Patent
1991-09-30
1994-03-22
Harkcom, Gary V.
395156, 395157, 395161, 395119, G06F 1572
Patent
active
052972410
ABSTRACT:
A method for automated re-layout of two-dimensional drawings from a solid model, wherein the solid model can be revised to incorporate design changes, for example. The re-layout process is invoked to automatically generate revised two-dimensional drawings which exactly duplicate an original set of two-dimensional drawings, except that geometry modified in the solid model will be automatically modified in the re-layout drawings. Dimensional data from the original set of drawings associated with unchanged geometry will be automatically associated with and added to the re-layout drawings. The invention permits the solid model to remain the master throughout the design process, while reliably carrying through design changes to the two-dimensional drawings. The user is not required to manually re-enter unchanged dimensional data from one drawing to the next revision.
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Gutierrez F. Steve
Hirr, Jr. Otto A.
MacNeil Norman H.
Harkcom Gary V.
Hewlett--Packard Company
Huynh Ba
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