JPH087756B2 - Office design support system - Google Patents

Description

[Description] The present invention relates to an office design support system for supporting office layout design and the like, and shortens a time for displaying a screen to perform a layout simulation when arranging layout drawings. For the purpose of providing an office design support system that can be quickly carried out, there is provided an architectural drawing file that stores architectural drawing data of an office, and a layout drawing file that stores layout drawing data of the office. An office design support system configured to display the layout drawing data in an overlapping manner on a display screen of the office by drawing data, wherein the layout drawing file has a shape record for recording an office shape of the office. The shape read from the shape record Display can be configured to overlap the office shape to the serial the office of the display screen by the building drawing data.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to an office design support system for supporting office layout design and the like.

Expert systems including so-called CAD (Computer Aided Design) are rapidly expanding their fields of use, and in recent years, they have also begun to be used for office planning to realize functional and comfortable offices.

In the office plan, a space plan that calculates the required space according to the personnel assigned to the office or the equipment such as OA equipment to be placed, and the arrangement of fixtures and equipment for the architectural drawing of the office determined by the space plan It includes a layout plan to be carried out and a facility plan for planning electric facilities, information facilities and other facilities in the office, which are planned or carried out with the plan drawing as the core.

Therefore, a layout simulation is performed for various architectural drawings that are candidates for offices, and a wiring simulation for telephone lines and power lines is performed to determine whether a desired office can be obtained. There is a demand for an office design support system that supports a series of design work for creating a plan view so that even an unskilled person can easily and quickly perform the design work.

Therefore, the inventors of the present invention, in order to assist the office layout design, etc., on the architectural drawing (plan view) of the office displayed on the screen of the display device, the desk,
Fixtures and equipment such as chairs, lockers, and office automation equipment are laid out on the screen to create (plan view) of these layouts, and wiring simulation is also performed for telephone lines and power lines. We created an office design support system designed to create a plan (plan).

In such an office design support system, architectural drawing data, layout drawing data, and wiring drawing data for a large number of offices are respectively used as a building drawing file, a layout drawing file, and a wiring drawing file as a main memory or an auxiliary storage device. The contents of these files are appropriately displayed on the screen, and the layout drawing or wiring drawing can be placed on the architectural drawing in an overlapping manner.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention]

However, in the office design support system described above,
When laying out a layout drawing on top of an architectural drawing, the layout simulation requires a lot of time because of the large number of elements in the layout drawing.

That is, when arranging a layout drawing, it is necessary to perform trial and error by changing the arrangement position and the arrangement angle of the layout drawing depending on the primary arrangement, and to determine the most suitable arrangement and then perform the secondary arrangement. It is common.

However, the layout drawing contains data on a large number of furniture and fixtures, and it takes a considerable amount of time to display all of them on the screen, resulting in poor responsiveness.
Therefore, in the primary layout, every time the layout position or layout angle of the layout drawing is specified, the entire layout drawing is displayed. Therefore, it takes a lot of time to determine the optimum layout of the layout drawing.

In view of the above-mentioned problems, an object of the present invention is to provide an office design support system capable of performing layout simulation quickly by reducing the time for displaying a screen when arranging layout drawings. There is.

[Means for solving the problem]

The present invention, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, is shown in Figs.
As shown in FIG. 8 and FIG. 8, an architectural drawing file 21 for storing architectural drawing data 61 of the office 51, and the office.
An office design having a layout drawing file 22 for storing layout drawing data 62 of 51, and being able to display the layout drawing data 62 on the display screen 14a of the office 51 according to the architectural drawing data 61 in an overlapping manner. In the support system 1, the layout drawing file 22
Has a shape record RKO for recording the office shape 62a of the office 51, and the office shape 62a read from the shape record RKO can be displayed by being overlaid on the display screen 14a of the office 51 according to the architectural drawing data 61. Is composed of.

In addition, in the present invention, the office is not only an office as a working office, but also factories, hotel lobby and guest rooms, restaurants, theaters, hospitals, department stores, schools, condominiums, and other living spaces or architectural spaces. Etc. are included.

Therefore, the layout drawing data 62 includes data regarding all furniture and fixtures arranged in the target space.

