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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2007
George Hudetz, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
George Hudetz, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Autodesk, Inc., San Rafael, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for generating a three-dimensional representation of a ribbon cable in a computer-aided design drawing is disclosed. In one embodiment, a user may create a three-dimensional ribbon cable object with an arbitrary shape and an arbitrary number of fold or twists. A user creates or specifies a ribbon cable template incorporating several attributes and a computer aided design application may be configured to generate a three-dimensional ribbon cable object from the template and displays the representation of the three-dimensional ribbon cable object in the computer-aided design drawing. Further, once generated, the ribbon cable object may be flattened to a two-dimensional surface, identifying the overall length of the ribbon cable and the location of any folds.