JPH07334521A - Drawing processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate the registration of drawing, especially, the input of retrieval management item. CONSTITUTION:Drawing data is registered in a design support data base 1 connected to a network, and a work station 2 retrieves the drawing from the data base in accordance with the retrieval management item so as to refer to an image. When a work station 3 executes design by using drawing data which is referred to, the work station 2 automatically fetches the retrieval management item from data which CAP 4 preserves in the registration of the drawing to the design support data base to the CAP 4 preserving data related to the drawing which, was described in the past, and the manual input of the retrieval management item is eliminated.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a drawing processing system for drawing registration, retrieval and display in a design support database system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a design support database system, a large number of drawings of design elements such as functional circuit diagrams are registered so that a designer can retrieve a drawing and use it for designing.

As the drawings, drawings designed by CAD or the like or handwritten drawings (various drawings in image formats such as CPG image data, RLV image data, bitmap data, etc.) are used.

To search for the drawing, a search management item is registered in the system together with the drawing, and the designer performs the search by designating a part or all of the search management item. The retrieved drawing is displayed on the workstation screen or the like in the high-speed rough display mode or the detailed mode and used as a part of the design drawing.

Such a design support database system functions on a workstation connected to the network. Then, the workstation that performs the search and executes the drawing reference and the workstation that performs the actual design are connected by a network.

In addition, there are many data related to design support on the network, but they have not been directly associated with them in the past.

Under these circumstances, the search management items of the design support database system are manually input sequentially when the registrant of image data registers the image data.

For example, when describing the input of search management items for a standard submission drawing, there are, for example, seven search management items in total in the standard submission drawing, and the design data is registered as image data in the design support database system. In this case, the registration work is performed by the procedure in which the registrant takes out the item from the drawing or other document, inputs all the necessary search management items, and then registers the corresponding image data.

A screen of a registration editor used for registration is shown in FIG. In the drawing, an image file type such as CPG is selected and displayed in a region A, an image file name to be registered is displayed in a region B, and a selected image file name is displayed in a region C.

FIG. 8 shows a screen of a search editor showing how to specify a search management item during an actual search. In the drawing, a search keyword designation screen is displayed in area D, a list of search results is displayed in area E, and area F is displayed.
The contents of the drawing selected from the list of search results and its child drawing number are displayed.

Next, when there are a plurality of retrieved image data, as shown in FIG. 9, the image data reference screen is referred to other image data by using a page designation slide provided as an area G of the screen. .

Further, in order to change the image object to be referred to, once returning to the drawing search screen of FIG. 8, the reference object is reselected with the mouse or the like in the area E there.

[0013]

The conventional design support database system does not take full advantage of the fact that it functions on a workstation connected to a network, and in particular, data that is closely related to the system is networked. Despite being above, the data is not being used.

For this reason, tens of thousands of drawing data search management items must be manually input, resulting in poor registration efficiency and a simple work for the data registrant.
It is a very mentally and physically demanding task.

As another problem, in the retrieved image data reference, the page is designated by the page slide designation as described above, but when the number of pages is large, it is possible to slide to the vicinity of the target page at once. On the other hand, it becomes difficult to specify the target page accurately, and it takes a lot of work to move the slide many times to retrieve the target page.

Further, in order to change the search image to be referred to, the user returns to the search screen from the image screen, selects another reference drawing there, and obtains the image, which necessitates frequent window switching operations. was there.

As still another problem, in order to obtain the hierarchical information and the internal information of the retrieved drawing, each child drawing is newly retrieved based on the information of the child drawing number displayed as the retrieval result, Refer to the internal information.

For this reason, when the child drawing number is searched, the list data of the child drawing number information acquired by the previous search is lost. Therefore, in order to obtain the overall hierarchical information, it is necessary to always store a list of child drawing numbers (child numbers of child drawing numbers and information including the hierarchy information of the child drawing numbers). Furthermore, even if you try to grasp the hierarchy from a certain figure number at once, it cannot be done until all searches by the figure number are completed.

