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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1993
Rene LoNegro, Meudon, FR;
Stuart Wells, Watertown, MA (US);
Adra Systems, Inc., Chelmsford, MA (US);
Abstract
A dimension indicator is automatically created to define the size of a geometric object or the spatial relationship between two geometric objects for a user of a computer-aided design and drafting system by the data processing steps of displaying one or more geometric objects; determining the geometry of one or more of the displayed objects; choosing one of a plurality of possible dimension indicators for the object(s) based on the determination in the previous step; displaying an image of the chosen dimension indicator until a placement location is selected for the chosen dimension indicator; and then displaying the dimension indicator in the vicinity of the placement location.