Room planning system and method
AssigneeThe West Retail Group Limited
InventorMalcolm Healey
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Abstract
A method 100, of adjusting component sizes in a room-space plan, comprises the steps of creating a room-space plan, having a boundary, inserting objects into the room-space plan, adjusting the layout boundary and modifying the size of one or more of the inserted objects, wherein the step of modification is applied only to objects which interact with at least a part of the adjusted boundary.
Claims18
A method of planning a room space, including arranging a plurality of components for cutting, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining one or more component locations in a room-space layout;
- determining a cut position relative to a standard component portion having a standard size value, to leave a remnant portion and a component portion, such that the size of the component portion and the remnant portion add up to the standard size value;
- and
- amending the cut position upon adjustment of the room-space;
- wherein, adjustments are made automatically to the remnant portion and the component portion.
A room-space design system for enabling a user to design a room-space from a plurality of design options, and for displaying an image of the design, the system comprising at least one host processor comprising a design unit;
- wherein the design unit is arranged in use to specify an component portion having an component portion size value (CP), derived from a standard component having a standard component size value (SC) to leave a remnant having a remnant size value (R), and wherein the component portion size value and the remnant size value add up to the standard component size value, such that an amendment to the component portion size value is automatically made to the remnant size value.
A method of adjusting component sizes in a room-space plan, the method comprising the steps of:
- creating a room-space plan, having a boundary;
- inserting objects into the room-space plan;
- adjusting the layout boundary;
- and
- modifying the size of one or more of the inserted objects;
- wherein, the step of modification is applied only to objects which interact with at least a part of the adjusted boundary.
An apparatus comprising a processor and a memory having therein computer readable instructions, the processor being arranged in used to read the instructions to cause the performance of a method of arranging a plurality of components for cutting, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining one or more component locations in a room-space layout;
- determining a cut position relative to standard component portion having a standard size value, to leave a remnant portion and a component portion, such that the size of the component portion and the remnant portion add up to the standard size value;
- and
- amending the cut position upon adjustment of the room-space;
- wherein, adjustments are made automatically to the remnant portion and the component portion.
An apparatus comprising a processor and a memory having therein computer readable instructions, the processor being arranged in used to read the instructions to cause the performance of a method of adjusting component sizes in a room-space plan, the method comprising the steps of:
- creating a room-space plan, having a boundary;
- inserting objects into the room-space plan;
- adjusting the layout boundary;
- and
- modifying the size of one or more of the inserted objects;
- wherein, the step of modification is applied only to objects which interact with at least a part of the adjusted boundary.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.