JPH0944541A - Cad system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To input speech, video (moving picture), etc., as comment data in addition to characters. SOLUTION: When an instruction from an input device 2 is a comment generation and editing instruction, a function selection part 11 selects a comment generation and editing part 13. The comment generation and editing part 13 once deciding that another program is started during a comment generating and editing process passes a start indication to a program start part 14. The program start part 14 once inputting the start indication refers to program starting methods in an internal table according to the kind of a comment and starts a program [for character data input, speech data input, video data (image data) input, etc.] stored in an external storage device 5. A comment input part 15 operates according to the started program and temporarily stores data inputted from an input device 2 or external speech/video input device 6 in a shape temporary storage part 21.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a CAD system, and particularly to CAD (Computer Aided Des).
ign) relates to a method of inputting a comment to be added to the shape data created by the system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a CAD system, comments such as characters may be added to shape data created interactively. In particular, in a complicated drawing, it is necessary to add various comments in addition to the line (solid line, broken line, etc.), which is the basic element, or the dimension line.

In such a case, in the comment, one character or a small number of words are input from the keyboard or tablet, and when the comment is input in kanji, kanji conversion must be performed after kana input.

In order to simplify the comment input, comment data such as frequently used words and symbols, long spelled words and drawing terms is stored in advance as a user-specific dictionary, and one of them is stored. The method of indicating with a mouse is also adopted. This method is described in detail in JP-A-3-62170.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The conventional CAD described above
In the system, a comment to be added to the created shape data is only input from the keyboard or selected from the data stored as the dictionary, so only characters can be input as the comment data.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, an object of the present invention is to solve the above problems and to provide a CAD system capable of inputting voice, video (moving image) and the like as comment data in addition to characters.

[0007]

A CAD system according to the present invention is a CAD system for interactively creating shape data, and a shape creating means for creating and editing shape data in accordance with an external shape creating and editing command. A comment creating means for creating and editing comment data including at least one of character data, audio data, and video data in accordance with an external comment creating and editing command,
A shape temporary storage means is provided for temporarily storing the comment data created and edited by the comment creation means and the shape data created and edited by the shape creation means in association with each other.

In another CAD system according to the present invention, in addition to the above configuration, the comment data created and edited by the comment creating means and the shape data created and edited by the shape creating means are stored in association with each other. And a shape saving / restoring means for saving and restoring the comment data and the shape data between the shape temporary storage means and the shape storage means.

In addition to the above configuration, another CAD system according to the present invention prints the shape data read from at least one of the shape temporary storage means and the shape storage means in accordance with an external output command. It is equipped with means.

[0010]

First, the operation of the present invention will be described below.

When a comment including at least one of character data, audio data, and video data is edited according to a comment creating / editing command from the outside, a program required for inputting the comment is a program starting unit. To start by.

Thus, in addition to characters, voice, image data, video (moving image) and the like can be input as comment data.

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of one embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, the CAD system 1 includes a function selecting unit 11, a comment displaying unit 12, a comment creating / editing unit 13, a program starting unit 14, a comment inputting unit 15, a comment associating unit 16, and a shape creating / editing unit 17. , Shape saving / restoring unit 18, and plotter output unit 19
The shape storage unit 20, the shape temporary storage unit 21, and the display control unit 22.

The CAD system 1 includes an input device 2 and
A display 3, a plotter 4, an external storage device 5,
An external audio / video input device 6 is connected to each.

The function selecting unit 11 of the CAD system 1 has a comment shape display unit 12, a comment creating / editing unit 13, a shape creating / editing unit 17, and a shape saving / restoring unit 18 in accordance with various commands input from the input device 2. Any one of the plotter output unit 19 is selected.

When a comment or shape display command is input from the input device 2 via the function selection section 11, the comment shape display section 12 displays so as to display the comment or shape temporarily stored in the shape temporary storage section 15. Notify the control unit 22.

When the comment creating / editing unit 13 receives a comment creating / editing command from the input device 2 via the function selecting unit 11, the operator inputs from the input device 2 and the external audio / video input device 6 while looking at the display 3. Data, or the shape storage unit 20 or the shape temporary storage unit 21
While displaying the data stored in
Create and edit comments.