In the present invention, the file or record means
It refers to a set of data that is treated as one unit.

[Work]

The architectural drawing file 21 is the architectural drawing data of the office 51.
Stores 61.

The layout drawing file 22 stores layout drawing data 62 of the office 51.

On the screen 14a, the office 51
The layout drawing is overlaid on the architectural drawing.

Shape record provided in layout drawing file 22
An office shape 62a representing the shape of the office 51 is recorded in the RKO.

The office shape 62a can be displayed by being superimposed on the architectural drawing data 61. For example, when the layout of the layout drawing data 62 is simulated by the primary layout, the entire layout drawing data 62 is not displayed on the screen. , Office shape 62a read from shape record RKO
Only displayed.

After determining the layout of the layout drawing data 62 by displaying the office shape 62a, the entire layout drawing data 62 is displayed, secondaryly arranged, or printed as appropriate.

〔Example〕

 Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an office design support system 1 according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of FIG.

The office design support system 1 includes a control unit 11, a drawing data storage unit 12, a display unit 14 having a screen 14a, and a keyboard 1.
5, a mouse 16, a printer 17, and the like.

The drawing data storage unit 12 is configured by a readable / writable storage device such as a RAM or a disk, and includes architectural drawing file 21 storing layout drawing data (building drawings) 61 for a large number of offices, layout drawing data (layout plan). ) 62 is stored in the layout drawing file 22, wiring drawing data (wiring route plan) 63 is stored in the wiring drawing file 23, and synthetic drawing data (synthetic drawing) 64 obtained by synthesizing these data is stored in the synthetic drawing. The file 24 and other files (not shown) are stored.

The display unit 14 includes a screen 14a such as a CRT and a control unit 11
The graphic data and the character data output from the display control unit 43 are configured to be displayed in color.

The control unit 11 is a RAM that stores drawing attribute data described later.
A storage unit for storing other intermediate data and the like, including an attribute data storage unit 41 consisting of, MS-DOS (registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation) that is an OS (operating system), CAD program, figure processing program, data management program A storage device that stores an interface program, other programs, and the like, a central processing unit that performs data processing based on these programs, and
It is composed of other peripheral devices and the like, and by these, a display control unit 43 for controlling the display by the display unit 14, an input function for processing an input command by the keyboard 15 and the mouse 16, and the drawing data storage unit 12. A CAD control unit 44 having a data read / write function, a storage function, a data processing function, a normal CAD function, etc. is realized in the control unit 11.

The architectural drawing file 21 stores data of architectural drawings including one or more offices, and is stored in the control unit 11
It is created directly using the CAD function, or created by inputting the data based on the existing architectural drawing existing as a hard copy. Therefore, the first
Although only one architectural drawing file 21 is shown in the figure, there are actually as many architectural drawing files 21 as there are architectural drawings.

The layout drawing file 22 and the wiring drawing file 23 are
The layout plan 62 and the wiring route plan 63 are stored, respectively, and are created by using the CAD function of the control unit 11 or by transferring the data created by another expert system. Therefore, in FIG. 1, one layout drawing file 22 and one wiring drawing file 23 are shown, but in reality, there are more files than the number of offices, and they have different file names. ing.

The synthetic drawing file 24 is a layout plan 62 in the architectural drawing 61.
Alternatively, a wiring route plan or composite drawing data 64 created by superimposing both of them is stored. The synthetic drawing file 24 also includes the synthetic drawing file 24.
A drawing attribute record 31 is provided for recording the data (drawing attribute data) of the arrangement position and the arrangement angle for the office stored in (i.e., the office included in the combined drawing 64).

The drawing attribute record 31 includes an office name NOF indicating the name of an office, an arrangement position HIT indicating coordinates in the X direction (horizontal direction) and Y direction (vertical direction) with the center point of the screen 14a as an origin (0,0), and Items such as the arrangement angle HKD are recorded, and there are the same number of records as the number of offices stored in the composite drawing file 24.

The drawing attribute record 31 is transferred and written at the same time when the combined drawing 64 is stored in the combined drawing file 24, at the same time. Also,
After the content of the composite drawing file 24 is read by the control unit 11 and displayed on the screen 14a, when the office is designated by the operator, the content of the drawing attribute record 31 for the designated office is read out. It is written in the attribute data storage unit 41, and the contents of the attribute data storage unit 41 are updated accordingly.

