Architectural structure design methods, architectural structure design apparatuses, and articles of manufacture
AssigneeChief Architect, Inc.
InventorJack Simpson
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Abstract
Architectural structure design methods, architectural structure design apparatuses, and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects of the disclosure. In one aspect, an architectural structure design method includes displaying a building plan of an architectural structure, accessing user input with respect to the building plan, modifying the building plan responsive to the user input, using the processing circuitry, analyzing the building plan to identify the presence of conditions appropriate to create a roof for the architectural structure, generating the roof responsive to the analyzing, and displaying the architectural structure comprising the roof after the generating.
Claims30
An architectural structure design method comprising:
- displaying a building plan of an architectural structure;
- accessing user input with respect to the building plan;
- modifying the building plan responsive to the user input;
- using the processing circuitry, analyzing the building plan to identify the presence of conditions appropriate to create a roof for the architectural structure;
- generating the roof responsive to the analyzing;
- and
- displaying the architectural structure comprising the roof after the generating.
An architectural structure design apparatus comprising:
- a display configured to depict visual images;
- a user interface configured to receive a plurality of user inputs;
- and
- processing circuitry coupled with the display and the user interface and configured to access the user inputs, to control the display to depict a building plan of an architectural structure responsive to the user inputs, to automatically provide a roof for the architectural structure of the building plan, and to control the display to depict the roof.
An article of manufacture comprising:
- media comprising programming configured to cause processing circuitry to perform processing comprising:
- controlling a display to depict an architectural structure comprising a roof;
- accessing a plurality of user inputs at a plurality of moments in time;
- responsive to the user inputs, performing a plurality of respective modifications to the architectural structure at a plurality of moments in time;
- for at least one of modifications, automatically altering the roof in the absence of user input specifying alteration of the roof;
- for at least an other of the modifications, maintaining the roof unchanged and in substantially the same configuration as prior to the other of the modifications;
- and
- controlling the display to depict the architectural structure comprising the modifications and the roof after the altering.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.