Patent ID: 8620627
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: G06F,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for processing a model of a part, the method comprising: responsive to receiving a request from a client application for information about a number of locations on the part, identifying with a processor the number of locations in the model of the part, the model of the part stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium that is in communication with the processor; creating, using the processor, a section cut at each of the number of locations in the model of the part to form a number of section cuts; obtaining, using the processor, data for a number of layers in each of the number of section cuts; changing, using the processor, the model with the number of section cuts to form a formatted model with a format used by the client application to display the formatted model; associating, using the processor, the number of layers in the each of the number of section cuts in the formatted model with the data for the number of layers in the each of the number of section cuts to form an association between the formatted model and the data, wherein associating includes creating metadata correlating the data for the number of layers for the each of the number of section cuts with layers for the each of the number of section cuts in the formatted model; returning, using the processor, the formatted model and the data for the number of layers in a response to the client application, wherein the metadata is included in the response, wherein the data for the number of layers and the metadata are returned in a web page having program code configured to make calls to a viewer to indicate a corresponding layer in the formatted model in response to a selection of the data for the number of layers in the web page, and further wherein the metadata includes identification of calls that may be made to a viewer presenting the formatted model.