Patent ID: 6839602

Claim:
A shaped material production process designing device for shaping a blank material using a die to thereby produce a shaped material for creating a contour of a product, comprising: a design record memory for storing, in association with a specification including a basic dimension of a product, design record data of a shaped material production process, the design record data including design record data concerning a contour of a die, the design record data concerning the contour of a die including design record data concerning a contour of a structural segment of the die, which is independent from a product shape and defines a structure of the die, and design record data concerning a contour of an inlaid part, which has a shape in accordance with the product shape; a die structural segment data acquiring section for acquiring the design record data concerning the contour of the structural segment of the die in an initial phase in which a specification including a basic dimension of a product is determined, through retrieval from the design record memory, using the determined specification including the basic dimension of the product as a retrieving key; and a die inlaid part data acquiring section for acquiring the design record data concerning the contour of the inlaid part of the die in a subsequent phase in which the product has begun to be specifically designed and the contour of the product is determined, through retrieval from the design record memory, using the specification including the basic dimension of the product as a retrieving key, wherein the acquired design record data concerning the structural segment of the die and the acquired design record data concerning the contour of the inlaid part of the die are edited to create a contour of an entire die.