JPH01223568A - Drawing management method - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a drawing operation method for a facility screen management system, and in particular, when operations such as drawing search and correction are performed using a mouse or keyboard, the operation icon The present invention relates to an operation method suitable for accurately and quickly making selections by sequentially moving a cursor through button operations.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in a facility drawing management system such as that described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 61-9667, when performing operations such as searching for a desired drawing or modifying a drawing, a mouse, keyboard, tablet, etc. is used as the operating unit. ing. In this operation, there are two methods: selecting an icon displayed on a graphic display, and arranging a large number of icons on a menu sheet in advance and selecting from them. Since this icon selection method is performed by an operator while interacting on a graphic display, there is no need to memorize numerous menu layouts, and the operability is superior to the menu sheet selection method.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In the conventional technology described above, when selecting a desired icon, the cursor is moved using a mouse or keyboard, so it takes time to move the cursor, and the cursor is moved in accordance with the movement of the hand, so the icon area is larger than a certain amount. There was a problem that if the icon was not large enough, it would not be possible to select the icon accurately.

An object of the present invention is to provide an accurate and quick icon selection method by moving a cursor in steps by pressing a mouse or keyboard button.

[Means to solve the problem]

The above purpose is to create a one-to-one correspondence in advance between the icon display instruction area on the graphic display and the amount of cursor movement per button on the mouse or keyboard, move the cursor in steps by button operation, and move the desired icon by button operation. This is achieved by selecting the number of times.

[Effect]

In such an icon step selection method, the cursor is moved in steps by operating buttons on a mouse or keyboard. As a result, the icon selection moves to the next icon at a time in accordance with the number of button operations, eliminating the need for operations to precisely align the cursor with the designated area of the icon, and preventing malfunctions.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Second
The figure is a configuration diagram of the facility drawing management system. In FIG. 2, 201 is a CPU for executing processing, 203 is a file device for storing facility drawing data, and 202 is for storing programs for executing processing such as drawing data search and editing, and data being processed. main memory of, 20
5 is a CRT for displaying the figures and characters of the processing results;
206 is a keyboard for entering commands and numerical values;
207 is a mouse for inputting operation icon selection by coordinate position when searching or modifying a drawing; 204 is a drawing input device for scanning a drawing and converting it into gray scale to obtain a digital image and coded data; be.

In such a configuration, the target drawing is stored in the file device 2.
03 and display drawing data on the CRT 205 after editing. First, the conventional method will be explained. The operator uses the mouse 207 to select the CRT 2
Move the cursor to the operation icon displayed in 05, and when the cursor comes to the position of the corresponding icon, press the button attached to the mouse to give a command to read the cursor coordinates of that point to the CPU 201, and read from the cursor coordinate position. Select and confirm the appropriate icon. Processing is determined in advance according to the content of the selected icon,
The process is executed by the CPU 201, and the target drawing is
Displayed on U201. Furthermore, if another process is to be performed, the operation icon corresponding to that process may be selected using the same operation as above. However, in this method, the operation icon is selected by moving the cursor manually by the operator, so it takes some practice to move the cursor to the position of the relevant icon accurately.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a step selection process of operation icons for performing operations such as drawing search and drawing correction in the facility drawing management system according to the present invention.

In FIG. 1, 101 is a CRT for displaying the drawing data in FIG. 2, 102 is a CRT for displaying the drawing data displayed on the CRT, 102 is a display section for the drawing data displayed on the CRT, and 103 is the purpose. 104 is a cursor for selecting icons; 105 is a mouse used by the operator to select icons; 106 is an input unit for receiving coordinate positions and button commands from the mouse; A cursor movement direction determination unit based on a button command; 108 a cursor movement amount determination unit according to the number of button operations; 109 an icon selection unit determined from the cursor coordinate position; 110 an effective area of each icon and a cursor per button operation. An icon area definition section 111 that defines the amount of movement is a display processing section for CRT display.

The amount of cursor movement determined by button operations on the mouse 105 is based on the principle shown in FIG. That is, in FIG. 3, if the cursor position when operating the mouse is at position 301,
When the four buttons attached to the mouse corresponding to the up, down, left, and right directions are pressed, the amount and direction of movement in the X and Y axis directions are determined depending on the button pressed. Therefore, a desired icon can be selected by simply operating a button, without moving the mouse or moving the cursor.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, operations such as searching and modifying facility drawings can be performed by CR.
When interacting with icons on the T using a mouse or keyboard, the cursor moves in steps with button operations, making it easy to select the operation icon, improving operation speed and making it easier for even novice operators. Easy to operate.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an icon step selection method according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of a facility drawing management system, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the principle of determining the amount of cursor movement during mouse operation. 101.205...CRT, 102...Graphic display section, 103...Icon, 104...Cursor, 105...Mouse, 106...Cursor coordinates
Button input section, 107... Cursor direction determination section, 10
8... Cursor coordinate movement amount determination section, 109... Icon selection section, 110... Icon area definition section, 111
...Display processing unit, 201...CPU, 202...
Main memory, 203...File device, 204...
- Drawing input device, 205... CRT, 206... Keyboard, 207... Mouse, 301... Cursor position, 302... Icon A, 303... Icon 8. 304... Icon C0

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A drawing input device that converts piping and wiring system diagrams for water, gas, electricity, etc., or drawings in which a system diagram and a map are superimposed into digital information, and the corresponding drawing designated as a file device that stores the drawing information. In a facility drawing management system that is equipped with a display device that displays a drawing, a drawing output device that outputs drawing information, and a processing device that controls each of the above-mentioned functional sections, when selecting an operation icon displayed on the display device, a mouse is used to select an operation icon displayed on the display device. A drawing management system characterized by providing a sequential digital selection function for icons in which the cursor is moved one by one using buttons or a keyboard, and button selection is made at the necessary location.