1. A computer-implemented method providing multi-dimensional pattern-enabled searching, the computer-implemented method comprising: displaying at least two cluster maps, each cluster map corresponding to a respective attribute, each cluster map having one or more cluster elements; enabling an end user to select a cluster element in at least one of the displayed cluster maps; responsively highlighting the selected cluster element in each of the displayed cluster maps; and for each displayed cluster map, representing the respective attribute by displaying: (i) a value axis and respective numerical data values on the value axis for the selected cluster element, the value axis indicating at least a current numerical data value of the respective numerical data values for the respective attribute of the selected cluster element, the selected cluster element highlighted in the displayed cluster map and (ii) one or more data objects comprising graphical representations representing sequentially time-ordered numerical data values of the respective attribute of the selected cluster element, wherein the one or more data objects include a computer-aided engineering (CAE) simulation; displaying a graphical link graphically linking each value axis together in a chain, and for each value axis in the chain, displaying the graphical link through one or more interconnections between each value axis and each adjacent value axis, the one or more interconnections indicating selection of a same selected cluster element for a respective value axis and a respective adjacent value axis.