JP3203348B2 - Building equipment drawing equipment - Google Patents

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a building equipment system diagram for building equipment arranged on a building having a plurality of floors, using drawing data for a building equipment floor plan created for each floor. The present invention relates to a building equipment drawing creating apparatus for creating a drawing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the practical use of CAD (Computer Aided Design), a drawing device for a layout drawing of building equipment has been used.
CAD is used. This drawing apparatus draws a drawing by inputting necessary drawing data using a keyboard or the like in a drawing area displayed on a display.

In the conventional drawing procedure, first, a construction equipment floor plan for each floor is created by the drawing apparatus, and the construction equipment floor plan is output to a drafting sheet by a plotter or the like. With reference to the building equipment plan view on the drawing paper, a building equipment system diagram showing the relationship between the building equipment arranged on each floor has been created.

Incidentally, a building equipment plan view is a diagram showing the relationship between devices installed on the same floor when a certain floor is viewed from above, and the building equipment system diagram is a perspective view of a building viewed from the side. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a relationship between floors, and showing a relationship between devices installed on each floor. For this reason, when the drawing objects are the same, the equipment symbol information described on the building equipment plan view of each floor and the equipment symbol information described on the building equipment system diagram indicate the same equipment.

[0005] However, the building equipment plan created by the above-mentioned drawing device is once output on a drafting sheet, and the building equipment system diagram is created by the drawing device while referring to the output building equipment plan. Since the load information for the building equipment floor plan and the load information for the building equipment system diagram were the same, they had to be re-entered when the building equipment system diagram was created. Did not.

Further, in the building equipment plan view, equipment symbols for the building equipment plan view showing the shape of the equipment from above are used, and in the building equipment system diagram, the building equipment showing the shape of the equipment from one side is used. The equipment symbol for the system diagram is used. For this reason, when creating the building equipment system diagram, the equipment symbol information for the building equipment floor plan cannot be directly used as the equipment symbol information for the building equipment system diagram.

As described above, the building equipment system diagram is created by re-inputting as a building equipment system diagram with reference to the building equipment floor plan for each floor output on a drafting sheet or the like. The same data must be entered twice, which adversely affected the work efficiency.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is possible to use drawing data for a building equipment plan when creating a building equipment system diagram.
An object of the present invention is to obtain a building equipment drawing creating apparatus that saves labor for creating a building equipment system diagram.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 is a plan view of a building facility showing a relation of equipment installed on each floor of a building having a plurality of floors on the same floor, a building equipment drawing generating unit for creating and building equipment system diagram representing a relationship between each floor are connected by a connecting member device, when creating a building equipment system diagram, created der
At least the load of the equipment in the building equipment floor plan
Attribute information including information on the building equipment system diagram
An information copying means for copying as attribute information of the vessel, for all devices connected to a common connecting member, by the information copy unit
Load totalizing means for calculating the load on the connecting member by totalizing the load information included in the copied attribute information, and size determining means for determining the size of the connecting member based on the load calculated by the load totalizing means And the following.

[0010]

[0011]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the information copying means converts the attribute information including at least the load information of the device in the created drawing data for the building equipment floor plan for the building equipment system diagram being created. Is copied as attribute information . Then, the load information of all the devices connected to the connection member is totalized by the load totaling means. By determining the size of the connecting member by the size determining means based on the totalized load information, it is possible to improve the efficiency of creating a building equipment system diagram.

[0012]

[0013]

FIG. 2 shows a construction equipment drawing making apparatus 10 to which the present invention is applied. FIG. 1 shows the configuration of a main body 12 which is a main part of the construction equipment drawing making apparatus 10. Have been. First, the overall configuration of the building equipment drawing creating apparatus 10 will be described.

The building equipment drawing creating apparatus 10 has a main part covered by a casing 11. The inside of the casing 11
It is composed of a main body 12 as shown in FIG. The main unit 12 includes a central processing unit (hereinafter, referred to as “CPU”) 14. The CPU 14 uses a memory 16 such as a RAM as an operation space, and uses an I / O port 18
The drawing data is created by exchanging data with other devices via the. The created drawing data is stored in a cartridge magnetic tape device (hereinafter referred to as a “CMT device”) or a hard disk device 2 connected to the main body 12.
0 is stored. The drawing data is created by a drawing program 22 stored in a storage unit such as a ROM or an auxiliary storage device such as a floppy disk or a hard disk.

