Method and sysetm for design and drafting
AssigneeAdra Systems, Inc.
InventorsRene LoNegro, Stuart Wells
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Abstract
A dimension indicator is automatically created to define the size of a geometric object or the spatial relationship between two geometric objects for a user of a computer-aided design and drafting system by the data processing steps of displaying one or more geometric objects; determining the geometry of one or more of the displayed objects; choosing one of a plurality of possible dimension indicators for the object(s) based on the determination in the previous step; displaying an image of the chosen dimension indicator until a placement location is selected for the chosen dimension indicator; and then displaying the dimension indicator in the vicinity of the placement location.
Claims8
A method for automatically choosing and then displaying a dimension indicator type for indicating the size of a geometric object for a user of a computer-aided design and drafting system, comprising the following steps which are performed automatically by the computer-aided design and drafting system:
- (a) identifying one of a plurality of possible geometries as the geometry of a displayed geometric object;
- (b) choosing one of a plurality of possible dimension indicator types for the object based on the identification in step (a);
- (c) displaying an image of the chosen dimension indicator until a placement location is selected for the chosen dimension indicator;
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- (d) displaying the chosen dimension indicator type in the vicinity of the placement location.
A method for automatically choosing and then displaying a dimension indicator type for indicating a spatial relationship between two geometric objects for a user of a computer-aided design and drafting system, comprising the following steps which are performed automatically by the computer-aided design and drafting system:
- (a) identifying one of a plurality of possible geometries as the geometry of a first displayed geometric object;
- (b) identifying the geometry of a second displayed geometric object;
- (c) choosing one of a plurality of possible dimension indicator types for the first and second objects based on the identifications in steps (a) and (b);
- (d) displaying an image of the chosen dimension indicator until a placement location is selected for the chosen dimension indicator;
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- (e) displaying the chosen dimension indicator type in the vicinity of the placement location.
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