An object of the present invention is to provide a method for facilitating drawing registration, particularly inputting of search management items.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for surely facilitating an operation of referring to a target image from a plurality of retrieved drawings.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for facilitating acquisition of drawing hierarchy information including child drawings of retrieved drawings.

[0022]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is a workstation which searches for drawing data registered in a design support database connected to a network according to a search management item and executes an image reference. And a data storage unit that is connected to the network and stores data relating to the drawings described in the past,
The workstation is characterized in that when the drawing is registered in the design support database, the search management item is automatically fetched from the data stored by the data storage means.

Further, according to the present invention, when the drawing data registered in the design support database is searched and displayed as an image on the screen for reference, the searched image is displayed and the image / page designation button is displayed on the screen. For this button display, specify the image before and after the display image, specify the move to the front and the last page, specify the move to the previous and next pages, and specify the window start to specify the page to jump to. Is characterized by.

Further, according to the present invention, when the drawing data registered in the design support database is searched and the image is displayed on the screen, the drawing data search screen has an area for displaying the child drawing number of the searched drawing. A tree display designating means for displaying a hierarchy of drawings in a tree structure in the area and switching display to a drawing name or drawing number in the node display of the tree structure, and a child drawing number as a search result of the drawing number It is characterized in that a means for collectively retrieving a drawing number to be a list and a means for restoring the child drawing number list are provided.

[0025]

[Action]

(First invention) The search management items necessary for registering the drawing in the design support database are automatically fetched by using the data related to the drawing which the data storage means has, and the manual input of the search management item is unnecessary. To do.

(Second invention) An image / page designating button is displayed on the search image reference screen, and by designating this display button, the image displayed on the screen is moved to the next or previous image, and the page and page are moved. It makes it easy to refer to an image by allowing you to specify a number.

(Third invention) A tree structure display function is provided for a child drawing number list of a search drawing to facilitate understanding of the hierarchical structure of the search drawing. In addition, a batch display of the search drawing number list and a recovery function are provided to make it easy to grasp the child drawing numbers.

[0028]

1 is a network configuration diagram of a design support database system according to the present invention. The network is connected to a workstation 2 that searches for a drawing in the database 1 and executes an image reference, and a workstation 3 that performs an actual design.

In addition to this, as software having data closely related to the design support database system, CAP (C
computer Aided Production)
4 are combined.

The CAP 4 digitizes data for purchase arrangement prepared from a CAD drawing or a handwritten drawing described in the past and saves it as a text data file in a recording medium 4A such as a hard disk.

In this embodiment, the data of this CAP is dropped to the design support database side, and a part of it is taken out and used in the design support database system.

Table 1 below shows the CAP text data format.

[0033]

[Table 1]

As shown in Table 1, in the CAP text data, a child drawing number is stored in addition to the drawing type, work name, drawing name, data creator, and the like.

Therefore, in this embodiment, the data required for the search management item is automatically acquired from the CAP text data, and an object having only the search management item and having no image data is created. Table 2 below exemplifies the search control items for standard submission drawings.

[0036]

[Table 2]

Therefore, the retrieval management item data can be obtained only from the CAP text data, and the working efficiency is remarkably improved. It also reduces the mental and physical burden on the person who registered the drawing, which is free from simple work. Moreover, since the registration work can be entrusted to the machine, the number of operators can be reduced.

The embodiment shows the case where the retrieval management item data is obtained from the CAP text data, but this can be replaced with an equivalent data storage means.

FIG. 2 is a search image reference screen showing another embodiment of the present invention. 9 is different from FIG. 9 in that an image / page designation button is provided in a region H of the screen instead of the page designation slide (region G).

Of the image / page designation buttons,
Buttons H ₁ and H ₂ are for designating changes with reference to the images before and after the display image. Also,
Buttons H ₃ and H ₄ specify large jumps to the front and end pages, buttons H ₅ and H ₆ specify jumps to the previous and next pages, and button H ₇ jumps when the number of pages is very large. This is for designating the start of the page designation window.

Here, when the button H ₇ is operated, the page number can be designated and the jumped image reference to the designated page can be performed as shown in the window screen of FIG. .

