A method for designing a connector between a first and a second element of
a dental restoration, such as a connector between coping and coping, or
coping and pontic, or pontic and pontic of a bridge, which is
characterized by the steps of computing a (first) model of the first
element and a (second) model of the second element, defining a connecting
straight line between the first model and the second model, computing
edge curves (.gamma.0, .gamma.4) on the first model and the second model,
whereby the edge curves are defined by origins of surface normal vectors
of the models, which satisfy boundary conditions relative to the
connecting line, computing offset curves (.gamma.1, .gamma.3) on the
first model and the second model from the first edge curves, and
connecting the first edge curves and the offset curves of the first model
and of the second model and computing the connector on the basis of the
course of the connection between the curves.