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               <p class="para_td">#1</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Any lines or arcs, such as overlines, underlines, and appended ID symbols, in dimensions or drafting aids other than ID symbols and <b class="uiTerm">Form</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Position Tolerance Symbols</b> will represent as independent lines or arcs marked as annotation in the IGES file.
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               <p class="para_td">#2</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Any lines or arcs in ID Symbols and <b class="uiTerm">Form</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Position Tolerance Symbols</b> will represent as lines or arcs marked as annotation and pointed to by a <b class="uiTerm">General Symbol</b> entity in the IGES file.
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               <p class="para_td">#3</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Gaps edited into leader lines of NX dimensions or drafting aids will be lost upon translation to IGES. There is one exception stated in #4.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">#4</p>
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               <p class="para_td">A gap edited into a leader line of a NX radius dimension that holds text will translate to IGES. Any other gaps in the leader line will be lost upon translation</p>
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               <p class="para_td">#5</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Planes without boundaries (108/0) create to define the clipping bounds of any views converted from NX to IGES.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">#6</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Transformation matrices create in the IGES file as needed to position other entities.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">#7</p>
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               <p class="para_td">See <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('dataexchange/igesug_ent_map.html');return(false);">IGES to NX Entity Mapping</a> for more information on Entity Mapping.
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               <p class="para_td">#8</p>
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               <p class="para_td">When an entity is erased in a view, both the views the entity is visible in and the entity will be output in a 402/3, 4, or 19 <b class="uiTerm">Views Visible Entity</b>.
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               <p class="para_td">When you use a layer visibility in a view in a part file, the entities that are visible in the view will be output with a 402/3, 4, or 19 <b class="uiTerm">Views Visible Entity</b>.
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               <p class="para_td">#9</p>
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               <p class="para_td">This conversion mapping is to a note (212), a label (210), or a symbol (228), depending on the geometry or leaders that &nbsp;edit onto the NX drafting aid entity.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">#10</p>
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               <p class="para_td">This is not an IGES standard entity type.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">#11</p>
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               <p class="para_td">All NX solid faces with underlying surfaces will be converted to either an IGES surface or an IGES trimmed surface. If trimming curves exist on the Face, an IGES trimmed surface will create, otherwise only a surface will create.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">#12</p>
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               <p class="para_td">NX Categories are a means of grouping levels. These will map to the IGES Level Function, which will carry the name of the Category and will point to an IGES <b class="uiTerm">Definition Levels</b> entity. The IGES <b class="uiTerm">Definition Levels</b> entity will list the levels that are in the NX category. If there is only one level in a category, the IGES <b class="uiTerm">Level Function</b> will simply list it in its <b class="uiTerm">DE Level</b> dynamic input box.
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               <p class="para_td">#13</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Faces with degenerate edges process to an IGES trimmed surface.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">#14</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Display modifications on entity occurrences (heavyweight occurrences) are used only by a subset of the assembly preprocessor entity mapping options. Because the IGES specification provides no mechanism for the application of display modifications to individual entities instanced through <b class="uiTerm">Subfigures</b>, the use of these display modifications on translation has been limited to the component expansion translation mappings of the IGES <b class="uiTerm">Preprocessor</b>. Therefore, you will use only heavyweight display modifications for assemblies that are translated with the <b class="uiTerm">Expanded Grouped Geometry</b> mapping.
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               <p class="para_td">An additional restriction: only display modifications applied to occurrences of entities that reside in the upper most level of component nesting, will translate. &nbsp;Display modifications applied to occurrences of entities that reside in a nested component are ignored.</p>
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               <p class="para_td">#15</p>
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               <p class="para_td">Entities that are constituents of NX pattern data that are view dependent on or view modified in the work view of the pattern part lose their view modified status and translate as model dependent entities in the output IGES file. NX transfers this view modification or dependence to the view that was active when the pattern entity creates. Due to possible problems this introduces by pattern data multiply instanced into different work views and pattern parts that instanced as components into an assembly, this aspect of NX pattern functionality is not supported by the IGES <b class="uiTerm">Preprocessor</b>.
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               <p class="para_td">#16</p>
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               <p class="para_td">When the mapping for assemblies is set to fully nested sub-figure definitions, the translation of components will be to 408/308 pairs. If the component references a reference set, the constituent entities of the reference set will be translated, but the reference set itself will not be mapped to any IGES entity. The name of the component (308) will be the name of the reference set reference.</p>
               <p class="para_td">If a component references the entire part, all the constituent entities of the part will process except any reference sets that exist in that part. Again, any reference set's constituent entities will be processed &ndash; but the reference set itself will not be mapped to an IGES entity. The name of the component (308) will be the component name given.</p>
               <p class="para_td">The scale factor for mixed unit assemblies holds in the parameter data of the 408 entity.</p>
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