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                  <p class="para_td"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('checkmate/intro_ovw_link.html');return(false);">Overview</a></p>
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      </table><br><p class="para_topic">Check-Mate is an easy-to-use, quality assurance, application that evaluates NX parts, assemblies, and drawings to check that:</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">Check-Mate lets you create different levels of checking. You can run individual tests or a set of tests (called a profile) against your part files. Your company can use the results of the checking to determine product quality metrics. With Check-Mate, you can reduce design rework time by detecting and eliminating quality issues during the design stage in the product life cycle.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">A large set of existing tests comes with Check-Mate for you to use. You can view these and their descriptions in the Check-Mate dialog. For details see <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('checkmate/cm_execution.html');return(false);">Execution Process</a>.
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      <p class="para_topic">Check-Mate also lets you create your own tests, so that you can resolve quality issues unique to your design process. For details on this and other ways you can customize Check-Mate, see <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('checkmate/cm_configure.html');return(false);">Configuration Process</a>.
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      <p class="para_topic">When an NX part is saved to Teamcenter Engineering, Check-Mate results for the part can accompany it. For details see <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('checkmate/cm_integration.html');return(false);">Integration with Teamcenter Engineering</a>.
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                  <p class="para_note_body">Check-Mate uses Knowledge Fusion technology. To gain a better understanding of Knowledge Fusion, see the <em>Knowledge Fusion Help</em> and <em>Knowledge Fusion Language Reference</em>. 
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