Patent Application
20230130362
This application is based on and claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119 to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2021-0144969, filed on Oct. 27, 2021, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
The present invention relates to a method of automatically generating an electronic drawing by using strength calculation data.
In the related art, users check data about strength calculation results obtained using a strength calculation program and then manually generate drawings by using a drawing tool of an AutoCAD program by manually inputting the data piece by piece into the AutoCAD program.
One or more embodiments include a method of automatically generating electronic drawings of a shape of a tank by using strength calculation data, nozzle data, and other related data.
Additional aspects will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be apparent from the description, or may be learned by practice of the presented embodiments of the disclosure.
According to one or more embodiments, a method of generating an electronic drawing includes: extracting, by a preprocessing unit, design data necessary for preparing drawings of a tank from strength calculation data about the tank provided by a strength calculation program, converting, by the preprocessing unit, the extracted design data according to a given rule or reference, and generating, by the preprocessing unit, strength calculation data having a preset format; loading, by a loading unit, at least one of the strength calculation data having a preset format, firefighting data, and nozzle data; validating, by a validation unit, the strength calculation data having a preset format, the firefighting data, and the nozzle data; generating, by an engineering data generating unit, engineering data by using the strength calculation data having a preset format, the firefighting data, and the nozzle data;
providing, by a viewer, a preview of drawings of items constituting the tank based on the engineering data; and determining, by a controller, whether an error occurs in the preview, and when it is determined that an error occurred in the preview, performing validation or editing of the engineering data, and when it is determined that no error occurred in the preview, generating, by an electronic drawing generating unit, electronic drawings of items constituting the tank.
In an embodiment, the loading unit may include a first loading unit configured to load only the strength calculation data having a preset format, wherein, when the first loading unit is activated and the strength calculation data having a preset format is loaded, the validation unit may be further configured to automatically validate the strength calculation data having a preset format.
In an embodiment, in the providing of the preview, a preview generating interface may be activated only after the strength calculation data having a preset format, the firefighting data, and the nozzle data are loaded and the engineering data is generated, and when the preview generating interface is activated, the preview of the drawings of the tank may be provided.
In an embodiment, a display unit may be configured to provide a preview generating interface, and the preview may be provided when the preview generating interface is activated, and the controller may be further configured to determine whether an error occurred by checking an interference, placement, and scale between the nozzle, structure, and plates of the preview.
In an embodiment, the validation unit may be further configured to validate blank items, a tank implementation range, and tank retention data.
In an embodiment, the validation unit may be further configured to validate a radius and a height of a nozzle based on the nozzle data.
In an embodiment, the viewer may include: a drawing list displaying a list of drawings of the items constituting the tank when a preview generating interface is activated; and a shape display section displaying shapes of the items selected from the drawing list.
In an embodiment, the engineering data generating unit may be further configured to generate the engineering data and store the engineering data in an engineering data file having a first format, and the engineering data file may include a plurality of sheets of preset items.
The above and other aspects, features, and advantages of certain embodiments of the disclosure will be more apparent from the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout. In this regard, the present embodiments may have different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the descriptions set forth herein. Accordingly, the embodiments are merely described below, by referring to the figures, to explain aspects of the present description. As used herein, the term “and/or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items. Expressions such as “at least one of,” when preceding a list of elements, modify the entire list of elements and do not modify the individual elements of the list.
Hereinafter, embodiments will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those of ordinary skill in the related art may clearly understand the scope of the present disclosure and may easily implement the idea of the present disclosure.
The electronic drawing generating device 100 may include a controller (not shown), a plurality of loading units 110, 112, and 114 (hereinafter, also referred to as strength data loading unit 110, nozzle data loading unit 112, and firefighting data loading unit 114), a data validation unit 120, an engineering data generating unit 130, an editing unit 140, a preview generating unit 150, an electronic drawing generating unit 160, and an output unit 170.
According to an embodiment, the electronic drawing generating device 100 may generate engineering data in the engineering data generating unit 130 by using data received through a plurality of loading units 110, 112, and 114, validate data through the data validation unit 120 in the process of loading data before generating, after generating, or to generate engineering data, and correct an error of data through the editing unit 140. When engineering data is generated in the engineering data generating unit 130, based on the generated engineering data, an object of the tank to be drawn may be selected and a preview of an electronic drawing of the selected object may be identified through the preview generating unit 150, and when an error occurred, data may be validated through the data validation unit 120 or the error may be corrected through the editing unit 140. Thereafter, the electronic drawing generating unit 160 may be activated to generate the electronic drawing, and the electronic drawing may be output through the output unit 170 when necessary.
According to an embodiment, the controller may be implemented to control functions of the plurality of loading units 110, 112, and 114, the data validation unit 120, the engineering data generating unit 130, the editing unit 140, the preview generating unit 150, the electronic drawing generating unit 160, and the output unit 170. For example, when strength calculation data loaded from the engineering data generating unit 130 is used, the data validation unit 120 may be controlled to be automatically executed. In addition, when nozzle data loaded from the engineering data generating unit 130 is used, the data validation unit 120 may be controlled to be automatically executed to validate whether the radius and height of the loaded nozzle data is appropriate.
