Patent ID: 7952578

Claim:
A design support apparatus comprising: at least one processing unit providing: a reference plane setting section that sets, as a reference plane in a virtual space, the plane of a predetermined mesh which is selected and designated as a first mesh, from among meshes forming the shape of an object model displayed in the virtual space; a reference point setting section that sets a predetermined vertex of the first mesh as a reference point; a coordinate axis setting section that sets a predetermined side of the first mesh that includes the reference point as a first axis and sets a predetermined axis other than the first axis that is included in the reference plane and passes the reference point as a second axis to set the first and second axes as coordinate axes; a coordinate dimension setting section that sets the dimension of each coordinate axis on the basis of the lengths of the sides constituting the first mesh and including the reference point; and a display section that displays, in addition to the object model, the coordinate axes and the dimensions in the virtual space as a coordinate system of the reference plane.