JPH05205003A - Drawing controller - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a drawing controller which edits and displays a list of target candidates decided by the peripheral maps and the photos of a target and then retrieves a drawing of a desired equipment to display it. CONSTITUTION:A drawing controller contains the input devices 206 (keyboard) and 207 which input the equipment drawing data on an entire equipment, a storing device 203 which stores an equipment drawing after dividing it into plural pieces, a display device 101 which displays the drawing on a monitor, and a digital processor 201 which controls the devices 206, 207, 203 and 101. Then a target list editing/display device 113 is added to extract the information (peripheral map or photo of the target) on an optional peripheral area out of the information on the divided equipment design charts stored in the device 203 and edits a list of target candidates to display it on the device 101. Furthermore a target drawing retrieving means 114 retrieves the divided equipment design chart information including the designated target out of this target, and a target emphasis display/editing means 115 edits the divided equipment drawing information and the target to be displayed with emphasis.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a drawing management apparatus for converting facility drawings such as water and gas piping systems, electricity, and telephone wiring systems into digital information and managing them.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, the status of facilities such as water, gas, electricity, piping for telephones, wiring systems, etc. has been managed using drawings drawn on paper or polyester film. At this time, if the facility changes, it is necessary to revise the drawing. All the correction work of the drawings has to be done manually, which requires a lot of labor and time and has a problem that the error rate is high. In order to solve this problem, for example, JP-A-63-25456.
As described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 5, it has been proposed to convert facility drawings into digital information for management. In order to manage facility drawings by converting them into digital information, many facility drawings (topographic maps, system diagrams, symbol diagrams, etc.) stored in the file device are displayed on a monitor.

[0003]

Conventionally, when retrieving a digital information facility drawing, the target facility drawing is searched and displayed from an index map, or the target facility drawing is searched and displayed from a town name, an address or a target object. It was In particular, when searching for a target facility drawing from a target object, as shown in FIG. 8, the list of target objects is formed by character information such as city hall, police station, fire station, ... Had to search only by the name of this target. For this reason,
It is difficult for a beginner or a person who does not have much local knowledge to identify the target visually and positionally, and it is difficult to identify the target. The present invention has been made in consideration of the above points, and the purpose thereof is a drawing for editing and displaying a list of target object candidates by a peripheral map of a target object or a photograph and searching for a target facility drawing. To provide a management device.

[0004]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The above-mentioned object is to extract the information of an arbitrary area around the target object from the facility drawing information and edit the list of target object candidates from the target object list display editing means and the selected target object. This is achieved by providing target object highlighting editing means for retrieving the divisional facility drawing information including the target object and editing it together with the target object to be highlighted.

[0005]

In the target object search process, when the user gives a start instruction, the target object list display / editing means extracts information of an arbitrary area around the target object from the facility drawing information of the file device to list the target object candidates. Edit and display the list of target candidates on the display. Next, when the user selects and instructs a target object from the list of target objects on the display, the target object highlighting / editing unit searches the file device for a facility drawing corresponding to the target object, and the target object to be highlighted. The monitor is displayed on the display along with the object.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 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 which is an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 2, the file device 20
In 3, the facility drawing data is stored. Facility drawing data
The data includes graphic data such as a topographic map and a pipeline map, and attribute data expressed by characters and numerical values such as town name, individual name, management aperture, pipe type, etc. related to the graphic. The graphic data to be stored is read by scanning a drawing written on a paper by scanning at a constant interval, is input from the drawing input device 204, and is converted into a digital image by changing the gradation of light and shade according to the light and shade of the data.
It consists of coded data. As shown in FIG. 3A, the drawing data is composed of a plurality of drawings 1, 2, 3, ..., N, and each of them is divided into a graphic data file. Further, as shown in FIG. 3B, the graphic data is shown in a rectangular coordinate system, and the length X in the X- and Y-axis directions is calculated from the drawing size.
₀ and Y ₀ are determined. These graphic data are shown in FIG.
As shown in (d), the data storage structure is hierarchically separated from roads, house frames, and pipelines. Layers of these data are superimposed on each other 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 keyboard 206 or a data input device 208 such as a floppy disk that can input data collectively. To display a drawing on the display device (CRT) 205 by operating the mouse 207, the operator first operates the mouse 207 and moves the cursor CU to the icon for function selection displayed on the CRT screen. Move and specify. "Drawing reading" here (not shown)
When the icon of is designated, the central processing unit (CPU) 20
1 retrieves the corresponding facility drawing (figure data and its attribute data) from the file device 203, and the main memory 202
Temporarily store in. The main memory 202 has a function of storing a program for executing processing such as retrieval and editing of facility drawings and data being processed. Main memory 202
The drawing data temporarily stored in the CRT 205 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 addition, in order to grasp the detailed part, the part is enlarged and displayed. To do this, for example, mouse 2
The cursor CU is moved by 07 to specify a rectangular arbitrary area from the CRT display area at both ends on the diagonal line to enlarge or reduce it to an arbitrary magnification. Specifically, a part of the corresponding drawing data stored in the main memory 202 is stored in the CPU.
The image is enlarged / reduced through 201 and displayed on the CRT 205.

