Fine-tuning Label Locations in Engineering Drawings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Automatically placed labels in engineering drawings often overlap, leading to potential misunderstandings and increased risks of product loss or decreased productivity.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that fine-tune label locations in engineering drawings using a label location solving unit, which includes sub-units for solving line-line, frame-frame, and frame-line situations, to minimize overlapping and touching labels, with optional line length minimization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If labels are placed automatically by computer application, then labeling efficiency is improved, but label overlapping increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of label overlapping situations before final label placement is completed. The label location solving unit identifies potential overlaps and adjusts label positions in advance, preventing overlapping issues before they affect the final drawing output.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where the label location solving unit continuously monitors label positions and detects overlapping situations. Based on this feedback, the system automatically adjusts label locations to eliminate overlaps while maintaining efficient automated labeling.
2Loss of information
If label locations are adjusted to reduce overlapping, then label clarity is improved, but processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The label location solving process is segmented into distinct sub-units: a line-line situation solving unit for handling label line overlaps, a frame-frame situation solving unit for handling label frame overlaps, and a frame-line situation solving unit for handling frame-line overlaps. This segmentation allows each sub-unit to focus on specific overlap types, reducing overall processing complexity while improving label clarity.
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AI summary
A solution that automatically fine-tunes label locations in an engineering drawing is disclosed. The label locations are fine-tuned by performing a line-line solving process, a frame-frame solving process and a frame-line solving process according to a first order of the processes, and repeating performing the processes according to the first order as long as during performing the processes one or more frames have been moved to another location and a first repeat criterion is met. Each solving process repeats determining label pairs, and solving the problem in question for the labels in the pair as long as problematic label pairs can be determined and process-specific repeat criterion is met.