Patent ID: 7308386
Filing Date: 2007-12-11
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A method of modeling in a CAD/CAM environment having a defined coordinate system and employing a horizontal tree structure, comprising: establishing a plurality of sets of coordinate references for a model, each of the sets of coordinate references is associatively independent from the coordinate system; adding a base feature to the coordinate system, the base feature is associatively independent from the coordinate system and from each of the sets of coordinate references; adding a plurality of form features, each of the form features being added to a corresponding set of coordinate references from the sets of coordinate references such that (1) each of the form features is associatively dependent with the corresponding set of coordinate references from the sets of coordinate references and associatively independent from each other set of coordinate references from the sets of coordinate references, (2) each of the form features is associatively independent from the base feature, and (3) each of the form features is associatively independent from each other of the form features; wherein acting on any one of the form features will not affect any other one of the form features; and displaying the model with a user-friendly graphical user interface.