That is, the attribute data storage unit 41 is for temporarily storing the drawing attribute data of the same items as the drawing attribute record 31 for the office currently specified on the screen 14a. When the layout plan 62 or the wiring route plan 63 of a certain office is arranged on the screen 14a, the arrangement position HIT and the arrangement angle HKD for the office are written in the attribute data storage unit 41. As a result, the content of the attribute data storage unit 41 is constantly updated so that the layout plan 62 or the wiring route plan 63 displayed on the screen 14a has the same office name NOF as the wiring route plan 63. Alternatively, when arranging the layout plan 62, the arrangement position and the arrangement angle are automatically determined (automatic arrangement) by referring to the contents of the attribute data storage unit 41.
Therefore, when arranging the layout plan 62 or the wiring route plan 63 for the same office on the screen 14a, it is not necessary to re-enter the layout position and the layout angle, and
The layout plan 62 and the wiring route plan 63 are arranged at the same position.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining file names NFA of the layout drawing file 22 and the wiring drawing file 23.

The file name NFA is easy to handle in MS-DOS.
Common file name part NFK consisting of names of up to 8 characters and 3
It consists of a discrimination file name part NFH consisting of an extension within characters.

The common file name portion NFK is the same for the layout drawing file 22 and the wiring drawing file 23 for the same office, and is usually the same name or symbol as the office name NOF. That is, the layout plan 62 and the wiring route plan 63 for the same office are stored in the layout drawing file 22 and the wiring drawing file 23 having the same common file name portion NFK as the office name NOF of the office.

Further, the discrimination file name portion NFH is “LAY” in the layout drawing file 22 and “STB” in the wiring drawing file 23.
Each is defined, and the discrimination file name portion NFH discriminates whether it is the layout drawing file 22 or the wiring drawing file 23.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a structure of a record recorded in the layout drawing file 22.

Each layout drawing file 22 is an office name
It is composed of an office name record RNO that records NOF, an office shape record RKO that records the shape of the office, and a furniture fixture record RJB that records all the data of furniture and fixtures placed in the office.

That is, when the layout plan 62 for a certain office is created, the office name NOF is stored in the office name record RNO and the outline shape (outline) of the office.
Will be written in the office shape record RKO, and the data on the laid out furniture and fixtures will be written in the furniture fixtures record RJB, respectively.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the structure of the office shape record RKO.

The office shape record RKO has a record identifier S for identifying that it is an office shape record RKO.
IK, office shape code CKF indicating an office shape such as rectangle or L-shape, placement instruction position HAI indicating the placement position of the office, and vertex T indicating the position of each vertex of the office shape.
Composed of YO. And usually the vertex (X1, Y1)
The data is created so that the line segment from to the vertex (X2, Y2) becomes the main window surface 70 described later.

In the example of the office shape record RKO shown in FIG. 4, “T” of the record identifier SIK indicates “it is the office shape record RKO”, and the office shape code CKF
"10" indicates a "rectangle", and the placement instruction position HAI of "0,
"0" is the vertex "0,0" when arranging this layout plan 62.
It indicates that the position of the rectangle (that is, the upper left point of the rectangle) is specified, and "0,0", "20300,0", etc. of the vertex TYO are the positions of the vertices of the rectangle which is the shape of the layout plan 62. It is shown that. And from vertex (0,0) to vertex (2
The line segment reaching 0300,0) is the main window surface 70 (see FIG. 8).

Next, with the office design support system 1 configured as described above, regarding the operation or operation when the layout plan 62 is placed on the architectural drawing 61 in a superimposed manner on the screen 14a and the composite drawing 64 is created by this, Description will be made with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. 5 and various drawings shown on the screen 14a in FIGS. 6 to 8.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation when the layout plan 62 is placed on the architectural drawing 61 in an overlapping manner.

First, on the menu screen (not shown) displayed on the screen 14a, the operator selects the architectural drawing file 21 including the desired office 51 to be arranged from among a large number of files, and the architectural drawing is displayed on the screen 14a. Display it (step # 11). As a result, as shown in FIG. 6, the architectural drawing 61 including the office 51 is displayed on the screen 14a, and the operator confirms that the target office 51 is the screen 14a.

