Patent ID: 8525849
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A designing support method in which design information is displayed on a display unit and design is performed by a designing support equipment which has: a display unit capable of displaying side by side any two or more of a first display that displays design information logically expressing the electrical operation of objects to be designed, a second display that displays design information expressing the objects to be designed in a physical two-dimensional shape, and a third display that displays design information expressing the objects to be designed in a physical three-dimensional shape; selecting means for selecting at least two displays out of said first display, said second display and said third display; storing means for storing existing information and shape library which are previously stored information first design information regarding electrical connection information, part information to be used and arrangement information of parts; and an object for said first display, an object for said second display and an object for said third display which are built based on said shape library and said first design information, into database as design information of the objects to be designed; and control means for controlling displayed contents on a display selected by said selecting means on said display unit based on the design information of said objects to be designed stored in said storing means, wherein said control means executes: a step of, when at least any editing processing of changing, deleting, adding and moving of a part in any of said first display, said second display or said third display that a user performed by using a pointing device is performed, changing said first design information in said database based on the editing processing, such that the design information of said object to be designed stored in said database holds matching, changing the contents of the object for said first display, the object for said second display and the objet for said third display based on said first design information and changing the displayed contents of display to which editing processing was performed based on the changed design information of said object to be designed; and a step of changing displayed contents of said first display, said second display or said third display whose displayed contents did not change based on said first design information in said database such that said first display, said second display and said third display after the editing processing move in a coordinated manner and synchronize in real time in order to hold matching with the displayed contents of said first display, said second display or said third display which was changed by the editing processing, based on the changed design information of said object to be designed.