Patent ID: 7096170

Claim:
A method of assisting in the design of a vehicular suspension to generate a simulation model for a suspension using a CAD system, comprising the steps of: indicating a suspension to be designed; opening a specification value entering window for entering specification values corresponding to the indicated suspension predetermined definition points thereof; opening a first analytic window for displaying a first analytic model of the indicated suspension and the predetermined definition points thereof; opening a second analytic window for displaying a second analytic model of the indicated suspension and the predetermined definition points thereof; entering the specification values corresponding to the predetermined definition points of the indicated suspension in any one of said specification value entering window, said first analytic window, or said second analytic window; reflecting the specification values associated with the predetermined definition points that have been entered in one of the windows so that the specification values are associated with the predetermined definition points as shown in each of the two other windows; and generating a simulation model based on the specification values at the predetermined definition points.