JP2819203B2 - Drawing management method and apparatus - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a drawing management system for digitally managing pipes for water, gas, electricity, telephones, etc., wiring system diagrams or superimposed drawings of system diagrams and maps.
In particular, the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus,
And a drawing management method for drawing search based on the drawing .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, situation management of facilities such as pipes for water, gas, electricity, telephones and the like, wiring systems and the like has been performed using drawings drawn on paper or polyester film. On this occasion,
If the facility changes, the drawings will need to be modified. All drawing corrections must be performed manually, which requires much labor and time, and has a high rate of erroneous writing. In order to solve this problem, for example, as described in JP-B-61-9667, facility drawings are converted into digital information and managed, and a large number of facility drawings (topographic maps, system (Figures, symbol diagrams, etc.) are displayed on a display device to monitor the status of the facility. Also, the work of correcting the drawing is displayed on the display device. By the way, in particular, pipeline data of a water supply facility is hierarchically structured in a water distribution pipe or a water supply device for each application, and each data is represented by vector information.
This pipeline data is displayed on a display by arbitrarily combining hierarchies according to the purpose. At this time, the display screen normally displays one drawing. However, the pipeline data on the map is actually continuously connected between the drawings. Therefore, as in the related art, when a single display screen drawing is searched, the adjacent state of the pipeline drawings and an arbitrary position are determined. It was difficult to grasp the mutual relationship accurately, in detail, and at a glance. That is, in the related art, adjacent drawings are continuously searched, a plurality of adjacent drawings are displayed at the same time,
It has been difficult to respond to a search request such as indexing while moving over a wide area.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object thereof is to display on a screen adjacent index information indicating an adjacent state of a facility management drawing.
To quickly, accurately and easily find the target adjacent screen
It is an object of the present invention to provide a drawing management method and apparatus suitable for performing the above.

[0004]

The object of the present invention is to provide a display.
Center the current display drawing displayed on the device
In the immediate vicinity of the
The number of pieces of adjacent drawing information that differ depending on the number of divided drawings
This is achieved by displaying on a part of the display device . Here, the adjacent drawing information is a drawing number, and
By specifying the drawing information, the positional relationship between adjacent drawings
Scroll operation in the drawing as adjacent drawing information
Displays a summary of the contents. Also, the drawing information is displayed on the display device.
Information display means and the information displayed on the display device.
Centered on the current display drawing
Relationship, it depends on the number of divided drawings of the current display drawing.
A number of adjacent drawing information
Means for displaying on the
Search for drawings that are directly adjacent to the current display drawing
This is achieved by providing means .

[0005]

The present invention is displayed on a display device.
Directly adjacent to the current display drawing centered around it
The number of divided drawings of the current display drawing
Of multiple adjacent drawing information as part of the display device
The desired adjacency, based on the current display drawing, for display
Drawings are retrieved quickly, accurately and easily. Also next to
The drawing information is the drawing number, and the drawing information
Scrolling the positional relationship between adjacent drawings
And outline drawing contents as adjacent drawing information
In order to reduce the time required for searching the target drawing,
The search for the target drawing is simplified .

