- Author
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Lopez, L. A.
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Elam, S.
- Title
- SICAD User's Manual.
- Coporate
- Univ., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NBS GCR 87-531
May 1987
97 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- NBS-GRANT-NB83NAHA4029
- Keywords
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buidling codes
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building standards
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computer aided design
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conformance checking
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decision tables
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engineering data bases
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integrated computer aided design
- Abstract
- The Standards Interface for Computer Aided Design (SICAD) is an experimental software system currently under development in a cooperative research project in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois and the Center for Building Technology at the National Bureau of Standards. The puropose of the SICAD system is to provide a support tool for research on the interface between the standards that govern engineering design and computer aided design systems. SICAD utilizes an augmented form of a decision table-based model for standards called the SASE model. This model was developed as part of an ongoing NBS investigation of Standards Analysis Synthesis and Expression. The material covered in this user's manual includes an introduction to the SICAD concepts; a definition of the meta-language used to describe the SICAD commands; the mechanics of running an application program in SICAD; the interface presented to application programs by SICAD; a minimal example application program; a description of mapping grammars; and a summary of the steps required to put together a SICAD system.