Abstract: There is provided a computer-readable non-transitory recording medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a procedure including: storing, on a memory, information for representing a correspondence between a reference position of a real first measurement device that is present in a predetermined space, and a reference position of a virtual second measurement device that is three-dimensionally visualized in the predetermined space and is able to measure a virtual object that is three-dimensionally visualized in the predetermined space; calculating two end positions of the virtual second measurement device corresponding to two end positions of the real first measurement device applied to the virtual object, by referencing the information stored on the memory; calculating a distance between the two ends of the virtual second measurement device, based on the two end positions of the virtual second measurement device calculated; and displaying, on a predetermined device, the distance calculated.

Abstract: A modeling data creation method, includes: creating, by a computer, portion section data indicating portion sections which are obtained by dividing a space enclosing a three-dimensional object of a modeling target indicated by design data in a simulation space, and each has a specific shape based on a modeling performance value of a three-dimensional printer; setting a first flag indicating whether a part of a shape of the three-dimensional object is present to each of the portion sections indicated by the portion section data, based on an overlapping degree between each of the portion sections and the three-dimensional object; and creating modeling data indicating the three-dimensional object obtained by arranging, in the respective portion sections having the first flag indicating that the part of the shape of the three-dimensional object exists, a three-dimensional object corresponding to the specific shape of the respective portion sections.

Abstract: A calculation area including a three-dimensional (3D) product model is specified, and a plurality of cross-sectional images is cut out from the calculation area. Each cross-sectional image is divided into plural pieces of voxel data, and voxel data of a gap area of the inside of a product is generated from the plural pieces of voxel data. A 3D model of the gap area of the inside of the product is generated, and also a volume of the gap area of the inside of the product is calculated, based on the voxel data of the gap area obtained by each cross-sectional image.

Abstract: A shape detailing device includes a storage unit that stores therein an identifier of each structure in an electrical computer-aided design (CAD) system and an identifier of the structure in a mechanical CAD system associated with each other, and a converting unit that converts shape information of the structure created by the electrical CAD system into shape information for the mechanical CAD system based on the relation between the identifiers.

Abstract: A method and system of supporting design includes extracting basic shape data associated with CAD model data, extracting know-how data associated with the basic shape data, and associating the model data and the know-how data with each other and setting a degree of association between the model data and the know-how data.

Abstract: A shape detailing device includes a storage unit that stores therein an identifier of each structure in an electrical computer-aided design (CAD) system and an identifier of the structure in a mechanical CAD system associated with each other, and a converting unit that converts shape information of the structure created by the electrical CAD system into shape information for the mechanical CAD system based on the relation between the identifiers.

Abstract: A base-plane-height determining unit determines whether a base plane is formed with planes of different heights. A base-plane determining unit determines, when it is determined that the base plane is formed with the plural planes of different heights, whether to take the plural planes or a single plane as a basis. A height-limited-area-information creating unit creates, when it is determined to take the plural planes as the basis, height-limited-area information by taking different planes for different locations as the basis, otherwise, the height-limited-area information by taking a single plane from among the plural planes as the basis.

Abstract: A base-plane-height determining unit determines whether a base plane is formed with planes of different heights. A base-plane determining unit determines, when it is determined that the base plane is formed with the plural planes of different heights, whether to take the plural planes or a single plane as a basis. A height-limited-area-information creating unit creates, when it is determined to take the plural planes as the basis, height-limited-area information by taking different planes for different locations as the basis, otherwise, the height-limited-area information by taking a single plane from among the plural planes as the basis.

Abstract: A calculation area including a three-dimensional (3D) product model is specified, and a plurality of cross-sectional images is cut out from the calculation area. Each cross-sectional image is divided into plural pieces of voxel data, and voxel data of a gap area of the inside of a product is generated from the plural pieces of voxel data. A 3D model of the gap area of the inside of the product is generated, and also a volume of the gap area of the inside of the product is calculated, based on the voxel data of the gap area obtained by each cross-sectional image.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device displaying a body section, a method displaying the body section, and a medium storing a program for realizing the device, which are able to observe effectively the complex body section. The device comprises a management unit managing attribute information of parts and arranging information of a set displaying plane for making a body section defined based on a plane of one of the parts, an implementing unit for generating a three-dimensional section of the body cut by the set displaying plane according to the management data of the management unit, and for displaying the three-dimensional section with the set displaying plane on the display screen, and an up-date unit for up-dating the arranged information managed by the management unit by corresponding to the transfer or rotation of the set displaying plane.

Abstract: The invention provides a simulation apparatus by which a problem upon designing can be found in the designing stage on the upstream without imposing an unnecessary working time to a designer.

Abstract: According to a 3-dimensional analysis model forming method, a 3-dimensional detailed model constructed by a plurality of parts is inputted, the 3-dimensional detailed model is simplified into a shape suitable for layout, and it is converted into a first approximate model (3-dimensional patch approximate model). Further, the first approximate model is converted into a second approximate model (approximate model for analysis) simplified into a shape suitable for analysis by an analysis program and inputted into the analysis program.

Abstract: A CAD supporting apparatus supports an assembling of an assembly by a CAD for assembling an assembly constituted of a plurality of components, which creates a geometry of objects, in cooperation with the CAD.

Abstract: In a design support apparatus for supporting a CAD system designing a component, a material of the component indicated by a process request is specified based on a plurality of design information of the CAD system and an environmental impact of the component is calculated based on the environmental impact rate and weight of the component. Therefore, the environmental impact of the component indicated by the CAD system is assessed.

Abstract: According to a 3-dimensional analysis model forming method, a 3-dimensional detailed model constructed by a plurality of parts is inputted, the 3-dimensional detailed model is simplified into a shape suitable for layout, and it is converted into a first approximate model (3-dimensional patch approximate model). Further, the first approximate model is converted into a second approximate model (approximate model for analysis) simplified into a shape suitable for analysis by an analysis program and inputted into the analysis program.

Abstract: A CAD supporting apparatus supports an assembling of an assembly by a CAD for assembling an assembly constituted of a plurality of components, which creates a geometry of objects, in cooperation with the CAD.

Abstract: The present invention provides an interference check result displaying method, by which a rough position and a precise position of a representative point at which contact or interference occurs between objects present in a virtual three-dimensional space. Consequently, not only a rough position but also a precise position of a representative point at which contact or interference occurs can be recognized readily. Further, also in a case wherein such a real time performance as to perform an interference check while an object is moved or rotated, a rough position and a precise position of a representative point at which contact/interference occurs can be recognized similarly readily. Also where a plurality of representative points are present, a designated representative point can be identified readily from other representative points, and also representative points which are hidden by different objects can be recognized readily.

Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus for supporting an evaluation of equipment operability in which simulation equipment models of design object equipment or layout object equipment are arranged in a simulation space together with simulation body-shaped models patterned after humans who may operate the equipment, and the body-shaped models are moved within the simulation space so that an evaluation of operability of the layout object equipment is supported. A reference position of a body-shaped model to be arranged in the simulation space is defined in accordance with a basic posture of the body-shaped model. When the present model is changed to a body-shaped model which is different in the body form, the body-shaped model after an alteration is arranged in the simulation space so that the reference position coincides with the reference position before the alteration.