Patent ID: 7363197
Filing Date: 2008-04-22
Classification: G06F,G06T

Abstract:
1. An analytical shell model forming apparatus for forming an analytical shell model for numerical analysis from a solid model to be analyzed, comprising: a medial surface forming unit for forming a plurality of medial surfaces for a same portion of the solid model by using at least any one of a back side surface group offset method, a front side surface group offset method and a medial position point interpolation method; an extracting unit for extracting a difference portion by comparing the plurality of formed medial surfaces for a same surface of the solid model; a medial candidate model forming unit for forming a plurality of medial surface candidate models by using the extracted difference portion; a display unit for displaying the formed medial surface candidate models; a first selecting unit for selecting a medial surface model to be used for analysis from the plurality of formed medial surface candidate models; and a first registering unit for registering the selected medial surface model as an analysis medial surface model.