To i n tegrate CA*-systems with other applications in the world of CIM, one principal approach currently under development is based on feature representation. It enables any CIM component to recognize the higher-level entities { the so-called features { out of a lower-data exchange format, which m i g h t b e t h e i n ternal representation of a CAD system as well as some standard data exchange format. In this paper we present a 'made-to-measure' editor for representing features in the higher-level domain speci c representation language FEAT-REP { a representation language based on a (feature-) speci c attributed node labeled graph grammar. This intelligent tool, shortly called GGD, supports the knowledge engineer during the representation process by structuring the knowledge base using a conceptual language and by v erifying several characteristics of the features.

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