JPH07302276A - Supporting system for tool layout drawing preparation - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To substantially efficiently prepare a tool layout drawing by displaying retrieved tool frame symbols in a list at the outside of a drawing frame, selecting an optional tool frame symbol from the tool frame symbols displayed in the list and laying out the selected tool frame symbol at an optional position inside a layout area. CONSTITUTION:A layout area frame is prepared by a layout area frame preparation part 21, a tool layout basic drawing preparation part 22 retrieves the tool frame symbols from a tool frame symbol library 24 with electrical equipment codes from the parts information file 23 of an electrical circuit diagram as keys and all the retrieved ones are displayed. A tool layout drawing preparation part 25 arbitrarily picks up the tool frame symbols from a tool layout basic drawing and successively lays them out in a panel layed out inside the layout area inside the drawing frame. Thus, the tool layout drawing is extremely easily prepared and the efficiency of the preparation operation of the tool layout drawing is substantially improved.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a tool layout drawing creation support system for supporting creation of tool layout drawings necessary for board design and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In conventional board design, C of a terminal is used.
The device layout drawing is created by individually calling and arranging the devices necessary for the drawing displayed on the AD design screen from the library.

[0003]

However, in such a conventional method of creating a device layout drawing, it is necessary to call up the devices one by one, so that an extremely complicated work is required, and a great deal of labor and effort is required to create the device layout drawing. There is the problem of spending time. The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and provides an appliance layout drawing creation support system capable of significantly improving the efficiency of creating the appliance layout drawing necessary for board design and the like. The purpose is to

[0004]

A tool layout drawing preparation support system of the present invention for achieving the above object is a tool layout drawing creation support system for supporting creation of a tool layout drawing necessary for a board design or the like. Then, a placement area creating means for creating a placement area frame indicating the placement area of the equipment frame, a tool frame symbol library in which tool frame symbols indicating the outer shapes of a number of tool frames are recorded in association with the component information, and the tool frame A device frame symbol searching means for searching a device frame symbol necessary for creating a device layout drawing from the symbol library using the part information as a key, and a device frame symbol searched by the device frame symbol searching means are listed outside the drawing frame. A list display means for displaying, and a selection means for selecting an arbitrary equipment frame symbol from the equipment frame symbols displayed by the list display means, It is characterized in that the selected instrument frame symbols including a tool frame arranging unit located at any position in the arrangement region by the selection means.

The tool layout drawing creation support system of the present invention further includes a hole drilling symbol library in which hole drilling symbols indicating the positions of holes in each tool frame are recorded in association with the corresponding tool frame symbols, and this hole drilling symbol. A hole drilling symbol search means for searching a hole drilling symbol from the library using information on an arbitrary tool frame, and a hole drilling symbol for displaying the hole drilling symbol searched by the hole drilling symbol search means in association with the tool frame symbol. It is desirable to provide a display unit so that the hole drilling data of the device frame can be displayed together with the device frame symbol in the arrangement area frame.

[0006]

As described above, in the appliance layout drawing creation support system according to the present invention, the layout area creating means creates a layout area frame indicating the layout area of the appliance frame on the screen of the system. The device frame symbol searching means searches for a necessary device frame symbol from the device frame symbol library. The list display means displays a list of the retrieved appliance frame symbols outside the arrangement area frame. The selecting means selects an arbitrary device frame symbol from the device frame symbols displayed in the list.
The device frame placement means assigns the selected device frame symbol to
It is arranged at an arbitrary position within the arrangement area.

In the tool layout drawing creation support system of the present invention, the hole drilling symbol searching means searches the hole drilling symbol library for a hole drilling symbol using the information of an arbitrary tool frame as a key. Also, the hole machining symbol display means is
The retrieved hole drilling symbol is displayed in association with the device frame symbol. Thereby, in the drawing frame,
It becomes possible to display the drilling data of the device frame together with the device frame symbol.

The operation of the present invention will now be described with reference to the conceptual diagram of FIG. In order to create a device layout drawing for use in board design, etc. using the device layout drawing creation support system according to the present invention, the designer first uses the drawing frame creation unit 21 of FIG. An arrangement area frame indicating the arrangement area of the instrument frame is created. Then, the device layout basic diagram creating unit 22 stores the necessary devices recorded in a parts information file in which information on the devices of the electric circuit diagram (part information such as product number, device code, abbreviation code, and electrical equipment code) is stored. Using the component information (for example, electrical equipment code) as a key, the device frame symbol library (library in which the device frame symbols are stored in association with predetermined component information) 24 is searched for a corresponding device frame symbol, and those device frames are searched. List all (or some) of the symbols. As a result, a basic device layout diagram is created. Equipment layout drawing creation unit 2
5 picks up necessary ones from the device frame symbols listed in the device arrangement basic diagram, arranges them at any position in the arrangement region frame, and repeats this operation. Create a device layout diagram, very efficiently.

