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Graphic processing apparatus utilizing a CAD system

US5517607A · kind A · utility

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7Claims
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Filing dateAug 15, 1994
Grant dateMay 14, 1996
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Expiry dateAug 15, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F2111/12
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A graphic data processor employs a CAD system having an input part, a design model managing part and a display part. The design model managing part includes a model area creating unit for securing a model area and formatting the model area into function figures, layers, figure groups, and figures, a model accessing unit for accessing the model area and an external file, a model data retrieving unit for hierarchically retrieving data from the model area and a model updating unit for creating model information and correcting figure information.

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