Method of constructing a virtual construction model
AssigneeInterlego A.G.
InventorsMark William Hansen, Lisbeth Valther Pallesen, Ronny Scherer
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Abstract
A method of constructing a virtual construction model, comprising: displaying a plurality of construction elements corresponding to respective types of construction elements, allowing a user to select one or more instances of each of the types of construction elements; maintaining a counter of available elements for each type of construction elements; decrementing said counter of available elements of a type of construction elements each time a user selects a construction element of said type; providing an indication to the user when the available number of construction elements of one of the types of construction elements has been used in the virtual construction model.
Claims7
A method of constructing a virtual construction model, comprising:
- displaying a virtual building area, the virtual building area allowing a user to assemble a virtual construction model;
- displaying a plurality of construction elements corresponding to respective types of construction elements, allowing a user to select one or more instances of each of the types of construction elements and to place the selected one or more instances in the virtual building area;
- maintaining a counter of available elements for each type of construction element;
- decrementing said counter of available elements of a type of construction element each time a user selects a construction element of said type and places the selected construction element in the virtual building area;
- providing an indication to the user when the available number of construction elements of one of the types of construction elements has been used in the virtual construction model.
A computer program product embodied on a computer readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions adapted to cause, when executed on a data processing system, the data processing system to perform a method of constructing a virtual construction model including:
- displaying a virtual building area, the virtual building area allowing a user to assemble a virtual construction model;
- displaying a plurality of construction elements corresponding to respective types of construction elements, allowing a user to select one or more instances of each of the types of construction elements and to place the selected one or more instances in the virtual building area;
- maintaining a counter of available elements for each type of construction element;
- decrementing said counter of available elements of a type of construction element each time a user selects a construction element of said type and places the selected construction element in the virtual building area;
- providing an indication to the user when the available number of construction elements of one of the types of construction elements has been used in the virtual construction model.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.