Patent ID: 7480596

Claim:
A harness design supporting apparatus for supporting placement design of a harness which is to be incorporated in an object apparatus, said apparatus comprising: a mechanism information storing unit which stores in advance three-dimensional model data of a mechanical component, other than the harness, of the object apparatus; a harness information setting section which sets information about the harness as harness information; a simulation section which creates a three-dimensional mechanism model of the harness and of the mechanical component based on the harness information, which is set by said harness information setting section, and on the three-dimensional model data of the mechanical component stored in said mechanism information storing unit, and which simulates motion of the harness in conjunction with motion of the mechanical component using the three-dimensional mechanism model; a display which displays motion of the harness and motion of the mechanical component; and a display controlling section which controls said display to show thereon the simulation result obtained by said simulation section as motion of the harness and motion of the mechanical component.