SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SKETCH DIMENSIONS FOR A DRAWING VIEW

• US 20140358493A1
• Filed: 04/21/2014
• Published: 12/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Incorporated (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Soman, Shrinivas, Gurav, Nilesh, Ghosh, Arindam, Anand, Manish
• Granted Patent: US 9,830,405 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/00 Computer-aided design [CAD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/00 Manipulating 3D models or images for computer graphics
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2219/012 Dimensioning, tolerancing

Abstract

Methods for providing sketch dimensions for a drawing view and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving a geometric model including a revolved feature generated using a sketch having sketch dimensions. The sketch and the sketch dimensions are in a sketch plane. The method includes, in response to one or more sketch objects being visible in a current view plane of the revolved feature, generating a drawing view of the one or more sketch objects in the current view plane. The drawing view includes the sketch dimensions of the one or more sketch objects.

Claims

1. A method for providing sketch dimensions for a drawing view, the method performed by a data processing system and comprising:

receiving, by the data processing system, a geometric model including a revolved feature generated using a sketch having sketch dimensions, wherein the sketch and the sketch dimensions are in a sketch plane; and

in response to one or more sketch objects being visible in a current view plane of the revolved feature, generating, by the data processing system, a drawing view of the one or more sketch objects in the current view plane, the drawing view including the sketch dimensions of the one or more sketch objects.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the drawing view is generated in a plane different from and non-parallel with the sketch plane.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising displaying the drawing view by the data processing system.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein, in response to one or more of the sketch objects being foreshortened in the drawing view, removing, by the data processing system, the sketch dimensions of the foreshortened sketch objects prior to displaying the drawing view.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the sketch dimensions of the one or more sketch objects in the drawing view have an orientation parallel to an orientation of the drawing view.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the orientation of the sketch dimensions of the one or more sketch objects in the drawing view are rotated with respect to an orientation of the sketch plane based on an angle between a normal of the orientation of the sketch plane and a normal of the drawing view.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein a location of the sketch dimensions in the drawing view with respect to geometry of the revolved feature is maintained.

8. A data processing system comprising:

a processor; and

an accessible memory, the data processing system particularly configured to;

receive, by the data processing system, a geometric model including a revolved feature generated using a sketch having sketch dimensions, wherein the sketch and the sketch dimensions are in a sketch plane; and

in response to one or more sketch objects being visible in a current view plane of the revolved feature, generate a drawing view of the one or more sketch objects in the current view plane, the drawing view including the sketch dimensions of the one or more sketch objects.

9. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the drawing view is generated in a plane different from and non-parallel with the sketch plane.

10. The data processing system of claim 9, wherein the data processing system is further configured to display the drawing view.

11. The data processing system of claim 10, wherein, in response to one or more of the sketch objects being foreshortened in the drawing view, the data processing system is further configured to remove the sketch dimensions of the foreshortened sketch objects prior to displaying the drawing view.

12. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein the sketch dimensions of the one or more sketch objects in the drawing view have an orientation parallel to an orientation of the drawing view.

13. The data processing system of claim 12, wherein the orientation of the sketch dimensions of the one or more sketch objects in the drawing view are rotated with respect to an orientation of the sketch view plane based on an angle between a normal of the orientation of the sketch view plane and a normal of the drawing view.

14. The data processing system of claim 8, wherein a location of the sketch dimensions in the drawing view with respect to geometry of the revolved feature is maintained.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more data processing systems to:

receive a geometric model including a revolved feature generated using a sketch having sketch dimensions, wherein the sketch and the sketch dimensions are in a sketch plane; and

in response to one or more sketch objects being visible in a current view plane of the revolved feature, generate a drawing view of the one or more sketch objects in the current view plane, the drawing view including the sketch dimensions of the one or more sketch objects.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the drawing view is generated in a plane different from and non-parallel with the sketch plane.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the data processing system is further configured to display the drawing view.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein, in response to one or more of the sketch objects being foreshortened in the drawing view, the data processing system is further configured to remove the sketch dimensions of the foreshortened sketch objects prior to displaying the drawing view.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the sketch dimensions of the one or more sketch objects in the drawing view have an orientation parallel to an orientation of the drawing view.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the orientation of the sketch dimensions of the one or more sketch objects in the drawing view are rotated with respect to an orientation of the sketch view plane based on an angle between a normal of the orientation of the sketch view plane and a normal of the drawing view.