In addition, the controller may determine whether an error occurs in the preview generated by the preview generating unit 150, and when it is determined that an error occurred in the preview, validation or editing of the engineering data may be performed, and when it is determined that no error occurred in the preview, the controller may control the electronic drawing generating unit 160 to generate electronic drawings of items constituting the tank.
Hereinafter, each configuration will be described in more detail with reference to
According to an embodiment, the plurality of loading units 110, 112, 114 may include a strength data loading unit 110, a nozzle data loading unit 112, and a firefighting data loading unit 114.
According to an embodiment, a preprocessing unit (not shown) may extract design data necessary for preparing drawings of the tank from the strength calculation data about the tank provided by a strength calculation program, convert the extracted design data according to a given rule or reference, and generate the strength calculation data having a preset format.
The preprocessing unit (not shown) may be implemented in the electronic drawing generating device 100 or in an external terminal and may provide the strength calculation data having a preset format generated in the preprocessing unit to the electronic drawing generating device 100 through wired or wireless communication with the electronic drawing generating device 100. An example of a strength calculation program may include an AMETank program.
The preprocessing unit may extract and match data to extract only design data necessary for preparing drawings of the tank from the strength calculation data. For example, the strength calculation data may be generated by extracting data from a plurality of preset positions of a file including the strength calculation data, matching the extracted data to letters of preset positions of the strength calculation data, and extracting data value regarding the matched letters.
According to an embodiment, when the strength calculation data is provided in a Microsoft Word file in the AMETank program, the preprocessing unit may convert the strength calculation data to a mapping table format having a csv or xls format as in
For example, the term “APPLIED CODE” may be extracted from a preset position among the strength calculation data, and data matching therewith such as “Design Basis” and “API-650 13th Edition, March 2020” may be mapped by being entered on the right side of a diagram. Thereafter, units appropriate for each data may be additionally mapped or notations of each data may be standardized and additionally entered on the right side to display data necessary for preparing drawings.
The strength data loading unit 110 may load strength calculation data generated by the preprocessing unit and having a preset format. An example of the strength calculation data having a preset format is described with reference to
According to an embodiment, the nozzle data loading unit 112 may load nozzle data. An example of nozzle data 400 is described with reference to
The firefighting data loading unit 114 may load data related to firefighting.
The engineering data generating unit 130 may generate the engineering data based on data loaded from the plurality of loading units 110, 112, and 114, and the engineering data may be stored in the format of an engineering data sheet. The format of the engineering data sheet may be xls, csv, or the like.
The engineering data generating unit 130 may generate the engineering data sheet by sequentially loading data having different forms from each other. According to an embodiment, the engineering data generating unit 130 may load and then enter the strength calculation data having a preset format to a position of the engineering data sheet where the strength calculation data is necessary. Thereafter, the engineering data generating unit 130 may load and then enter the nozzle data or the firefighting data to a position of the engineering data sheet where the nozzle data or the firefighting data is necessary.
Referring to
In this manner, the engineering data generating unit 130 may generate engineering data, and the generated engineering data may be validated through the data validation unit 120 (refer to
According to one or more embodiments, the engineering data generating unit 130 may sequentially load data necessary for preparing drawings of the tanks, as shown in the embodiment of
According to an embodiment, when the engineering data generating unit 130 stores the engineering data sheet after generating the engineering data, the engineering data generating unit 130 may provide a data editing unit 700 (refer to
According to an embodiment, when the engineering data generating unit 130 loads the strength calculation data having a preset format, the data validation unit 120 is automatically activated and validates the loaded strength calculation data having a preset format. An example of validating the strength calculation data is described with reference to
According to an embodiment, the data validation unit 120 may include a strength calculation data validation unit 600 (refer to
The strength calculation data validation unit 600 may provide a table 640 providing item names 610, values 620 matched to the items, and information 630 about the validity of the values matched to the items.
The information 630 about the validity of the value 620 of the name 610 of the item constituting the tank and the validity of a range may be provided. Also, it is validated whether the value 620 that is necessary is left empty. ‘Range Error’ indicates a value being out of range, ‘Value Error’ indicates a value being changed, such as a character being entered instead of a number, and ‘Blank Error’ indicates a necessary value that is left empty.
When the engineering data sheet is generated, the engineering data generating unit 130 may generate, based on the generated sheet, the data editing unit 700 (refer to
The important data validation unit 800 may provide, as a table, an error type 810, a sheet in which the error occurred 820, a name of the item in which the error occurred, and a value and information of the item in which the error occurred. For example, referring to the example of
According to an embodiment, the preview generating unit 150 (refer to
The viewer may include a split screen 1110 providing the drawing list and a shape display section 1120 displaying shapes of drawings selected from the drawing list. The drawing list indicates a list of drawings of the items constituting the tank. The viewer may provide a magnifying glass function, a partially magnifying function, a zoom function, a panning function, a ZoomFit function, and the like. The viewer may also provide a ‘REBUILD’ function for redrawing a drawing, a ‘REGENERATION’ function for expressing curves in detail, an ‘ENVIRONMENT’ function for providing information such as a layer, line, text, and block of a drawing, and a ‘CREATE DRAWING’ function for generating an electronic drawing.
