Patent ID: 6295063
Filing Date: 2001-09-25
Classification: G06T,Y10S

Abstract:
An apparatus for producing an exploded view of an assembly having an input unit, a geometrical data memory which stores geometrical data of parts composing said assembly and a calculating unit which displays said assembly to a display unit based on said geometrical data, said apparatus further comprising:an assembling process data memory which stores assembling data including attaching orders and attaching directions of said parts;minimum scalar product value calculating means for calculating the scalar products of vertex coordinates of a part in said geometrical data memory and the attaching direction vector in said assembling process data memory and for obtaining the minimum value of the scalar products;maximum scalar product value calculating means for calculating the scalar products of the vertex coordinates of said part and said attaching direction vector and for obtaining a maximum value of the scalar products; andmeans for obtaining the difference between said minimum value of scalar product and said maximum value of scalar product obtained and for determining distances between the parts of said assembly in a disassembled state on an exploded view based on the obtained difference, to thereby display an exploded view of said assembly on said display unit corresponding to said determined distances.