# US 2017/0323035 A1 · 3D Model Creation Support System and Method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2017/0323035 A1 - Document ID: US20170323035A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/531,021 - Filed: 2015-11-18 - Published: 2017-11-09 - Earliest claimed: 2014-12-01 - Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd. - Applicants: Hitachi, Ltd. - Inventors: Yoshinari HORI; Tomotoshi ISHIDA - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20170323035A1 ## CPC - G06F 30/13: Architectural design, e.g. computer-aided architectural design [CAAD] related to design of buildings, bridges, landscapes, production plants or roads - G06F 30/00: Computer-aided design [CAD] - G06F 30/20: Design optimisation, verification or simulation (optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30) - G06V 20/64: Three-dimensional [3D] objects - G06V 20/647: {by matching two-dimensional images to three-dimensional objects} - G06V 30/422: Technical drawings; Geographical maps - G06F 2111/04: Constraint-based CAD - G06F 2111/20: Configuration CAD, e.g. designing by assembling or positioning modules selected from libraries of predesigned modules - G06F 2113/14: Pipes - G06T 17/00: Three-dimensional [3D] modelling for computer graphics - G06V 2201/12: Acquisition of 3D measurements of objects - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING - G06T: IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL ## Abstract A 3D model creation support system which supports creation of a 3D model with attribute of an object configured with a plurality of configuration elements connected to each other, and a method thereof is provided. A system information database 41 in which system information including connection relationships between the plurality of configuration elements is registered; a shape model library 43 in which shape models corresponding to each of the plurality of configuration elements are registered; configuration element selection means 42 that selects configuration elements whose 3D models are not created among the plurality of configuration elements, based on the system information which is registered in the system information database; and configuration element identification means 44 that acquires a predetermined shape model corresponding to a predetermined configuration element which is selected by the configuration element selection means from the shape model library and creates a 3D model of the predetermined configuration element by matching the predetermined shape model to the point group data, are included. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A 3D model creation support system that supports creation of a 3D model based on point group data of a surface of an object which is configured with a plurality of configuration elements connected to each other, the system comprising: a system information database in which system information including connection relationships between the plurality of configuration elements is registered; a shape model library in which shape models corresponding to each of the plurality of configuration elements are registered; configuration element selection means for selecting configuration elements whose 3D models are not created among the plurality of configuration elements, based on the system information which is registered in the system information database; and configuration element identification means for acquiring a predetermined shape model corresponding to a predetermined configuration element which is selected by the configuration element selection means from the shape model library and creating a 3D model of the predetermined configuration element by matching the predetermined shape model to the point group data. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The 3D model creation support system according to claim 1, wherein the configuration element identification means limits a range where the predetermined configuration element in the point group data exists, based on the system information which is registered in the system information database, and creates a 3D model of the predetermined configuration element by matching the predetermined shape model to point group data within the limited range. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The 3D model creation support system according to claim 1, wherein the configuration element selection means selects a configuration element that is connected to a configuration element whose 3D model is previously created and whose 3D models are not created, among the plurality of configuration elements. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The 3D model creation support system according to claim 1, wherein the object is a plant which includes a plurality of apparatuses and a plurality of pipes as configuration elements and in which the plurality of apparatuses are connected to each other through the plurality of pipes. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The 3D model creation support system according to claim 4, wherein configuration element selection means selects all apparatuses whose 3D models are not created among the plurality of apparatuses, and thereafter selects a pipe whose 3D model is not created among the plurality of pipes. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The 3D model creation support system according to claim 4, further comprising: system information extraction means that extracts system information from a plant system diagram having system information including connection relationships between the plurality of apparatuses and the plurality of pipes, and registers the extracted system information in the system information database. ### Claim 7 A 3D model creation support method based on point group data of a surface of an object which is configured with a plurality of configuration elements which are connected to each other, the method comprising: configuration element selection processing of selecting configuration elements whose 3D models are not created among the plurality of configuration elements, based on system information including connection relationships between the plurality of configuration elements; and configuration element identification processing of creating a 3D model of a predetermined configuration element by matching a shape model corresponding to the predetermined configuration element that is selected by the configuration element selection processing to the point group data. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The 3D model creation support method according to claim 7, wherein, in the configuration element identification processing, a range is limited where the predetermined configuration element in the point group data exists, based on the system information, and a 3D model of the predetermined configuration element is created by matching the predetermined shape model to point group data within the limited range. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The 3D model creation support method according to claim 7, wherein, in the configuration element selection processing, a configuration element is selected that is connected to a configuration element whose 3D model is previously created and whose 3D models are not created, among the plurality of configuration elements.