| CPC G06F 30/13 (2020.01) [G06F 30/12 (2020.01); G06Q 10/0633 (2013.01); G06F 2111/02 (2020.01); G06F 2111/20 (2020.01); G06Q 30/0603 (2013.01)] | 21 Claims |
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1. A method for creating, indexing, searching and distributing of construction details in modeling program workflows, comprising:
receiving a plurality of construction detail components on a product management application service on a server network device with one or more processors, from one or more network devices each with one or more processors, via a communications network for use with a X-dimensional (XD) modeling program, wherein X is a positive number greater than two,
the received plurality of construction detail components comprising:
(1) a first type of construction detail component provided by an architect, engineer, designer or contractor including:
providing construction detail components that are created, adopted, used and reused across different design projects by architects, engineers, designers or contractors,
providing detailed virtual construction detail companion drawings for the design projects,
providing complete descriptions of specific parts of construction objects in a building,
providing dimensions, tolerances,
notation, symbols and specification information about the construction objects in the building,
providing information about assembly, edges and junctions between building components and showing specific construction information,
illustrating how building materials and building systems interface in the construction objects in the building,
describing ways of satisfying buildings regulations and building codes the for construction objects in the building, and
(2) a second type of construction detail component provided by suppliers of construction and building materials including representing actual physical design components available from manufacturers or product suppliers of the suppliers of the construction and building materials;
scanning on the project management application service, a plurality of electronic product document depositories stored in a plurality of different locations on the communications network including a plurality of electronic vocabulary, taxonomy and thesaurus terms, for electronic product information associated with the received set of construction detail components;
creating with the product management application service, a set of a plurality of construction detail attributes for each of the received plurality of construction detail components,
the created set of the plurality of construction detail attributes including a plurality of electronic vocabulary, taxonomy, thesaurus and graphical object terms specifically related to components of the created set of the plurality of construction detail attributes and related to a set of a plurality of actual physical design components available for the received plurality of plurality of construction detail components,
the taxonomy terms including tree structures whose nodes are labelled with entities likely to occur in a web search query;
creating with the product management application service, a first set of electronic indexes with the created set of the plurality of construction detail attributes to quickly, efficiently and effectively locate and access, one or more of the received plurality of construction detail components,
the first of set of electronic indexes including a first set of electronic links to selected ones of the electronic vocabulary, taxonomy, thesaurus and graphical object terms in the created set of the plurality of construction detail attributes starting at one or more first general terms, linking to one or more intermediate terms and linking to one or more specific terms,
thereby providing a first, one-to-many, general-to-specific, electronic pathway for locating and selecting one or more, first, specific desired virtual construction detail components;
creating with the product management application service a second set of electronic indexes with the created set of the plurality of construction detail attributes to quickly, efficiently and effectively access, other ones of the one or more of the received plurality of construction detail components,
the second of set of electronic indexes including a second set of electronic links to other selected ones of the electronic vocabulary, taxonomy, thesaurus and graphical object terms in the created set of the plurality of construction detail attributes starting at one or more second specific terms, linking to one or more second intermediate terms and linking to one or more second general terms,
thereby providing a second, many-to-one, specific-to-general, electronic pathway for locating and selecting one or more second, general desired virtual construction detail components;
creating with the product management application service a third set of electronic indexes with the created set of the plurality of component attributes to quickly, efficiently and effectively access, electronic product information for a plurality of actual physical products associated with the one or more of the received plurality of construction detail components,
the third of set of electronic indexes including a third set of electronic links to yet other selected ones of the electronic vocabulary, taxonomy and thesaurus terms in the created set of the plurality of construction detail attributes starting at a plurality of different general terms, different intermediate terms and different specific terms levels,
thereby providing a third, pathway for locating and selecting one or more actual physical products associated with the one or more of the received plurality of construction detail components;
hosting from the project management application service via the communications network for one or more other network devices each with one or more other processors, the created first, second and third set of electronic indexes;
providing from the project management application service via the communications network to the one or more other network devices, the first, one-to-many, general-to-specific, electronic pathway and the second, many-to-one, specific-to-general, electronic pathway,
for locating and selecting one or more virtual construction detail components from the one or more other network devices via the communications network; and
providing from the project management application service via the communications network to the one or more other network devices, the third electronic pathway,
for locating and selecting from the one or more other network devices via the communications network, one or more actual physical products associated with the one or more of the received plurality of construction detail components,
from outside of the XD modeling program via a web-service or website via the communications network, or
from directly within the XD modeling program.
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