A display 24 is connected to the main body 12. The display 24 displays a drawing to be created. A drawing operation is performed on the display 24, and information necessary for the drawing operation is input by a keyboard 26 or a mouse 28 connected to the main body 12.

Further, a printer 30, a pen plotter 32 and an electrostatic plotter 34 are connected to the main body 12 as output devices on the paper surface. The printer 30 is a device for outputting device attribute information and the like to designated paper, and the pen plotter 32 or the electrostatic plotter 34 is a device for outputting drawing data to drafting paper.

Here, the configuration of the electrical equipment plan view 36 shown in FIG. 3 drawn by the building equipment drawing creating apparatus 10 will be described. The drawing objects are as follows. This building has a four-story structure, and building equipment is provided on each floor. The electrical equipment plan view 36 is a configuration diagram of equipment installed on the floor based on equipment symbol information indicating the shape of the equipment.

The electrical equipment shown in the electrical equipment plan view 36 has the same equipment configuration from the second floor to the fourth floor, and therefore the equipment arrangement on the second floor will be described here. Four lights 38 are connected to the ceiling via wires 40 at linear intervals. The lighting sets including the four lightings 38 are arranged at substantially equal intervals over the entire ceiling, and each lighting set is further connected to a distribution board 44 via an electric wire 42. Therefore, the distribution board 44
The power is supplied to all the lights 38 arranged on the entire ceiling. All lights 38 can be switched on / off by a switch 46.

The drawing data includes attribute information in addition to the equipment symbol information. As shown in FIG. 3, the attribute information is information that classifies and stores information about the device, for example, “the mounting position 54 of the device” or “the load 56 on the device”.

FIG. 36 is a plan view of an electric device having such a structure.
It is created by the following parts of the main body 12. Hereinafter, FIG.
The main body 12 will be described with reference to FIG.

With respect to the equipment symbols described in the electrical equipment plan view 36, the line type or coordinates of the equipment symbols are input to the main body 12 using the keyboard 26 or the like, and the graphic processing unit 48 of the main body 12 uses the equipment as symbol information. It is created by integration.

The frequently used device symbol information is stored in the device symbol storage unit 50 of the main unit 12 as an index list 61 as shown in FIG. By selecting a target device from the index list 61 and designating display coordinates and a display scale, drawing can be performed. These device symbol information are, for the same device, device symbol information for a so-called plan view showing the shape of the device from above, and device symbol information for a so-called system diagram showing the shape of the device from one side. And each corresponds to an index list 6
1 is stored.

The device symbol information is stored in the main unit 12.
Can be converted into device symbol information corresponding to the drawing. The equipment symbol conversion unit 52 stores information that is stored in the equipment symbol storage unit 50, that is, information that associates equipment symbol information for a plan view with equipment symbol information for a system diagram for each piece of equipment symbol information. , Based on the conversion.

On the other hand, the attribute information is input to the main unit 12 by the keyboard 26 or the like, and the attribute processing unit 58 of the main unit 12
, Is associated with the device symbol information described on the drawing. The drawing data composed of the integrated device symbol information and attribute information is stored in the CMT device or the hard disk device 20 via the I / O port 18 of the main unit 12.

Next, the configuration of the electrical equipment system diagram 60 shown in FIGS. 4 to 6 will be described. The electrical equipment system diagram 60 is a diagram showing the relationship between the equipment of the entire building.

In the electrical equipment system diagram 60, floor display lines 62 indicating the sectional structure of the target building are displayed. The floor display line 62 is indicated by a horizontal line segment, and the end of the floor display line 62 describes the number of floors. In addition, between two adjacent floor display lines 62, the distance between floors is also described. The floor display line 62 is created by the graphic processing unit 48 of the main body unit 12, similarly to the creation of the device symbol information described above.

As shown in FIG. 5, on each floor from the second floor to the fourth floor, a distribution board symbol 64,
70 and 72 are displayed.

Each distribution board symbol 64, 70 and 72
The attribute information corresponds to the device symbol information in the same manner as the device symbol information for the plan view. The attribute information is composed of device size information and load information, and is stored for each item.

As shown in FIG. 5, the distribution board symbols 64, 70 and 72 are connected to a distribution board symbol 74 installed on the first floor via an electric trunk line 76.

