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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2004
John M. Lewis, Acton, MA (US);
Robert Bruce Todd, Jr., New Boston, NH (US);
Edward James Connor, Manchester, NH (US);
Christopher Eric Putnam, Henniker, NH (US);
John M. Lewis, Acton, MA (US);
Robert Bruce Todd, Jr., New Boston, NH (US);
Edward James Connor, Manchester, NH (US);
Christopher Eric Putnam, Henniker, NH (US);
Autodesk, Inc., San Rafael, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to manipulate a drawing surface in a CAD/GIS computer application. A drawing surface is displayed in a CAD/GIS application followed by the performance of a surface edit operation on the drawing surface. The surface edit operation is stored/saved as an atomic property in a list of surface edit operations. The list of surface edit operations is displayed in a graphical user interface (GUI). Each surface edit operation may be independently toggled on/off in the GUI and such toggling is reflected in the CAD/GIS application by displaying an effect of executing the surface edit operation if toggled on and displaying the drawing surface without execution of the surface edit operation if toggled off.