When the program start-up section 14 receives a program start-up instruction from the comment creation / editing section 13, it is pre-stored in the external storage device 5 based on the contents of the internal table in which the program start-up method is set in advance. A program, that is, a program for inputting character data, a program for inputting voice data, a program for inputting video data (image data), and the like are started.

The comment input unit 15 is the program starting unit 1.
It operates based on the program started by the control unit 4 and temporarily stores the data input from the input device 2 and the external audio / video input device 6 in the shape temporary storage unit 21.

The comment associating unit 16 associates the comment created and edited by the comment creating and editing unit 13 with the starting program started by the program starting unit 14 at the time of comment input, and temporarily stores it in the shape temporary storage unit 21. .

When the shape creating / editing section 17 receives a shape creating / editing command from the input device 2 via the function selecting section 11,
While viewing the display 3, the operator inputs data from the input device 2 or the data stored in the shape storage unit 20 or the shape temporary storage unit 21 while displaying on the display 3, the points, lines, circles, dimension lines, etc. Create and edit shapes.

When a shape save / restore command is input from the input device 2 via the function selecting section 11, the shape save / restore section 18 receives shape data and comments between the shape storage section 20 and the shape temporary storage section 21. Save and restore data.

When the plotter output unit 19 receives a plotter output command from the input device 2 via the function selection unit 11,
The shape data and the comment data stored in the shape storage unit 20 or the shape temporary storage unit 21 are read out, and the shape is output as a drawing to the plotter 4 by being connected to the outside.

The shape storage unit 20 is composed of a large-capacity storage device such as a hard disk device, and stores the created shape data and comment data. The shape temporary storage unit 21 is RA
It is composed of a memory device such as M (random access memory) and temporarily stores the shape data and the comment data currently being created or displayed.

The display control unit 22 includes the comment creation / editing unit 13
Alternatively, display control of the shapes and comments on the display unit 3 is performed based on the shape data and the comment data created and edited by the shape creation / editing unit 17.

The input device 2 is, for example, a keyboard, a touch panel, a mouse, a staula pen, or the like. As the display unit 3, for example, a CRT (Cat
a hode ray tube) and a plasma display device.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of the shape temporary storage unit 21 of FIG. In the figure, the shape temporary storage unit 21 includes a shape data unit 21a that stores shape data and a comment storage position in association with each other, and a comment data unit 21b that stores a comment ID, a startup program name, and a comment position in association with each other. Become.

The comment storage position stored in the shape data part 21a indicates the address of the comment data part 21b in which the comment ID of the comment corresponding to the shape data, the starting program name, and the comment position are stored.

Further, the comment ID of the comment data section 21b is information for identifying a comment consisting of characters, voice, video or image, and the comment is stored in association with the comment ID.

The starting program name is the name of the program used when inputting or displaying the comment, and the comment position indicates which position in the shape data is added.

Although not shown, the shape storage section 20 is also composed of a shape data section and a comment data section, like the shape temporary storage section 21, and the contents thereof are also the shape temporary storage section. It is similar to 21.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the processing operation of the function selecting section 11 of FIG. 1, and FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the comment creating / editing processing of the comment creating / editing section 13 of FIG.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the detailed operation of the comment creating process of the comment creating / editing section 13 in FIG. 1, and FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the detailed operation of the comment editing process of the comment creating / editing section 13 in FIG. Is. Figure 7
2 is a flowchart showing a comment display process of the comment shape display unit 12 of FIG.

The comment creating / editing process according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. still,
Since the shape creating / editing process is a known technique, its description is omitted.

When the processing of the CAD system 1 is started,
First, the function selecting unit 11 determines whether or not the command input from the input device 2 is a shape creation / edit command (step S in FIG. 3).
1). When the function selecting unit 11 determines that the input command is the shape creating / editing command, it selects the shape creating / editing unit 17 to perform the shape creating / editing process (step S2 in FIG. 3), and the shape creating / editing process ends. Then, the process returns to step S1.

The shape creating / editing section 17 creates and edits shape data such as points, lines, and dimension lines in accordance with the shape creating / editing command input from the function selecting section 11, and stores the shape data in the shape temporary storage section 21. Remember.

