Autodesk, Inc.

Marc Wagner Schindewolf

Scott Anthony Arvin

Paul Joseph McArdle

James Matson Awe

Chad Steven Ames

David J Plunkett

Rostislaw Starodub

Mandar Shashikant Garge

A reordering tool for sequentially reordering data values assigned to graphical objects in a CAD model is described. The reordering tool can be a software application or a tool included in a software application. The reordering tool can have one or more graphical user interfaces configured to receive input from a user and present information to a user prior to reordering data values of the objects.

Graphic interactive method to reorder sequential data values on graphic objects

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to display and use object manipulators in a computer graphics program. In some embodiments, an object manipulator (i.e., a button object manipulator or traditional object manipulator) is displayed on a graphics object and activated. In response to the activation, a property of the graphics object is directly modified. Various forms and properties of the object manipulator provide additional capabilities that may assist the user in the graphics program.

Object manipulators and functionality

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for enabling the creation of authorable, dynamic software objects. An apparatus made in accordance with the present invention comprises a computer and an attached monitor, stream means, display property means, display representation means, and display configuration means. The stream means is performed by the computer and accepts at least one graphic primitive into the software object. The display property means is performed by the computer and stores at least one quality associated with each graphic primitive in the software object. The display representation means is performed by the computer and graphically represents a selected set of display properties of the software object. The display configuration means is performed by the computer and selectively displays one of the sets of graphical representations of the software object on the monitor of the computer.

Display representations and streams for objects having authorable and dynamic behaviors and appearances

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Marc Wagner Schindewolf