Layout Object Arrangement With Automatic Uniform Spacing Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Designers spend considerable time and effort placing and rearranging objects in a layout and adjusting spacing between objects, which often requires separate and repetitive inputs, making the process tedious.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented design tool that recognizes organized collections of objects and provides controls to manipulate individual objects or groups, automatically rearranging them to maintain uniform spacing and alignment, reducing the need for repetitive user inputs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If designers manually place and rearrange objects in a design layout, then precise positioning and spacing control is achieved, but considerable time and effort is spent on repetitive inputs for each object
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects organized collections of objects and performs rearrangement operations without requiring manual user input for each object. When an operation is performed on one object in a detected collection, the system self-serviceingly applies the same operation to all objects in the collection, eliminating repetitive manual inputs while maintaining precise spacing control.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary detection of organized collections of objects based on spacing and overlap criteria before user operations. By pre-identifying which objects form organized collections, the system prepares the groundwork for automated batch operations, allowing designers to perform single actions that affect multiple objects simultaneously, thus reducing time spent on repetitive inputs.
2Ease of operation
If separate and repetitive inputs are used to move and adjust each object, then individual object positioning is achieved, but the process becomes tedious and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple separate object operations into a single collective operation. By detecting organized collections of objects that share spacing and overlap characteristics, the system combines them into a single operational unit, allowing designers to manipulate multiple objects with one action rather than performing separate inputs for each object, thereby improving ease of operation and reducing time consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides universal operation controls that work across all objects in a detected organized collection. A single control interface allows designers to perform operations (such as moving, resizing, or spacing adjustments) that are universally applied to all objects in the collection, eliminating the need for separate controls for each object and making the design process more efficient.
3Manufacturing precision
If manual adjustment of each object is performed, then precise spacing between objects is maintained, but the complexity of layout adjustments increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically maintains uniform spacing by detecting organized collections based on spacing criteria and applying operations uniformly across all objects in the collection. When an operation is performed on one object, the system self-serviceingly adjusts all other objects in the collection to maintain consistent spacing relationships, eliminating the need for manual precision adjustments for each object while preserving uniform spacing.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the operational parameters from individual object manipulation to collection-level manipulation. By detecting objects that share similar spacing and overlap parameters, the system transforms the complexity from managing each object's parameters individually to managing a single set of parameters that apply to the entire collection, thereby reducing layout adjustment complexity while maintaining precision.
Data Source
AI summary
Computer-implemented design tool functions are described herein for recognizing organized collections of objects in a design layout, and providing controls to manipulate, in a selected organized collection, individual objects and arrangements of multiple objects. In an embodiment, a computing device determines whether an arrangement of selected objects in a design layout satisfies certain criteria, and if so, the computing device recognizes the arrangement as an organized collection, and provides controls within a selected organized collection to perform various operations to manipulate an individual object within the selected organized collection while automatically and dynamically modifying the organized collection to maintain desired uniformity in the collection.