JPH0793365A - Drawing managing method using hierarchical drawing storage - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently perform a retrieval process and speedily perform drawing storage and drawing searching by an operator by providing individual drawing storage constitution matching each operation in addition to the total drawing storage constitution of a system. CONSTITUTION:This method has a drawing management data base which contains information on the correspondence between drawings stored in respective drawing storages and the drawing storages, a drawing storage constitution data base 1 which totally manages the relation of tree structures, etc., among all the drawing storages that the system includes, and an operation-classified drawing storage constitution data base 5 which manages drawings in one specific operation and individually manages the relation among the drawing storages suitable for the operation. New drawing storage constitution information which uses operation kinds and drawing storages that are already registered in the drawing storage constitution data base 1 is edited and registered in the operation-classified drawing storage constitution data base 5.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a drawing management method using a hierarchical drawing storage for managing drawing data by using a drawing storage constituted by a logical hierarchical structure such as a tree structure.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a plurality of drawing warehouses for storing drawing data are used, and the drawing warehouses are used in the system and the relationship between the drawing warehouses and the stored drawings is a tree structure. A method for managing drawings by arbitrarily associating them is known. For example, YHP D
It is published in the MS manual. However, in the above-mentioned prior art, it is not possible to have a plurality of drawing stock configurations having different associations, and when various works are performed for the purpose of drawing management, the drawing stocks used for those works are integrated into one drawing stock in the system. It will be defined and used as a configuration.

[0003]

However, when attention is paid to a specific work, the drawing warehouse required for the work is often only a part of the drawing warehouse configuration. With the conventional method, when the number of drawing warehouses and drawings held by the system increases, when searching for the drawing warehouses and drawings required for a certain work, many unnecessary drawing warehouses and drawings are included in the search range. It wastes time. In addition, when you search for drawings and drawings from the displayed drawings and stylized drawings, a large number of drawings and drawings that are unnecessary for the work are displayed. It's not easy. Further, since it is difficult to freely construct a drawing cabinet structure suitable for each work for each work type, the efficiency of each work is reduced.

It is an object of the present invention to efficiently perform a search process and to search a drawing library and a drawing configuration by an operator by using an integrated drawing library configuration of the system and an individual drawing library configuration suitable for each work. The goal is to get things done quickly.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention stores a drawing stock configuration database consisting of integrated drawing stock configuration information by all drawing stocks in the system and each drawing stock. Drawing management database consisting of drawing name of each drawing and additional attribute information such as data location information, and drawing storage by operation using each drawing storage by work using each drawing storage registered in drawing storage configuration database A configuration database, an input device such as a keyboard and a mouse, and a display as an output device, an interactive input means for interactively inputting information such as drawing warehouse name and work type, and a work type and a drawing to be processed by the work A means for editing work-specific drawing-warehouse configuration information, which consists of configuration information about the warehouse, and registering it in the work-specific drawing-warehouse configuration database, and for each work of the specified work type Display the drawing warehouse and drawing list that meet the specified conditions, or the form drawing of the composition, for the processing of the warehouse storage or the drawing storage integrated in the system and the drawings stored in these drawing storages. It is characterized by including means.

[0006]

According to the above-mentioned means, the dialogue input means instructs the work-based drawing warehouse configuration definition, the work ID indicating a specific work and different for each work type, and the drawing warehouse name registered in the drawing warehouse configuration database. Similarly, when the structural relationship information between another drawing warehouse already registered in the drawing warehouse configuration database and the drawing warehouse is input, the input information is given to the work-based drawing warehouse configuration editing means, and this input information is used for the work concerned. The work-based drawing warehouse configuration information is edited and registered in the work-based drawing warehouse configuration database.

Further, when a search and configuration display instruction, a work ID, a search condition and a display format designation are input to the interactive input means, the input information is given to the work-specific configuration search display means, and the work-specific configuration search is performed. In the display means, when this work ID is a valid value, the work-based drawing warehouse configuration corresponding to the designated work ID in the work-specific drawing warehouse configuration database, work I
If D is not a valid value, the drawing store configuration of the drawing store configuration database and the drawings stored in each of these drawing stores and registered in the drawing management database are used as the search range, and the drawing store that matches the input conditions and The drawings are searched, and the list is edited according to the display format or the drawings of the drawings and the format of the drawings are edited and output to the display.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a drawing management system according to the present invention.

