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Table of Contents
This is the main page of the documentation of the teamTAD project. We'll develop the documentation here; not just of the core software behind the project but also various projects/solutions in which the software and its components are used.
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1. Introduction to TAD
This discusses a bit of history about TAD, and why it is important for architecture to adopt the open source model for explaining architecture. TAD could be one system that can be used to uniformly exchange and develop quality designs.
2. Installation
How to get, install and upgrade various software packages in this projects
3. Components
TAD contains several components. Each component caters to one functional aspect required by the overall project. Each component contains one or more software.
3.1 TAD Foundation
This is the main foundation of The Architect's Desktop on which all other components would be working. Alamban is the precursor to this foundation.
3.2 TAD Designer
This component handles the designing within TAD
3.3 TAD Data
This component handles the building material data passing through TAD
3.4 TAD Network
This component of the project handles the network that allows people to work together
4. Appendices
4.1 TeamTAD Certification
4.2 Community around TAD
4.3 Open source initiatives
4.4 Fleshing out the desktop
4.5 Other sources of information
4.6 Topics concerning this website
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