As a result, the display control unit 22 displays the shape based on the shape data stored in the temporary shape storage unit 21 on the screen of the display unit 3. The operator creates and edits a required shape by inputting a shape creation and editing command from the input device 2 while looking at the shape displayed on the screen of the display unit 3.

In this case, if the shape creation / edit command indicates that a new shape is created, the function selection section 11 notifies the display control section 22 through the comment shape display section 12 to display the newly created shape.

If the shape creating / editing command indicates that the shape creating / editing command has already been edited, the function selecting section 11 restores the shape data and the comment data from the shape storing section 20 to the shape saving / restoring section 18 to temporarily save the shape. The storage unit 21 is notified to store. At the same time, the function selection unit 11 causes the display control unit 22 to display the shape temporary storage unit 21 through the comment shape display unit 12.
Notify to display the shapes and comments stored in.

When the function selecting section 11 determines that the input command is not the shape creating / editing command, it determines whether the command input from the input device 2 is the comment creating / editing command (step S3 in FIG. 3).

When the function selecting section 11 determines that the input instruction is the comment creating / editing instruction, it selects the comment creating / editing section 13 to perform the comment creating / editing processing (see FIG. 3).
When the comment creating / editing process is completed in step S4), the process returns to step S1.

When performing the comment creating / editing process, when the operator inputs a comment creating / editing command from the input device 2, the function selecting unit 11 selects the comment creating / editing unit 13 to perform the comment creating / editing process.

The comment creating / editing section 13 is a function selecting section 11
It is determined whether or not the command from the command to create a comment (step S21 in FIG. 4), and if the command from the function selection unit 11 is to command to create a comment, the comment creating process is performed (FIG. 4 step S22).

That is, the comment creating / editing section 13 creates comment position information based on the information input by the operator from the input device 2 and indicating the position to attach a comment (see FIG. 5).
In step S31), the comment type information is created based on the information indicating the type of comment input by the operator from the input device 2 (step S32 in FIG. 5).

The comment creation / editing unit 13 determines whether or not to start another program based on the created comment type information (step S33 in FIG. 5). When it is determined to start another start program, a program start instruction is issued. And the comment type information is passed to the program starting unit 14 to start the program (step S34 in FIG. 5).

When the program activation unit 14 receives a program activation instruction from the comment creation / editing unit 13, it refers to the program activation method in the internal table based on the comment type information and uses the program activation method corresponding to the comment type information. A program stored in the external storage device 5,
That is, a program for inputting character data, a program for inputting voice data, a program for inputting video data (image data), etc. are activated.

The comment input unit 15 is the program starting unit 1.
Operates according to the program started by 4.
Data input from the input device 2 or the external audio / video input device 6 is temporarily stored in the shape temporary storage unit 21 (see FIG. 5).
Step S35).

After that, when the comment associating unit 16 receives a comment creation notification from the comment creating / editing unit 13, it associates the comment input from the comment input unit 15 with the startup program started by the program starting unit 14. The shape is temporarily stored in the shape temporary storage unit 21 (step S36 in FIG. 5).

At this time, the correspondence between the comment and the starting program is stored in the shape data storage unit 21 in the comment data unit 2.
The address of the comment data section 21b is stored in the shape data section 21a as a comment storage position in association with the shape data to which the comment is added. When the comment data and the like are temporarily stored in the shape temporary storage unit 21, the comment creating process ends.

On the other hand, if the command from the function selection unit 11 does not instruct the comment creation, the comment creation / editing unit 13 determines whether or not the comment is modified (step S23 in FIG. 4). If the command from the function selection unit 11 is to instruct the correction of the comment, the comment editing process is performed (step S24 in FIG. 4).

That is, the comment creating / editing unit 13 creates comment information based on the information input by the operator from the input device 2 and indicating the comment to be corrected (step S41 in FIG. 6), and sets the comment type of the comment information. The type of comment is searched based on the instructed information (step S42 in FIG. 6).

In this case, the function selecting section 11 restores the shape data and the comment data corresponding to the instruction from the shape storing section 20 to the shape saving / restoring section 18 based on the information designating the comment to be corrected. Notify the temporary storage unit 21 to store.

