JP2923707B2 - Drawing management device - 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 facility drawings such as water and gas piping systems and electric and telephone wiring systems.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, the situation management of facilities such as pipes for water, gas, electricity, telephones and the like, and wiring systems has been performed using drawings drawn on paper or polyester film. At this time, if a change occurs in the facility, it is necessary to correct the drawing. All drawing corrections must be performed manually, which requires a lot of labor and time, and has a high rate of erroneous writing. To solve this problem, see, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 63-25456.
As described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 5 (1994), it has been proposed to manage facility drawings by converting them into digital information. In order to digitize and manage facility drawings, a large number of facility drawings (topographic maps, system maps, symbol maps, etc.) stored in a file device are displayed on a display device on a monitor.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in searching for a facility drawing which has been digitized, a target facility drawing is searched and displayed from an index diagram, or a target facility drawing is searched and displayed from a town name, an address or a target. I was In particular, when searching for a target facility drawing from a landmark, as shown in FIG. 8, a list of landmarks is formed by character information such as a city hall, a police station, a fire station,. Had to search only by the name of this landmark. Therefore, when a user searches for a target facility drawing, the target
When the name by the character information of the object is not memorized clearly
Is unable to identify the target and searches for the desired facility drawing
I couldn't do that . SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and its purpose is to edit and display a list of target candidates by a map around a target or a photograph and to search and display a target facility drawing. It is to provide a management device.

[0004]

The object of the present invention is to extract a map or a photograph around a candidate for a target from facility drawing information to generate a sentence.
A target list display editing means for editing a list of target candidates as an index diagram together with the character information, and a target to be searched together with the target to be searched, and to search for the divided facility drawing information including the target from the selected and specified target. This is achieved by providing highlighting editing means.

[0005]

In a target object search process, when there is a start instruction from a user, a target object list display / editing means extracts a map or a photograph around a target object candidate from facility drawing information of a file device, Edit the list of landmark candidates along with the text information ,
A list of the target candidates is displayed on the display. Next, when the user selects and instructs a target target from a list of target candidates on the display, the target object highlighting editing means searches the file drawing for a facility drawing corresponding to the target object, and the target object to be highlighted. Also applicable
The facility drawing is displayed on a monitor.

[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, the file device 20
Reference numeral 3 stores facility drawing data. Facility drawing data
The data includes graphic data such as a topographic map and a pipe map, and attribute data expressed by characters and numerical values such as a town name, a personal name, a management aperture, and a pipe type related to the graphic. The stored graphic data is obtained by scanning a drawing drawn on paper at regular intervals, reading the data, inputting the drawing data from the drawing input device 204, converting the data into a gray scale according to the density of the data, converting the data into a digital image,
Consists of coded data. The drawing data is composed of a plurality of drawings 1, 2, 3,..., N as shown in FIG. Further, the graphic data is represented by a rectangular coordinate system as shown in FIG.
₀ and Y ₀ are determined. These graphic data are shown in FIGS.
As shown in (d), the data storage structure is hierarchically separated from roads, house frames, and pipelines. These data are superimposed on each layer as necessary to form graphic data 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 capable of inputting data collectively. In order for the operator to operate the mouse 207 to display a drawing on the display device (CRT) 205, the operator first operates the mouse 207 to move the cursor CU to a function selection icon displayed on the CRT screen. Move to specify. Here "read drawing" (not shown)
Is designated, the central processing unit (CPU) 20
1 retrieves a corresponding facility drawing (figure data and its attribute data) from the file device 203, and retrieves it from the main memory 202.
To be stored temporarily. The main memory 202 has a function of storing a program for executing processing such as searching and editing of a facility drawing and data being processed. Main memory 202
The drawing data temporarily stored in the CPU 201 is displayed on the CRT 205 after the data is 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 contents of the target drawing from the display screen. In order to grasp a detailed part, the part is enlarged and displayed. For this, for example, mouse 2
In step 07, the cursor CU is moved to specify an arbitrary rectangular area from the CRT display area at both ends on a diagonal line to enlarge or reduce the arbitrary magnification. Specifically, a part of the relevant drawing data stored in the main memory 202 is transferred to the CPU.
The image is enlarged / reduced and edited via the display 201 and displayed on the CRT 205.

Next, the configuration of a target search process for extracting an arbitrary area around a target from facility drawing information will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 shows a main part of an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a target object search process of a PU 201.
In FIG. 1, a display display surface 101 includes a mouse operation icon area 102 for selecting a function such as searching or modifying a target drawing, a drawing display area 103 for highlighting a figure combined by mouse operation, and a target. It comprises a target candidate list display area 104 for displaying target candidates at the time of object search. The mouse 207 is used to select a function from the mouse operation icon area 102 and the drawing display area 103.
Is used to indicate the position of the drawing displayed on the screen and to indicate the target candidate displayed in the target candidate list display area 104,
The keyboard 206 is used for changing attributes. Mouse 2
07, an input from the keyboard 206 is input to the operation input unit 111 in the CPU 201. File device 20
3, a drawing file 12 for storing the divided facility drawings
1. An attribute file 122 for storing facility detailed information is stored.

