Patent ID: 6993708

Claim:
A computer-software-based method for generating and maintaining Project textual documentation comprising the software-implemented steps of (a) in a first project, appending information to discrete electronically generated Drawing Entities for purposes of establishing an electronic link between said Drawing Entities and text, the method further comprising: the steps of: (i) identifying a Drawing Entity contained in a CAD file; (ii) identifying a grouping of text in a text block file; (iii) creating Linking Information between said Drawing Entity and said text; (iv) scanning a multiplicity of CAD files, each containing a multiplicity of new Drawing Entities; (v) repeating steps (i) through (iii) for the new Drawing Entities; (vi) associating all linking information with the corresponding Drawing Entity; (vii) storing each Drawing Entity, and corresponding text, together with the associated linking information; (viii) generating a printed Project Specifications Document comprising all text associated with said Drawing Entities; (b) repeating the previous steps for Drawing Entities not yet linked to text in a next project; and (c) creating a Project Specifications Library from the stored Drawing Entities, corresponding text, and associated linking information, combined with the text of the next project.