Patent ID: 6021270
Filing Date: 2000-02-01
Classification: B29C,G05B,G06T,Y02P

Abstract:
A product designing system performing a plurality of designing processes including a preliminary process in which a geometry relating to one of a plurality of products having similar geometries is generated, and a subsequent process in which a geometry relating to a manufacturing device having a predetermined relationship in shape with said one of said plurality of products is generated on the basis of the geometry of said one product generated in said preliminary process, said manufacturing device being manufactured such that said manufacturing device has the zeometry generated in said subsequent process so that said one product is manufactured by using said manufactured manufacturing device, said product designing system comprising:input means for entering, in said subsequent process, at least one geometrical characteristic of at least one selected portion of said one product whose geometry is similar to corresponding portions of the other of said plurality of products;a memory storing data associated with a predetermined relationship between said at least one geometrical characteristic of said one product and said geometry relating to said manufacturing device, which geometry is to be generated in said subsequent process;a designing device for generating the geometry relating to said manufacturing device in said subsequent process, on the basis of said at least one geometrical characteristic and according to said predetermined relationship data stored in said memory; andan output device for providing an output representative of said geometry relating to said manufacturing device.