Next, the configuration of the target object search process for extracting an arbitrary area around the target object from the facility drawing information will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 shows an essential part of an embodiment of the present invention,
It is the figure which showed an example of the target object search process of PU201.
In FIG. 1, a display surface 101 is 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 connected by a mouse operation, and a target. The target object candidate list display area 104 for displaying the target object candidates at the time of object search. The mouse 207 is for selecting functions from the mouse operation icon area 102 and for displaying the drawing display area 103.
Is used for designating the position of the drawing displayed in FIG. 2 and designating the target object candidate displayed in the target object candidate list display area 104,
The keyboard 206 is used to change the attributes. Mouse 2
07, the input from the keyboard 206 is taken into the operation input unit 111 in the CPU 201. File device 20
The drawing file 12 that stores the divided facility drawings is included in 3
1. The attribute file 122 storing detailed facility information is stored.

The target object searching process for extracting an arbitrary area around the target object from the facility drawing information is performed by the CPU 201 in the following procedure. This will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 5. First, the mouse 207 is used to display the icon area 102.
Select "Target Search" from the top. This selection instruction is input to the operation input unit 111 to activate the target object search function of the target object search control unit 112. Target object search control unit 112
Activates the target list editing unit 113, and based on the target definition information such as the target name and the coordinates on the facility drawing of the target stored in advance in the main memory 202 from the file device 203 when the system is started, Information on the peripheral coordinates of the target object 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 candidates, 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 the peripheral coordinate information of the target object may be extracted in advance from the facility drawing information when the system is activated and stored in the main memory 202. FIG. 6 is a display example of a target candidate list, and in the case of illustration, XX city office, 〇 police station, 〇 fire station, 〇 elementary school, 〇 junior high school, 〇 high school, 〇 agricultural cooperative, 〇 bank. , ○ Department store is a target candidate, and the thick frames indicate the surrounding maps. 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 item is registered on the next page and the page is changed according to the user's instruction. Further, it can be arbitrarily moved 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 by the following procedure. First,
When the target target object is selected and instructed by the mouse 207 from the target object candidate list displayed in the target object candidate list display area 104, the target object 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 highlight display editing unit 115
Edits the relevant facility drawing in the main memory 202,
The target object coordinates of the target object on the drawing data of the main memory 202 are highlighted and edited by a circular mesh display or the like from the target object definition information. In this case, the target object graphic may be highlighted and edited instead of highlighting the target object coordinates. The display editing unit 116 superimposes the divided facility drawing in the main memory 202 and the highlighted and edited target object on the display screen 1
01 in the drawing display area 103. FIG. 7 shows an example of highlighting the target object on the drawing data displayed in the drawing display area 103. In the figure, the highlighted ◯◯ police station indicates the ◯◯ police station in the target candidate list of FIG. 6 with the mouse 207 as the target object, and the water supply pipe a, the water distribution pipe b, and the road c are The facility drawing is extracted and displayed from the drawing file 121. d shows the map around the target police station. In the embodiment described above, the arbitrary area around the target object is used as the peripheral map of the target object, but a photograph around the target object may be used.

[0010]

As described above, according to the present invention, since a list of target object candidates is displayed by a peripheral map or a photograph of the target object, when the facility drawing is searched from the target object information, the target object can be visually or visually located. The target object can be easily identified even by a beginner or a person who does not have much local knowledge.

[Brief description of 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 an 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 hierarchical structure diagram 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 of the present invention.

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

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

[Explanation of symbols]

 101 Display Display Surface 102 Icon Area 103 Drawing Display Area 104 Target Object Candidate List Display Area 111 Operation Input Section 112 Target Object Search Control Section 113 Target Object List Editing Section 114 Target Object Drawing Search Section 115 Target Object Highlighting Editing Section 116 Display Editing Part 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

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An input device for inputting facility drawing data of an entire facility, a storage device for dividing the facility drawing into a plurality of parts, a display device for displaying on a monitor, and a digital processing device for controlling these devices. In the drawing management device having the above, a list of target object candidates is edited by extracting information of an arbitrary area around the target object candidate from the divided facility drawing information stored in the storage device, and displayed on the display device. Target object list display / editing means, target object drawing retrieval means for retrieving divided facility drawing information including the target object from the selected and designated target object, and target object emphasis for editing the divided facility drawing information and the target object to be highlighted. A drawing management device comprising display editing means. 2. The drawing management device according to claim 1, wherein the information on the arbitrary area around the target candidate is a map or photograph of the surrounding area.