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2013-11-07 12:10 PM
Ralph wrote:I'm not sure of the automatic alignment of the dimensions with regard to the cursor position as is available inside ArchiCAD might be in conflict with this patent, but to me it shows that such legal battles hamper innovation in a very negative way.
Autodesk in March 1999 released AutoCAD 2000, which added the QDim command. Three years earlier, however, a now-defunct CAD company named Adra Systems filed and received patent 5,655,095 for the same dimensioning operation. Here is how Adra described QuickDim:Adra wrote:
QuickDim speeds the dimensioning process by automatically deciding whether to insert horizontal, vertical, angular, radial, diameter or parallel dimensions, based on the geometry being dimensioned and the position of the cursor relative to the geometry.
2013-11-12 12:02 AM