[0009]

The present invention will be described below with reference to the illustrated embodiments. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the outline of the hardware configuration of the device layout drawing creation support system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

This system comprises a central processing unit (CPU)
1 is provided as the central device. It is desirable to use a so-called workstation as the CPU 1, but an optimum one is selected according to the management scale and the data amount. The CPU 1 is provided with a keyboard 2 for inputting data and instructions for creating a device layout diagram or a basic device layout diagram (described later), inputting positional information on the screen, and designating icons on the screen. A mouse 3 and the like are connected as an input device. Further, the CPU 1 has a display for displaying an arrangement area frame for arranging an instrument, a panel, a drawing frame, an instrument frame symbol, an instrument layout drawing, etc., preferably a CRT 4, and the drawing frame, the instrument frame symbol, A printer 5 for outputting a device layout drawing or the like as a hard copy is connected as an output device.

The CPU 1 is also connected to a hard disk 6 for storing a device layout drawing preparation program and data necessary for the processing. The database stored on the hard disk 6 includes a master file and a transaction file. The master file includes, for example, a modification information library that stores part information (modification information) such as product numbers and device codes for many electric parts, a large number of symbols indicating electric parts such as resistors and capacitors, and a large number of these symbols. A symbol configuration point library in which the configuration points corresponding to the respective symbols are stored in association with each other is included.

Further, particularly in the present embodiment, the instrument frame symbol library is recorded as one of the master files of this database. This equipment frame symbol library has a large number of various equipment such as circuit breakers, switches, relays, timers, transformers, meters, fuses, displays, resistors, capacitors, semiconductors, rotating machines, units, auxiliary electric appliances, etc. The device frame symbol indicating the device frame is stored in association with the component information (modification information) of the device frame.
In this case, the part information (modification information) stored in association with the device frame symbol includes the model abbreviation code, manufacturer name, electrical equipment code (one of identification codes), device code, product number, reference point ( Input buttons when attaching the equipment frame to the distribution diagram), and configuration points. Further, in the device frame symbol library, a hole drilling symbol indicating position data for hole drilling for each device frame,
It is accumulated while being associated with each of the appliance frame symbols and each of the component information.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining this instrument frame symbol library. This FIG. 3 displays the table of table number 151 in the same library.
In FIG. 3A, reference numeral 11 is a model type reference numeral, 12
Is a manufacturer name, 13 is an instrument frame symbol, 14 is a hole machining symbol, 15 is an instrument frame symbol number (odd number), and 16 is a hole machining symbol number (even number). Also, FIG. 3 (b)
FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of the device frame symbol 13 described above. Further, FIG. 3C is an enlarged view of the hole machining symbol. In the device frame symbol library of this embodiment, the device frame symbol numbers are odd numbers, and the hole drilling symbol numbers are even numbers. Further, the device frame symbol 13 and the hole drilling symbol 14 can be separately displayed on the screen, but as shown in FIG. 3A, both can be displayed on the screen in a superimposed manner. Reference numerals 17 in FIGS. 3B and 3C indicate constituent points (auxiliary points for determining the entry position of component information such as the instrument code to be entered for each individual instrument frame symbol). In the present embodiment, the hard disk 6 of FIG. 1 stores, as a transaction file, an electric circuit diagram file in which data of an electric circuit diagram created on the screen is stored, and component information extracted from the electric circuit diagram data. It includes parts information files to be stored.

Next, the arrangement area frame creating section 2 described above with reference to FIG.
1 will be described. The placement area frame creation unit 21 is for creating a placement area frame for creating a device layout drawing and a device layout basic drawing (described later) on the terminal screen. When creating the placement area frame by the placement area frame creation unit 21, first, a drawing frame 31 as shown in FIG.
On the screen. Next, in this drawing frame 31, as shown in FIG. 5B, an arrangement area frame 32 for creating an area for arranging the device is created. This arrangement area frame is not limited to the rectangular arrangement area frame 32 as shown in FIG.
There may be various shapes such as a polygonal arrangement area frame 33 as shown in FIG. Further, in the present embodiment, after the arrangement area frame 32 is created, the panel 34 as shown in FIG. 5A is drawn in the arrangement area frame 32. A mounting hole 35 of the panel 34 can be drawn in the panel 34. Further, in this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 5C, a plurality of panels 34, 37, 3 are arranged in the arrangement area frame 32.
When 8 is arranged, each panel 34, 37, 38 can be colored with a different color.

