Ansys, Inc.

Sanjaykumar Ranganayakulu

Frank E DeSimone

Gregory Mark Alldredge

Glyn Jarvis

Richard Franklin Kutz

Jared Anthony Pryor

Muhammad Rafiuddin

Andrea Woolfe Felix

Christopher Michael Maslin

May Salim Hourani

Samuel Chi-Ngong Mark

Andrey Illich Sarkanich

Glyn Russell Jarvis

A model (e.g., mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) model) representing an assembly is displayed in a graphical user interface (GUI). The assembly contains at least a first body and a second body. The physics type of the model is determined in response to an assignment of a physics condition to the first body and/or the second body. Contact-pairs are detected in the model according to the determined physics type. The GUI is updated to indicate where the contact-pairs are located in the model for revision of the contact-pairs. Markers are shown in the GUI to represent corresponding contact-pairs. Markers are logically separated from bodies and faces in the model. The revision of the contact-pairs can be managed with a filtering mechanism either by bodies/faces or by markers.

Methods and systems for identifying, filtering and classifying contact-pairs

An improved help system for a user interface of a computer program uses a mask with one or more cutouts to focus a user's attention to the cutout portion(s) and uses the mask to display dynamically positioned help information, such as roll over hints, in the available space on the mask. An intelligent placement algorithm is used to control placement of the help information to avoid overlaps among the help information displayed on the mask. The portions of the user interface (UI) under the mask not selectable while under the one or more masks and the other portions of the UI are selectable while in the one or more cutouts. The roll over hints can be similar to coach marks that include arrows that point from the help information on the mask to an associated UI command in a cutout.

Adapted overlay help system

Electronic visual display with graphical user interface for physics status and operations

Electronic visual display with structure modeling tool graphical user interface

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Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Sanjaykumar Ranganayakulu