Workbench Description

The Knowledge Advisor Menu Bar

The menu bar available in the Knowledge Advisor workbench is the standard one.

The Standard Toolbar

The standard toolbar is modified when the Knowledge Advisor product is installed. The Knowledge Inspector icon is displayed.

The Parameters and Formulas icon allows you to create parameters and to specify relations between parameters. See Using Knowledgeware Capabilities for more information.

The Design Table icon enables you to manage component families in .xls or .txt files. See Using Knowledgeware Capabilities for more information.
The  Law Editor icon (fog) enables you to create relations intended to be used in the creation of shape design parallel curves. 

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The Knowledge Inspector icon allows you to query a design to determine and preview the results of changing any parameters.

The Knowledge Advisor Toolbar

The figure below describes the Knowledge Advisor toolbar.

Here is a brief description of each icon.

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The Rule Editor icon provides access to the rule editor.  Click this icon to create a rule, write its code, test its syntax and apply it to your document.

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The Check Editor icon provides access to the check editor. Click this icon to create a check, write its code, tests its syntax and apply it to your document.

The Reaction icon allows you to create a script specifying how to change some feature attributes when an event occurs. Clicking this icon opens a reaction window.

The  Measure Update icon starts the update of relations using measures.

The  Parameter Explorer icon allows you to add new parameters to a feature.

The  Set of Parameters icon allows you to create sets of parameters. These sets of parameters are all grouped below the Parameters node.

The  Set of Relations icon allows you to create sets of relations below the Relations node.

The  VB  icon enables you to launch a macro wit arguments.

The Action icon allows you to create a script. Clicking this icon opens an action window.

The List icon allows you to create a list of features that will be located under the Parameters node in the specification tree. Clicking this icon opens the List edition window.

The  Comment & URLs icon allows you to add URLs to user parameters or relations.

The  Update icon enables you to update a document without exiting the Knowledge Advisor workbench.

The  Set of Equations icon enables you to solve a set of equations.