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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle">CAM Express home page</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">The <b class="uiTerm">CAM Express </b> home page is a starting point for many of the most common activities for a new CAM user. There are links to:
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            <p class="para_item">Create setups.</p>
            <p class="para_item">When you create a setup, you see a palette of setup assemblies to select from. Your current work part becomes a component in the new setup. If your current work part is a CAM setup assembly, the software creates an additional setup for the same component.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Open existing setups for the current work part or another part.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Open Solid Edge files for machining.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Change your role.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Work through tutorials to learn some common workflows.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Get help.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">When using the <b class="uiTerm">CAM Express</b> role, the <b class="uiTerm">CAM Express</b> home page will fly out in the Internet browser tab whenever:
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            <p class="para_item">You start NX CAM from Solid Edge by choosing <b class="uiTerm">Application</b>&rarr;<b class="uiTerm">NX Machining</b>.
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            <p class="para_item">You start NX using the <b class="uiTerm">CAM Express</b> role.
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            <p class="para_item">You open a Solid Edge part for machining from within NX.</p>
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