Blocks, attributes and BOM creation

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I am currently using AutoCAD 2015, I am a self taught. I currently work for a small company that makes window frames and panels. Currently we have to manually check the shop drawings and quantify all the various information to estimate material requirements for each project. What I was thinking to help save time was to create a system that can read the drawings and extract the required information for us to save time. The research that I have done has lead me to believe that using blocks and attributes is the only way to achieve this within AutoCAD. My idea is to make all the lines, that make up the skeleton of the framing within the shop drawings into blocks, assign a few attributes to each one (length, width, profile) and then extract the block information to create a BOM. The single drafter we have here does not have a lot of experience with blocks or attributes so I have come here for more info.
Does this concept make sense? Is is plausible?
Thank you for your time,