George L Kolb

US Patent:

56130937, Mar 18, 1997

Filed:

Oct 12, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/321914

Inventors:

George P. Kolb - Denton TX

International Classification:

G06F 1900

US Classification:

395500

Abstract:

A drill design aide for designing a drill having a plurality of positions wherein a user is able to access the drill design aide through a graphical interface which displays a drill being designed. A drawing module within the drill design aide enables a user to create and edit the drill being displayed upon the graphical interface. A count track module enables a user to create an initial formation and reshape the initial formation to a next formation without a user completely redrawing the next formation. A drill resize module enables a user to resize a previously designed drill having a first number of positions to a new drill having a different number of positions than the originally designed drill by either increasing or decreasing the number of positions within the drill.