[0006]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is a basic configuration diagram of a drawing management apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 201 denotes a central processing unit (CPU); 202, a main memory for storing a program for executing processing such as search and editing of screen data and data being processed; 203, a file device;
4 is a drawing input device, 205 is a display device (CR
T), 206 denotes a keyboard, 207 denotes a mouse, and 208 denotes a data input device such as a floppy disk which can collectively input data. The file device 203 stores facility drawing data. The facility drawing data includes figure data such as topographic maps and pipeline maps, and the names of towns, individuals,
There are attribute data expressed by characters and numerical values such as pipe diameter and pipe type. As the graphic data, a drawing written on paper is scanned and read at regular intervals, and a digital image in which the gradation is changed in accordance with the gradation of the data is input from the drawing input device 204 to the file device 203. This graphic data is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 3A, a plurality of drawings 1, 2, 3,..., N are formed, each of which is divided into a graphic data file. Also,
The graphic data is shown in an orthogonal coordinate system as shown in FIG. 3B, and the lengths X ₀ and Y ₀ in the X and Y axis directions according to the drawing size.
Is determined. These graphic data, and FIG. 4 (b) layer _1,
As shown in (c) layer ₂ and (d) layer ₃ , the data storage structure is hierarchically separated from the road 42, the house frame 43, and the pipeline 44. These data are superimposed on each layer as necessary.
The graphic data 41 as shown in FIG. On the other hand, the attribute data is input to the file device 203 using a data input device 208 such as a keyboard 206 or a floppy disk which can collectively input data. When the operator operates the mouse 207, the display device (CRT) 20
In order to display the drawing on the screen 5, first, the operator operates the mouse 207 to move the cursor CU to a function selection icon displayed on the CRT screen and designate it. When the "draw drawing" icon is designated, the central processing unit (C
The PU (PU) 201 retrieves the corresponding drawing data (graphic data and its attribute data) from the file device 203 and temporarily stores the drawing data in the main memory 202. The drawing data temporarily stored in the main memory 202 is displayed on the CRT 205 after being edited by the CPU 201 in accordance with the effective display coordinates which are the display area of the CRT 205. The operator can know the target drawing content from this display screen. In order to grasp a detailed part, the part is enlarged and displayed. For this purpose, for example, the cursor CU is moved by the mouse 207 to specify a rectangular arbitrary area from the CRT display area at both ends on a diagonal line, and enlarge or reduce the arbitrary magnification. Specifically, the main memory 202
A part of the relevant drawing data stored in the CPU 201
Is enlarged / reduced and displayed on the CRT 205.

Next, the digitized facility drawing is displayed on the screen, an index search unit indicating the adjacent positional relationship of the facility drawing is displayed on the display, and the index search unit is used by using the index search unit.
A procedure for searching for a target drawing will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 shows a main part of an embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of an index search process of 201. In FIG. 1, a display screen 101 includes a mouse operation icon area 102 for selecting a function for searching and correcting a target drawing, and a drawing display area 103 for displaying a drawing searched by a mouse operation. .

First, a case in which a target facility drawing is searched and displayed on the drawing display area 103 will be described. Using the mouse 207, the cursor CU that moves in one-to-one correspondence with the operation of the mouse 207 is moved to the icon area 102 on the display screen 101, and a “drawing search” icon is selected and instructed. The target drawing number is directly input to the drawing search. No. to specify Search, index diagram search to search the target drawing from the index diagram showing the positional relationship of the whole drawing, target search by target specification, town name search by town name, etc. . When this selection command is input to the CPU 201, the operation input unit 104
Check the rationality of the input operation with. If the selection command is normal, the command is input to the graphic search unit 107.
The graphic search unit 107 indexes the corresponding drawing data (graphic data and its attribute data) from the file device 203 and temporarily stores it in the main memory 202. The drawing data temporarily stored in the main memory 202 is read out by the display editing unit 110 via the graphic search unit 107. Display editing unit 110
Then, the drawing data is edited according to the drawing display area 103 and displayed in the drawing display area 103.

Next, referring to FIG. 1, a description will be given of a case of searching for attribute data corresponding to the drawing. When searching for desired attribute data by pointing to a figure on a drawing,
The cursor CU is moved using the mouse 207, and an icon for “attribute search” is selected and instructed. This selection command is
When input is made to 201, the operation input unit 104 checks the rationality of the input operation. If the selection command is normal, the command is input to the attribute search unit 109. Attribute search unit 1
In step 09, the corresponding attribute data is indexed from the file device 203 and temporarily stored in the main memory 202. The attribute data temporarily stored in the main memory 202 is stored in the display editing unit 11.
0 is read out via the attribute search unit 109. The display editing unit 110 edits the attribute data according to the drawing display area 103 and displays the edited data in the drawing display area 103. When the attribute data is searched by designating a condition, the condition is keyed using the keyboard 206. The input data is checked by the operation input unit 104 for rationality of the input operation. If the selection command is normal, the command is input to the attribute search unit 109. The attribute search unit 109 indexes attribute data corresponding to the condition specification from the file device 203 and temporarily stores the index data in the main memory 202. The attribute data temporarily stored in the main memory 202 is read by the display editing unit 110 via the attribute searching unit 109. The display editing unit 110 stores the attribute data in the drawing display area 10.
3 and is displayed in the drawing display area 103.

