APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING LIBRARY

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To evaluate maintenance easiness of a library on the basis of the number of modeling processes required to create a library shape and the number of modeling processes required to model a product by using the created library shape. SOLUTION: The library evaluating apparatus includes: a unit 105 for calculating the number of library creating processes, which calculates the total number of modeling processes for creating the library; a unit 106 for calculating the number of product modeling processes, which calculates the number of modeling processes of a product retrieved by a library using product retrieving unit 103 for each of combination plans of a plurality of libraries defined by a library definition unit 101; and a library evaluation score calculation unit 107 for calculating the total number of modeling processes and library creating processes from the number of library creating processes calculated by the calculation unit 105 and the number of product modeling processes calculated by the calculation unit 106. A combination plan of a plurality of library shapes to be evaluated is evaluated based on the total number of modeling processes and library creating processes. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT