Patent ID: 8499275

Claim:
A branch angle designing support device which supports designing of a branch angle at a branch point of a wire harness when laying out in a planar manner the wire harness constituted of a plurality of electric wires bundled together constituting a three-dimensional structure, the branch angle designing support device comprising: a path information acquisition unit acquiring path information indicative of a path of the wire harness; a circuit information acquisition unit acquiring circuit information indicative of a circuit of the wire harness; an electric wire path calculation unit associating, according to an end of the each of the plurality of electric wires, the path information acquired by the path information acquisition unit with the circuit information acquired by the circuit information acquisition unit, and calculating, from the associated information, an electric wire path of the each of the plurality of electric wires in the planar layout; a branch point information production unit producing; according to the plurality of electric wire paths calculated by the electric wire path calculation unit, branch point information for displaying a flow of the each of the electric wires at the branch point on the wire harness; and a branch point information output unit outputting the branch point information produced by the branch point information production unit to support designing of the branch angle.