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agent and an internal object of a structure (the connection goes through the boundary
of the structure object). In this case the structure object must have an identical type of
service point as the internal object.
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System. A system is a hierarchical view of a recursive assembly of objects made of
objects.
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Function structure. A function may be composed of other functions (called internal
functions)
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Macro function. A macro function is a hierarchical view of a recursive assembly of
functions made of functions.
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Attribute. A property, applicable to objects, service points, functions, entities.
10.5 Diagrams related concepts
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An external architecture diagram displays an objects and its environment (the agents)
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An internal architecture diagram displays a structure object, its agents and its internal
objects
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A Visio architecture diagram relates to a structure object
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A Visio system diagram displays an embedded view of an hierarchical system.
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Multiple diagrams can exist (as distinct files) related to the same object
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The criteria for generating a diagrams are also stored in the database.
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Amarco Cartography uses the object information and the diagram information to
generate / update automatically one or several diagrams
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A reference diagram is the diagram that is considered as reference for a particular
view. This is the diagram that is used to generate Web with navigation
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A drawing style contains information that will be applied at diagram generation. A
drawing style can be associated with multiple diagrams.
