A design consultant to support CAD tool usage

New designers and students are typically overwhelmed by the plethora of CAD tools at their disposition. To ease their task and to familiarize them with both an efficient usage of tools and a strict design methodology, the authors developed the knowledge-based design consultant CADEC. It contains a comprehensive general concept for partitioning and modeling the design process. In each design step it provides the designer with a clear view of the design progress and the next steps to be done.<
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