Part table creating apparatus and part table creating method

A part table creating apparatus for creating a part table showing specifications of a plurality of components of a geometric element in a plurality of rows by each component on CAD data, comprising:

• a detector detecting an overlap of the part table and the geometric element;
• a row contracting unit reducing the height of the rows in the part table when the overlap is detected by the detector;
• a locator finding the number of rows overlapping with the geometric element from the plurality of rows of the part table when the overlap is still detected by the detector after the row contracting unit reduces the height of the rows in the part table;
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• a separator separating a portion of the components corresponding to the overlapped rows from the part table and moving the portion of the components corresponding to the overlapped rows to a position which avoids an overlap with the geometric element without moving the rest of the components corresponding to non-overlapped rows from the part table, and creating a new part table,
• wherein the portion of the overlapped rows is moved in a direction to avoid the overlap with the geometric element only when the overlap still exists after the height of the rows of the part table is reduced to a predetermined height by the row contracting device.

A part table creating method for creating a part table showing specifications of a plurality of components of a geometric element in a plurality of rows by each component on CAD data, comprising the following steps:

• detecting an overlap of the part table with the geometric element;
• reducing the height of the rows in the part table when the overlap is detected;
• obtaining the number of rows overlapped with the geometric element when the overlap is still detected after the step of reducing the height of the rows in the part table;
• separating a portion of the components corresponding to the overlapped rows from the part table;
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• moving the portion of the components corresponding to the overlapped rows to a position which avoids an overlap with the geometric element without moving the rest of the components corresponding to non-overlapped rows from the part table,
• wherein the portion of the overlapped rows is moved in a direction to avoid the overlap with the geometric element only when the overlap still exists after the height of the rows of the part table is reduced to a predetermined height by the row contracting device.