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      </table><br><pre class="indent">Placement outline curves are not planar.</pre><p class="para_topic">This message appears if you request that the center line curves be projected onto the placement face normal to the plane of the curves, and the curves are not planar.</p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">Placement outline curves do not project onto placement faces.</pre></font><p class="para_topic">This message appears if the center line curves do not project onto their respective faces.</p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">Placement outline curves do not form a closed profile after projection.</pre></font><p class="para_topic">This message appears if the bead outline curves do not form a closed profile after they are projected onto their respective faces.</p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">Unable to create offset curves from center line.
Could not create offset curves from center line, try looser tolerance.
Could not create offset curves from center line, backs up on itself.
Unable to generate first offset curves.
Unable to generate second offset curves.</pre></font><p class="para_topic">These messages appears if the bead outline curves cannot be built as an offset from the center line curves.</p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">Unable to create curves at angle from center line.
Could not create curves at angle from center line, try looser tolerance.
Could not create curves at angle from center line, backs up on itself.</pre></font><p class="para_topic">These messages appears if an angle has been specified and the bead outline curves cannot be built from the center line curves.</p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">Unable to apply secondary blend.</pre></font><p class="para_topic">This message appears if the requested radii can not apply to the bead for any reason, such as the outline curves not being smooth enough, or the radii being too large.</p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">Placement faces are not adjacent to each other.
Secondary faces are not adjacent to each other.</pre></font><p class="para_topic">One of the above messages appears if the selected placement or secondary faces are not adjacent to one another.</p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">Unable to create offset curves from center line at constant height.
Could not create offset curves from center line at constant height, try looser tolerance.
Could not create offset curves from center line at constant height, backs up on itself.</pre></font><p class="para_topic">These messages appear if the secondary face is defined by a height. Further, if you cannot build the bead outline curves from the center line curves at the specified height, the same messages appear.</p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">Surface could not be built between offset height curves.</pre></font><p class="para_topic">You will see this message if the secondary face is defined by a height, an attempt is made to create a ruled surface between the bead outline curves in the placement face and those generated at the specified height, or if for any reason this surface cannot be built.</p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">Unable to build surface by sweeping section.</pre></font><p class="para_topic">This message appears if a circular shaped bead is being generated, then a swept surface is built using a circle.</p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">No valid placement faces exist.
No valid secondary faces exist.</pre></font><p class="para_topic">These messages appear if during update of a bead the faces that were input no longer exist due to Boolean operations or other functions removing them.</p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">The radius cannot be less than the thickness of the target body.
The placement radius cannot be less than the thickness of the target body.</pre></font><p class="para_topic">You will see one of these messages if you turn the <b class="uiTerm">Hollow Bead</b> option on and the bead radius or the placement radius is less than the thickness of the target body.
      </p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">Cannot split the Bead body using the placement face(s).</pre></font><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">Bead must lie completely on the placement faces.</pre></font><p class="para_topic">If the placement faces could not split the circular bead, such as the case when part of the bead lies off a selected placement face and onto an adjacent face, the above message appears.</p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">End cap not applied. &nbsp;Cannot split the end cap using placement faces.</pre></font><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">End cap must lie completely on the placement faces</pre></font><p class="para_topic">This message appears if an end cap of the circular bead, could not be split by the placement face on which it lies, such as the case where part of the end cap lies on an adjacent face. The bead will build without the end caps, if possible.</p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">End cap are not placed on beads whose height is greater than its radius.</pre></font><p class="para_topic">You will see the above message displayed if an end cap option other than None is selected for a circular bead whose height is greater than its radius.</p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">Self&ndash;intersecting head cannot be constructed.</pre></font><p class="para_topic">This message appears when the selected center line and parameters will yield self&ndash;intersecting geometry, for example, in the case of a looping center line.</p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">Centerline curves failed to project correctly.</pre></font><p class="para_topic">This error occurs when the center lines cannot be projected to the placement faces. &nbsp;Construct the center line such that it lies directly on the set of placement faces, so that projection is not needed.</p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">End Cap Radius must be greater than or equal to Radius.</pre></font><p class="para_topic">This message appears if the end cap radius is too small.</p><font class="codeExample_small"><pre class="indent">End Caps not allowed with height law.</pre></font><p class="para_topic">If you use a law controlled height you cannot specify end caps. Turn off the <b class="uiTerm">End Caps</b> options.
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