Patent ID: 7957943
Filing Date: 2011-06-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for defining the effect of forces on a model, the computer implemented method comprising: displaying the model, wherein the model includes a goal axis and an equilibrium line; calculating, by a processor using a force calculator, an amount of force and a direction of force applied to the equilibrium line of the model by added qualitative effects and a net effect of a sum of forces applied to the equilibrium line of the model by the added qualitative effects; bending, by the processor, the equilibrium line automatically in a positive direction and in a negative direction based on the calculated amount of force and direction of force applied to the equilibrium line by each of the added qualitative effects; and moving, by the processor, the equilibrium line automatically along the goal axis of the model from a current state of a modeled system to a present value of the modeled system in the positive direction toward a defined end point goal marker for the modeled system set along the goal axis or in the negative direction away from the defined end point goal marker for the modeled system set along the goal axis based on the calculated net effect of the sum of forces applied to the equilibrium line by the added qualitative effects.