Patent ID: 8255060

Claim:
A method comprising: presenting on a display at least one view of a representation of a stimulation region and a first field shape group within the representation of the stimulation region; presenting on the display a manipulation tool menu that is adjacent to the representation of the stimulation region and has a plurality of icons, each of the icons associated with a different manipulation operation for manipulation of the first field shape group; receiving selection input selecting one of the icons from the manipulation tool menu and, in response to the selection input, enabling a user interface to receive manipulation input manipulating the first field shape group in accordance with the manipulation operation associated with the selected icon to form a second field shape group in the representation of the stimulation region; and subsequent to the formation of the second field shape group, generating electrical stimulation parameter values based upon the second field shape group, wherein each of the field shape groups comprises one or more shapes representing one or more stimulation fields able to be applied to the stimulation region by a medical device, and wherein the manipulation operations comprise a rotate manipulation of the first field shape group around an anchor point within the first field shape group and at least two of a move, a stretch, a grow, a shrink, a split, and a merge manipulation of the first field shape group.