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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">The <b class="uiTerm">Header Information</b> button brings up a dialog box that allows you to modify information found in the <b class="uiTerm">Global</b> section and the <b class="uiTerm">Start</b> section of the IGES file. This information can be useful in communicating information about the person and company sending the file and what type of part that it etc. As with all of the information in the <b class="uiTerm">Modify Settings</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Advanced Settings</b> dialog boxes, the information writes to the user-specified settings file and then it is written to the IGES file during the translation. You can customize most of the values for these sections to a particular company or set of exchanges. It is not required to fill in these values in order to execute the translation.
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      <div class="title_division">Author</div>
      <p class="para_division">Use the Author field to specify who created the actual IGES file and it will write to the parameter 21 field of the IGES global section.</p>
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      <p class="para_division">The organization or group with which the Author is associated with will write to the parameter 22 field of the IGES global section.</p>
      <div class="title_division">ID For receiver</div>
      <p class="para_division">This is the name or identifier used by the receiver to reference this product. The default is to use the same name of the IGES file as this value. Ultimately, the value of this field will write to parameter 12 of IGES file global section.</p>
      <div class="title_division">Use start section file</div>
      <p class="para_division">This option allows you to specify if a file is to read to get the start section information for the IGES file. The design of the start section of an IGES file will provide a human&ndash;readable prologue to the file. There must be at least one start record. All records in the start section shall have the letter S in Column 73 and a sequence number in Column 74&ndash;80.</p>
      <p class="para_division">Some companies customize the start section to communicate information, which they feel is important to include with the IGES file like contact information, phone numbers, faxes etc.</p>
      <p class="para_division">Turning this switch to off will cause the default of a single start section record with no characters in column 1&ndash;72 and an S in Column 73 to be included at the top of the IGES file.</p>
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      <p class="para_division">If you turn on <b class="uiTerm">Use Start Section File</b> then the dialog box will allow you to specify the start section file. The string box will display the name of the selected file.
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