Patent ID: 7617076

Claim:
A method for forming a model of a physical structure in a computer-aided modeling method, the method comprising: storing in a data repository a number of models of basic physical structures, each model containing a parameter set defining characteristics of a corresponding basic physical structure; receiving an indication of at least one other structure for which the model of the physical structure is to be formed; determining characteristics of the at least one other structure; searching, on the basis of the determined characteristics, for a first model; finding the first model having a parameter set defining at least one characteristic that satisfies at least one of the determined characteristics; searching, on the basis of the determined characteristics, for a second model; finding the second model having a parameter set defining at least one characteristic that satisfies another determined characteristic; and forming the model of the physical structure by combining parameters in the parameter set of the first model and parameters in the parameter set of the second model according to a predefined stored definition how to combine elementary and detailed parameters in the parameter sets to form the model of the physical structure.