Next, the instrument layout basic drawing creating unit 22 of FIG. 1 will be described. In the present embodiment, the arrangement area frame 32 described above is used.
A device layout basic diagram for displaying a list of device frame symbols for all (or part of) the devices used in the electrical circuit diagram is provided on the outside (particularly outside the drawing frame 31 in the present embodiment). Can be created. Here, the "apparatus basic layout" referred to in the present embodiment is a drawing frame shown on the screen and a list of the device frame symbols to which the device code and the device outline code are added at positions outside thereof. , The displayed drawing. FIG. 6 is a view showing the basic arrangement of the device. That is, as shown in FIG. 6, a drawing frame indicated by reference numeral 31 is displayed on the terminal screen, and an instrument frame symbol indicated by reference numeral 41 (abbreviated as “instrument” in this FIG. 6) is displayed above the frame. 42) (abbreviated as “apparatus list” in FIG. 6). In FIG. 6, the device 42 displayed in the device list 41 is a device frame symbol, a device code, and a code that are integrated (that is, a device frame symbol, a device code, and a code). Are recorded in association with each other, except that the symbols are not displayed in the device list 41 as a display).

When creating this equipment layout basic diagram, mainly, a part information file (file in which product number, equipment code, abbreviation code, electrical equipment code, etc. are recorded) extracted from electric circuit diagram data, and the equipment Two files are used, a frame symbol library. In the present embodiment, the device layout basic drawing creation unit 22 uses the electrical device code from the part information file as a key to generate a corresponding device frame symbol (device code and abbreviated code are integrated from the device frame symbol library). Objects), and all the searched items are displayed as a device list 41 as shown in FIG. In the device frame symbol library of the present embodiment, not only the outline drawing (symbol) of the device but also the device code and the abbreviated code which are the part information, and auxiliary points for entering those part information on the screen. I try to register and. When the device frame symbol is displayed, these auxiliary points are identified by the color numbers colored in a predetermined color. Then, at the positions of these auxiliary points, the instrument code and the abbreviation code are written in a note. As a result, the device frame to which the device code and the abbreviated code are added is displayed outside the drawing frame 31 in the form of a list.

In the above-mentioned device list 41, if the device frame group is too large to fit within the frame of the device list 41 on one screen, the device list 41 of the device layout basic diagram is shown on the next page. As a continuation, they can be arranged side by side. At this time, by adding an attribute (an attribute indicating that it is a continuation of the device list on the previous page) to the element representing the page of each drawing, it is possible to give recognition that the drawings are for the same product. Further, this makes it possible to call the page of the device list (when the device layout spans a plurality of pages) at the time of creating a device layout drawing described later.

Next, the device layout drawing preparation unit 25 of FIG. 1 will be described. The device layout drawing creation unit 25 picks up an arbitrary device frame symbol (a device frame symbol having a device code and an approximate code attached thereto) from the device layout basic diagram and sequentially draws them. It is created by arranging in the panel 34 arranged in the arrangement area 32 in 31. The operation of the device layout drawing creation unit 25 will be described. FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining the operation of arranging an arbitrary device frame symbol from the device list 41 in the panel 34 in the arrangement area. In this case,
As shown in (a), an arbitrary device frame symbol 42a is selected from the device list 41 with the mouse. Then, the rotation angle of the instrument frame symbol is input, and the arrangement position is designated as shown in FIG. As a result, the device frame symbol 42a is taken out from the device list 41 and placed at a predetermined position in the panel 34.

Next, FIG. 8 is a view for explaining the operation of arbitrarily moving the instrument frame symbol within the panel 34. In this case, first, as shown in FIG. 8A, the device frame symbol 42b to be moved is selected with the mouse. Then, as shown in (b), the position of the destination is designated. As a result, the device frame symbol 42b moves to the destination position as shown in FIG. Next, FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining the operation of arbitrarily adjusting the intervals between the plurality of instrument frame symbols in the panel 34. In this case, first, the desired distance between the predetermined device frame symbols is input. Then, as shown in FIG. 9A, the reference device frame symbol 42c is selected with the mouse. Then, as shown in (b) of the same, the device frame symbol 42 selected as a reference in this (a)
The device frame symbol 42d to be packed for c is selected. As a result, as shown in (c), the device frame symbol 42d is packed with the device frame symbol 42c at a predetermined interval. Next, FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining an operation of rotating a predetermined instrument frame symbol within the panel 34 at an arbitrary angle. In this case, first, the rotation angle to be rotated is input. And
As shown in FIG. 10A, the device frame symbol 42e to be rotated is selected with the mouse. As a result, as shown in (b), the selected device frame symbol 4
2e is rotated to the previously input predetermined angle. Further, as shown in (b) of FIG.
When 2f is selected, the selected device frame symbol 42f is also rotated by the same angle, as shown in (c).

