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Figure 104: ScheduleCreate Setup. Select CAE Duty Cycle.

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Note In addition to Time Series based events, you can also add Constant
Amplitude histories, Time step results, and CAE Duty Cycles as an
event. That is to say, CAE Duty Cycles allows for nested duty cycles.

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 Figure 108: Load pre-existing flow: Ex_DutyCycle.flo
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 Figure 116: EventProcessing: Independent
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