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                  <p class="para_td"> <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('checkmate/cm_intro.html');return(false);"> Overview</a> 
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic"> This section is referred to as the User's Guide where a user is some one who runs the checkers as opposed to an author who writes the checkers. The Check-Mate dialog (<b class="uiTerm">Analysis</b>&rarr;  <b class="uiTerm">Check-Mate</b>&rarr;  <b class="uiTerm">Run Tests</b>) lets you run checkers or profiles against parts that you specify. 
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      <p class="para_topic"> The Check-Mate module provides a framework, including a user-interface and reporting mechanism to execute checks on an NX part file. Check-Mate enables you to specify the part or parts to check, and runs interactively or in batch mode from the <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('checkmate/append_c.html');return(false);"> command line</a> . You can have any number of pre-supplied base checkers or custom written checkers. A checker can use a fixed set of parameters to evaluate against or can be written so that you supply the value to be evaluated against. A check can return a pass, fail, or warning status as well as an integer value.
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      <p class="para_topic"> Checkers can execute upon a request or can be set up to automatically execute on a model update or part save. You can also group Checkers into a profile. Profiles specify when the checkers execute and where to store the results.</p>
      <p class="para_topic"> You can set up your own profiles and make them available for selection. Once the system executes the checks, it provides immediate feedback to you in the results window. There are multiple ways to view the results and filters to help provide you with critical information quickly and easily. You can save the results into the part file, to an external log file, both, or neither.</p>
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