The target search processing for extracting an arbitrary area around the target from the facility drawing information is performed by the CPU 201 in the following procedure. This will be described with reference to FIGS. First, the icon area 102 is
Select "Target Search" from above. This selection instruction is input to the operation input unit 111, and activates the target search function of the target search control unit 112. Landmark search control unit 112
Activates the target list editing unit 113 and, based on target definition information such as the target name and the coordinates of the target on the facility drawing stored in advance from the file device 203 to the main memory 202 when the system is started, Information on the peripheral coordinates of the target is extracted from the facility drawing information of the drawing file 121 and stored in the main memory 202. The target list editing unit 113 obtains information on the peripheral coordinates of the target from the main memory 202, edits the target candidate, and creates a list.
The display editing unit 116 displays the target candidate list on the display 1
01 in the display area 104. Note that information on the peripheral coordinates of the target may be extracted from the facility drawing information in advance when the system is activated and stored in the main memory 202. FIG. 6 is a display example of a target candidate list. In the illustrated example, 〇〇 city hall, 〇〇 police station, 〇〇 fire department, 〇〇 elementary school, 〇〇 junior high school, 〇〇 high school, 〇〇 agricultural cooperative, 〇〇 bank , 〇〇 department store is a target candidate, and the bold frame indicates a map of the surrounding area. The number of target items and the size of the map can be arbitrarily changed. If the number of items does not fit on one screen, the next page is registered, and the page is changed according to a user's instruction. Further, it can be moved arbitrarily on the drawing display area 103.

Subsequently, a target object search process for highlighting the divided facility drawing information including the target object and the target object from the selected and specified target object is performed in the following procedure. First,
When a target target is selected and instructed from the target candidate list displayed in the target candidate list display area 104 with the mouse 207, the target candidate drawing search unit 114 searches the drawing file 121 for the corresponding divided facility drawing. Then, it is stored in the main memory 202. Target object highlight display editing unit 115
Edits the relevant division facility drawing in the main memory 202,
From the target definition information, the target coordinates of the target target on the drawing data in the main memory 202 are edited in a highlighted manner such as a round mesh display. In this case, instead of highlighting the target coordinates, the target figure may be highlighted and edited. The display editing unit 116 superimposes the target facility that has been highlighted and edited on the corresponding divided facility drawing in the main memory 202, and
01 in the drawing display area 103. FIG. 7 shows a target object highlighting example on the drawing data displayed in the drawing display area 103. In the drawing, the police station 強調, which is highlighted, indicates the police station 〇〇 in the target candidate list in FIG. 6 as a target target by using the mouse 207, and the water supply pipe a, the water distribution pipe b, and the road c are , A facility drawing extracted and displayed from the drawing file 121. d shows a map around the landmark 〇〇 police station. In the embodiment described above, an arbitrary area around the target is set as the map around the target, but a photograph around the target may be used.

[0010]

As described above, according to the present invention, the user
When searching for the target facility drawing, a map around the target
Alternatively, by using a list of target candidates in which a photograph is added to the text information, the target can be identified only by the name of the text information.
If you are uncertain, see a map or photo
Accurate and fast because it complements the specific uncertainty of the target
A desired facility drawing can be searched .

[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 processing flow;

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a display example of a list of target object candidates according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a target object highlight display on a facility drawing display.

FIG. 8 is a view showing an example of a conventional display of a list of target candidates based on character information.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 101 display screen 102 icon area 103 drawing display area 104 target candidate list display area 111 operation input section 112 target search control section 113 target list editing section 114 target drawing search section 115 target highlight display editing section 116 display editing Unit 121 drawing file 122 attribute file 201 CPU 202 main memory 203 file device 204 drawing input device 205 CRT 206 keyboard 207 mouse 208 data input device

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. An input device for inputting facility drawing data of an entire facility, a storage device for dividing and storing the facility drawing into a plurality of pieces, a display device for displaying a monitor, and a digital processing device for controlling these devices. In the drawing management device comprising: extracting a map or a photograph around the target candidate from the divided facility drawing information stored in the storage device, editing a list of target candidates as an index diagram together with text information , A target object list display editing means for displaying on the display device, a target object drawing search means for searching the divided facility drawing information including the target object from the selected and specified target object,
A drawing management apparatus, comprising a target object highlight display editing means for editing the divided facility drawing information and a target object to be highlighted.