Patent Document ID: 20040186698
Application ID: 10743090
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A mechanism simulation method of performing a mechanism simulation using both a dynamics simulation and a kinematic simulation, wherein in the dynamics simulation, a behavior of a mechanism is simulated using a dynamics model including a continuous system equation having a plurality of variables, and in the kinematic simulation, a geometrical operation of the mechanism is simulated using a three-dimensional mechanism model including a plurality of mechanism elements, the method comprising: calculating a value of one of the variables of the continuous system equation by a first simulator that executes the dynamics simulation; identifying a mechanism element corresponding to a variable having the calculated value, referring to a table that represents a correspondence between the variables and the mechanism elements; transmitting, to a second simulator, information specifying the identified mechanism element and the calculated value of the variable; and executing the kinematic simulation by the second simulator based on the information.