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Question about creating patent drawings

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Question about creating patent drawings

Hi,



I have a question about creating patent drawings. Can an assembly drawing
created in Pro-E (or other CAD software) with BOM balloons & tables be used
for a patent application? If not, what changes need to be done to the
drawing?



An entrepreneur asked me if Patent drawings can be created from Pro-E or SW
for his product idea. Of course, he probably does not have the money to pay
for this, as entrepreneurs rarely do. They typically just want to pay for
the tooling/manufacturing, and not the product design. Nevertheless, I
thought I would ask anyway in the event it is not a waste of my time.



If you know a useful link to guidelines on creating patent drawings, I would
appreciate the information.



Regards,



Chris Thompson




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Chris,



I would imagine that there must be some description of document/drawing
preparation contained on the US Patent Offices' web site at

Chris,

At my last job, I generated drawings for Patents. Most of these were images from Pro/E that were saved out to DXF (2D ISO type drawing images) then inputted into Word Documents. The reason was that the attorney that they used wanted them in Word format. I would have to see what was being described in the text, then produce either a cut-a-way or an exploded views to allow for the balloons and arrows to be added. We did not add them in Pro/E, they were added in word, this allowed them to be modified down stream since the text can change on a day to day basics (item numbers changing along with the text).

Kevin Brandt

Contract Pro/E Project Engineer

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