Next, the operator selects the file name NFA for the office 51 from the many files displayed on the screen 14a, specifies the layout drawing file 22 in which the layout plan 62 of the office 51 is stored, and displays the screen 14a. Confirm it above (steps # 12,13).

Then, the CAD control unit 44 reads the office shape record RKO in the layout plan 62 stored in the layout drawing file 22 (step # 14).

Next, on the screen 14a (screen shown in FIG. 6) on which the architectural drawing 61 is displayed, the operator inputs the layout position for arranging the layout plan 62 with the mouse 16 or the like to give an instruction (step # 15).

Then, on the screen 14a, as shown by the broken line rectangle in FIG. 7, only the office shape 62a of the layout plan 62 is temporarily arranged at the designated arrangement position on the architectural drawing 61. (Step # 16).

The primary arrangement means a state in which the data is not yet written in the frame memory of the display control unit 43, and the data in the primary arrangement can be easily erased or moved. On the other hand, the secondary arrangement (or main arrangement) means a state in which the data is written in the frame memory and it is not easy to erase or move only the data that is secondarily arranged. Usually, the primary placement attempts placement positions and placement angles, and after they are determined, the secondary placement is performed.

According to FIG. 7, the office shape 62 a of the office 51 is rectangular, and the office 51 is arranged facing the window surface in the upper center of the building space shown in the building drawing 61. Then, in order to indicate the arrangement direction of the office 51,
A portion of the office shape 62a facing the main window surface of the architectural drawing 61 (hereinafter referred to as "main window surface") is displayed in a different color from other portions. The main window surface is the main lighting surface of the office 51, and seats for the manager or the person in charge of the office 51 are often arranged along this. In FIG. 7, the upper side of the office shape 62a is the main window surface 70. The position of the office shape 62a in this case is specified by the position of the upper left apex of the rectangle, and at this time, the position of the office shape 62a is set to "0 degree" for the time being.

The operator confirms the arrangement position and the office shape 62a on the screen 14a (step # 17).

Next, when the operator inputs the arrangement angle, the office shape 62a rotates around the upper left apex of the rectangle according to the input arrangement angle, and only the office shape 62a is rotated according to the specified arrangement position and arrangement angle. Primary placement is performed (steps # 18, 19).

In the case of the office 51 shown in FIG. 7, the arrangement angle is "0.
Since it is "degree", enter the arrangement angle as "0 degree" or omit the input of the arrangement angle.
(Office shape 62a) is not rotated.

The operator confirms this on the screen 14a (step # 20).

When it is confirmed that both the placement position and the placement angle are correct at the stage of the primary placement, the CAD control unit 44 performs the secondary placement of the layout plan 62 and then the layout drawing file 22.
Office shape record RKO and furniture / equipment record R in
Read JB (step # 21). At this time, the designated placement position HIT and placement angle HKD are stored in the attribute data storage unit 41.

On the screen 14a, as shown in FIG.
Both the office shape 62a and the furniture / equipment 62b are displayed overlaid on the architectural drawing 61 at the arrangement position and the arrangement angle designated by the primary arrangement (step # 22). At this time, the layout plan 62 is secondarily arranged, and a composite drawing 64 in which the layout plan 62 of the office 51 is superimposed on the architectural drawing 61 is created on the screen 14a.

According to the composite drawing 64 of FIG. 8, in the office 51, a desk TBL and a chair CHA for the administrator along the main window surface 70 in the frame of the office shape 62a, a desk for general use in the central portion of the frame TBL and chair CHA, locker LOK on the side opposite to the main window 70, and other furniture and fixtures are arranged,
In addition, a locker LOK is arranged along the main window surface 70 and protruding outside the frame.

Next, by the operation of the operator, the synthetic drawing 64 created on the screen 14a is stored in the synthetic drawing file 24.
At this time, the drawing attribute data stored in the attribute data storage unit 41 is written in the drawing attribute record 31 of the same combined drawing file 24 together with the office name NOF of the office 51 (step # 23).

