Dialog Settings: Preview images

In this dialog, you specify the user settings for the generation of preview images for the Eplan master data. These preview images are displayed in the Windows Explorer preview window and are also used for functionalities in the Eplan Cloud.

Overview of the main dialog elements:

Check on startup whether master data without preview images exists:

If this check box is activated, Eplan checks whether master data without preview images is available when the program is started.
If this is the case, a prompt for the generation of preview images is displayed after the start. If you answer [Yes] to this prompt, you can then use the subsequent Generate preview images dialog to add preview images to the master data.

If the check box is deactivated, the master data is not checked for preview images during the program start. However, you have the possibility to call up the dialog for generating preview images at a later time (Tab Master data > Command group Synchronization > Generate preview images).

Reference project:

In order for the macros, symbols, etc. to be displayed correctly in the preview images, information on layers, symbols, user-defined properties, etc. is required when generating preview images. To this purpose, you have to specify a reference project that contains this information.

Enter the file path and the name for the reference project here, or select the reference project interactively by using . The reference project specified here is used as a default setting in the Generate preview images dialog.

After the installation, no project is entered in the field yet. However, when the Generate preview images dialog is called up, a project is preset. Eplan searches the installed master data for sample projects used by default and suggests one of them automatically as a reference project.

You can use the Insert path variable popup menu item to branch to the dialog Select path variable where you can select one of the available path variables.