Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Masaru Kageura

Toshio Abe

Takahiro Nakagawa

Naoki Nakanishi

Atsushi Mizukami

Hiroyuki Namiki

Kenichi Inaho

Reiko Horikawa

Kenji Taki

A method of creating an analysis model includes the steps of storing first shape information in association with instruction information that is used for creating the analysis model and that includes shape feature information about a connecting part in the first shape information; comparing second shape information with the first shape information associated with the instruction information; determining whether a difference between the first shape information and the second shape information is within an allowable range for the shape feature information included in the instruction information; and setting the instruction information if the difference between the first shape information and the second shape information is within the allowable range.

Method and program for creating analysis model

A design support method comprising reading a two-dimensional cross-sectional model created by a computer-aided design system, saving information on a locus of travel of the recording medium, recognizing parts in a vicinity of the locus of the recording medium, and creating a simulation model in which parts other than the parts recognized in the recognizing are excluded from objects subject to contact calculation.

Support program and design support method

Information that is required for laying out character string data is entered, as are character string data. The printing attributes for the data are then edited, and are employed to extract contour information. Thereafter, the extracted contour information is employed to determine the information that is to be used as a reference when laying out the character string data, and a layout position is specified. Then, the various data that are obtained are stored as printing data, and the character string data are laid out in a drawing area. Therefore, the printing data can be precisely and easily prepared, without the work efficiency of a user being deteriorated.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method for determining character layout

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A method is provided for verifying insulation distances within electrical systems without producing actual system prototypes. A bounding box tree of each component is produced, and root node pairs are put into a queue. The distance between boxes corresponding to two nodes of the root node pair is calculated. If the distance is greater than a predetermined value, no further process is performed for this root node pair, however, if the distance is less than the predetermined value, triangular patches contained in the respective nodes are extracted, and the exact distance between the two triangular patches is calculated. If the resultant distance is less than the predetermined value, the patches are determined to be adjacent to each other. The shortest path along surfaces of components is determined via the above-described process, and verification in terms of insulation is performed on the basis of the determined shortest path.

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Masaru Kageura