Building Equipment Layout Generation for Passage-Aware Construction Models
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing building design systems lack a method to efficiently create construction model layouts that effectively simulate equipment and passage areas, leading to increased man-hours in the design process.
Innovation Solution
A construction-model-creating device that places construction and passage parts on a two-dimensional plane to ensure minimum required areas for equipment functionality overlap with passage parts, using an arithmetic device to automate the layout creation process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If construction model layouts are created manually to ensure equipment functionality, then layout accuracy is improved, but design man-hours increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically generates construction model layouts by computing the minimum required area for equipment functionality and optimizing the arrangement of construction parts and passage parts without human intervention, thereby reducing design man-hours while maintaining layout accuracy
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of layout generation from manual design to automated computation based on equipment functional requirements, transforming the design process into an algorithmic optimization problem that reduces time consumption while preserving accuracy
2Reliability
If construction parts and passage parts are arranged to ensure equipment functionality, then layout effectiveness is improved, but design complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the layout design problem into distinct components: construction parts representing equipment, passage parts representing access routes, and minimum required area representing functional requirements. This segmentation allows automated computation while maintaining layout effectiveness
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary computational layer that automatically generates layouts by processing equipment functional requirements and generating optimized arrangements, thereby reducing design complexity while maintaining layout effectiveness
Data Source
AI summary
A construction-model-creating device with reduced design man-hours is realized. In equipment specifications including at least a positional relationship with a passage, specifications not determined by a user are enumerated based on specifications determined by the user and search conditions determined by the user according to the search conditions, and at least one of layout candidates representing a positional relationship between the equipment in the building and the passage is generated. When one of the generated layout candidates is selected by the user, an in-building equipment construction model part group reflecting a position, an orientation, specifications, and so on of the selected layout candidate is generated.