JPH08202746A - Drawing registering method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To automatically and exactly register/preserve lots of drawings in a short time based on read registration information by temporarily designating desired hierarchical structure without being conscious of the hierarchical structure for each drawing unlike the conventional method. CONSTITUTION: This method is provided with a process (S1) for designating the way of hierarchical structurization, process (S3) for inputting plural drawings equipped with the registration information for specification and describing that registration information in a prescribed area for each size, process (S4) for reading the registration information from a prescribed area corresponding to the size of the input drawing for each input drawing and recognizing its registration information, and process (S5) for hierarchically structurizing and registering the input drawing as designated.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a drawing registration method for registering drawings for, for example, architectural design and water and sewage treatment facilities.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, a case will be described in which drawings associated with a water and wastewater treatment facility are registered in a desired hierarchical structure. For example, in the case of collecting required drawings (or newly created drawings) belonging to a certain division of construction numbers related to water and sewage treatment facilities and inserting and registering in a newly created file
First, after creating a new file, after accurately grasping the desired hierarchical structure, the required drawing is inserted and registered in a predetermined hierarchical layer below the desired hierarchical structure.

Specifically, the required drawings described above are input via, for example, a multimedia optical filing system. At this time, the file name, keyword,
Registration information such as drawing number, drawing name, revision number, etc. is written based on a specific format on the drawing to be input, so after the operator directly reads it from the input drawing with his / her own eyes, these can be read by the keyboard etc. It is necessary to input to the system via. Based on the read registration information, the operator then accurately grasps the old or new of the input drawing and the management status in the system, and then registers / saves the input drawing to construct the desired hierarchical structure. It is done manually.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional technique, when the drawings are registered / stored in a certain file, the operator needs to enter the multimedia optical filing system for each drawing to be input. It is necessary to perform the registration work by manual operation via a keyboard, a mouse or the like so as to build a desired hierarchical structure after accurately grasping and confirming the management status in the company and the registration information.

When the number of input drawings is relatively small, if the time is spent according to the number of input sheets, the conventional method can be used for hierarchical registration and registration. However, when registering a relatively large number of drawings, it is necessary to perform the above-mentioned work for each drawing, and the time and the amount of work required for it are enormous, which is accompanied by misunderstandings and lack of understanding of the operator. The probability of occurrence of a registration error based on the above, etc. is significantly increased, and there is a problem that highly reliable registration cannot be performed.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object thereof is to automatically register a large number of drawings based on the recognized registration information without being aware of the hierarchical structure for each drawing. It is to provide a drawing registration method that can be accurately performed in a short time.

[0007]

The drawing registration method of the present invention has the following steps in order to solve the above problems.

That is, in this drawing registration method, a step of designating how to make a hierarchical structure and registration information for specifying (eg, drawing name, drawing number, drawing revision number, creation date, etc.) And a step of inputting a plurality of drawings in which the registration information is written in different predetermined areas for each size, and for each input drawing, reading the registration information from the predetermined area according to the size of the input drawing, The method includes the step of recognizing the registration information and the step of registering the input drawing in the hierarchical structure as specified above based on the recognized registration information.

[0009]

According to the above construction, first, it is specified how to hierarchically structure the drawing collection (file) to be created based on the drawing to be inputted. Then, the following processing is performed on each input drawing.

That is, the registration information is read after the above drawing is input. At this time, these input drawings are not necessarily of a certain size, and the input drawings are
Generally, the registration information has various sizes, and the registration information is described in a predetermined area that differs for each size on the drawing. Therefore, for each input drawing, the registration information is read from the predetermined area corresponding to the drawing size, and the registration information is recognized.

Then, based on the recognized registration information, the input drawing is registered so as to have the specified hierarchical structure. The above processing is performed as many times as the number of input drawings. Thus, once a desired hierarchical structure is designated, the operator does not have to be aware of the hierarchical structure for each drawing as in the conventional case, and a large number of drawings can be automatically created in a short time based on the read registration information. Accurately register and save.

[0012]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The following will describe one embodiment of the present invention with reference to FIGS.

The drawing registration method according to this embodiment is, for example,
This is performed using the multimedia optical filing system shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 3, this multimedia optical filing system has an input device 1 for inputting multimedia such as drawings, documents and photographs. The input device 1 includes, for example, a color scanner 1a that scans drawings and documents and reads them in color, a monochrome scanner 1b that scans drawings and documents and reads them in black and white, a digital camera 1c, and an industrial television camera 1d. I have it.

In addition, the multimedia optical filing system has a keyboard 3 for inputting numerical values and various commands.
And mouse 4 and CRT for displaying various results
A (Cathode Ray Tube) 2 and an output device 6 for outputting the result or the like as an electric signal are provided. Examples of the output device 6 include a color printer.

The multimedia optical filing system includes a storage device 7 for storing data as needed.
have. For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the storage device 7 includes a magnetic recording medium 7a such as a hard disk and a magneto-optical recording medium 7b such as a magneto-optical disk, and is properly used depending on the application.

The multimedia optical filing system has a workstation 5 for performing various processes. The input device 1, the CRT 2, the keyboard 3, the mouse 4, the output device 6 and the storage device 7 are included in the workstation 5. Respectively connected to. By exchanging information between the devices connected in this manner, desired processing is executed.

The workstation 5 is connected to the communication line 8 via a transceiver 9, and when a failure or the like is detected by a central supervisory control system (not shown), the workstation 5 is transmitted via the transceiver 10 and the transceiver 9. 5 will be notified. In this case, the workstation 5 displays devices, parts, instruction manuals, etc. that may cause a failure on the CRT 2 or prints out by a color printer.

