JPH01257399A - Interactive arrangement method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To tell arranged parts from unarranged ones easily for easier operation, by treating the arranged parts as unarranged ones by a method wherein parts already arranged on a printed circuit board are transferred out of the printed board by a part transfer command. CONSTITUTION:This equipment consists of an input-output unit 1, a processing unit 2, a data storage unit 3 and a mechanism 4 to recognize whether the arranged parts have been made into unarranged parts. In the mechanism 4 to recognize whether the arranged parts have been made into unarranged parts, a unit 41 to transfer the arranged parts out of a substrate functions to transfer specified arranged parts out of the printed circuit board, answering to the input of a part transfer command and a unit 42 to make the arranged parts into unarranged ones functions to treat the parts transferred by the unit 41 as unarranged parts. This makes it possible to make the arranged parts into unarranged ones without using a command to make the arranged parts into unarranged ones. Also, an easy operation can be obtained by this method.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an interactive placement processing method, and particularly to an interactive placement processing method in which placement of components mounted on a printed circuit board is performed in an interactive manner between an operator and an input/output device. Regarding.

In this type of interactive placement processing method, when you want to change an already placed part to an unplaced part, you call the command to change it to an unplaced part, and under the control of this command, select and specify the already placed parts and change them to an unplaced part. It is made into arranged parts.

As described above, the unplaced parts converting method in the conventional interactive processing system has a drawback in that it requires a special unplaced parts converting command (which may be substituted for a parts deletion command). In addition, unplaced parts disappear from the interactive placement processing screen, or are stored together with other unplaced parts in the unplaced parts area of this processing screen, so unplaced parts are processed in both cases. It has the disadvantage that it is difficult to understand on the screen and therefore has poor operability.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an interactive placement processing method that can easily convert an already placed part into an unplaced part without using a command to make it into an unplaced part, and can also provide good operability. It is.

According to the present invention, there is provided an interactive placement processing method in which placement of components mounted on a printed circuit board is performed in an interactive manner between an operator and an input/output device, wherein means for controlling the movement of the already placed component out of the board in response to the board movement command of the component, and displaying the component moved outside the board on the display screen of the input/output device. An interactive placement processing method is obtained, which is characterized in that a display means is provided for displaying the printed circuit board, and components displayed outside the board are treated as unplaced components.

Lm name Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail using the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the invention.

The embodiment of the present invention includes an input/output device 1, an arithmetic processing device 2,
It is configured to include a data storage device 3 and an unplaced component recognition mechanism 4. The input/output device 1 has an input device 11 such as a mouse, and an interactive placement processing display device 12, and the unplaced component recognition machine jM4 includes a substrate moving means 41 and an unplaced component converting means 42. There is.

The input/output device 1 is used to input necessary instruction data (e.g., component movement command instruction, unplaced target component instruction, movement destination position instruction, etc.) to the unplaced component recognition device tfi4, and output the placement status of the component. This is the device.

These instruction operations are performed by the input device 11, and the output is displayed on the screen of the dialog arrangement processing display device 12, so that the operator can perform interactive processing using this display screen 12 and the input device 11. It has become.

The arithmetic processing device 2 is a small device that performs data processing necessary for the unplaced component recognition mechanism 4, and the data storage device 3 stores various data processed by the arithmetic processing device 2 and input from the output device 1. This is a memory that temporarily stores data sent to the input/output device 1 and data sent to the input/output device 1.

Unplaced component recognition I! The horizontal 4 off-board moving device 41 has a function of moving unspecified placed components out of the printed circuit board in response to input of a component moving command.

The unplaced component converting means 42 has a function of collecting the components moved by the substrate moving means 41 as unplaced parts.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the blocks in FIG. 1, and FIGS. 3 and 4 are examples of display screens showing a specific example of unplaced component processing for explaining the present invention in detail. be.

Now, when the display is displayed on the display screen 12 as shown in FIG. 3, it is assumed that mounted components 71, 72, etc. have already been placed on the printed circuit board 5. A case will be described in which it becomes necessary to unplace the already placed component 71 in this state.

First, using the input device 11 of the input/output device 1, select the component movement command 6 from the command menu displayed in advance on the display screen 12 (step 21), and then select the already placed part that you want to unplace. Parts (parts to be unplaced)
71 in the same way using the input device 11 (
Step 22), after selection, the process of moving this component 71 out of the board 5 is performed again using the input device 11 (
Step 23) If there are any placed parts that are not to be unplaced, the processes of steps 22 and 23 are repeated.

When there are no more placed components to be unplaced, the operation of the substrate moving means 41 ends (step 24).

An example of the display on the display screen 12 at this time is shown in FIG. 4, in which the component 8 that is desired to be an unplaced component among the already placed components is displayed in the outer area of the printed circuit board 5.

Next, unplaced parts 11! ll142, this mechanism 42 determines which of the parts 8.72 displayed on the display screen 12 should be treated as unplaced parts, as shown in FIG. Recognition processing is performed. That is, the parts 8 and 72 to be processed are sequentially extracted one by one (step 25). This process is actually performed by sequentially taking out the parts 8 and 72 from the data storage device 3.

If there is no part to be processed, the process ends, but if there is a part to be processed (step 26), it is determined whether this part is inside or outside the board (step 27). In the example of FIG. The component 8 corresponds to the outside of the board, and the component 72 corresponds to the inside of the board. If there is a board component 8, it is treated as one of the unplaced components (step 28).

As described above, according to the present invention, a component that has been placed on a printed circuit board is moved outside the printed circuit board using a component movement command, so that this component is treated as an unplaced component. Therefore, it is easy to identify unplaced parts on the interactive placement processing screen, and there is an effect that operability can be improved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the blocks in FIG. FIG. Explanation of symbols of main parts 1... Input/output device 4... Unplaced component recognition mechanism 41... Off-board moving means 41... Unplaced part means of conversion

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) An interactive placement processing method in which placement processing of mounted components on a printed circuit board is carried out in an interactive manner between an operator and an input/output device, wherein a command is given to move the already placed components on the printed circuit board out of the board. In response to this, there is provided a means for controlling the movement of the already placed component to the outside of the board, and a display means for displaying the component moved to the outside of the board on the display screen of the input/output device, This interactive placement processing method is characterized in that components displayed outside the board are treated as unplaced components.