Patent ID: 7162688

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 CADD file; (ii) identifying a grouping of text in a text block file; (iii) creating Linking Information between said Drawing Entity and said text; (iv) associating said linking information with the corresponding Drawing Entity; (v) storing each Drawing Entity together with the associated linking information; (vi) scanning one or more additional CADD files, each containing one or more new Drawing Entities, and for each new CADD file: (vii) repeating steps (i) through (v) for all of the new Drawing Entities; (b) repeating steps (i) through (vii) for Drawing Entities not yet linked to text in a next project, and (c) Generating one or more Project Specifications Document files comprising all the text associated with said Drawing Entities.