The electrical equipment system diagram 60 having such a configuration is shown in FIG.
It is created by the following parts of the main body 12.

To create device symbol information, in addition to the method of selecting a device name from the index list as described above,
There is a method of diverting drawing data for a plan view.

In this diversion method, the equipment symbol information on the plan view is extracted by the equipment symbol extraction unit 66 of the main unit 12, and the equipment symbol of the movement source and the coordinates of the movement destination are designated by the mouse 28 or the like. This is how you create it.

On the other hand, the attribute information is converted by the attribute copying unit 68 into the load information of the device in the drawing data for the plan view.
It is created by copying as load information for the system diagram.

First, the load information of the distribution board symbols 64, 70, and 72 connected to the electric trunk 76 is counted by the load summation section 78 of the main body section 12. The size of the electric trunk line 76 is determined by the size determining unit 79 based on the aggregated load information.

The operation of the present embodiment will be described based on the procedure for creating the electrical equipment system diagram 60 created by the building equipment drawing creating apparatus 10 having such a configuration. FIG. 9 is a drawing flowchart of the electrical equipment system diagram 60.

First, after the construction equipment drawing creating apparatus 10 operates, when the drawing area 80 and the function menu 82 are displayed on the display 24, the plotter can use the mouse 28 or the like in FIG. Enter The building equipment drawing creating apparatus 10 causes the graphic processing unit 48 to execute the drawing area 8 on the display 24 based on the input coordinate information.
The floor display line 62 is entered at 0 (step 110). The entry of the floor display line 62 is repeated for all floors.

Next, the equipment symbols installed for each floor are entered using the index list 61 of the equipment symbol storage unit 50 (step 112). Hereinafter, this detailed flow will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the building equipment drawing creating apparatus 10 calls up the index list 61 of the equipment symbol stored in the equipment symbol storage unit 50 (step 200) and displays it in the drawing area 80 of the display 24.

Next, the process waits until the device name to be entered is specified (step 202). This designation is performed by moving the arrow cursor 65 of the mouse 28 to an arbitrary position of the device name displayed in the index list 61 and then clicking the button of the mouse 28. In the present embodiment, an example in which "distribution board" is entered is shown.

Then, the process waits for designation of a position for displaying the distribution board symbol (step 204). This designation is performed by placing the arrow cursor 65 such as the mouse 28 in FIG. 1 at the center of the position to be displayed and clicking the button of the mouse 28. In the present embodiment, the distribution board is "2nd floor".
Here is an example of the arrangement.

In steps 202 and 204, when the device type and coordinates to be entered are specified, the distribution board symbol 64 is displayed on the device symbol display section 84 (step 206).

The entry of the device symbol is repeated for all the devices to be entered on the electrical device system diagram 60 (step 208).

As shown in FIG. 5, when the entry of the equipment symbol on the electrical equipment system diagram 60 is completed, the building equipment drawing creating apparatus 10 causes the other equipment drawing reference unit 88 and the attribute copying unit 68 to execute the electrical equipment plan view 36. Attribute information 2 from drawing data for
5 is copied (step 114 in FIG. 9). Hereinafter, this detailed flow will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the other drawing reference section 88 requests input of a floor to be referred to (step 300). In step 300, when the drafter inputs the number of floors to be referred to, the other-drawing reference unit 88 outputs the electrical equipment plan view data 21 of the specified floor.
(See FIG. 1) is called from the CMT device or the hard disk device 20 (step 302) and displayed on the display 24 as shown in FIG. 5 (step 30).
4).

Next, the attribute copying unit 68 makes a request to specify a device symbol from which attribute information is copied (step 30).
6) A request is made to specify a device symbol to be copied (step 308). Each designation request is made by displaying an arrow cursor 65.

When the operator designates the distribution board symbol 64A from the electrical equipment plan view 36 and designates the distribution board symbol 64 from the electrical equipment system diagram 60, the attribute copying section 6
8 are the distribution board symbols 64A to 64B.
Then, the attribute information of the device is copied (step 310). After this copying operation has been performed for all the equipment symbols in the referenced electrical equipment plan view 36 (step 312), the other equipment reference unit 88 deletes the electrical equipment plan view 36 being referenced on the display 24 (step 312). 314). This copying operation is performed for all floors (step 316).

