โปรแกรมคอมพิวเตอร์เพื่อช่วยออกแบบการปูพื้นอาคารด้วยวัสดุสำเร็จรูป / อิทธิพล สิงห์คำ = Computer aided application for the design of floor covering using pre-fabricated materials / Ittipol Singkom
In building design, in addition to considerations of functional area, building decoration is an important factor since it reflects the buildings image and aesthetics. Design and choice of decor materials can indicate the quality of design and construction. However, materials used for building interior design come in various patterns and sizes while design work can be quite complicated. Difficulties may include, for example, calculation of floor space that is of an irregular shape, use of various kinds of covering materials, change in the starting location of floor covering, and use of materials in different angles. These factors have posed limitations and caused design work to be highly time-consuming for designers. Modular coordination in buildings has now become a popular approach that designers resort to in solving such problems. It helps make design work more convenient and more efficient.Designing floor covering materials is a kind of task that is directly relevant to the modular coordination in buildings, both in terms of material sizes and covering methods. To achieve the design objectives takes a large amount of time since it is necessary to determine the type of materials and the covering patterns, to provide accompanying drawings for construction, as well as to calculate the amount of materials needed. At present designing floor covering in buildings thus relies on estimates, which results in limitations in design and mistakes happen easily.The purpose of this research is to build a prototype software tool to help in designing floor covering using pre-fabricated materials that fit the modular coordination in buildings. The prototype tool is a computer software program developed with the use of the Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 program. The developed software has been used in designing covering methods, choosing materials, and calculating the amount of materials to be used. The software program has made floor covering design accurate and fast. It can be used during design stages as well as actual construction stages. It can also be applied to other parts of building construction design where modular coordination in building is used, such as wall covering and ceiling lining.
