Patent ID: 9230360
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: G06T

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for visualising/rendering a computer model, the computer model comprising a plurality of components wherein the method comprises: storing, in a database of a computer system, digital representations of a plurality of parts of at least one of the plurality of components, each part including geometry information for visualising/rendering the part, storing, in the database of the computer system, information indicative of the position and orientation of a plurality of components in a coordinate system, determining, by a processor of a programmable computer of the computer system, a spatial relationship between individual ones of the components based on the stored information indicative of the position and orientation of the plurality of components, determining, by the processor, for the at least one component, and based on the determined spatial relationship between the individual components, one or more hidden parts that can be removed without having visual impact on the computer model, and displaying, by a display of the computer system, graphics of visualizing/rendering of the computer model using a subset of said plurality of stored parts that have not been determined to be hidden parts; wherein the step of determining for the at least one component a number of parts to use for visualising/rendering said component further comprises the step of determining material properties of a component, and based on both the determined spatial relationship and the determined material properties, determining a number of parts to use for visualising/rendering said component.