3D Model Error Highlighting With Guided Design Modification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing design assistance systems only notify users of errors without providing appropriate means to address them, leading to unnecessary design changes by users lacking expert knowledge.

Innovation Solution

A design assistance system that highlights error sections and provides intuitive elimination conditions and sections, allowing users to make informed design changes without expert knowledge.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the system only notifies users of errors without providing elimination means, then the system complexity is reduced, but users lacking expert knowledge make excessive or inappropriate design changes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of design modificationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary component (error elimination information provision unit) that mediates between the error detection unit and the user. This intermediary provides structured elimination means and suggested modifications, bridging the gap between simple error notification and complex automated correction, enabling users without expert knowledge to make appropriate design changes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by providing error elimination information back to the user based on detected errors. The feedback includes specific elimination means and suggested design modifications, allowing users to understand not only what is wrong but also how to fix it, thereby improving ease of operation without excessive system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If the system provides detailed elimination means and suggested modifications, then users can make appropriate design changes easily, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-calculating and storing error elimination information and suggested design modifications before the user needs them. When an error is detected, the system retrieves pre-prepared elimination means rather than computing solutions in real-time, thereby improving design accuracy while controlling system complexity through advance preparation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments the design assistance function into distinct modules: error detection unit, error elimination information provision unit, and suggested design modification provision unit. This segmentation allows each module to specialize in specific tasks, improving overall reliability while managing system complexity through modular architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Loss of time

If the system highlights error sections and provides visual elimination means, then users can quickly identify and address errors, but the information processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetime for error identificationVSAvoidcomputational resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates visual copies or representations of error sections through highlighting on the 3D model display. Instead of requiring users to mentally map error data to the model, the system generates visual copies that directly overlay or annotate the relevant sections, dramatically reducing error identification time while using efficient rendering techniques to control computational resource consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentEP4261731B1Design assistance system
Publication Date: 2025.07.23 MISUMI
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AI summary

A display unit 1b of a design assistance system S highlights an error section of a 3D model and displays at least one of a designation condition recognized by an elimination condition recognition unit 2f and an elimination section.