3D Model Assemblability Check with Visual Highlighting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current three-dimensional model design supporting systems lack the ability to visually check and effectively determine whether parts meet assemblability requirements, leading to potential assembly issues and safety concerns.
Innovation Solution
A design supporting apparatus and system that uses a processor to sort and analyze three-dimensional models of parts, determining their assemblability by applying predetermined requirements and displaying results visually, highlighting non-conforming parts for easier identification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If design supporting systems check assemblability requirements using three-dimensional models, then determination accuracy is improved, but visual checkability and ease of operation deteriorate due to lack of intuitive display
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the display by dividing parts into conforming and non-conforming groups based on assemblability determination results. Each group is displayed separately with distinct visual characteristics, allowing workers to quickly identify and focus on parts that require attention while maintaining accurate determination results.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies color coding to visually distinguish between conforming parts (displayed in normal color) and non-conforming parts (displayed in highlighted color). This color change mechanism enables intuitive visual checkability without compromising the accuracy of the assemblability determination, directly resolving the contradiction between precise measurement and ease of operation.
2Loss of information
If design supporting systems provide detailed determination results for all parts, then information completeness is improved, but device complexity increases making the system harder to operate
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and separates non-conforming parts from the complete set of parts for specialized display. By taking out only the problematic parts and presenting them separately with distinct visual markers, the system maintains complete information about all parts while reducing the operational complexity of interpreting the results.
Solution Approach 2:
The display is segmented into multiple categories (conforming parts and non-conforming parts) with different visual presentations. This segmentation allows the system to provide comprehensive information about all parts while organizing the complexity in a manageable way, reducing the cognitive load on operators.
3Ease of operation
If design supporting systems visually highlight non-conforming parts, then ease of operation is improved, but loss of information about conforming parts increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of only highlighting non-conforming parts, the system segments the display to show both conforming and non-conforming parts in organized groups. This segmentation ensures that information about conforming parts is preserved and systematically presented, while still providing easy visual identification of non-conforming parts through distinct visual markers.
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AI summary
A design supporting apparatus includes a processor configured to sort three-dimensional models of respective parts included in a module where plural parts are combined for each type of the parts and execute processing of displaying results of determination of whether or not the respective parts meet predetermined requirements related to assemblability for each type of the parts, the results being determined using the three-dimensional models, for each part in predetermined display forms according to the results of the determination.