JPH11203338A - Display method of component information on printed board and printed board design system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To display component information in a visible and easily understandable way at once, to easily confirm design quality and cost, to improve quality and to reduce cost by displaying information of components to be mounted on a printed board in the form of a three-dimensional shape, a surface shape, marks and characters described on the shaped surface and marks and characters to be described on the shaped surface of the printed board. SOLUTION: Information on quality, price, shape such as a DIP or an SOP, the number of occurrence of faults, etc., of the components is stored in a component information part 5. A display form is set when the component information is displayed in a three-dimensional shape by a display form setting part 6. Presence/absense of display of the component information is set by a display flag setting part 7. A printed board and components to be mounted on the printed board are converted by a display data setting means 8 into a programming language so as to provide three-dimensional display by a referring to arrangement information of printed board design data 1, external shape information of the board, external shape information of the components, the component information part, the display form setting part 6 and the display flag setting part 7.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for displaying component information and a printed circuit board design system, and more particularly, to a method for displaying component information of components mounted on a printed circuit board, such as a three-dimensional shape, a shape surface, and a shape surface. And the mark or character written on the shape surface of the printed circuit board.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a printed circuit board design system, components mounted on the printed circuit board are added with various information such as layout information on the printed circuit board, external information of the component, and the quality, price, shape, and number of troubles of the component. ing.

Such information can be obtained by referring to a layout information table, a component outline table, a component information table, and the like of printed circuit board design data.

[0004]

However, various information added to these parts cannot be referred to at one time, and it is difficult to see them visually and it is not easy to comprehensively grasp the whole. There was a point.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in consideration of the above-described problems, and it is intended to store the component information of a component mounted on a printed circuit board into a three-dimensional shape, a shape surface, and a shape surface of the component. By displaying the marks and characters to be written and the marks and characters to be written on the shape surface of the printed circuit board, the component information can be visually easily understood and displayed at once.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In a printed circuit board design system, component information of a component mounted on a printed circuit board is recorded on a three-dimensional shape, a shape surface, marks and characters written on the shape surface, and a shape surface of the printed circuit board. By displaying marks and characters that are displayed, parts information can be easily understood visually,
In addition, it can be displayed at one time.

[0007] Also, component information of components mounted on the printed circuit board is displayed by color and design on five surfaces excluding a hexahedral ground surface. This makes it possible to display the component information visually easily and at once.

[0008] One of the component information of the components mounted on the printed circuit board is displayed by the height of the hexahedron. As a result, it is possible to display the component information visually easily.

[0009] Also, component information of components mounted on the printed circuit board is displayed on a surface obtained by shaving eight corners of a hexahedron into a triangular pyramid shape. This makes it possible to display the component information visually easily and at once.

One of the component information of the components mounted on the printed circuit board is displayed by the inclination of the hexahedral ground plane.
As a result, it is possible to display the component information visually easily.

[0011] Also, the component information of the components mounted on the printed circuit board is displayed with a crown such as a polyhedron or a sphere on the upper part of the hexahedron. As a result, it is possible to display the component information visually easily.

Further, the component information of the components mounted on the printed circuit board is displayed by the transparency and texture of the hexahedron. As a result, it is possible to display the component information visually easily.

[0013]

1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of the present invention.
In the figure, 1 is the printed circuit board design data of the printed circuit board design system, 5 is the quality, price, DIP or SOP of parts.
A part information section that stores information such as the shape of the device, the number of failures that occurred in the past, the heat resistance temperature, the classification of digital or analog, and the presence or absence of socket mounting. A display mode setting unit for setting a mode; 7 a display flag setting unit for setting whether or not to display component information; 8 a layout information of the printed circuit board design data 1, board outer shape information, component outer shape information; Display data setting means for converting the printed board and the components mounted on the printed board into a programming language for three-dimensionally referencing the display mode setting section 6 and the display flag setting section 7; Is three-dimensional data display means for analyzing the three-dimensional data generated by the method and displaying the three-dimensional data.

The printed circuit board design data 1 includes arrangement information 2 for storing arrangement data of each component mounted on the printed circuit board, board outline information 3 for storing outline data of the printed circuit board, and the like. And the component outer shape information 4 in which the outer shape data is stored.

