JP2000322457A - Three-dimensional graphic arrangement supporting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To save labor for retrieving a wiring route related to production work and to equalize a work quantity by extracting and displaying the route retrieval of a cable, to which cable routing is performed, while making it into list as exit information together with a unit dividing instruction. SOLUTION: Respective three-dimensional (3D) graphic data 34 of plural casings are stored in a casing graphic data file 4. Besides, respective 3D graphic data 35 of instruments to be integrated into the casings are stored in an instrument graphic data file 5. Further, cable connection information 36 between instrument graphics is stored in a cable connection information file 6. An operator operates an operating part 17, selects one piece of casing data out of the casing graphic file 4, selects the required instrument graphic data out of the instrument graphic data file 5, executes arrangement work through an instrument arranging part 11 and allocates instruments to the instrument graphic data. Afterwards, cable routing between instruments is started by a cable routing processing part 12.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a three-dimensional graphic arrangement support apparatus for arranging a plurality of electric appliances in a housing and performing cable routing between the appliances, and more particularly to an electric appliance after cable routing. The present invention relates to a three-dimensional graphic layout support apparatus that extracts route information between layout panels or a plurality of layout units, and saves labor in searching for a cable route in a manufacturing operation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, a large number of electrical components are installed in a switchboard.
Electric appliances (hereinafter referred to as "instruments") are used, and hundreds of wiring processes are performed. In manufacturing, a worker needs to work efficiently and without error wiring in wiring work according to hundreds of cable routes processed in three dimensions.

Under such demands, in order to equalize the manufacturing work, a three-dimensional graphic arrangement support apparatus which can extract information on instruments, numbers, and wiring routes by unitizing arrangement panels has been used.

FIG. 12 is a schematic configuration diagram of a conventional three-dimensional graphic arrangement support apparatus. A three-dimensional graphic apparatus 1 composed of CAD or the like includes a display device 2 and an operation unit 3 including a keyboard and a mouse. Is connected.

As shown in FIG. 13, a three-dimensional graphic device 1 has a housing graphic data file 30 for recording three-dimensional graphic data of each housing created by another CAD (not shown).
And an appliance graphic data file 31 for recording three-dimensional graphic data of each appliance to be incorporated in each housing, and a cable connection information file 3 for recording cable connection information between appliances.
2 and a cable length data file 33 for recording the cable length measurement results between the respective appliances.

[0006] The operator of the three-dimensional figure arrangement is shown in FIG.
According to the flowchart shown in FIG. 3, the arrangement of each device in the housing and the operation of creating the cable routing and the unit diagram are performed.

First, the operator operates the operation unit 3 to select three-dimensional graphic data of one housing from the housing graphic data file 30 and read out the data on the display screen of the display device 2.

Next, in step S1, three-dimensional graphic data of each appliance to be incorporated three-dimensionally in the housing is selected from the appliance graphic data file 31 and read out on the display screen of the display device 2. Then, in step S2, the three-dimensional graphic data of the appliance read on the display screen of the display device 2 is combined using, for example, a mouse. Then, as step S3, the position of each appliance is corrected in the three-dimensional graphic data of the housing so that each appliance operates normally.

Next, in steps S4 and S5, the cable connection information file 32 is read, and the routing of the cable is automatically processed based on the equipment information and the terminal pin information in each three-dimensional graphic data.

Next, as a step S6, the result of measuring the length of the cable between the devices that have been cable routed is recorded in the length measurement data file 33. Next, steps S7, S
8. At S9, the housing incorporating the appliance is displayed in a two-dimensional figure on the display screen of the display device 2,
In addition, drafting work is performed for each mounting of the device incorporated in the housing.
In addition, as step S10, the device incorporated in the housing is divided into units of arrangement panels and units of combination,
Drafting work.

[0011]

As described above, in the conventional three-dimensional graphic arrangement support apparatus, in order to equalize the manufacturing work, the arrangement panel can be unitized to extract information on the equipment, the number, and the wiring route. It has become something.

However, the above-described three-dimensional graphic arrangement support apparatus has the following problems to be solved. In other words, since the work is performed according to a route in which hundreds of cables are routed, the wiring work is performed by looking at the three-dimensional drawing of the completed cable routing diagram displaying the entirety, which is troublesome.

Further, since the drawing and cable routing information divided into units are not utilized, it takes time to search for a wiring route in advancing the manufacturing work, and there is a problem that the wiring work is reduced. In this case, a similar problem occurs when the work is performed in units.

An object of the present invention is to provide a cable route for manufacturing work by incorporating cable routing information between appliances incorporated in a housing and a unit information data file incorporating a unit division file of an appliance arrangement panel. An object of the present invention is to provide a three-dimensional graphic arrangement support device capable of saving labor for a search.