In FIG. 1, a drawing storage configuration database 1
Defines an integrated drawing library configuration for all drawing libraries in the system. The work-based drawing warehouse configuration database 2 individually defines the work-based drawing warehouse configuration. The drawing management database 3 manages each drawing information stored in all the drawing warehouses defined in the drawing warehouse configuration database. The central processing unit 4 controls the whole. The central processing unit 4 is composed of the following means. The work-specific drawing-house configuration editing means 5 edits individual drawing-house configuration information for the work specified by the work ID using the drawing-house defined in the drawing-house configuration database, and registers it in the work-based drawing-house configuration database. . The work-specific configuration search display means 6 targets the drawing stock configuration of the work specified by the work ID using the three databases or the integrated drawing stock configuration of the system, and the drawings and the drawing stock under the designated search condition. The search result is edited into a list, a drawing store, and a drawing configuration diagram, and displayed on the display 8. The interactive input means 7 displays an input request message on the display 8, and the information such as the drawing stock name and work ID input from the input device including the keyboard 9 and the mouse 10 is used for the work-specific drawing stock configuration editing means or the work-specific work. It is given to the configuration search display means.

FIG. 2 conceptually shows the relationship between drawings and a drawing warehouse in a tree structure. It has a hierarchical structure similar to the relationship between directories and files in UNIX and the like.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the structure in the drawing-house configuration database that defines an integrated drawing-house configuration by all drawing-houses in the system. For each of a plurality of drawing warehouses having a tree structure, a drawing warehouse name 301, a unique drawing warehouse ID 302 in the system corresponding to the drawing warehouse, and an ID of a drawing warehouse higher in the tree structure than the drawing warehouse. It consists of a higher-level drawing store ID 303 and attribute information 304 as additional information of the drawing store. Further, when the drawing warehouse does not have a drawing warehouse that is one step higher in the tree structure, the upper drawing warehouse ID has a certain value indicating that the drawing warehouse is the highest drawing warehouse.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the structure in the drawing management database for managing the information of each drawing stored in all the drawing libraries defined in the drawing library configuration database. For each drawing stored in all drawing warehouses in the system, the upper drawing warehouse ID 4 which is the ID of the drawing warehouse in which the drawing is stored
01, the name of the drawing, the location of the drawing data body, and drawing attribute information 402 as other additional information.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the structure in the work-based drawing stock configuration database for individually defining the work-based drawing stock configuration. In addition to the integrated drawing storage configuration of the system defined in the drawing storage configuration database, in order to individually define the drawing storage configuration for each work, a different work ID 501 for each work type indicating a specific work, and a drawing Drawing warehouse ID 502 that points to one drawing warehouse defined in the warehouse configuration database, and the ID of the drawing warehouse that is one step higher in terms of the work-specific drawing warehouse configuration of the work indicated by the work ID and the tree structure from the drawing warehouse. And the upper drawing library ID 503. Further, when there is no higher-level drawing storage in the work-specific tree structure of the work indicated by the work ID for the drawing storage, the upper drawing storage ID indicates that the drawing storage is the top-level drawing storage of the tree structure. Set to a certain value.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining the work-based drawing warehouse configuration editing means 4. It is assumed that the drawing warehouse configuration database has already defined an integrated drawing warehouse configuration of the system. First, the work ID, (step 601), drawing name (step 602), and upper drawing name (step 603) are input through the dialogue input processing unit 6, and the information is temporarily stored in the memory. Next, from the data with the same drawing store name defined in the drawing store configuration database using the drawing store name, the drawing store ID
Is acquired (step 604). Next, it is determined whether or not the value input as the upper drawing library name is a valid value (step 6).
05), if it is a valid value (step 606), the same data as the higher-level drawing warehouse name input with the drawing-house name as a key is retrieved from the drawing-house configuration database, and the drawing-house ID of the data is used as the upper-class drawing warehouse ID. (Step 607). If it is determined in step 605 that the value is not a valid value (step 608), the upper drawing library I
D is a specific value indicating that it is the highest drawing library (step 609). The above processing steps (601-
The work ID, the drawing stock ID, and the superordinate drawing stock ID obtained in step 609) are edited into the data format of the work-specific drawing stock configuration database shown in FIG. 5 (step 610).

