Patent ID: 8527245

Claim:
An electronic data processing (EDP) system for automatic or semi-automatic design, comprising: at least one storage unit in which databases are created, which include, based on findings from technical sciences, standard and/or non-standard, kinematic, kinetic, material, geometric, and form-related data, admissible and/or inadmissible deviations thereof, analytical and synthetic calculation formalisms and application instructions thereof; at least one computer unit on which the formalisms are carried out and on which results of the formalisms are compared with known data and evaluated; at least one user interface on which a user can, via a menu structure, make selections, input data, and output results; and at least one interface to other EDP systems; wherein the computer unit: leads the user through an iteration sequence of synthesis and analysis of a future useful technical object; offers to the user via the menu structure selection possibilities originating from the storage unit of kinematic, kinetic, material, geometric and form-related data; prompts the user to select the data corresponding to a task; processes, stores and compares the data with known data contained in the storage unit; displays the processed data and the results of the comparison on the user interface, informs the user of admissible and/or inadmissible deviations, and invites the user to carry out further decisions and data inputs, for as long as all deviations lie within admissible ranges; and by reference to the form-related instructions stored in the storage unit, formulates technical documentation with manufacturing and operating instructions for the future useful technical object, stores the technical documentation, and makes the technical documentation available to the user on the user interface for further processing.