[0010] Further, in FIG.
Numeral 08 defines symbol shape and symbol attribute data in a part of the graphic file in the file device 203. The symbol shape is defined by operating the mouse 207. The symbol NO. , Symbol name,
Symbol attribute data such as a symbol hierarchy is defined using the keyboard 206. For the symbol definition data, the figure search unit 107 stores the corresponding drawing data in the file device 203.
Read when searching from the drawing file of
It is temporarily stored in the main memory 202. Main memory 20
2 is read out by the display editing unit 110 via the graphic search unit 107. The display editing unit 110 performs a process of developing the symbol shape into a drawing based on the symbol definition data,
3 is displayed.

Next, a description will be given of a case where, after a relevant drawing is searched and displayed, a target drawing in an adjacent relationship is continuously searched. The mouse 207 is operated to move the cursor CU, and a command to select the “adjacent view display” icon in the icon area 102 is issued. When this selection command is input to the operation input unit 104 of the CPU 201, the index display processing unit 105 searches for an adjacent index diagram centered on the current display drawing selected and edited by the adjacent diagram management processing unit 106, and displays it. To edit.
The adjacent index diagram is edited as display data by the display editing unit 110 and displayed on the index search unit 111 on the display screen 101.

For example, a facility pipe drawing is usually a 1/500 scale drawing for detailed facility management. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an allocation relationship of pipeline drawings corresponding to a geographical positional relationship. In the case of the 1/500 scale diagram, a section in which the length and width are divided into 25 is managed as one block, and the blocks are combined to form the entire block allocation. That is,
Reference numeral 51 denotes a “01” block indicating one block of the pipeline drawing corresponding to the geographical positional relationship.
01 "to" 01-25 ". Similarly, reference numeral 52 denotes a block "02" of the pipeline drawing corresponding to the geographical positional relationship, and is composed of sections "02-01" to "02-25". Block "1" of pipeline drawing corresponding to geographical location
Each of "1", "12", ..., "21", "22", ... has 25 sections. These blocks are combined to form a block assignment for the entire pipeline drawing. Therefore, peripheral drawings based on the current display drawing can be searched based on the adjacent relationship between the blocks and the sections. A file in which the adjacent relation is tabulated is shown in FIG.
Location management file 112 in the file device 203
It is. The adjacent position management file 112 manages the adjacent position relations of all the drawings in the management target area in accordance with the drawing arrangement, and the drawing NO. Is stored. The adjacent figure management processing unit 106 searches the adjacent position management file 112 to obtain the corresponding drawing number.
Is determined, and the result is indexed by the index display processing unit 105.
Has passed.

Hereinafter, a procedure for retrieving and displaying a target drawing which is adjacent to the target drawing after the relevant drawing is displayed will be specifically described. Display surface 10
In the case where one drawing is displayed in 1, the mouse 207 is operated to move the cursor CU, and the “single-drawing display” in the icon area 102 is displayed.
Command to select an icon. The index search unit 111 displays the nine-part adjacent position map centered on the relevant display drawing searched by the adjacent position management file 112 by the adjacent position management processing unit 106. When an arbitrary block in the adjacent position diagram is designated by the cursor CU, a target drawing is retrieved and displayed. FIG. 6 shows an example. FIG. 6A shows one drawing “Drawing“ 01-13 ”” 61 on the display screen 101.
And an example in which a nine-part adjacent position diagram 62 centered on this drawing is displayed. In FIG. 6A, “01-0”
When the drawing of “7” is designated by the cursor CU, the drawing of “drawing“ 01-07 ”” 63 is displayed on the display screen 101 as shown in FIG.
The adjacent position diagram 64 of FIG. 11 also changes to the adjacent display centering on “01-07”.

