Abstract: In a method for processing animated graphic in which a graphic symbol is displayed on a displaying unit on the basis of data preliminarily set in a video RAM and the displayed graphic symbol is totally shifted by a predetermined amount, the graphic symbol to be shifted is initially described in an original graphics storing area and a graphic symbol transfer area is provided so as to include the graphic symbol initially described in the original graphics storing area and includes a non-display area at the outer periphery thereof. The data corresponding to the transfer area is then transferred into the video RAM the transferred data including the sizes or dimensions and the coordinate of the reference point of the transfer area.

Abstract: A graphics, such as a shop drawing of a workpiece worked by a machine tool, is inputted as working data in an automatic programming function in accordance with the natural graphic recognition order for an operator, and the system therefor includes the steps of first designating the shape of a basic graphics of the workpiece, and then designating sizes of the basic graphics, and finally designating the shape and sizes of auxiliary graphics of the workpiece.