Patent Document ID: 9330207
Application ID: 13658862
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A design support method comprising: executing, by a computer, operations of: separating an internal space of a three-dimensional model of a design target into meshes, the three-dimensional model including structures; placing a first particle having a first diameter in a specified particle occurrence position of the meshes; moving, in a first arbitrary direction, the first particle in the meshes while classifying each of the meshes into a space or a component; recording a first movement trace of the first particle by checking a presence or an absence of the first particle in each of the meshes; placing a second particle having a second diameter different from the first diameter in the specified particle occurrence position of the meshes; moving, in a second arbitrary direction, the second particle in the meshes while classifying each of the meshes into the space or the component; recording a second movement trace of the second particle by checking a presence or an absence of the second particle in each of the meshes; and calculating a first volume of a first structure of the structures by comparing the first movement trace and the second movement trace.