Patent ID: 9588656
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G05B,G06F

Claim:
1. A method for automatic display of connections and/or connecting model components of a model of a technical system on a computer with a display, the method comprising: providing the model with a first model component and a second model component, the first model component and the second model component each have at least one hierarchy element, the at least one hierarchy element has no port or one port or multiple ports, the at least one hierarchy element and a port have an identifier, a connection between two ports represents an assignment in the technical system; selecting a first set of hierarchy elements and/or ports and selecting a second set of hierarchy elements and/or ports through a graphical user action; testing a possible assignment for a first port of the first set and a second port of the second set, wherein a possible assignment is present if, for the first port and the second port and ascending from the first port and the second port in accordance with a hierarchy, the identifiers of the hierarchy elements that are at a higher level than the first port and the second port each correspond at equal hierarchy levels up to a predefinable number of hierarchy levels starting from the port and/or are evaluated as corresponding at equal hierarchy levels up to a predefinable number of hierarchy levels starting from the port in accordance with a predefined rule; displaying, if a possible assignment is present, the possible assignment and/or the first port of the first set is automatically connected to the second port of the second set, or a possible assignment is tested for a first port of the first set and every port of the second set; and selecting, based on a predefinable first strategy, one assignment from the set of all assignments of the first port of the first set with a port of the second set that have been recognized as possible assignments, wherein the possible assignment is displayed and/or the first port of the first set is connected to a port of the second set in accordance with the selected assignment.