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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle">Introduction</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">The Manufacturing module allows you to interactively program and postprocess milling, drilling, turning, and wire edm tool paths. Customizable configuration files define the available machining processors, tool libraries, postprocessors, and other high level parameters which can be targeted to specific market segments such as Mold and Die and Machinery. Templates allow you to customize the user interface and specify machining Setups which can include machine tools, cutting tools, machining methods, shared geometry, and sequences of operations.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">The Operation Navigator allows you to view and manage relationships between operations, geometry, machining methods, and tools. It allows groups of parameters to be shared among many operations, eliminating the repetitious, tedious task of re-specifying parameters for each operation, and provides separate views to manage these relationships.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">Because of the highly customizable nature of the Manufacturing module, the available options and general appearance of dialog boxes on your system may differ from those described in this document. The organization and contents of this documentation is based on the Mach Kit (default set of configuration files, templates, and libraries) delivered with each release by NX.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">Upon entering the Manufacturing module for the first time with a part, you are required to choose an Application Package (configuration.dat file) and a Machining Discipline. This determines the Machining Applications (templates) available in the Create Operation dialog box. The chosen Machining Discipline may be changed at any time in the Create Operation dialog box by choosing another Type option.</p>
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