clicking on the name. Select <b class="uiTerm">Execute the Unform</b> to see the fully unformed state of all the formable features in the part. Select <b class="uiTerm">Execute the Form</b> to see the creation or as designed state of all the formable features in the part.
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      <p class="para_topic">When you right click on a process, you will see the <b class="uiTerm">Process</b> menu. You can use this menu to unform all the features in the process, form all the features in the process, add a new process or group, or to delete a process.
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Unform Process</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Choose <b class="uiTerm">Unform Process</b> when you want to unform all of the features that you have added to a Group within the Process.
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Form Process</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Choose <b class="uiTerm">Form Process</b> when you want to form all of the features that you have added to a group within the process.
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Add Process</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Adding a process means adding a new root node on the tree list. This process can be used to contain new groups, which in turn contain new feature nodes. When you add a new process, a new group is automatically added to the process.</p>
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Add Group</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Adding a group will add a new group named <b class="uiTerm">New Group</b> to the tree list under the current process. This group can then be used to contain a set of feature nodes.
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               <p class="para_td"><b class="uiTerm">Delete Process</b></p>
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               <p class="para_td">Deleting a process deletes all of the feature and group nodes under the process as well as the process itself.</p>
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