When arranging other offices 52 for the architectural drawing 61 displayed on the screen 14a (Yes in step # 24)
If you do not place the layout plan for other offices 52,
Alternatively, if the office is not displayed on the screen 14a, the process ends.

The architectural drawing 61 or the synthetic drawing 6 displayed on the screen 14a
4 and the like can be appropriately printed by the printer 17.

According to the above-described embodiment, when arranging the layout plan 62, only the office shape 62a is displayed in the primary layout, so that the response of the primary layout becomes extremely fast, and the layout plan 62 needs to be arranged. The time is significantly shortened, and the layout simulation of the layout plan 62 can be sufficiently performed to achieve the optimum layout. Further, since the color of the main window surface 70 is different from that of the other portions, the direction of the office 51 can be easily known even with the primary arrangement of only the office shape 62a. In other words, since the office shape 62a accurately indicates the shape and direction of the office 51, even if only the office shape 62a is displayed, it is possible to grasp the image when arranging the layout plan 62, and the number of elements. The display responsiveness is fast because the number is reduced.

In the above embodiment, the layout drawing file 22
Since the file name NFA of the wiring drawing file 23 is composed of the common file name part NFK consisting of a name within 8 characters and the discrimination file name part NFH consisting of an extension within 3 characters, the command of MS-DOS or These files can be easily searched and read by using a wild card or the like, but when using another OS, the common file name portion NFK and the discrimination file name portion NFH may be set accordingly.
Further, the common file name portion NFK may be the same as or different from the name of the office 51.

In the above-described embodiment, the office shape 62a is displayed on the screen 14a by a broken line, but can be various line types or thicknesses such as a one-dot chain line, a two-dot chain line, a solid line, a thick line, or a thin line. Also, by changing the display color, it is possible to easily distinguish it from other elements. The office shape 62a can take various shapes other than a rectangle, such as a trapezoid, a parallelogram, a circle, a polygon, and a combination of many of these. Also, the main window surface
Although the 70 is displayed in a different color from the other portions of the office shape 62a, the line type may be changed in place of or in addition to this. The configuration of the office shape record RKO may be a configuration other than the above.

In the above embodiment, the device configurations of the drawing data storage unit 12 and the attribute data storage unit 41 are arbitrary. It is possible to easily connect an input device or an output device other than those described above to the control unit 11 and the like.

The office design support system 1 described above has various system configurations such as a centralized host type, a distributed type, or a stand-alone type in which the control unit 11 is connected to other data processing devices or workstations via a communication line or the like. You can

〔The invention's effect〕

According to the present invention, when arranging layout drawings,
For example, the responsiveness of the primary layout is extremely fast, the time for displaying the screen is shortened, and the layout simulation of the layout drawing can be performed quickly.

Therefore, it is possible to perform a layout simulation of a layout drawing sufficiently to obtain an optimum layout.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an office design support system according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining file names of a layout drawing file and a wiring drawing file, and FIG. 3 is recorded in a layout drawing file. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the configuration of an office shape record of a layout drawing file, FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing the operation of the office design support system according to the present invention, and FIG. 6 is an architectural drawing. Fig. 7 is a diagram showing the displayed screen, Fig. 7 is a diagram showing a screen in which only the shape of the layout drawing is superimposed on the architectural drawing, and Fig. 8 is a diagram showing a screen in which the layout drawing is superimposed on the architectural drawing. is there. In the figure, 1 is an office design support system, 14a is a screen, 21 is an architectural drawing file, 22 is a layout drawing file, 51 is an office, 61 is an architectural drawing (architectural drawing data), 62 is a layout plan (layout drawing data), 62a is an office shape record, and RKO is an office shape record.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A construction drawing file (21) for storing construction drawing data (61) of an office (51), and the office (5).
1) The layout drawing file (22) for storing the layout drawing data (62), and the layout drawing data (62) on the display screen (14a) of the office (51) according to the architectural drawing data (61). An office design support system (1) capable of being displayed in an overlapping manner, wherein the layout drawing file (22) records a shape record (RKO) of an office shape (62a) of the office (51). The office shape (62a) read out from the shape record (RKO) can be displayed on the display screen (14a) of the office (51) based on the architectural drawing data (61). An office design support system characterized by this.