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Barry John Ptak

Alexander Charles Cullum

David Mondelore

Aspects of the technology described herein provide a control interface for manipulating a 3-D graphical object within a virtual drawing space. The control can be activated by selecting a graphical object or objects. When multiple objects are selected, the manipulations can occur as a group. In one aspect, the manipulations occur around the centroid of the 3-D graphical object, or groups of objects. The manipulations can include rotation, size adjustment, and positional adjustment within the virtual drawing space. The control interface comprises a visible mesh that helps the user position the object in space relative to other objects.

Interface for positioning an object in three-dimensional graphical space

Aspects of the technology described herein provide a control interface for manipulating a 3-D graphical object within a virtual drawing space. The control can automatically group objects together for common manipulation. Example manipulations include position and orientation adjustments.

Automatically grouping objects in three-dimensional graphical space

Aspects of the technology described herein provide a control interface for manipulating a 3-D graphical object within a virtual drawing space. The control can be activated by selecting a graphical object or objects. When multiple objects are selected, the manipulations can occur as a group. In one aspect, the manipulations occur around the centroid of the 3-D graphical object, or groups of objects. The manipulations can include rotation, size adjustment, and positional adjustment within the virtual drawing space. The control interface comprises controls that rotate the object around an x-axis, an y-axis, or an z-axis.

Control interface for a three-dimensional graphical object

Aspects of the technology described herein provide a control interface for manipulating a 3-D graphical object within a virtual drawing space. The control can automatically group objects together for common manipulation. The control can take the form of a scaled representation of a group of objects located outside of the primary drawing space. Moving the representation then moves the objects.

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