Figure element revising method

Claim 1

A figure element revising method for displaying a group of figure elements on a display screen, the group of figure elements includes defined figure elements and related figure elements defined using the defined figure elements, and for revising a designated figure element, said method comprising the steps of: (a) storing in advance a figure definition statement for each of the figure elements; (b) revising the figure definition statement of the designated figure element; (c) checking, when the figure definition statement of the designated figure element is revised, to determined whether an error has occurred in the figure definition statement of another figure element due to said revising in step (b) of the figure definition statement of the designated figure element; (d) displaying, when an error has occurred, the figure definition statement in which the error has occurred on the display screen and displaying, in different colors, the figure element specified by the figure definition statement in which the error has occurred and the related figure elements defined using the figure element in which the error has occurred; (e) revising the figure definition statement of the figure element in which the error has occurred to produce a revised figure definition statement; and (f) displaying, when the figure definition statement in which the error has occurred is revised, the figure element corresponding to the figure definition statement in which the error has occurred based on the revised figure definition statement.

Claim 5

A method for revising figure definition statements of an automatic programming language for figure elements to create numerical control data, said method comprising the steps of: (a) producing the figure definition statements for each of the figure elements, the figure definition statements for each of first figure definition statements based on coordinate inputs and second figure definition statements based on the first figure definition statements; (b) selecting one of the figure elements to be revised; (c) identifying the figure elements having figure definition statements based on the figure definition statement of the figure element selected in step (b); (d) revising the figure element definition of the figure element selected in step (b) to produce a revised figure element having a revised definition statement; (e) determining if any definition errors exist in the figure elements identified in step (c) due to said revising in step (d); (f) identifying the figure elements determined in step (e) to have definition errors; and (g) revising the figure element definitions of the figure elements identified in step (f).

Claim 6

A method for revising figure definition statements of an automatic programming language for figure elements to create numerical control data, said method comprising the steps of: (a) producing the figure definition statements for each of the figure elements, the figure definition statements for each of first figure definition statements based on coordinate inputs and second figure definition statements based on the first figure definition statements; (b) selecting one of the figure elements to be revised; (c) identifying the figure elements having figure definition statements based on the figure definition statement of the figure element selected in step (b); (d) revising the figure element definition of the figure element selected in step (b) to produce a revised figure element having a revised definition statement; (e) determining if any definition errors exist in the figure elements identified in step (c) due to said revising in step (d); (f) identifying the figure elements determined in step (e) to have definition errors; and (g) revising the figure element definitions of the figure elements identified in step (f).