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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2011
Jiri Kripac, Fairfax, CA (US);
Hans-frederick Brown, Montreal, CA;
Pei Zhan, Ada, MI (US);
Autodesk, Inc., San Rafael, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, system, apparatus, article of manufacture, and computer-readable storage medium provide the ability to edit surface objects in a surface modeler. A dependent surface object (that is dependent on one or more input objects) having one or more properties is obtained. First user input is received that indicates that a surface associativity for the dependent surface object is off. In response to the receiving, an association between the dependent surface object and the one or more input objects is maintained. The association is used to expose the one or more properties of the dependent surface object. The properties are then displayed for editing by the user.