Separating cad in illustrator

i am being asked to assist in separating cads in illustrator at my work. i know AI pretty well. I have never worked with cad, but have a general knowledge of what it is.
what would separating cads entail? and could i catch onto it coming from a production/design background?
i realize this is a very general question, but it was put this generally to me.

What do you mean by "separating cads?"? Are you talking about color-separating color artwork generated by a CAD software? Separating individual parts in a vector drawing exported from a CAD software? What?
JET

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0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1. GENERIC PACKAGE (GenToHierMap)
0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.2.
package com.sap.javaMapping;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Vector;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.w3c.dom.Text;
import com.sap.aii.mapping.api.StreamTransformation;
public class GenToHierMap
     private Element root, idoc;
     private Element nodeArrayRef[];
     private String nodeArrayTagName[];
     private Relation rel ;
     private int stack_count ;
     private String nameSpace;
     private String separator="#!";
     protected String msgName;
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     msgName = msgName1;
     nameSpace = nameSpace1;
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     execute(in,out);
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          Element e ;
          Relation cur_rel;
          DOMSource domS = null;
          Element keyNodeParent;
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                       factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
                         TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
                         Transformer transform = tf.newTransformer();
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                         Document docIn = builderel.parse(in);
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                        nodeArrayTagName = new String[rows.getLength() + 1];
                        nodeArrayRef = new Element[rows.getLength() + 1];
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                         root = docOut.createElement(msgName);
                         docOut.appendChild(root);
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                              dataRecord = node.getNodeValue();
                              String fieldValue [] = dataRecord.split(separator);
                              //Cada cop que es troba una nova capçalera es crea un nou document.
                              //Això permet que hi hagi més d'un IDOC per missatge processat.
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                                        //Es dona sortida al document anterior abans de crear-ne un de nou - BE AWARE BECAUSE IN THE NEXT LINES WE DEFINE THE UNBOUNDED IDOC ATTRIBUTE, WITH BEGIN = 1 ****
                                        //transform.transform((domS),new StreamResult(out));
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                              keyNodeParent = searchNode(keyId);
                              nodeArrayTagName[count] = keyId;
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                          keyNodeParent.appendChild(e);
                          createXmlTree(docOut,e,keyId,fieldValue);
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                          stack_count = stack_count + 1;
                     transform.transform((domS),new StreamResult(out));
       catch (Exception t)
              t.printStackTrace();
return;
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private Element searchNode(String keyId)
     Relation cur_rel;
     for (int i=0;i<rel.v.size();i++)
          cur_rel = (Relation) rel.v.get(i);
          if (cur_rel.node.equals(keyId))
                 for (int j=0;j<cur_rel.parents.length;j++)
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      Text tagValue;
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      for (int i=0;i<rel.v.size();i++)
                 cur_rel = (Relation) rel.v.get(i);
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                       node.appendChild(tagName);
                       if ( j < fieldValue.length && fieldValue[j].length() != 0 )
                       if ( fieldValue[j].substring(0,1).equals("""))
                       if ( fieldValue[j].length() > 2 )
                       fieldValue[j] = fieldValue[j].substring(1,( fieldValue[j].length() - 1 ));
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                       fieldValue[j] = new String ();
                       if ( j >= fieldValue.length )
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                       tagValue = docOut.createTextNode(fieldValue[j]);
                       tagName.appendChild(tagValue);
                    return;
//Main thread of execution
0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1. SPECIFIC ONE
0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.2.
package com.sap.javaMapping;
* Mapping Program to Convert NOM IDOC Master Structure to the Generic structure Expected by
* the FTP Receiver adapter
import com.sap.aii.mapping.api.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Vector;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import org.xml.sax.*;
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public class INT938_mapping implements StreamTransformation
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mriRel.parents[0] =   "NULL" ;
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mriRel.parents[0]   =   "IDOC";
mriRel.elements[0] =   "SEGMENT";
mriRel.elements[1] =   "PREQ_ITEM";
mriRel.elements[2] =   "DOC_TYPE";
mriRel.elements[3] =   "PUR_GROUP";
mriRel.elements[4] =   "CREATED_BY";
mriRel.elements[5] =   "PREQ_NAME";
mriRel.elements[6] =   "PREQ_DATE";
mriRel.elements[7] =   "SHORT_TEXT";
mriRel.elements[8] =   "MATERIAL";
mriRel.elements[9] =   "PLANT";
mriRel.elements[10] =   "STORE_LOC";
mriRel.elements[11] =   "TRACKINGNO";
mriRel.elements[12] =   "MAT_GRP";
mriRel.elements[13] =   "QUANTITY";
mriRel.elements[14] =   "UNIT";
mriRel.elements[15] =   "DELIV_DATE";
mriRel.elements[16] =   "ACCTASSCAT";
mriRel.elements[17] =   "DES_VENDOR";
mriRel.elements[18] =   "PURCH_ORG";
mriRel.elements[19] =   "BATCH";
mriRel.elements[20] =   "VEND_MAT";
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mriRel.parents = new String[1];
mriRel.elements = new String[2];
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mriRel.parents[0] =   "E1BPEBANC";
mriRel.elements[0] =   "SEGMENT";
mriRel.elements[1] =   "ZPO_NUMBER";
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mriRel.parents = new String[1];
mriRel.elements = new String[3];
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mriRel.parents[0] =   "IDOC";
mriRel.elements[0] =   "SEGMENT";
mriRel.elements[1] =   "PREQ_ITEM";
mriRel.elements[2] =   "COST_CTR";
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mriRel.elements = new String[8];
mriRel.node = "Z1SOLRES";
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mriRel.elements[1] =   "DADES_PACIENT";
mriRel.elements[2] =   "NOHIS";
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mriRel.elements[4] =   "ZFEIMP";
mriRel.elements[5] =   "NMPAC";
mriRel.elements[6] =   "ZNLOTE";
mriRel.elements[7] =   "ZNSERIE";
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