Chisel is a powerful theme development tool that provides an easy-to-use interface for the generation of custom blocks and dashboard pages. This allows developers to give clients the customized tools they need to properly manage their website, while substantially reducing build time.
Tools are designed in the Workshop. Once designed the files required to create the tools are all automatically generated. Database tables are also automatically created to store the data captured from the tools.
Models will also be created to help access the captured data. These provide a series of getters for accessing data captured by the created tools. Base logic is generated in these models for more advanced field types. For example, the 'Page' field stores a collection ID in the database. The model will automatically be set up to pull return the collection object.
Chisel was designed to make custom websites and applications quick and easy. Files created by Chisel can be manually customized after-the-fact to incorporate any additional functionality you may need.