Navigating Design System with Fallback Support

Abstract

To assist the designer improving affection and efficiency, the development method of the navigating and fallback design system is presented. The navigating system provides not only the guidance to avoid mis-operation but also the milestones of key designing steps. With the dynamic designing tips, the unfamiliar task can be carried out efficiently and accurately. By recording the process of each designing step, the fallback design supporting strategy allows going back to the preceding designing stage. Meanwhile, the correlative interim results and dynamic designing reports are updated correspondingly. The key enable technologies to implement the method are presented. Moreover, the interactive database operation and dynamic description strategy of designing processes are illustrated, which are implemented on the basis of ADO and OLE technologies.