FIG. 2 shows a configuration example of the display mode setting section and the display flag setting section. Reference numeral 21 denotes a display mode setting unit. The display mode setting unit 21 includes a display item sequence for specifying an item to be displayed in the component information, a display mode sequence for specifying how to display the component information, and the component information. And a condition column for specifying a condition for displaying.

Reference numeral 22 denotes a display flag setting unit. The display flag setting unit 22 is constituted by a line for specifying whether or not to display each item of the component information.

FIG. 3 shows a configuration example of the printed circuit board design data and the component information section. In the figure, reference numeral 31 denotes arrangement information of printed circuit board design data. The arrangement information 31 includes a circuit symbol indicating a part identification code, a part number indicating a part shape, a position indicating the position of the part on the printed circuit board, and a part. X and Y coordinates indicating the coordinates of the component on the printed circuit board, and an arrangement surface indicating the upper or lower arrangement surface of the component on the printed circuit board.

Reference numeral 32 denotes board outline information of the printed circuit board design data, which indicates the coordinates of the outline of the printed board. In this example, the coordinates (X0,
Y0), (X1, Y1), (X2, Y2), (X3, Y
3) is shown.

Reference numeral 33 denotes component outer shape information of the printed circuit board design data, which indicates the coordinates of the component outer shape indicated by the component number. In this example, the coordinates of the four corners (X
0, Y0), (X1, Y1), (X2, Y2), (X
3, Y3) are shown.

Reference numeral 34 denotes a component information section, which is the quality and price of the component indicated by the circuit symbol, the shape of DIP or SOP, the number of faults that have occurred in the past, the heat resistance temperature, the classification of digital or analog, and the socket mounting. Information such as the presence or absence of the information is shown.

FIG. 4 shows a processing flowchart of one embodiment of the display data setting means. Hereinafter, the operation will be described according to this flow.

Step S401: Data for displaying component information in a three-dimensional form is extracted from the printed circuit board design data.

Step S402: The outline information of the printed circuit board is obtained from the outline information of the printed circuit board design data extracted in step S401, and is converted into a programming language for expressing the outline of the printed circuit board three-dimensionally.

Step S403: The arrangement information of the components and the outline information of the components are obtained from the arrangement information of the printed circuit board design data and the outline information of the components extracted in step S401, and the arrangement of the components on the printed circuit board and its outline are three-dimensionally expressed. To a programming language.

Step S404: Obtain information on the quality, price, and shape of the part, the number of faults that have occurred in the past, the heat-resistant temperature, the classification, and the presence / absence of socket mounting from the part information section, and how the part information is displayed. Whether to display or not to display is determined by referring to the display mode setting unit and the display flag setting unit, and the determined display mode and component information are converted into a programming language that expresses three-dimensionally.

Step S405: It is determined whether or not processing of all components mounted on the printed circuit board has been completed. If completed, the process ends. If not completed, the process returns to step S403.

By this display data setting means, the component information of the components mounted on the printed circuit board expresses three-dimensionally, for example, VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language).
e) Translated into a programming language. And this programming language is a three-dimensional data display means, for example, VR
The parts information is input by the ML browser and three-dimensionally displayed on a display or the like.

An example in which a printed circuit board is three-dimensionally displayed will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an embodiment in which component information of a printed circuit board is three-dimensionally displayed, and FIG. 6 shows arrangement information and component information of the printed circuit board in FIG.

The printed circuit board layout information and component information shown in FIG.
And a component information section 5 of components mounted on the printed circuit board.
Are reconfigured in an easy-to-understand manner corresponding to the circuit symbols. Also, the component outline is the components za0001 to za00.
06 is the same, the display mode setting unit is the same as the display mode setting unit 21 in FIG. 2, and the display flag setting unit is all display items of quality, price, shape, number of failures, heat resistance, classification, socket mounting, and general information. Is set to be displayed.

The part indicated by the arrow A in FIG. 5 displays the general information of the display form setting unit 21, and displays the number of components mounted on the printed circuit board and the total unit price thereof.

