A State-of-the-Art CAD Framework
The tool integration environment includes higher-level facilities for:
- Constructing user interfaces (User Interface Services)
- Managing the CAD data associated with the design and coordinating access to the data by multiple CAD tools or human users (Data Management Services)
- Managing the evolution, or history, of the design (Version Services)
- Facilities for defining the legal organization of the data and what particular data items, and their relationships to other data items, mean (Data Representation Services).