Patent ID: 7249250

Claim:
A remote order acceptance design system, comprising: a means for sending a list of basic specifications of a plurality of products that can be sold, to a customer's terminal according to the customer's requirement via a wide area network; a database that stores CAD symbols, each including at least product name information, structure information indicating structural features of the product, basic specification information, and occupied space information indicating a space that should be secured for installing the product, for each of said products that can be sold; a first input receiving means for receiving input of a requirements specification of an order-made product that includes one or more equipments; a data taking means for retrieving the basic specification information stored in said database, based on the requirements specification whose input is received by said first input receiving means, and for taking out a corresponding CAD symbol that includes said occupied space, from said database; a data output means for outputting the CAD symbol taken out by said data taking means to an input source that has input the requirements specification of said order-made product; a second input receiving means for receiving input of the customer's design data that include the CAD symbol of said order-made product positioned on the customer's design data by the customer via the wide area network; a means for extracting structural features within the occupied space information of the CAD symbol of said order made product from the customer's design data received by said second input receiving means, and for judging existence of interference in the occupied space of said order-made product, based on said structural features; and an installation drawing generation means for taking out the structure information corresponding to said CAD symbol from said database, when it is judged that interference does not occur in the occupied space of said order-made product, and for generating installation drawing data for said order-made product based on said structure information and said customer's design data, wherein said data output means outputs the installation drawing data generated by said installation drawing generation means to an input source that has input said customer's design data.