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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2003
Scott Anthony Arvin, New Boston, NH (US);
Marc W. Schindewolf, Hopkinton, NH (US);
Rostislaw Starodub, Munich, DE;
Paul Joseph Mcardle, Bow, NH (US);
Mandar Shashikant Garge, Nashua, NH (US);
Scott Anthony Arvin, New Boston, NH (US);
Marc W. Schindewolf, Hopkinton, NH (US);
Rostislaw Starodub, Munich, DE;
Paul Joseph Mcardle, Bow, NH (US);
Mandar Shashikant Garge, Nashua, NH (US);
Autodesk, Inc., San Rafael, CA (US);
Abstract
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.