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      </table><br><div class="title_division">Editing reliefs</div>
      <p class="para_division">The <b class="uiTerm">Relief</b> feature is composed of a minimum of two cutout features. The number of cutouts is defined by the number of disconnected profiles that result from projecting the relief curves onto the body. If the number of disconnected profiles increases during <b class="uiTerm">Edit Feature</b>, the <b class="uiTerm">Edit</b> will fail. Use <b class="uiTerm">Edit with Rollback</b> in this case. 
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      <p class="para_division">The preview of projected relief curves is not available when editing a <b class="uiTerm">Relief</b>.
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      <div class="title_division">Editing parent features of the relief</div>
      <p class="para_division">As with any other Sheet Metal features, a <b class="uiTerm">Relief</b> will update if any of its parents (features, expressions, and geometry) change. The relief remembers its parent feature states when it was created. If a parent feature is not in this state when edited, the relief will not update properly until you bring all parents into the creation state.
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                  <p class="para_note_body">While a Sheet Metal <b class="uiTerm">Relief</b> is not in its creation state, the expressions that control the relief are locked and cannot be edited.
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      <div class="title_division">Forming/unforming relief</div>
      <p class="para_division">You cannot form or unform the <b class="uiTerm">Relief</b> feature by itself. You can however, form and unform the self forming features on which the <b class="uiTerm">Relief</b> feature has been created and the relief will follow them.
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      <p class="para_division">When using <b class="uiTerm">Part Families</b>, new family members are created by editing parameters that control the features within the master part. Since reliefs must be updated in their creation state, the part family member will be incorrect if the master is not in the correct state. The following technique will allow you to correctly update the members even when the master is not in the creation state:
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            <p class="para_item">Put the master part in the proper creation state (usually, the unformed state). </p>
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            <p class="para_item">Create a <b class="uiTerm">Flat Pattern</b> while the model is in the creation state.&nbsp;This flat pattern will cause the model to update in the proper state.
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            <p class="para_item">Put the model in the desired non&ndash;creation state.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Create the part family members.</p>
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