When simultaneously displaying a plurality of drawings adjacent to the display screen 101, the user moves the cursor CU by operating the mouse 207 to move the cursor CU to the "4 figure display" in the icon area 102.
Command to select an icon. In this case, the index search unit 111
Shows an adjacent position diagram of 16 divisions centered on the corresponding display drawing. When two points on the diagonal line of the block at the arbitrary position in the adjacent position diagram are designated by the cursor CU, the corresponding drawing of the rectangular area determined by the diagonal line is searched and displayed. FIG. 7 shows an example. FIG. 7A shows “drawing“ 01-13 ””.
The four drawings 71 of “Drawing“ 01-14 ”,“ Drawing “01-18” ”, and“ Drawing “01-19” ”, and an adjacent position diagram 72 of 16 divisions centering on these four drawings 71 are displayed. .
In FIG. 7A, when “01-07” and “01-13” in the adjacent position diagram 72 are indicated on the diagonal line by the cursor CU, as shown in FIG. 7B, “01” surrounded by the diagonal region is displayed. 4 including “−08” and “01-12” 73 “Drawing“ 01-07 ””, “Drawing“ 01-13 ””, “Drawing“ 0
1-08 ”and“ 01-12 ”in the drawing are displayed on the display screen 101, and the adjacent position diagram 74 of the index search unit 111 is also“ 01-07 ”and“ 01-0 ”in the four drawings.
8 "," 01-12 ", and" 01-13 "are switched to the adjacent display with the center position.

FIG. 8 shows an example of performing a continuous index search by scrolling the contents of the index search unit 111. FIG.
When the cursor CU is pointed to the position "01-07" in FIG. 8A, the adjacent position diagram 81 moves to the lower right as a whole, and as shown in the adjacent position diagram 82 of FIG.
07 ”moves to the center.

FIG. 9 shows an example in which an index drawing is displayed on the index search unit 111 so that a search can be performed for a target drawing while visually checking the outline of the drawing contents. By operating the mouse 207, the cursor CU is moved, and a command to select the “adjacent figure index superimposed display” icon in the icon area 102 is issued. In response to this selection command, the index drawing of the corresponding portion is displayed on the index search unit 111. FIG. 9A shows four drawings 91.
"01-22" and "01-18" with
Is designated on the diagonal line with the cursor CU, an adjacent drawing 93 surrounded by the diagonal region is displayed on the display screen 101 as shown in FIG. 9B, and the adjacent position of the index search unit 111 is displayed. FIG. 94 also shows “0” in the four drawings.
1-17 "," 01-18 "," 01-22 "," 01
The display changes to the adjacent display with “−23” as the center position.

In this manner, the target adjacent drawing can be searched on the adjacent position diagram showing the current display diagram and the adjacent relationship, so that the search operation time can be reduced, and the continuous drawing search can be speeded up and simplified. Can be achieved. Note that, regarding the icon area 102, “drawing drawing”, “drawing search”,
The case of "attribute search", "display of adjacent figure", "display of 1 figure", "display of 4 figures" and "superimposed display of index of adjacent figure" has been described, but other search items can be provided. Needless to say.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The current display drawing displayed on the display device is
In the immediate vicinity of the heart position
Different number of adjacent drawings depending on the number of divided drawings of the display drawing
Since surface information is displayed on a part of the display device,
Quickly and accurately find the desired neighboring drawing based on the displayed drawing
And can be easily searched . Also, adjacent drawing information
The report is a drawing number, and indicates adjacent drawing information.
Use to scroll the positional relationship between adjacent drawings.
Also, the outline of the drawing contents is displayed as the adjacent drawing information.
In order to shorten the search operation time of the target drawing and to
Drawing search can be simplified .

