Patent ID: 7164418

Claim:
A method for managing display colors of a three-dimensional virtual solid industrial product model, said method comprising: entering a three-dimensional virtual solid industrial product model including a plurality of prepared three-dimensional virtual solid industrial component models into a computer; creating an attribute list which defines a plurality of different attributes for the prepared three-dimensional virtual solid industrial component models of said three-dimensional virtual solid industrial product model, wherein said plurality of different attributes include one or more physical attributes inherent in physical components corresponding to said prepared three-dimensional virtual solid industrial component models; defining a conversion rule for converting an attribute value into a display color for each attribute of said prepared three-dimensional virtual solid industrial component models; selecting an attribute to be color coded from said attribute list; selecting a conversion rule corresponding to said selected attribute; and color-code displaying the three-dimensional virtual solid industrial component models of said three-dimensional virtual solid industrial product model in conformity with said selected conversion rule.