Draft your claims and abstract, being sure to identify and tag key terms manually or automatically before, during, or after you've done so.
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Create your figures in the Drawing Tool, using your terms as part names for the parts you create and assign to your figure elements.
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To convert terms to part references, thus adding reference numerals to your claims and abstract, open the Specification menu and select Add/Remove Part Numbers in Claims & Abstract.
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Click the Add Part Numbers in Claims & Abstract option.
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Review the report provided and indicate the actions you wish to take, particularly where a term has more than one part match, or has no part match.
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​At this time, to create part references for terms without part matches, you will need to create new parts in the Drawing Tool.
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Click the Add Part Numbers button to complete the selected actions.
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Create your figures in the Drawing Tool, assigning data for the parts you create to your figure elements.
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​It is a best practice to use terms as your part names, or convert your part names to terms to maintain the highest level of consistency.
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Draft your claims and abstract, inserting the appropriate part references while you do so.
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To convert part references to terms, thus removing reference numerals from your claims and abstract, open the Specification menu and select Add/Remove Part Numbers in Claims & Abstract.
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Click the Remove Part Numbers in Claims & Abstract option.
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Review the report provided and indicate the actions you wish to take, particularly where a part reference does not match an existing term.
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Click the Remove Part Numbers button to complete the selected actions.
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​Note that part names that aren't already tagged terms will be created as such to facilitate back-conversion to part references if necessary.