Patent ID: 6924800

Claim:
A shape production method by a window display comprising the following steps: inputting modified shape data to create a plurality of alternative models of a body, each of the alternative models representing the body in a different modification stage; individually displaying each of the alternative models of the body as shape histories in different windows; designating an element in a unit of a predetermined face on a latest one of the alternative models of the body displayed in one of the windows from among other ones of the alternative models displayed in others of the windows; confirming the element designated by pressing a confirmation button on a display screen; and replacing an element of the latest one of the alternative models in one of the windows having the same model information as model information of the designated element with the designated element from one of the other alternative models displayed in one of the other windows by pressing a replacement button on the display screen, wherein the shape data for the individual modifications includes a model information frame (F 1 ) and a face information frame (F 2 ), the model information frame (F 1 ) having a model set name, a model name and an element name, and the face information frame (F 2 ) having a number of faces composing each of the elements, degrees of the faces, and types of the faces.