JPH01205273A - Drawings managing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To promptly operate the title device without errors by displaying the guidance of operation input selection to display and to correct a facility drawings on a picture as an operation guide. CONSTITUTION:A display screen 101 consists of a mouse operating icon area 102 to select a function which retrieves and corrects the aimed drawings, a drawing display area 103 to display the drawing retrieved by a mouse operation, and an operating guide display area 104 to display the operation guidance according to the request of an operator. When the operation guidance to indicate the operation procedure of the retrieve, correction, editing, output of the facility drawings, etc., selects a command to start the operation by a mouse 207, it simultaneously displays on the same picture, and displays the part of the concerned processing contents of the current of the operating procedure by changing colors. Thus, an operating sequence can be known by watching the guidance on the picture, and the aimed operation can be promptly executed without errors.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a drawing management device for converting facility drawings such as water and gas piping systems, electricity and telephone wiring systems into digital information and managing the drawings.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, the status of facilities such as water, gas, electricity, and telephone piping and wiring systems has been managed using drawings drawn on paper or polyester film. At this time, if changes occur to the facility, the drawings will need to be revised. All drawing correction work must be done manually, which is problematic in that it requires a lot of effort and time, and the rate of errors is high. In order to solve this problem, it has been proposed to manage facility drawings by converting them into digital information, as described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 61-9667, for example. To manage facility drawings by converting them into digital information, a large number of facility drawings (topographical maps, system diagrams, symbol diagrams, etc.) stored in a file device are displayed on a monitor on a display device.

In addition, the correction work for the nine drawings is also displayed on the display device.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

When managing facility drawings as digital information in this way,
It is difficult for a person who is not a full-time operator to freely operate the device to search for, modify, edit, output, etc. the desired facility drawing, and it is desirable to display some kind of operational guidance. The operator uses operation input devices such as a mouse and a keyboard. When giving operation instructions using these operation input devices, it is difficult to know which icons to operate in which order, or which keys to operate in which order, which is a problem until one becomes accustomed to the operation.

The present invention has been made in response to the above-mentioned problems, and its purpose is to provide a drawing management device that can display the order of operations in different colors and simultaneously display operation guidance that explains the processing procedure.

[Means to solve the problem]

The present invention simultaneously displays the order of operations on the same screen when searching, editing, modifying, and outputting facility drawings, and the order of operations is displayed in different colors.

[Effect]

Operational guidance showing operational procedures such as searching, modifying 2 editing, and outputting facility drawings is displayed simultaneously on the same screen when the command to start the operation is selected with the mouse, and the corresponding processing content part of the flow of the operational procedure is highlighted in color. Change display. by this,
The order of operations can be understood by looking at the guidance on the screen, making it easy to perform the desired operation. Therefore, even if a person other than a full-time operator who is not accustomed to operations performs the operation, the desired operation can be performed without error.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a basic configuration diagram of a drawing management device which is an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 2, facility drawing data is stored in a file device 203. Facility drawing data includes graphical data such as topographic maps and pipeline maps, as well as attribute data expressed by a single character or numerical value, such as town names, personal names, management diameters, pipe types, etc., related to the graphics. The stored graphic data is input from a drawing input device 204 that scans a drawing written on paper at regular intervals and converts it into gradations according to the shading of the read data to obtain a digital image and obtain coded data. The facility drawing consists of multiple drawings as shown in Figure 3 (a), and the six graphic data that are divided into each to create a graphic data file are shown in Figure 3 (b).
) is shown in a Cartesian coordinate system.

The lengths Xo and Yo in the X and Y axis directions are determined by the drawing size. The data in these figures has a data storage structure in which roads, base frames, and pipelines are separated into layers as shown in FIGS. 4(b) to 4(d). Each layer of these data is superimposed as necessary to form graphic data as shown in FIG. 4(a). On the other hand, attribute data can be input using a data input device 2 such as a keyboard 206 or a floppy disk that can input data all at once.
08 to input to the file device 203. The operator operates the mouse 207 to display the display device (CRT).
) 205, the operator first operates the mouse 207 to move and designate the cursor CU to a function selection icon displayed on the CRT screen.

When the “read drawing” icon is designated, the central processing unit (CPU) 201 searches the file device 203 for the corresponding drawing data (graphic data and its attribute data) and temporarily stores it in the main memory 202 . The main memory 202 functions to store programs for executing processes such as searching and editing screen data and data being processed. The drawing data temporarily stored in the main memory 202 is stored on the CRT 2.
According to the effective display coordinates that are the display area of 05, the CPU
After the data is edited in step 201, it is displayed on the CRT 205.

The operator can know the target drawing content from this display screen. In addition, to understand the finer details, enlarge the part and display it. To do this, for example, the mouse 207 is used to move the cursor CU to designate an arbitrary rectangular area from the CRT display area at both ends on the diagonal line, and enlarge or reduce it to an arbitrary magnification. Specifically, a part of the corresponding drawing data stored in the main memory 202 is edited to be enlarged or reduced through the CPU 201 and displayed on the CRT 205.

Next, the operation guidance for searching the file device 203 for the target drawing, editing the drawing data, displaying it on the CRT 205, and modifying the display contents will be explained with reference to Fig. 1.6 Fig. 1 shows the main part of the embodiment of the present invention, and the CPU 2
2 is a diagram illustrating an example of an operation guidance processing section of No. 01. FIG.

In FIG. 1, a display surface 101 includes a mouse operation icon area 102 for selecting functions for searching and modifying a target drawing, a drawing display area 103 for displaying drawings searched by mouse operation, and a drawing display area 103 for displaying drawings searched by mouse operation. and an operation guide display area 104 that displays operation guidance. The display operation of the operation guide display area 104 is processed according to the following procedure.