According to the present embodiment, the image / page designating buttons H _{1 to} H ₇ on the search image reference screen are used to reliably move the images displayed on the screen to the preceding and succeeding images and to return to the search screen. Can be carried out on one screen without the need for the work of switching windows. Also, page jumps can be reliably moved by specifying the page number.

FIG. 4 shows a drawing search screen showing another embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, in the child drawing number information area I, in addition to the child drawing number, a collective search button I ₁ and a restore button I ₂ are provided, and a tree display button I ₃ is further provided.

The collective search button I ₁ is
The drawings in the searched child drawing number list are searched at one time, and an internal batch search is performed for the child drawing number list to which the internal information is referred. This enables the internal information search of the searched child drawing number.

The restoration button I ₂ enables the restoration of the previously searched list by its designation.

According to the designation, the tree display button I ₃ displays a tree with a drawing name or drawing number. As a result, the layers of the drawing can be grasped at once.

FIG. 5 exemplifies the tree reference screen, and the tree structure is displayed hierarchically by displaying the drawing name. FIG. 6 exemplifies a search image reference screen, and performs hierarchical display of a tree structure by displaying a drawing number.

According to this embodiment, the hierarchy of the drawing can be grasped at a time, and the node can be displayed in the tree by the drawing name or the drawing number. As in the conventional case, the user grasps and retrieves all the child drawing numbers. However, the effort of getting the drawing hierarchy image by himself is eliminated.

Further, when the search is performed to refer to the internal information of the drawings in the child drawing number list, the drawings in the child drawing number list which have disappeared can be searched in a batch, which saves the user's trouble and reduces the child drawing number. You can make effective use of the list.

[0050]

As described above, according to the present invention, CAP
The data required for the drawing search management items are automatically fetched from the data stored in the data storage means such as the above, and the drawing registration is performed. Can be improved. In addition, the data registrant can be released from simple work, and the mental and physical burden can be removed. In addition, the number of personnel required for registration can be significantly reduced by automatically registering management items.

Further, according to the present invention, an image / page designating button is displayed on the search image reference screen, and by designating this display button, the image displayed on the screen can be moved to the previous or next image, and the page can be moved or moved. Since it is possible to specify a number for page movement, the image reference operation can be performed reliably and easily.

Further, according to the present invention, the drawing data search screen is provided with an area for displaying the child drawing number of the searched drawing,
The area is provided with a tree display designating means for displaying the hierarchy of drawings in a tree structure and switching between the drawing name and the drawing number for the node display of the tree structure, making it easy to grasp the hierarchical structure of the retrieved drawings. Has the effect of

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a search image reference screen according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an example jump page window menu.

FIG. 4 is an image search screen of another embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a drawing tree reference screen.

FIG. 6 is a drawing search image reference screen.

FIG. 7 is a conventional drawing registration screen.

FIG. 8 is a conventional drawing search screen.

FIG. 9 is a conventional search image reference screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... Database 2, 3 ... Workstation 4 ... CAP

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A workstation connected to a network, which searches for drawing data registered in a design support database in accordance with a search management item, and executes an image reference, and data connected to the network and related to drawings described in the past. And a data storage means for storing
The drawing processing method wherein the workstation automatically takes in the search management item from the data stored in the data storage means when the drawing is registered in the design support database. 2. When the drawing data registered in the design support database is searched and displayed as an image on the screen for reference, a display of the searched image and an image / page designation button display are provided on the screen. Button display, image designation before and after the display image, movement designation to the front and the last page, movement designation to the previous and next page,
A drawing processing method characterized in that a window is designated for designating a page to be jumped. 3. When the drawing data registered in the design support database is searched and the image is displayed on the screen,
The drawing data search screen is provided with an area for displaying the child drawing number of the searched drawing, and in the area, the hierarchy of the drawing is displayed in a tree structure and the node name of the tree structure is displayed in the drawing name or drawing number. Tree display designation means to switch and display names,
A drawing processing method comprising means for collectively searching for a drawing number to be a child drawing number list of a drawing number search result and means for restoring the child drawing number list.