At the same time, the function selection section 11 causes the display control section 22 to display the shape temporary storage section 21 through the comment shape display section 12.
Notify to display the shapes and comments stored in. Here, when it is necessary to start another program when displaying the comment stored in the shape temporary storage unit 21, the comment shape display unit 12 sends a program start instruction and comment type information to the program start unit 14. Pass and start the program.

The comment creating / editing section 13 determines whether or not to start another program based on the type of the retrieved comment (step S43 in FIG. 6), and when it determines to start another program, that is, it has already been created. If it is determined that the program is started in addition to the program started to display the comment, the program start instruction and the comment type information are passed to the program start unit 14 to start the program (step S44 in FIG. 6).

When the program activation section 14 receives a program activation instruction from the comment creation / editing section 13, it refers to the program activation method in the internal table based on the comment type information, and uses the program activation method corresponding to the comment type information. A program stored in the external storage device 5,
That is, a program for inputting character data, a program for inputting voice data, a program for inputting video data (image data), etc. are activated.

The comment input unit 15 is the program starting unit 1.
Operates according to the program started by 4.
The comment temporarily stored in the shape temporary storage unit 21 is corrected by the comment input from the input device 2 or the external audio / video input device 6 (step S45 in FIG. 6).

The shape temporary storage unit 2 is composed of comment data or the like input from the input device 2 or the external audio / video input device 6.
When the comment temporarily stored in 1 is corrected, the comment editing process ends.

The comment creating / editing section 13 is a function selecting section 11
If it is not the instruction to modify the comment, it is determined whether it is the instruction to delete the comment (step S25 in FIG. 4), and the instruction from the function selection unit 11 is to delete the comment. If so, a comment deletion process is performed.

That is, the comment creation / editing unit 13 creates comment deletion information based on the information indicating the comment to be deleted input by the operator from the input device 2 (step S26 in FIG. 4), and the comment deletion information is associated with the comment. The comment association unit 16 deletes the comment data to be deleted from the comment data unit 21b of the shape temporary storage unit 21, and deletes the comment storage position of the shape data corresponding to the comment data to be deleted. (FIG. 4 step S27).

The comment creating / editing section 13 is a function selecting section 11
If the command from does not instruct to delete the comment, or if the comment creating process, the comment correcting process, and the comment deleting process are completed, the comment creating and editing process is completed.

When the function selecting unit 11 determines that the input instruction is not the comment creating / editing instruction, it determines whether the instruction input from the input device 2 is the comment display instruction (step S5 in FIG. 3).

When the function selection unit 11 determines that the input instruction is the comment display instruction, the comment shape display unit 1
2 is selected to perform comment display processing (step S6 in FIG. 3), and when the comment display processing ends, step S1
Return to

That is, the comment shape display unit 12 creates comment information based on the information input by the operator from the input device 2 and indicating the comment to be displayed (step S51 in FIG. 7), and determines the comment type of the comment information. The type of comment is searched based on the instructed information (step S52 in FIG. 7).

In this case, the function selecting section 11 restores the shape data and the comment data corresponding to the instruction from the shape storing section 20 to the shape saving / restoring section 18 based on the information designating the comment to be displayed. Notify the temporary storage unit 21 to store.

The comment shape display unit 12 determines whether or not to start another program based on the type of the retrieved comment (step S53 in FIG. 7). The comment type information is passed to the program starting unit 14 to start the program (step S54 in FIG. 7).

When the program start-up instruction is input from the comment shape display section 12, the program start-up section 14 refers to the program start-up method in the internal table based on the comment type information and uses the program start-up method corresponding to the comment type information. A program stored in the external storage device 5,
That is, a program for inputting character data, a program for inputting voice data, a program for inputting video data (image data), etc. are activated.

The comment shape display section 12 operates according to the program started by the program starting section 14, notifies the display control section 22 to display the comment temporarily stored in the shape temporary storage section 21, and is instructed by the operator. Displayed comments on the display unit 3 (see FIG. 7).
Step S55). When the comment instructed by the operator is displayed on the display unit 3, the comment display process ends.

When the function selection unit 11 determines that the input instruction is not the comment display instruction, it determines whether the instruction input from the input device 2 is the shape memory instruction (step S7 in FIG. 3).