In the present embodiment, as described above with reference to FIG. 3, the instrument frame symbol library (see FIG. 3) is stored in the instrument frame symbol library, and the instrument frame hole drilling symbol 14 is associated with it. (See FIG. 3) is also accumulated, and the device frame symbol 13 and the hole drilling symbol 14 can be displayed so as to overlap each other. Therefore, in this embodiment, the instrument frame symbol library also serves as the hole machining symbol library for the instrument frame. Accordingly, in this embodiment, the hole machining symbol list can be immediately created from the device frame symbol list, and the device hole machining diagram can be immediately created from the device layout drawing.

In the present embodiment, the device list 41 in which the device frame symbols are displayed is displayed outside the drawing frame 31 (see FIG. 6). However, in some cases, the device list 41 may be displayed as a drawing. It may be displayed inside the frame 31 and outside the arrangement area frame 32.

[0022]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The device frame symbols indicating the outlines of a large number of device frames are registered in the library in association with the component information in advance, and all (or part of) the devices used for board design etc. from the component information of the electric circuit diagram. The device frame symbol of can be taken out. Then, a large number of the extracted device frame symbols are displayed as a list outside the device arrangement area frame. As a result, an arrangement area frame for drawing a panel for arranging the device and a list display of the device frame symbols outside the frame are displayed on one screen (in the present embodiment, this is referred to as "device"). Basic layout "is called). By using this “apparatus layout basic diagram”, the designer can easily arrange any appliance frame symbol from the above list of appliance frame symbols at any position in the placement area, making it extremely easy. You will be able to create a device layout drawing. Therefore, the work of creating the device layout drawing can be made significantly more efficient than in the past.

In the tool layout drawing preparation support system of the present invention, a hole drilling symbol corresponding to an arbitrary tool frame is searched from the hole drilling symbol library and displayed in association with the tool frame symbol (for example, Both can be displayed on top of each other). Therefore, it becomes possible to display the hole drilling data of the tool frame together with the tool frame symbol in the layout area of the drawing frame. Therefore, not only the tool layout diagram but also the tool hole drilling diagram can be simplified. Will be able to create.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram for explaining a configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing a hardware configuration of a device layout drawing creation support system according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining an instrument frame symbol library in the present embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a drawing operation of a drawing frame and an arrangement area frame in the present embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a panel drawing operation in the present embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining a basic device layout according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining the operation of creating a device layout drawing from a device layout basic drawing in this embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining an operation of creating a device layout drawing according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining an operation of creating a device layout drawing according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining an operation of creating a device layout drawing according to the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 CPU 6 Hard Disk 13 Instrument Frame Symbol 14 Hole Processing Symbol 31 Drawing Frame 32, 33 Placement Area Frame 34, 37, 38 Panel 35 Panel Mounting Hole 41 Instrument List (Instrument Frame Symbol List) 42, 42a, 42b, 42c, 42d , 42e, 42
f Appliance (apparatus frame symbol)

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A device layout drawing creation support system for supporting creation of a device layout drawing necessary for board design, etc.,
The storage device includes an input device, an output device, a storage device, and a processing device, and the storage device includes a device frame symbol library in which device frame symbols indicating the outlines of a number of device frames are recorded in association with information about the device. The device is a placement area creating means for creating a placement area frame indicating a placement area of the equipment frame on the screen of the output device, and the equipment frame necessary for creating the equipment layout drawing from the equipment frame symbol library, A device frame symbol search means for searching with the key as a key, a list display device for displaying a list of the searched device frame symbols outside the arrangement area frame, and an arbitrary device from among the displayed device frame symbols. A selection means for selecting an equipment frame symbol; and an equipment frame arrangement means for arranging the selected equipment frame symbol at an arbitrary position within the arrangement area frame. Instrument layout creation support system characterized and. 2. The tool layout drawing creation support system according to claim 1, wherein the storage device further stores a hole drilling symbol library in which a hole drilling symbol indicating a hole position of each tool frame is recorded in association with a corresponding tool frame symbol. The processing device further includes hole drilling symbol search means for searching the hole drilling symbol from the hole drilling symbol library by using information about the tool as a key, and the hole drilling symbol searched by the hole drilling symbol search means for the tool. A tool layout drawing creation support system comprising: a hole drilling symbol display means for displaying in association with a frame symbol.