Patent ID: 8364445

Claim:
A generation device of three-dimensional arrangement adjustment CAD data for cable housing components, which designs using a three-dimensional CAD to arrange cable housing components for housing cables provided within a plant, the generation device comprising: a memory configured to store: an area coordinate file in which the minimum and maximum coordinates configuring a prescribed rectangular parallelepiped area; and a cable list file in which cable data including specifications of the cables, starting point data, via data, and end point data; a computer comprising: an area generation section which reads the minimum and maximum coordinates from the area coordinate file stored in the memory and generates the prescribed rectangular parallelepiped area; a cable data acquisition section which acquires the cable data from the cable list file stored in the memory; a route generation section which generates, for each cable, a cable housing component route for arrangement of cable housing components which connects the area corresponding to the starting point data with the area corresponding to the end point data via areas corresponding to the via data, based on the prescribed rectangular parallelepiped area generated by the area generation section and the cable data acquired by the cable data acquisition section; a route consolidation section which consolidates into a single route any route having in common the cable specifications, the starting point data, the via data, and the end point data from among the cable housing component routes generated by the route generation section; and a three-dimensional model conversion section which converts into a three-dimensional model by imparting a prescribed cross-section to the cable housing component route consolidated by the route consolidation section.