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Windchill Foundation Abstractions
At an infrastructure layer of Windchill’s architecture are foundational abstractions to be used by services and applications. These abstractions, shown in the following figure, represent the fundamental types that are commonly used by others as a part of a Windchill system.
Foundation Hierarchy