Display device, display method, program, virtual mechanism library, and computer readable recording medium

A display method for displaying on a screen of a display device an operation of a control target device which is operated by an input of a command value of a position outputted by execution of a control program in a predefined period, as a moving image of a virtual mechanism, the virtual mechanism being an electronically constructed three-dimensional model, the method comprising:

• a step of presenting options of a virtual mechanism on the screen by a processor of the display device;
• a step of accepting one selection of the virtual mechanism out of the options of the presented virtual mechanism by the processor;
• a step of acquiring command values of a sequence of positions or actual measured values of a sequence of positions as execution results of the control program by the processor;
• a step of creating moving image data showing a state of the selected virtual mechanism in every period or in a plurality of predefined periods by use of the acquired command values of the positions or the actual measured values of the positions by the processor;
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• a step of displaying a moving image on the screen by use of the moving image data by the processor,
• wherein the virtual mechanism includes a structure in which a plurality of mechanism elements are combined having interlocking relationships,
• in the step of presenting options of the virtual mechanism on the screen, the processor presents at least a plurality of options of virtual mechanisms which are mutually different in kind of the mechanism element or in form of the interlocking relationship among the mechanism elements, and
• the virtual mechanism includes an abstracted mode not imitating a mode of a specific control target device that can be associated with the virtual mechanism when the virtual mechanism is used by a user, wherein a virtual mechanism presenting section presents at least options of the virtual mechanism having a linear moving element as the mechanism element, the linear moving element has a columnar linear moving shaft and a movable section that moves along the linear moving shaft, and the linear moving element is displayed in a mode where a length of the linear moving shaft remains unchanged from the beginning to the end of reproduction of at least one moving image.

A computer readable non-transitory recording medium storing a program for making an operation of a control target device displayed on a screen of a display device, the operation being operated by an input of a command value of a position outputted by execution of a control program in a predefined period, as a moving image of a virtual mechanism, the virtual mechanism being an electronically constructed three-dimensional model, the program making the display device execute:

• a step of presenting options of a virtual mechanism on the screen;
• a step of accepting one selection of the virtual mechanism out of the options of the presented virtual mechanism;
• a step of acquiring command values of a sequence of positions or actual measured values of a sequence of positions as execution results of the control program;
• a step of creating moving image data showing a state of the selected virtual mechanism in each period or in a plurality of predefined periods by use of the acquired command values of the positions or the actual measured values of the positions;
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• a step of displaying a moving image on the screen by use of the moving image data, wherein
• the virtual mechanism includes a structure in which a plurality of mechanism elements are combined having interlocking relationships,
• in the step of presenting options of the virtual mechanism on the screen, at least a plurality of options of virtual mechanisms are presented which are mutually different in kind of the mechanism element or in form of the interlocking relationship among the mechanism elements, and
• the virtual mechanism includes an abstracted mode not imitating a mode of a specific control target device that can be associated with the virtual mechanism when the virtual mechanism is used by a user, wherein a virtual mechanism presenting section presents at least options of the virtual mechanism having a linear moving element as the mechanism element, the linear moving element has a columnar linear moving shaft and a movable section that moves along the linear moving shaft, and the linear moving element is displayed in a mode where a length of the linear moving shaft remains unchanged from the beginning to the end of reproduction of at least one moving image.

A computer readable non-transitory recording medium storing a virtual mechanism library, which contains a virtual mechanism as an electronically constructed three-dimensional model, and by execution of a control program using a processor to:

• present, using a virtual mechanism presenting section, options of the virtual mechanism on a screen;
• wherein the virtual mechanism includes a structure in which a plurality of mechanism elements are combined having interlocking relationships,
• the virtual mechanism library contains at least a plurality of virtual mechanisms which are mutually different in kind of the mechanism element or in form of the interlocking relationship among the mechanism elements, and
• the virtual mechanism includes an abstracted mode not imitating a mode of a specific control target device that can be associated with the virtual mechanism when the virtual mechanism is used by a user, wherein the virtual mechanism presenting section presents at least options of the virtual mechanism having a linear moving element as the mechanism element, the linear moving element has a columnar linear moving shaft and a movable section that moves along the linear moving shaft, and the linear moving element is displayed in a mode where a length of the linear moving shaft remains unchanged from the beginning to the end of reproduction of at least one moving image.