When the function selection unit 11 determines that the input command is the shape storage command, it selects the shape saving / restoring unit 18 to perform the shape storage process (step S8 in FIG. 3), and the shape storage process is executed. Upon completion, the process returns to step S1.

When the function selection unit 11 determines that the input instruction is not the shape memory instruction, it determines whether the instruction input from the input device 2 is a plotter output instruction (step S9 in FIG. 3).

When the function selection unit 11 determines that the input instruction is the plotter output instruction, the function selection unit 11 selects the plotter output unit 19 to perform output processing to the plotter 4 (step S10 in FIG. 3) and output to the plotter 4. When the process ends, the process returns to step S1.

That is, the plotter output unit 19 outputs the shape data to be output to the shape storage unit 20 or the shape temporary storage unit 21.
Read the shape data and output the read shape data to the plotter 4. The plotter 4 plots a shape based on the shape data output from the plotter output unit 19 on a predetermined sheet as a drawing.

After that, the function selecting section 11 judges whether or not the processing is completed (step S11 in FIG. 3). If the processing is completed, the processing is completed. If the function selection unit 11 has not ended, the process returns to step S1 to continue the processing.

As described above, when a comment containing at least one of character data, audio data and video data is created and edited according to a comment creating and editing command from the outside, a program necessary for inputting the comment When the program is activated by the program activation unit 14, voice, image data, video (moving image) and the like can be input as comment data in addition to characters.

[0075]

As described above, according to the present invention, in a CAD system for interactively creating shape data,
When a comment data including at least one of character data, voice data and video data is edited according to an external comment creation / editing command, at least a character data input means and a voice for inputting the character data By activating either the audio data input means for inputting data or the video data input means for inputting video data, voice or video (moving image) is input as comment data in addition to characters. The effect is that you can.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a shape temporary storage unit in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a processing operation of a function selection unit in FIG.

4 is a flowchart showing a comment creating / editing process of a comment creating / editing unit in FIG. 1. FIG.

5 is a flowchart showing a detailed operation of a comment creating process of a comment creating / editing unit in FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a detailed operation of a comment editing process of a comment creating / editing unit in FIG.

7 is a flowchart showing a comment display process of the comment shape display unit in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 CAD system 2 Input device 3 Display unit 4 Plotter unit 5 External storage device 6 External audio / video input device 11 Function selection unit 12 Comment shape display unit 13 Comment creation / editing unit 14 Program starting unit 15 Comment input unit 16 Comment associating unit 17 Shape Creation / Editing Section 18 Shape Saving / Restoring Section 19 Plotter Output Section 20 Shape Storage Section 21 Shape Temporary Storage Section 21a Shape Data Section 21b Comment Data Section 22 Display Control Section

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A CAD system for interactively creating shape data, comprising shape creating means for creating and editing shape data in accordance with an external shape creating and editing command, and at least character data, audio data and video data. Comment data including any one of the following: comment creating means for creating and editing comment data according to a comment creating and editing command from the outside; and the comment data created and edited by the comment creating means and created and edited by the shape creating means. A CAD system, comprising: a shape temporary storage unit that temporarily stores the shape data in association with each other. 2. The comment creating means is character data input means for inputting the character data, audio data input means for inputting the audio data, and video data input for inputting the video data. Means for activating any one of the character data inputting means, the voice data inputting means, and the video data inputting means in accordance with the instruction content of the comment creating / editing instruction. The CAD system according to Item 1. 3. The shape temporary storage means stores the shape data in association with the storage positions of the comment data, the comment data stores the character data input means, the voice data input means, and the video. 3. The CAD system according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising: means for associating and storing the information indicating by which one of the data input means the data is input and the comment data. 4. A shape storage unit that stores the comment data created and edited by the comment creation unit and the shape data created and edited by the shape creation unit in association with each other, the shape temporary storage unit, and the shape. 4. The CAD system according to claim 1, further comprising shape saving / restoring means for saving and restoring the comment data and the shape data with a storage means. 5. The CAD according to claim 4, further comprising means for printing the shape data read from at least one of the shape temporary storage means and the shape storage means in accordance with an output command from the outside. system.