Using the mouse 207 shown in FIG. 2, move the cursor CU, which moves in one-to-one correspondence with the operation of the mouse 207, to the icon area 102 on the display surface 101 to display the desired operation guide operation item. Select and command the icon. This selection command is sent to the operation input section 1 of the CPU 201.
05, the operation guide display necessity determination unit 109
Then, it is determined whether the selection command corresponds to the necessity of displaying the operation guide. If the determination result indicates that display of the operation guide is necessary, the operation guide editing section 111 edits the contents of the operation guide. On the other hand, if you do not need the operation guide display,
No operation guide is displayed.

The processing item-specific operation order storage table 107 stores the operation order for the processing items that the operator intends to operate, and the operation order creation processing unit 106 stores the operation order for each processing item in advance. Create to. An operation history indicating in what order the mouse was operated is stored in the operation history tracing unit 110, and indicates at which stage the operation is currently being performed based on the operation order storage table 107 for each processing item. The operation guide editing department 111
The operation history trace unit 110 extracts which processing item is currently being operated from the processing command group storage table 108, changes the color of the operation order of the corresponding processing item on the processing command group, and displays and edits the editing results. 112 and displays the desired operation guide in the operation guide display area 104.

FIG. 5 shows an example of display contents of icons for each operation item level in the icon area 102. The icon is selected by moving the cursor from among a plurality of functions for each operation item level. For example, if you select the "Read drawing" icon at operation item level 1, the next level 2
Then, the operation item corresponding to that icon is switched and displayed in the next icon area 102. At this time, in the present invention, the operation relationships of the icons for each operation item level are stored in the processing command group storage table 108 as a processing command group. The desired process can be executed by sequentially moving the cursor and instructing the icons for each operation item level in a predetermined order of operations. However, since the order of operations differs depending on the contents of the target processing items, it is often necessary to operate while checking the order using an operation manual or the like until the user masters the operations. For this reason, in the present invention, the order of operations for each processing item is stored in advance, so that if the order of operations becomes unclear, a guide to the order of operations can be displayed.

Next, the processing of the operation order creation processing section 106 will be explained using FIG. 6. FIG. 6 is an example of the configuration of a processing item-by-processing-item operation order storage table 107 that predefines the order of operations for each processing item. The operation order creation processing unit 106 stores the operation order storage table 10 for each processing item.
7, icon items for each operation item shown in FIG. 5 are sequentially stored in the operation order table in accordance with the operation order corresponding to each process item in the process item table.

Next, the processing of the operation guide editing section 111 will be explained using FIG. 7. Figure 7 shows operation guide display area 1 in Figure 1.
04 shows an example of the operation guide display. The operation guide display displays the selected icon contents for each operation item level as shown in Fig. 5, and the operation icon corresponding to the corresponding processing item is changed in color so that the icon selection to be operated next can be easily understood. It is. Operation guide editorial department 111
extracts the operation order corresponding to the current processing request from the processing command group storage table 108 and the processing item operation order storage table 107, determines the operation location given from the operation history trace section 110, and edits the operation guide. do.

Since there is a limit to the simultaneous display amount of the operation guide display area 104, when the order of operations cannot be displayed on one screen, a method is adopted in which the operation items are moved up as the operation progresses.

In this manner, when the order of operations is unknown, the user can easily perform the desired operation by displaying an operation guide of the order of operations corresponding to the processing item. In addition, since the stored contents of the operation order can be added and changed, even a new operator can quickly and accurately follow the veteran operator's operations by incorporating the operation order in advance.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, the guidance for selecting an operation input for displaying or modifying a facility drawing is displayed on the screen as an operation guide, so that even if you are not used to the operation, you can perform the operation without error and quickly.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing the main parts of an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is an overall block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 3 is a drawing structure and figure coordinates stored in a file device. 4 is a diagram showing the hierarchical structure of graphic data, FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of the icon display configuration, FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the configuration of the operation order storage table for each processing item, and FIG. The figure is a diagram showing an example of an operation guide display. 101... Display display surface, 102... Icon area, 103... Drawing display area, 104... Operation guide display area, 105... Operation input section, 106...
- Operation order creation processing unit, 107... Operation order storage table for each processing item, 108... Processing command group storage table, 109... Operation guide display necessity determination unit, 110
...Operation history tracing section, 111...Operation guide editing section, 112...Display editing section, 201...CPU,
202... Main memory, 203... File device, 204... Drawing input device, 205... CRT, 2
06...Keyboard, 207...Mouse, 208.
...Data input device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A first storage means that divides the facility drawing of the entire facility into a plurality of pieces for each management area and stores them as digital information, as well as storing attribute information for each figure, and divided facility drawing information to be stored in the first storage means. a data input device for inputting attribute information to be stored in the first storage means, and necessary divided facility drawing information and attribute information stored in the first storage means or the drawing. a second storage means for temporarily storing divided facility drawing information given from an input device, and displaying on a monitor a part or all of the divided facility drawing information stored in the second storage means, as well as the divided facility drawing information and attribute information. a display device, the positional coordinates of a divided facility drawing to be temporarily stored from the first storage means to the second storage means, the positional coordinates of the divided facility drawing from the second storage means to be displayed on a monitor on the display device, and the display device; an operation input means for inputting drawing correction information for correcting the displayed divided facility drawing;
The digital processing device is equipped with a digital processing device that controls each of these means and the device, and the digital processing device displays the divided facility drawing on the display device, and when modifying or editing the drawing, or giving interactive operation instructions on the display device. 1. A drawing management device having a function of simultaneously displaying, on the same screen, operation guidance in which the selection order of a group of commands instructing processing changes color for each operation.