[0015]

According to the present invention, a cable routing process performed in a three-dimensional graphic arrangement is instructed to divide a unit, so that a cable route between each unit and between appliances is listed for each unit. The present invention is applied to a three-dimensional graphic arrangement device that can be displayed as.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, in the present invention, the electric appliance information and the cable route for each of the divided units are extracted as a list table and displayed. As a result, the worker can recognize the exit in the duct of the cable route extending to another unit in the divided unit.

Therefore, in performing the wiring work as the manufacturing work, the operator can perform the work according to the destination display list of the cable route without outputting the three-dimensionally routed three-dimensional drafting. In addition, in the present invention, the speed of route search is improved by dividing the unit, and information on the number of appliances, the number of cables, and the number of cables can be obtained.
It helps in equalizing work.

[0018]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a three-dimensional graphic arrangement support apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
The three-dimensional graphic arrangement support device of the present embodiment is configured by an information processing device such as a computer. And, for example,
In an external storage device such as an HDD, a housing figure data file 4, a tool figure data file 5, a cable connection information file 6, a cable processing information file 7, an arrangement tool input data file 8, a unit division file 9, a two-dimensional figure unit An information data file 15 is configured.

Further, in the three-dimensional graphic arrangement support device,
A display unit 16 constituted by a CRT display device and the like, and an operation unit 17 constituted by a keyboard, a mouse and the like are incorporated. Furthermore, in the three-dimensional graphic arrangement support device, the application program includes an instrument input unit 10,
The appliance arrangement unit 11, the cable routing processing unit 12, the unit instruction unit 13, and the drafting unit 14 are formed as program modules.

Here, information stored in each file will be described. That is, the three-dimensional graphic data 34 of a plurality of housings composed of, for example, a switchboard are stored in the housing graphic data file 4. Further, in the appliance graphic data file 5, three-dimensional graphic data 35 of each appliance as a plurality of objects to be incorporated in the housing are stored.
Further, the cable connection information file 6 stores cable connection information 36 between the appliance figures incorporated in the housing.

The cable processing information file 7 stores cable processing data 37 relating to cable numbers, pin numbers, unit numbers, and cable lengths after cable routing processing between appliances. The placement tool input data file 8 stores data on the tools to be placed in the housing. Further, in the unit division file 9, three-dimensional graphic data of an arrangement panel prepared in the enclosure for which division has been instructed is stored as unit data 38. The two-dimensional graphic unit information data file 15 stores cable route information and equipment arrangement number information in units of unit data designated by the unit.

Here, the fixture graphic data 35 (three-dimensional fixture graphic data 18) of the fixture graphic data file 5 includes the coordinate system pin numbers 20, 20A and the fixture numbers which are the reference of the cable routing shown in FIGS. The parameter 19 is formed by numerals and characters. The coordinate system pin number is the same as the pin number in the cable connection information.

The operator calls the appliance graphic from the appliance graphic data file 5 using the appliance input unit 10, displays it on the display unit 16 as necessary, and inputs the data to the arrangement appliance input data file 8.

Under the above-mentioned file structure, the operator or the operator operates as follows according to the flow shown in FIG. That is, as step T1, the operator operates the operation unit 17 to select one piece of housing data from the housing graphic data file 4. Next, as step T2,
The operator 17 selects necessary appliance graphic data from the appliance graphic data file 5. Next, as the step T3, the operation unit 17 selects the appliance graphic data. Next, as step T4, a placement work is performed by the tool placement unit 11. Next, as step T5, an appliance is assigned to the appliance graphic data. Next, as step T6, data is read from the cable connection information file.

After the above operation, as step T7,
The cable routing processing section 12 starts cable routing between the components. Next, as the step T8, the operation unit 17 selects one case data from the case data file. Next, in step T9, the unit instructing unit 13 issues an instruction to divide the arrangement panel and an instruction to allocate the unit.

As an example of the above operation, for example, as shown in FIG.
A, three-dimensional appliance graphic data 18A1 arranged on 22B
In 18C2, cable routing is performed based on the cable connection information 6. FIG. 5B is a front view of FIG. 5A viewed from the direction of the arrow II.
After the processing, the three-dimensional cable graphic data 24, 24A, 24B between the appliances shown in FIG. 5 is created. Here, FIG.
In FIG. 6 and FIG. 6, 21, 21A and 21B indicate three-dimensional cable duct graphic data. Then, the cable processing information (before division) shown in FIG. 6 based on FIG. 5 is created.

