Secure and Scalable Sharing of Digital Engineering Documents

A non-transitory physical storage medium storing program code, the program code executable by a hardware processor to cause the hardware processor to execute a computer-implemented process for generating a digital document, the program code comprising code to:

• receive a static document file comprising human-readable data;
• parse the static document file into a plurality of subunits;
• generate a sharable document splice of the static document file, wherein the sharable document splice comprises access to a subset of the plurality of subunits, wherein the access is provided through an Application Programming Interface (API) or Software Development Kit (SDK) endpoint for each subunit in the subset, and wherein a given API or SDK endpoint of a given subunit comprises an identifier to the document splice and an identifier for the given subunit;
• execute a digital thread script to generate the digital document from the sharable document splice and an input digital model representation, wherein the digital thread script calls upon the API or SDK endpoints in the sharable document splice, wherein the digital document comprises a digital artifact extracted from the input digital model representation, and wherein the digital document is configured through the digital thread script to reflect an update to the digital artifact in response to changes in the input digital model representation;
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• add execution metadata to the digital document, for the execution of the digital thread script, wherein the execution metadata identifies the digital thread script.