1. A data structure for configuring manufacturing knowledge and expertise in designing and fabricating an object for manufacture, the data structure comprising: a part level strategy section, the part level strategy section defines general part level attributes and requirements for manufacturing an object; a numerical control setup section, wherein the numerical control setup section defines object fabrication activities for the object set up on a numerical control machine; a quality assurance section, wherein the quality assurance section defines numerical control machine setup; a post operation section, wherein the post operation section defines non-machine tolling functions for manufacturing the object; and a manual operation section, wherein the manual operation section defines attributes of non-Numerical Control machine driven operations.