Harness design supporting apparatus and method, and computer readable recording medium which stores harness design supporting program therein

A harness design supporting method for supporting placement design of a harness which is to be incorporated in an object apparatus, said harness design supporting method comprising:

• storing in advance three-dimensional model data of a mechanical component, other than the harness, of the object apparatus;
• setting information about the harness as harness information;
• simulating motion of the harness in conjunction with motion of the mechanical component using a three-dimensional mechanism model of the harness and of the mechanical component, which model is created based on the harness information and on the three-dimensional model data of the mechanical component;
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• displaying the simulation result on a display as motion of the harness and motion of the mechanical component.

A computer-readable recording medium which stores therein a harness design supporting program for a computer to support placement design of a harness which is to be incorporated in an object apparatus, wherein the program instructs the computer to function as the following:

• a harness information setting section which sets information about the harness as harness information;
• a simulation section which creates a three-dimensional mechanism model of the harness and of the mechanical component based on the harness information, which is set by the harness information setting section, and on the three-dimensional model data of the mechanical component, other than the harness, of the object apparatus, and which simulates motion of the harness in conjunction with motion of the mechanical component using the three-dimensional mechanism model;
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• a display controlling section which controls a display to show thereon a simulation result obtained by the simulation section as motion of the harness and motion of the mechanical component.