Patent ID: 7818148

Claim:
A method for designing custom, primarily decorative stonework, comprising: selecting at least one unit of a plurality of units, wherein each unit of the plurality of units at least corresponds to an architecture feature, and wherein the at least one unit comprises; a plurality of parts; at least one parametric equation defining at least one physical dimension of the plurality of parts and at least one arrangement of the plurality of parts, wherein: the at least one physical dimension comprises at least one measurement of the architecture feature; the at least one physical dimension determines a relative size of at least two parts of the plurality of parts; the at least one arrangement determines a relative position of at least two parts of the plurality of parts; and the at least one physical dimension and the at least one arrangement determine the physical construction of the architecture feature; and at least one control dimension comprising at least one measurement of the architecture feature, the at least one control dimension comprising an input of the at least one parametric equation; selecting at least a primary view of the unit, wherein the primary view depicts an overall view of the at least one arrangement of the plurality of the parts; selecting at least one profile of a plurality of profiles, wherein each profile of the plurality of profiles corresponds to at least a cross-sectional view of the at least one arrangement of the plurality of the parts; inputting the at least one control dimension; parametrically calculating, using the at least one parametric equation, the at least one physical dimension of the plurality of parts and the at least one arrangement of the plurality of parts based upon the input of the at least one control dimension; and generating at least one scaled drawing, wherein the scaled drawing at least has identifiers that correspond to the at least one physical dimension of the plurality of parts of the at least one unit and the at least one arrangement of the plurality of parts of the at least one unit.