When the load information is copied onto the electrical equipment system diagram 60, the path of the electrical trunk 76 is entered by the graphic processing section 48 (step 116 in FIG. 9). This route drawing is performed after the drafter designates “route arrangement” from the function menu with the mouse 28 and then moves the arrow cursor 6 of the mouse 28.
5 with the device symbol to be connected,
By clicking the button of No. 8, the plotting is performed.

When the drawing of the electric trunk 76 is completed, the size of the electric trunk 76 is calculated by totalizing the load information of all the devices connected to the electric trunk 76 (step 118 in FIG. 9). The detailed flow of this step 118 is shown in FIG.
2 will be described.

First, the load totaling unit 78 sequentially extracts load information from all devices connected to the electric trunk line 76 (step 400), and totalizes the extracted load information (step 402).

Next, the size of the electric trunk 76 is calculated based on the totalized load by the size determining section 79 (step 404).

The calculated size information of the electric trunk 76 is as follows:
Stored in the attribute information of the electric trunk line 76, the display 24
The size information of the electric trunk 76 is displayed above (step 120 in FIG. 9). This display method is as shown in FIG.
A type 76A along an electric trunk line or a type 76B to be displayed on an outgoing line can be created.

According to these procedures, the electrical equipment system diagram 60
The necessary drawing data is created, and a drawing image as shown in FIG. 6 is obtained. Finally, via the I / O port 18, FIG.
Is stored in the CMT device or the hard disk device 20 to complete the entire drawing operation.

As described above, the load information of each of the distribution boards 64, 70 and 72 arranged on each floor is copied from the drawing data of the electric equipment plan view 36 to the drawing data for the electric equipment system diagram 60. By totalizing the load information of each floor, it is not necessary to double-input the load information of the same device.

Next, taking the cooling water piping system diagram 90 shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 as an example, a procedure for creating the cooling water piping system diagram 90 by using the equipment symbol information of the created plan view will be described. I do. FIG. 7 is an example of a screen on which the cooling water piping system diagram 90 is being created, and FIG. 8 is a completed diagram of the cooling / heating water piping system diagram 90. Since the cooling water piping system diagram 90 has the same configuration as the electrical device system diagram 60, only the drawing procedure will be described.

The drawing procedure of the cooling water piping system diagram 90 shown in FIG. 13 is similar to the creation flowchart of the electric device system diagram 60 shown in FIG. Therefore, steps for performing the same processing are denoted by the same reference numerals as those in FIG.

First, the cooling water piping system diagram 90 is created from the entry of the floor display line 92 in the same manner as the electric device system diagram 60 (step 110).

Next, as shown in FIG. 1, the cooling water piping system diagram 9
The device symbol is written on the number 0 (step 113). The detailed flow will be described with reference to FIG.

In order to call out the floor plan data 21 of the floor to be quoted, the building equipment drawing making apparatus 10 requests input of a target floor number (step 500). In step 500, when the drafter inputs a floor number using a keyboard or the like, as shown in FIG.
The floor plan data 21 of the input floor is called out of the plan view data 21 stored in the MT device or the hard disk device 20 (step 502). Since the device diagram information 23 and the attribute information 25 are stored in the plan view data 21, the device symbol information 23 and its attributes are read and extracted from the plan view data 21 (step 504).

The extracted equipment symbol information 23 is output to the equipment symbol conversion unit 52, and is converted from the equipment symbol information for the plan view to the equipment symbol information for the system diagram (step 506). The converted device symbol information is
The data is output to the device symbol display unit 84, and is displayed in the display frame 99 of the drawing area 94A by the device symbol display unit 84 as shown in FIG. 7 (step 508). In FIG. 7, the pump symbol 96 and the refrigerator symbol 98 on the first floor are shown.
Are extracted and displayed, and displayed as a device symbol group 100.

Then, the equipment symbol moving section 85 requests designation of the equipment symbol of the movement source (step 51).
0), a request for designating the center coordinates of the destination device symbol is made (step 512). The drawer moves the device symbol to the drawing area 94A by designating the device symbol to be moved and the coordinates of the destination from the displayed device symbol group 100 (step 514). After the movement of the device symbols has been performed for all the device symbols (step 516), the display frame 99 of the device symbol group 100 is deleted (step 518). This quoting work is performed for all floors (step 520).