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a main part of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an overall configuration diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a relationship between a drawing configuration stored in a file device and a graphic coordinate position;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a hierarchical structure of graphic data;

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a positional relationship between adjacent diagrams.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for indicating a target drawing from an index search unit and performing a search process;

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a process in which a plurality of target drawings are simultaneously searched by an index search unit;

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of scrolling an index search unit to search for a target drawing.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example in which a search drawing is displayed on an index search unit and a target drawing is searched.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 101 display display surface 102 icon area 103 drawing display area 104 operation input unit 105 index display processing unit 106 adjacent figure management processing unit 107 graphic search unit 108 symbol definition unit 109 attribute search unit 110 display editing unit 111 index search unit 112 adjacent position management File 201 CPU 202 Main memory 203 File device 204 Drawing input device 205 CRT 206 Keyboard 207 Mouse 208 Data input device

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁶ Identification code FIG06F 15/62 P (56) References JP-A-3-150587 (JP, A) JP-A-61-7413 (JP, A) JP-A-3-125180 (JP, A) JP-A-61-290477 (JP, A) JP-A-1-140270 (JP, A) JP-A-64-40884 (JP, A) JP-A-63-92988 (JP, A) Grand Prix, 1 / 25,000, Road map of Saitama Prefecture, p47-48, Shobunsha (Showa 63-5) (58) Field surveyed (Int. Cl. ⁶ , DB name) G06F 17/30 G06T 1/00 G09B 29/10

Claims (10)

(57) [Claims] 1. A method for combining drawing information divided into a plurality of pieces into drawing layouts.
One or more adjacent locations
Switch to the number of divided drawings and display the drawing information
A method for managing drawings to be displayed on an apparatus, comprising:
Center the current display drawing displayed on the device
In the immediate vicinity of the
A different number of adjacent drawing information is different depending on the number of divided drawings.
A drawing managing method, wherein the drawing is displayed on a part of the display device . 2. The adjacent positional relationship of drawing information divided into a plurality of pieces.
File and sort the facility drawing information
One stored in the means and read from the file means
Or, switch to the number of divided drawings and superimpose the drawing information
A drawing management method for displaying on a display device
The current table displayed on the display device.
In the immediate vicinity around the center of the drawing,
Depending on the number of divided drawings of the current display drawing,
Displaying adjacent drawing information on a part of the display device
Drawing management wherein the. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein
A drawing management method, wherein the drawing information is a drawing number . 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein
By indicating the neighboring drawing information, the location of the neighboring drawing can be determined.
A drawing management method, wherein a staff is scrolled . 5. The method according to claim 1, 2 or 4,
Display the outline of the drawing contents as the adjacent drawing information.
Drawing management method comprising Rukoto. 6. A method for combining drawing information divided into a plurality of pieces into drawing layouts.
In addition, it is stored in the file means with the adjacent position relation,
One of the drawing information read from the file means
Is switched to the number of divided drawings and displayed on the display device.
A drawing management device, wherein the display device
Means for displaying the drawing information, and the display device
With the current display drawing displayed at
A division diagram of the current display drawing that is directly adjacent to the periphery
A plurality of adjacent drawing information of different numbers depending on the
Means for displaying on a part of the spray device;
Directly next to the current display drawing by instructing
A drawing management apparatus, comprising: means for searching for drawings that have a close relationship . 7. An adjacent positional relationship between drawing information divided into a plurality of pieces.
File and sort the facility drawing information
One stored in the means and read from the file means
Or, switch to the number of divided drawings and superimpose the drawing information
It is a drawing management device that also displays on the display device.
Means for displaying drawing information on the display device
And the current display being displayed on the display device
It is directly adjacent to the drawing center and its surroundings.
Number of neighbors that differ depending on the number of divided drawings of the current display drawing
A means for displaying contact drawing information on a part of the display device;
Steps for searching drawings based on the specified adjacent drawing information
Drawing management apparatus comprising: a stage. 8. The method according to claim 6, wherein
A drawing management apparatus , wherein the drawing information is a drawing number . 9. The method according to claim 6, wherein
By indicating the neighboring drawing information, the location of the neighboring drawing can be determined.
A drawing management apparatus, wherein a section is scrolled . 10. The method according to claim 6, 7 or 9,
Display the outline of the drawing contents as the adjacent drawing information
Drawing management apparatus characterized by doing .