Patent ID: 7376540
Filing Date: 2008-05-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An internal-surface model producing apparatus, for producing an internal-surface model for use in numerical analyzing from a configuration model, which is produced by a three-dimensional configuration modeler, comprising: a reference-plate thickness size inputting means for inputting a reference-plate thickness size to be used when specifying a thin-plate portion from the configuration model; a pair-surfaces acknowledging means for acknowledging two (2) surfaces as pair-surfaces data, being equal or less than the reference-plate thickness size, which is inputted by said reference-plate thickness size inputting means, in face-to-face distance between two (2) arbitrary surfaces constructing the configuration model; a top-bottom side rib attributes acknowledging means for classifying the pair-surfaces data registered by said pair-surfaces acknowledging means into a top-side surface, a bottom-side surface and a rib surface, through producing a neighboring graph of connecting nodes themselves to the neighboring surfaces by edges, with presuming the surfaces to be nodes to the configuration model, and searching a loop including two (2) or more of the edges of a pair attribute, while determining a non-rib surface when the number of nodes within the loop is equal or less than four (4), and thereby registering the attributes as top-side surface data, bottom-side surface data, and rib surface data, respectively; an offset surface producing means for producing surfaces by offsetting a group of surfaces of either one of the top-side surface data, the bottom-side surface data or the rib surface data, which are registered by said top-bottom side rib attributes acknowledging means, into a normal direction to an internal direction of each configuration, and for registering the surfaces offset as offset surface data; a seaming surface producing means for producing a surface, by extending the offset surface data, which is produced from the rib surface by said offset surface producing means, until it intersects the offset surface data, which is produced from either of the top or the bottom surface, and for registering the surface data extending the offset surface data, which is produced from said rib surface, and the offset surface data, which is produced from either one of the top or the bottom surface, as seaming surface data; and an internal-surface model producing means for registering the seaming surface, which is registered by said seaming surface producing means as an internal-surface model.