Patent ID: 6603486
Filing Date: 2003-08-05
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
A computer-implemented method for processing two-dimensional drawing data, the method comprising:receiving two-dimensional drawing data comprising a plurality of data objects, said data objects comprising: 2D drawing primitives providing for representation of a plurality of views of a modeled object, and at least one annotation object; reformatting the received two-dimensional drawing data into a generic format wherein the generic format comprises a generic data structure representing the plurality of views of the modeled object and at least one annotation object; processing the generic data structure to identify at least one of said annotation objects; separating the two-dimensional drawing into a plurality of views based on an analysis of relationships between ones of the 2D drawing primitives as represented in the generic data structure; and associating each of the identified annotation objects with a related one of the views.