Next, za0001 will be described, and only the other parts za0002 to za0006 which are different from za0001 will be described.

First, the za0001 part does not have a crown display because the quality is not lower than D, and is displayed at a height of 10 mm because the price is 100 yen. There is no display of a chipped portion because it is not present, and the display is not transparent because the heat-resistant temperature is 30 degrees or more. Since the division is digital, there is no analog mark "~" and it is not displayed in red because it is not mounted on a socket.

Since the price of za0002 is 200 yen, the height is displayed as 20 mm.

In the case of za0003, since the number of failures exceeds 10, the missing part is displayed.

In the case of za0004, since the shape is DIP, the ground contact surface is displayed in an inclined manner.

Since the quality of za0005 is D or less, the crown of the star is displayed.

Since za0006 has a heat resistant temperature of 30 degrees, it is transparently displayed.

[0038]

The present invention is embodied in the form described above, and has the following effects.

Various parts information such as the quality, price, shape, number of troubles, etc. of the parts mounted on the printed circuit board can be displayed visually at once and easily.

Further, since the comprehensive information on the printed circuit board can be displayed at one time, the design quality and the cost can be easily confirmed, and the quality can be improved and the cost can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a structural block diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration example diagram of a display mode setting unit and a display flag setting unit.

FIG. 3 is a configuration example diagram of printed circuit board design data and a component information unit.

FIG. 4 is a processing flowchart of an embodiment of a display data setting unit.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example in which component information of a printed circuit board is three-dimensionally displayed.

FIG. 6 shows arrangement information and component information of the printed circuit board in FIG. 5;

[Explanation of symbols]

 5 parts information part 6 display form setting part 7 display flag setting part 8 display data setting means 9 three-dimensional data display means

Claims (8)

[Claims] In a printed circuit board design system, component information of a component mounted on a printed circuit board is recorded on a three-dimensional shape, a shape surface, a mark or a character written on the shape surface, and a shape surface of the printed circuit board. A method of displaying component information on a printed circuit board, characterized by displaying the mark or character. 2. The method for displaying component information on a printed circuit board according to claim 1, wherein the component information of the components mounted on the printed circuit board is displayed on five surfaces excluding the hexahedral ground surface by color and design. . 3. The method for displaying component information on a printed circuit board according to claim 2, wherein one of component information of components mounted on the printed circuit board is displayed by a height of a hexahedron. 4. The display of component information on a printed circuit board according to claim 2, wherein the component information of the component mounted on the printed circuit board is displayed by a surface obtained by cutting eight corners of a hexahedron in a triangular pyramid shape. Method. 5. The method for displaying component information of a printed circuit board according to claim 2, wherein one of component information of components mounted on the printed circuit board is displayed by an inclination of a hexahedral ground plane. 6. The method for displaying component information on a printed circuit board according to claim 2, wherein the component information of the component mounted on the printed circuit board is displayed with a crown of a polyhedron or a sphere placed on an upper part of the hexahedron. 7. The method for displaying component information on a printed circuit board according to claim 2, wherein the component information of the component mounted on the printed circuit board is displayed based on the transparency and texture of the hexahedron. 8. In a printed circuit board design system, when displaying a component information section such as a component quality, a price, a shape, the number of failures, a heat resistance temperature, a classification of handling, the presence or absence of socket mounting, and the component information in a three-dimensional shape Display mode setting section for setting the display mode, display flag setting section for setting whether or not to display component information, layout information of printed circuit board design data, board outer shape information, component outer shape information, component information section, display mode Display data setting means for converting a programming language for three-dimensionally expressing a printed circuit board and components mounted on the printed circuit board with reference to the setting part and the display flag setting part; and a three-dimensional image generated by the display data setting means. A three-dimensional data display means for analyzing data and three-dimensionally displaying the data is provided, and the component information of the component mounted on the printed circuit board is displayed in the three-dimensional shape of the component. A printed circuit board design system characterized in that the information is displayed by using a mark, a character written on the shape surface, a mark or character written on the shape surface, and a mark or character written on the shape surface of the printed circuit board.