Patent ID: 6842173

Claim:
A method for designing a wiring harness that can be assembled externally of an automobile or apparatus and then installed into the automobile or apparatus, comprising: providing full-size design information defining an arrangement of the wiring harness on a harness assembling table, dividing wires and other parts of the wiring harness subassemblies using the full-size design information and assuming an arrangement of the wiring harness on the harness assembling table, generating subassembly information defining 3D shapes of the respective subassemblies and of components thereof, inputting the generated subassembly information in a computer system, displaying on a display of the computer system the 3D shapes of the plurality of subassemblies arranged on the harness assembling table based on the inputted subassembly information, and combining the displayed subassemblies on the harness assembling table using a virtual 3D space of the computer system.