Patent ID: 7127308

Claim:
A method of implementing an administration system for use with a computer aided design (CAD) system, the method comprising: loading a plurality of CAD objects generated using the CAD system into the administration system; retrieving a set of object properties for each of the plurality of CAD objects from the CAD system; translating the set of object properties for each of the plurality of CAD objects into an administration format for use by the administration system; creating a plurality of web objects; defining a set of object properties for each of the plurality of web objects, the set of object properties for each of the plurality of web objects pertaining to a complete CAD object or more than one CAD object; creating a plurality of links in the administration system, each link defining a conditional relationship between a parent object having a set of object properties and a child object having a set of other properties, each parent object being one of the plurality of CAD objects and the plurality of web objects, and each child object being one of the plurality of CAD objects and the plurality of web objects; when the parent object is a selected CAD object of the plurality of CAD objects, defining the set of object properties for the parent object to include the set of object properties for the selected CAD object translated into the administration format; when the parent object is a selected web object of the plurality of web objects, defining the set of object properties for the parent object to include the set of object properties for the selected web object; when the child object is a selected CAD object of the plurality of CAD objects, defining the set of object properties for the child object to include the set of object properties for the selected CAD object translated into the administration format; when the child object is a selected web object of the plurality of web objects, defining the set of object properties for the child object to include the set of object properties for the selected web object; and defining a set of link relationships for each of the plurality of links.