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Process for displaying objects of a PLM database and apparatus implementing this process

  • US 8,013,854 B2
  • Filed: 12/28/2006
  • Issued: 09/06/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A process for displaying objects of a product lifecycle management (PLM) database, comprising:

  • providing a PLM database containing modeled objects and a graphical user interface;

    identifying a viewpoint on a view of objects to be rendered; and

    rendering said view according to the viewpoint, wherein the step of rendering comprises;

    determining a plurality of locations of points in the view;

    searching the database and identifying therein modeled objects that are intersected by at least one of a plurality of computed rays passing through the viewpoint and one of the determined locations; and

    incrementally displaying in the graphical user interface the identified modeled objects according to a ranking among the identified modeled objects, the ranking being based on a number of the computed rays intersecting each of the identified modeled objects.

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