A drawing registration method when the multimedia optical filing system having the above configuration is used will be described below with reference to FIG.

First, an operator designates how to hierarchically structure a drawing collection (file) to be created based on a drawing to be inputted (rule base), and the rule base is opened via the keyboard 3 or the mouse 4. It is input and created (S1). For example, as the rule base, there is a hierarchical structure in which input drawings are rearranged in the order of oldest creation date, and a hierarchical structure in which an input drawing is always located at the top level. The rule base of the present invention is not limited to these, and any hierarchical structure can be the target.

The above-mentioned drawings have a fixed format, and the area (area on the drawing in which the above-mentioned construction number, file name, and keyword are described) that needs to be read for registration is determined (for each drawing size). A template is created) (S2). Registration information is extracted by this template. It should be noted that the template is created for each drawing size not only when the input drawing is of a certain size, but also in general that the input drawing is of various sizes and the registration information is described in a predetermined area that differs for each size. Therefore, it is necessary to extract the registration information from the predetermined area corresponding to the drawing size for each input drawing.

The template means a software process, and may be created in advance at the time of shipping the system (in this case, the step S2 can be omitted).
However, it may be appropriately created by the user. In any case,
It can be properly read based on the paper size of the input drawing, information indicating vertical writing and horizontal writing, and the like. For example, the format of the input drawing may be read and a template corresponding to the format may be retrieved from a storage device (not shown).

For example, when a file relating to the construction of a water and sewage treatment facility is created, a construction number is used as a directory, a drawing name, a drawing number, and a drawing revision number are used as file names, and the date of creation of the drawing is used as a keyword. Character strings (including numbers) of these registration information are extracted by the template.

The following processing is performed on each input drawing. That is, the first drawing is input by the input device 1 (S3). After the character string of the registration information is extracted from the predetermined area of the input drawing by the template, the character recognition is performed by the workstation 5 and converted into text data (S4). The character recognition may be performed by hardware or a neural network, for example.

The text data serves as an identification name in a hierarchical structure based on the specified rule base, and the inputted drawing is stored and managed under the hierarchy. That is,
Directory, filename, based on text data
Keywords and the like are acquired, and the input drawing is registered and stored under the hierarchical structure (S5). In S5, as will be described later, the file name is registered according to the rule base, and if it is given as a keyword in the rule base, it is registered as a keyword.

Then, the flow shifts to S3 to input the second drawing, and thereafter, the same processing as described above is executed. The above processing is performed as many times as the number of input drawings (S6). With this, once a desired rule base is created, a large amount of drawings can be automatically created in a short time based on the read registration information without the operator having to be aware of hierarchical structure for each drawing as in the conventional case. Accurately register and save.

Here, the hierarchical structure of the input drawing based on the rule base in S5 will be described below with reference to FIG. 2 by taking an example of replacing an old drawing with a new drawing.

First, the obtained directory (for example, construction number), file name (for example, drawing name, drawing number, drawing revision number), keyword (for example, date of creation), vertical writing or horizontal writing of the input drawing. Whether or not the input drawing is a new drawing is determined on the basis of the information regarding the information (S1)
1). As a result of the determination, if the drawing is not the new drawing but the old drawing (drawing requiring replacement registration), the process proceeds to S12, the registration of the old drawing is deleted (S12), and then the new drawing is registered (S13). On the other hand, if it is determined in S11 that the drawing is a new drawing, the process proceeds to S13 and is registered as a new drawing. The acquired file name and keyword are assigned to the drawings thus registered and registered (S14, S15). Then, after the input drawing is hierarchically structured based on the rule base, the process proceeds to S6, and the above-described processing is repeated.

When it is determined in S12 and S13 that the input drawing is the old drawing, the old drawing may be discarded and only the latest drawing may remain. By doing this, it is possible to always register and save only the latest drawings in a file for a huge amount of drawings accumulated over time. By the way, in this case, the old drawing may be saved without being discarded. These can be arbitrarily rule-based by the operator's free choice.

Further, although the drawings have been described in the above embodiments as objects to be hierarchically structured, the present invention is not limited to this, and may be, for example, documents, photographs, images and the like. Basically, the registration information may be described in a predetermined format.

[0030]

As described above, the drawing registration method of the present invention has a step of designating how to make a hierarchical structure and registration information for specifying, and the registration information is different for each size. The step of inputting a plurality of drawings described in the area, the step of reading the registration information from the predetermined area corresponding to the size of the input drawing for each input drawing, and recognizing the registration information are recognized. Based on the registration information, the input drawing is hierarchically structured as specified above and registered.

Therefore, once a desired hierarchical structure is designated, a large amount of information can be automatically created in a short time based on the read registration information without paying attention to the hierarchical structure for each drawing as in the prior art. This has the effect of accurately registering and saving drawings.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing an operation of a drawing registration method of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation example of hierarchical structure of an input drawing based on the rule base in FIG.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration example of a multimedia optical filing system used in the drawing registration method of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 input device 2 CRT 3 keyboard 4 mouse 5 workstation 6 output device 7 storage device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A process of designating how to make a hierarchical structure, and inputting a plurality of drawings having registration information for specifying and having the registration information described in a predetermined area different for each size. A step of reading the registration information from the predetermined area corresponding to the size of the input drawing for each input drawing, and recognizing the registration information; and the input drawing having been designated based on the recognized registration information. A method for registering a drawing, which comprises the steps of: