Patent ID: 8230383

Claim:
A method for the computer-aided construction of a flexible printed circuit board that is arranged in a housing of a device, the method comprising the steps of: a) creating a 3D model of the housing, b) determining fixed points of the printed circuit board with specification of the normal unit vector pointing away from the top side of the flexible printed circuit board, and of the throughflow direction, by using a computer, c) determining connecting planes that contain the fixed points, d) calculating a skeleton model of the printed circuit board, the line of intersection of the connecting planes having the fixed points being determined between two neighboring fixed points with a different normal unit vector, e) replacing the line of intersection by a connecting segment, the connecting planes forming the line of intersection merging tangentially into the connecting segment, f) creating a development of the skeleton model, g) defining a preliminary printed circuit board contour including the skeleton model, h) creating a printed circuit board design, comprising a defined printed circuit board contour and a printed circuit board layout, in the development, i) inserting virtual components into the printed circuit board design, k) back transferring the printed circuit board design populated with the virtual components into the 3D model of the housing, l) determining and correcting the collisions between the virtual components and the printed circuit board contour or the inner contour of the housing in the 3D model of the housing or between the virtual components among one another, or the printed circuit board contour with itself, m) repeating the steps h) to k) until no more collisions occur, the steps a) to m) being executed in the above named sequence or in another sequence.