The drawing list may be preset in the following form:
According to an embodiment, the controller may determine whether an error occurs by checking an interference, placement, and scale between the nozzle, structure, and plates, and when an error occurs in the preview, a part where the error occurred may be displayed on the viewer. In this case, the controller may activate the data validation unit or the data editing unit to perform validation or editing of the engineering data. When no error occurred, the controller may control, for example, a ‘CREATE DRAWING’ button to be activated, or electronic drawings of the items constituting the tank to be automatically generated.
The electronic drawing generating unit 200 may include a controller (not shown), a plurality of loading units 210, 212, and 214 (hereinafter, also referred to as strength calculation data loading unit 210, nozzle data loading unit 212, and relative data loading unit 214), an important data editing unit 216, a plurality of data validation units 222, 224, and 226 (hereinafter, also referred to as strength calculation data validation unit 222, important data validation unit 224, and detailed data validation unit 226), preview generating unit 250, an electronic drawing generating unit 260, and an output interface 270. The electronic drawing generating unit 200 may further include a path information providing unit 280 for displaying a path of a loaded file.
The plurality of loading portions 210, 212, and 214 may include a strength calculation data loading unit 210 for loading strength calculation data, a nozzle data loading unit 212 for loading nozzle data, and a relative data loading unit 214 for loading other relative data necessary for preparing drawings of the tank. The related data loading portion 214 may load firefighting data, previously generated engineering data sheet, and the like.
The important data editing unit 216 will be described with reference to
When the engineering data is generated and the engineering data sheet is stored by the engineering data generating unit, the data list unit 710 may display a list of datasheets selected from among engineering data sheets as important datasheets according to a preset reference. The user may select a datasheet he/she intends to confirm from among the list of datasheets. Referring to
The plurality of data validation units 222, 224, and 226 may include a strength calculation data validation unit 222, an important data validation unit 224, and a detailed data validation unit 226. The strength calculation data validation unit 222 is described with reference to
When correcting data that is not validated by the strength calculation data validation unit 222 or the important data validation unit 224, the detailed data validation unit 226 may correct the data by opening the engineering data sheet as shown in the example shown in
In an electronic drawing generating unit, the preprocessing unit may extract design data necessary for preparing drawings of the tank from the strength calculation data about the tank provided by a strength calculation program, convert the extracted design data according to a given rule or reference, and generate the strength calculation data having a preset format (S1210). The loading unit may load at least one of the strength calculation data having a preset format, the firefighting data, and the nozzle data (S1220). Thereafter, a validation unit may validate at least one of the strength calculation data having a preset format, the firefighting data, and the nozzle data (S1230). The engineering data generating unit may generate engineering data by using the strength calculation data having a preset format, the firefighting data, and the nozzle data (S1240). The engineering data generating unit may correct the strength calculation data having a preset format, the firefighting data, and the nozzle data in the process of generating the engineering data, and the strength calculation data having a preset format, the firefighting data, and the nozzle data may be validated and corrected after the generation of the engineering data as well.
In addition, when the user activates the preview generating interface 250 (refer to
A method of generating an electronic drawing may include: determining, by the controller, whether an error occurs in the preview, and when it is determined that an error occurred in the preview, performing validation or editing of the engineering data, and when no error occurred in the preview, generating, by the electronic drawing generating unit, electronic drawings of items constituting the tank.
The methods of the embodiments may be implemented in the form of program commands which are executable using various types of computers and may be recorded in a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable medium may include one selected from the group consisting of program commands, data files, data structures, and combinations thereof. The program instructions recorded on the medium may be specially designed and configured for the present disclosure, or may be selected from program instructions known and available to those of ordinary skill in the computer software industry.
In the device and method for automatically generating electronic drawings according to the present disclosure, users do not need to check strength calculation data directly from documents or electronic files, and manually generate drawings by directly inputting the identified strength calculation data by using drawing tools of an AutoCAD program. In addition, errors caused by missing data or the like in the process of manually generating drawings may be prevented.
In addition, a long design or drawing time necessary for users to extract drawing data piece by piece and input the extracted drawing data may be saved, and thus the overall manufacturing period may be reduced.
It should be understood that embodiments described herein should be considered in a descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation. Descriptions of features or aspects within each embodiment should typically be considered as available for other similar features or aspects in other embodiments. While one or more embodiments have been described with reference to the figures, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the disclosure as defined by the following claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 10-2021-0144969 | Oct 2021 | KR | national |