Then, in step 116A of FIG. 13, the pump symbol 96 connected to the piping symbol 93 is connected. Step 116A is the same as step 116 in FIG. 9, and is performed by designating a device symbol to be connected with the mouse 28 or the like.

Then, from the attribute information of all the pump symbols 96 connected to the piping symbol 93, the flow rate information of the water flowing into the piping is totaled. The size of the piping symbol 93 is calculated based on the collected flow rate information (step 118A). Step 118A is the same as step 118 in FIG. Finally, the calculated size of the piping symbol 93 is displayed near the piping symbol 93 on the cooling water piping system diagram 90 (step 120A). The completed system diagram data 27 is stored in the CMT device or the hard disk device 20 via the I / O port 18, and the operation of creating the cooling water piping system diagram 90 ends.

As described above, the device symbol information is extracted from the created drawing data for the plan view, converted into the device symbol information for the system diagram, and then displayed on the display 24. Then, by moving the device symbol on the system diagram, entry omission of the device symbol is eliminated, and the efficiency of creating the system diagram is improved.

[0064]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, when a building equipment system diagram is created , the load information of the device attribute information for the building equipment floor plan that has been created is used for the building equipment system diagram. Is copied as the load information of the device attribute information . And
By totalizing the loads of all the equipment symbols connected to the connecting members and determining the size of the connecting members based on the totalized load, it is not necessary to double-input the same information. The effect is obtained that the production efficiency is improved.

[0065]

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a main part of a building equipment drawing creating apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an overall perspective view of a building equipment drawing creating apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a screen example of a plan view created by the building equipment drawing creating apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an example of a screen on which equipment symbol information is created by an index list on a drawing screen of an electrical equipment system diagram created by the building equipment drawing creating apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an example of a screen showing a plan view of an electric device in a drawing screen of the electric device system diagram of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a completed view of the electrical equipment system diagram of FIGS. 4 and 5;

FIG. 7 is an example of a screen in which equipment symbol information for a plan view is quoted in a cooling water piping system diagram being created by the building equipment drawing creating apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a completed view of the same cooling water piping system diagram as FIG. 7;

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a procedure for drawing an electrical equipment system diagram.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing details of a device symbol drawing procedure in FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing details of a procedure for copying load information in FIG. 9;

FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing details of a main line size determination procedure in FIG. 9;

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing a procedure for drawing a cold and hot water piping system diagram.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing details of a device symbol drawing procedure citing device symbol information for a plan view in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Building equipment drawing creation device 68 Attribute copy unit (information copy unit) 78 Load total unit (load total unit) 79 Size determination unit (size determination unit)

Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Ryoichi Arai 8-21-1, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo Inside Takenaka Corporation, Tokyo Head Office (72) Inventor Toshifumi Suzuki 1-14-1 Kita-Otsuka, Toshima-ku, Tokyo Date Otsuka Otsuka Building Technodia Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Ryuichi Ueda 1-1-13 Kita Otsuka, Toshima-ku, Tokyo Nihon Seimei Otsuka Building Technodia Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Hiroyuki Odaka Kita, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 1-134 Otsuka Nihon Seimei Otsuka Building Technodia Co., Ltd. Examiner Yukio Tanaka (56) References FUJITSU ICAD / BLD4 Manual (Building Design Support System) April 1990, pages 123-152, “6. Chapter Equipment Design Subsystems "Building Equipment and Plumbing Work Volume 27 No. 12 57-61 Osamu Kondo" Automation of Equipment Construction Drawings "The 30th IBM User Symposium Papers 109-128 Pages Ichitaka Onozuka et al. Development of Data System (ME ISTER) "(58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G06F 17/50 650

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A building equipment plan view showing a relation of equipment installed on each floor of a building having a plurality of floors on the same floor;
A building equipment drawing creating apparatus for creating a building equipment system diagram representing a relationship between each floor of the equipment connected by a connecting member, wherein the building equipment flat is created at the time of creating the building equipment system diagram.
The attribute of the device in the
Sex information, an information copying means for copying as attribute information <br/> of the equipment in building equipment system diagram, of all devices connected to the common of said connecting member, the information double
By summing the load information included in the attribute information copied by the copying means , a load summing means for obtaining a load on the connection member, and a load summation means for the connection member based on the load obtained by the load summation means. A building equipment drawing creating apparatus, comprising: a size determining means for determining a size.