Electronic drawing viewer
AssigneeSolidWorks Corporation
InventorsRick Chin, IIya Baran, Kevin Campanella, John Sweeney
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Abstract
Provided herein is a computer-based system for viewing a two-dimensional electronic draining, including processes for pointing to similar components in different views, animation of views, hyperlinking components between views and virtual folding of an electronic drawing.
Claims28
A method of correlating at least two views of an object, comprising:
- providing a data structure that links first geometry of a first one of the view with a second one of the view;
- and
- in response to a user selecting the first geometry, indicating a correlation between the first geometry and the second one of the views.
A method of displaying two views of an object, comprising:
- selecting a first one of the views;
- selecting a second one of the views;
- and
- moving at least one of the views so that the first view is in proximity to the second view.
A method of correlating at least two views of an object, comprising:
- providing a pointer having an absolute location;
- displaying the pointer in a first one of the views at a relative location in the first view corresponding to the absolute location of the pointer;
- and
- displaying the pointer in a second one of the views at a relative location in the second view corresponding to the absolute location of the pointer.
A method of displaying a model having a plurality of two dimensional views associated therewith, comprising:
- rotating the model to present a first one of the views;
- pausing to show the first one of the views;
- and
- continuously rotating and pausing the model to present other ones of the views.
A computer-based system for providing interpretation of a two-dimensional electronic drawing having a plurality of views, comprising:
- a virtual folding process for permitting a viewer to view selected views in proximity to each other from a plurality of the possible views;
- a hyperlink process for simultaneously highlighting the coordinates of a viewed object as the coordinates appear in more than one view;
- a pointer for simultaneously pointing to the same point of a viewed object as the point appears in more than one view;
- and
- a drawing animator for rotating the three-dimensional depiction about an axis of rotation and highlighting a two-dimensional view when the view is coincident with the plane of the drawing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.