Next, the drawing storage structure database for each work is searched using the work ID and the drawing storage ID obtained in the processing step as a key (step 611).
It is judged whether or not the construction information of the drawing warehouse for the work specified in D already exists (step 612), and if it exists (step 613), the data in the work-specific drawing warehouse configuration database retrieved in step 611. The step 61
The contents edited with 0 are updated (step 614). If it does not exist in step 612 (step 615), the contents edited in step 610 are additionally registered in the work-based drawing warehouse configuration database (step 616). Through the above processing steps (601-616), the configuration information of one drawing warehouse in the designated work is edited.

FIG. 7 will be described with reference to the flowchart for explaining the work-specific configuration search / display means 5. It should be noted that the drawing warehouse configuration database contains the integrated drawing warehouse configuration of the system, the drawing management database contains information on the drawings stored in each drawing warehouse, and the work-based drawing warehouse configuration database contains each work I.
It is assumed that the work-based drawing warehouse structure corresponding to D has already been defined.

First, the work ID, (step 701), the search condition (step 702), and the display format designation (step 703) are input through the dialogue input means 6, and the information is temporarily stored in the memory. Next, it is determined whether the value input as the work ID is a valid value (step 70).
4) If the value is a valid value (step 705), the search conditions are matched for the drawing store configuration corresponding to the work ID of the work-based drawing store configuration database and the drawing management information of the drawing management database corresponding to these drawing stores. The drawing warehouse and the drawing to be searched are searched (step 706). If the value is not a valid value in step 704 (step 707),
A drawing warehouse and drawings that match the search conditions are searched for all drawing warehouse configurations in the drawing warehouse configuration database and the drawing management information in the drawing management database corresponding to those drawing warehouses (step 708). Next, the display format designation is judged (step 709), and when the display format designation is a list (step 710), step 708 or step 71
For each drawing warehouse and drawing that is the search result of 0, the drawing warehouse is the drawing warehouse name and attribute information from the drawing warehouse information of the drawing warehouse configuration database, and the drawing is the drawing management information of the drawing management database. More drawing attribute information,
It is edited as a list (step 711). When the display format designation is the configuration diagram in step 709 (step 712), step 708 or step 710.
For each drawing warehouse and drawings that are the search results in
A style diagram representing the drawing warehouse and the configuration of the drawing is edited (step 713). Further, the contents edited in step 711 or step 713 are displayed and output on the display 7 (step 714).

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention, by integrally managing the drawing stock configuration of all drawing stocks in the system, the drawing stock and the drawing maintainability are maintained, and the drawing management is further performed. It is possible to shorten the search processing time and conceal information unnecessary for a specific work, and to improve the operability in each work by being able to arbitrarily set the drawing storage configuration for each of the various works that require the work.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a drawing management system showing a configuration of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a tree structure diagram showing a relationship between a drawing store and drawings in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a structural diagram of a drawing storage configuration database in the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a structural diagram of a drawing management database in the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a structural diagram of a work-based drawing warehouse configuration database according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining a work-based drawing warehouse configuration editing processing method in the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining a work-specific configuration search display processing method in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 4 ... Central processing unit, 8 ... Display, 9 ... Keyboard, 10 ... Mouse.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A drawing management system having a plurality of drawing warehouses for storing drawing data using a computer, and having a drawing warehouse configuration having a hierarchical relationship such as a tree structure between the respective drawing warehouses. There is a drawing management database that includes correspondence information between drawings stored in each drawing storage, and a drawing storage configuration database that integrally manages a relationship such as a tree structure between all the drawing storages stored in the system. Uses the drawing warehouse configuration database for each operation that manages the drawings in a specific work and the relationship between the drawing warehouses that is suitable for operation, and uses the drawing warehouse registered in the work type and drawing warehouse configuration database. A new drawing management method using a hierarchical drawing storage, characterized in that the new drawing storage configuration information is edited and registered in a work-based drawing storage configuration database. 2. A drawing management system having a plurality of drawing warehouses for storing drawing data using a computer, and a drawing warehouse configuration having a hierarchical relationship such as a tree structure between the respective drawing warehouses, Using each database, search the drawing warehouse and drawings in the integrated drawing warehouse structure in the system or the drawing warehouse structure corresponding to the specified work type, and edit and display the search result. A drawing management method using a hierarchical drawing store according to claim 1.