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      <div class="title_topic5" id="xps10_pagetitle">Placement face</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">The <b class="uiTerm">Placement Face</b> is the face that defines whether the outline curves will project onto the top or bottom of the target body. By default, the top of the punch follows the contours of the placement face and any adjacent faces onto which the punch outline projects.
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      <p class="para_topic">The placement outline curves (described below) project onto any adjacent faces, if necessary. This way, you only need to select a single placement face.</p>
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      <p class="para_division">The <b class="uiTerm">Placement Outline</b> is the set of curves that describe the outline (profile) of the punch on the placement face. The outline may be open or closed; however, if it is open, it must intersect the periphery of the part as seen in the diagram immediately below:
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      <p class="para_division">As you select the placement outline, a conehead vector will appear; indicating which side of the profile will be punched.</p>
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      <p class="para_division">The <b class="uiTerm">Tool Center</b> allows you to select a point, which will represent the center of the punch tool. You may also activate automatic centroid creation within the <b class="uiTerm">Options</b> dialog box (described below), in which case, this particular selection step will be grayed out and unavailable.
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      <p class="para_division">This step allows you to select one or more cutting curves from the closed or open set of <b class="uiTerm">Placement Outline</b> curves, to indicate an open side of the punch.
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      <div class="title_division">Direction vector</div>
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      <p class="para_division">The <b class="uiTerm">Direction Vector</b> lets you select a direction other than <b class="uiTerm">Face Normal</b> to define the axis of the Punch.
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                  <p class="para_note_body">NOTE: The <b class="uiTerm">Punch</b> feature is associative to the <b class="uiTerm">Direction Vector</b>. This means that if the vector used to define the <b class="uiTerm">Direction Vector</b> changes, the punch will change its orientation to match the new vector.
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      <div class="title_division">Vector method</div>
      <p class="para_division">The <b class="uiTerm">Vector Method</b> options menu allows you to pick a method for defining the vector you would like to use for the axis of the Punch when you are not using <b class="uiTerm">Face Normal</b>.
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