Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Thomas R Mignone

Stephanie Horn

Matthew William Kernek

Michael Jay Gilmore

Tyler Robert Adams

Thomas Nhan

Alexandre Gueniot

Jie Li

Onur Onder

Constance Worsfold Gervais

Ramya Tridandapani

Eric Minghai Gao

Heather Joanne Alekson

Bharat Kumar Ahuja

Garrett William Brown

Chris Welman

Adam Ross Le Doux

Jordan Krissi

Michael Alexander Fuller

Elise Leigh Livingston

Haitao He

Kerry Young

Ancuta Irina Zaharia

A three-dimensional model can be presented in a two-dimensional digital canvas on a computer display. User input directed at the three-dimensional model in the two-dimensional canvas can be received. The three-dimensional model can be manipulated in response to the user input. A two-dimensional view of the three-dimensional model can be displayed. Corresponding data structures for the model, the canvas, and the two-dimensional objects in the data structure can be maintained and updated. One or more additional techniques can also be utilized in a computer system, such as continuous user-controlled model rotation in a two-dimensional canvas; viewport autofit and non-autofit modes; rotating the model around a camera look-at point; ghosting outside the viewport; normalizing modeling units and values; preset buttons with on-button previews; user-defined view presets; and/or two-dimensional image substitution.

Three-dimensional digital models in two-dimensional digital canvases

Three-dimensional digital modeling with two-dimensional canvas

Three-dimensional model look-at-point rotation and viewport modes

The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) standard defines a way to describe two-dimensional graphics within the extensible markup language (XML) that can be interpreted by multiple programs. The SVG standard, however, lacks native support for several user experience features, such as look and feel settings (e.g., themes) that affect multiple objects within a document. The present disclosure, however, teaches how an SVG object may be made theme-aware and still comply with the SVG standard so that it is portable between files and applications that apply the present disclosure and those that do not. By enabling the dynamic updating of SVG objects, the benefits to the user experience and computer efficiency associated with standardized vector graphics and the document-wide application of look and feel settings can be realized without deviating from the SVG standard.

Dynamically formatting scalable vector graphics

User selection of a displayed object is detected. The size of the selected object is identified and compared with a move target size threshold. If the size of the selected object does not meet the move target size threshold, then a user actuatable move handle is displayed in a location displaced from the selected object, on the user interface, but visually connected to the selected object. User actuation of the move handle correspondingly moves the object on the user interface.

Assistive move handle for object interaction

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