Rapid Numbering System for Graphical Drawings Panel

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional drawing programs are inefficient for numbering graphical elements, as they require manual placement of text boxes and stem lines, leading to slow and time-consuming processes that reduce productivity.

Innovation Solution

A rapid numbering system for graphical user interfaces, utilizing a sequencer with a numbering schema, correlator, and geometric locator to automatically generate and display element numbers on a drawings panel, allowing for rapid and accurate numbering of graphical elements.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual placement of text boxes and stem lines is used for numbering graphical elements, then numbering accuracy can be achieved, but the process becomes slow and time consuming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenumbering accuracyVSAvoidnumbering speed

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automatic numbering where the software autonomously places text boxes and stem lines without requiring manual user intervention. The numbering system self-configures based on detected graphical elements, eliminating the need for users to manually position each number while maintaining accurate placement through automated detection and positioning algorithms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of dragging and dropping text boxes and stem lines with an automated computational system. The software uses algorithms to automatically detect graphical elements, generate numbers, and position them appropriately, substituting human manual operations with automated digital processing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Productivity

If automatic numbering is implemented, then productivity is enhanced, but the complexity of the system increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenumbering speedVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The numbering system is integrated into the existing drawing software environment, utilizing the software's existing capabilities for element detection, text rendering, and graphical manipulation. By leveraging the multi-functionality of the drawing program, the patent avoids creating a separate complex standalone system while achieving automatic numbering functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary numbering system that acts as a bridge between the user's graphical elements and the automated numbering process. This intermediary layer manages the complexity by handling the automated generation and placement of numbers while presenting a simple interface to users, effectively mediating between simple user input and complex automated processing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS9898453B1Machine controls for rapid numbering of graphical depictions on a display surface

Publication Date: 2018.02.20 ROWAN TELS CORP

AI summary

A process for rapid numbering of a drawings panel on a graphical user interface gathers geometric location information relative to a drawings panel from actions performed on a machine interface. The process generates an element number using a sequencer that has been configured with a numbering schema. The number is then associated with the geometric location of the action performed on the machine interface, and checks for any unnumbered graphical elements at the same location which it also associates with the number. The element number is stored to a number set and populated on the drawings panel at the geometric location of the performed action.