Based on the pre-divided cable processing information created as described above, the unit division file is designated by unit-designating the three-dimensional appliance arrangement panel 22 and the three-dimensional appliance arrangement panel 22A as shown in FIGS. Is created,
Cable information is created for each unit. Note that FIG.
(A) and (b) in FIG. 8 are a front view and a side view. 7 (b) is a view as viewed from the -arrow direction in (a) of the front view, and FIG. 8 (b) is a view as viewed in the -arrow direction in (a) of the front view. FIG.

In the cable processing information 23, an appliance number, a coordinate system pin number, an appliance number of a partner, a pin number, and a cable length are extracted as information.

Thereafter, as step T10, the drawing unit 14
At step T11, a unit diagram is created, and the unit diagram is displayed on the display unit 16 as necessary. Next, as step T12, the drawing by the drawing unit 14 ends. Then, as step T13, the drafted unit diagram is stored and saved in an external storage device or the like constituting each file.

FIGS. 9 and 10 show the drawn list information. The drawing of each unit is called from the two-dimensional graphic unit information data file 15, and the number of the equipments, the arrangement positions, and the cable routes are created as a list. It has been done.

Here, 25A1 to 25C2 indicate two-dimensional appliance graphic data, 26, 26A and 26B indicate two-dimensional equipment cable duct graphic data, and 28 and 28A indicate two-dimensional appliance arrangement panel data.

As shown in FIG. 10, the cable route is
In the cable destination list for each unit, the duct 2 from the unitized unit to which the cable exits to another unit
A cable outlet A27A, a cable outlet B27B, a cable outlet C27C, and a cable outlet D27D are set at the outlet portions of 6A and 26B, and the cables passing through the respective outlets are extracted as a list and output on paper or displayed.

In this case, as shown in FIG. 11, the cable is provided with a cable number and an outlet number in advance by a seal or the like, and when performing the work, the operator refers to the cable number and the outlet number attached to the cable. In addition, the wiring process is performed according to the list shown in FIG.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, it is not necessary to output a three-dimensionally routed three-dimensional drawing in performing the wiring work as a manufacturing work. Wiring work can be performed according to the destination display list of the cable route. Further, in the present embodiment, since the unit is divided and the route search is performed for each unit, the route search time is shortened as a whole,
Further, since information on the number of devices, the number of cables, and the number of cables can be easily known, it is helpful in equalizing work.

[0036]

As described above, according to the present invention, a route search of, for example, hundreds of cables routed by a cable can be extracted and listed as exit information together with a unit division instruction, for example, and displayed. In addition, it is possible to provide a three-dimensional graphic arrangement support device that can save labor of searching for a wiring route related to a manufacturing operation and can equalize the amount of work.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a three-dimensional graphic arrangement support apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the three-dimensional graphic arrangement support apparatus of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing three-dimensional appliance graphic data.

FIG. 4 is an exemplary view showing attribute data necessary for cable routing set in attribute data of the three-dimensional graphic data of the appliance in the three-dimensional graphic arrangement support device of the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is an exemplary view showing cable-routed three-dimensional appliance arrangement graphic data in the three-dimensional graphic arrangement support device of the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing cable processing information obtained by cable routing of the three-dimensional appliance arrangement graphic in FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing three-dimensional appliance arrangement graphic data obtained by unitizing a part of the three-dimensional appliance arrangement graphic in FIG. 5;

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing three-dimensional appliance arrangement graphic data obtained by unitizing a part of the three-dimensional appliance arrangement graphic in FIG. 5;

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an instruction form of a two-dimensional graphic of the unitized three-dimensional appliance arrangement graphic data in FIG. 7;

FIG. 10 is a view showing a unit cable destination list of the unitized three-dimensional appliance arrangement graphic data in FIG. 7;

FIG. 11 is a view showing a cable according to the embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a conventional three-dimensional graphic arrangement support device.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing the operation of the conventional three-dimensional graphic arrangement support device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 4 ... Housing figure data file 5 ... Figure figure data file 6 ... Cable connection information file 7 ... Cable processing information file 8 ... Placement apparatus input data file 9 ... Unit division file 10 ... Facility input section 11 ... Facility placement section 12 ... Cable route Prong processing unit 13 Unit instruction unit 14 Drafting unit 15 2D graphic unit information data file 16 Display unit 17 Operation unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A three-dimensional graphic data of a housing is read from a housing graphic data file based on an operation instruction input from outside, and the three-dimensional graphic data of a plurality of electric appliances read from the electric appliance graphic data file is read. In the three-dimensional graphic arrangement support device arranged in the three-dimensional graphic data of the housing, the cable-routed three-dimensional graphic data among the plurality of arranged electric appliances is divided into electric appliance arrangement panel units and the division unit. A three-dimensional graphic arrangement support apparatus, comprising: means for extracting electric appliance information and cable routes for each of the apparatuses as a list.