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Before describing the various approaches that have been taken to the management of engineering data, it is necessary to introduce some common terminology and to describe some of the properties of engineering information that the data management facilities of a CAD Framework must be able to represent and manipulate. The Framework provides a set of mechanisms, or facilities, for modelling real-world information, and one of the most important issues in CAD Framework design is choosing a data model and corresponding implementation that is adequate for describing all of the information used by the design system, easily updated to new design styles and technologies, while remaining efficient and robust enough to meet the performance needs of engineering design.
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Barnes, T.J., Harrison, D., Newton, A.R., Spickelmier, R.L. (1992). Data Representation. In: Electronic CAD Frameworks. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 185. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3558-4_3
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