Many business corporations are faced with the challenge of bringing together quite different types of knowledge in design processes: knowledge of different disc

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Knowledge-Intensive CAD clarifies and elaborates the concepts of knowledge-intensive design and CAD. In today's advanced manufacturing environment, CAD systems