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Product Overview
Knowledgeware is one of the main core V5 technologies used by Digital Project, controlling all aspects of parametric functionality including the creation of parameters, formulas and measurements. Digital Project - Knowledge Advisor builds on this functional core to allow the advanced control and manipulation of parametric components and features. Knowledge Advisor functionality gives access to the Knowledgeware engine beyond the basics-- including the ability for a parametric-associative design to check for the validity of a geometric configuration or parametric value against a user-defined set of rules and even the ability to make decisions depending on certain design-dependent conditions. The ability to control designs as rule-based systems allows users to define their designs as self-controlling schemas which are able to adapt and validate themselves against existing or varying geometric or parametric conditions.
Product Highlights
Feature-Level Parameters and Parameter Sets
Knowledge Advisor gives a user the ability to add individual parameter values directly onto an individual design feature (geometric object or operations) using the Parameter Explorer tool. These feature-level values can be fully integrated in all formula, check and rules mechanisms, allowing detailed fine-tuning of parametric designs at the individual component level, as well as the recording of feature-specific information.
Artificial Intelligence
Classic AI is defined as the ability for a system to make autonomous decisions based on a predefined set of rules. Knowledge Advisor provides a family of increasingly powerful AI features that can detect and react to geometric and parametric conditions within an parametric design depending on user-specified conditions.
- Checks: Users are notified if a preset condition or parametric value is or is not met. A condition is given as a scripted logic expression within the check.
- Rules: Building on the scriptable logic of the check, the rule adds the functionality to make a decision and take action in response to a condition change. Triggering a rule will result in an action being taken as specified in the rule's script, which can include changing a parameter value, turning features on and off, or applying different subsequent features to the overall design.
- Reactions: Similar to rules, these 'react' to specific user events in the model rather than changes in parametric conditions. Reactions can help monitor model changes and keep designs consistent.
Scripting Features
Knowledge Advisor provides a special kind of feature, the Script Feature, which is basically the encapsulation of specific macro code snippets that are called during the update sequence in a parametric design. This can help in the updating of certain parts of the design, or the calculation of specific data sets.
- Knowledgeware Language®: Uses the object-oriented logic-type expressions used in formulas, checks and rules.
- Visual Basic (Embedded)®: Uses syntax similar to the well-known VBA, to provide small pieces of procedural script within a design.
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