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Layout Editor

You can use this tool to toggle between editing drawing files and editing layouts.

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Set Up Page

You can use this tool to specify the format, orientation and the margins of the page. In addition, you can define the layout border, title block and background as properties of the page.
If you have logged in as the administrator or as a user with administrator privileges, you can define additional page formats.

The page represents the area of the layout. The documents and elements that are within the printable area of the page and output device are included in the printout.

Layout Element

You can use this tool to address drawing files individually or as a fileset, in order to position them in the layout. You can define the scale, drop-in angle, font size, text direction, visibility settings for layers and the drawing type, if necessary.

NDW Layout Element

You can use this tool to place individual NDW files in the layout. You can define the scale, drop-in angle, font size, text direction, visibility settings for layers and the drawing type, if necessary.

Layout Window

You can use this tool to place sections of documents in the layout. A layout window may display portions from several documents at the same time.

Layout Border

You can use this tool to set the size and properties for the layout border and to place it.
If you have logged in as the administrator or as a user with administrator privileges, you can define new formats and/or new display parameters for layout borders.

Label

You can use this tool to label a layout. The label is created as a label style. This means that it will update automatically when you open the Layout module or prior to printing.

A label style is essentially an associative label. The contents of a label style update to reflect any changes you make to the properties of the element to which the label style has been applied.

Legend, Title Block

You can use this tool to create legends with the current layout and project attributes.
The program always creates the legends as associative legends to make sure that changes in the attributes update automatically. After having placed a legend, you can resolve it into its design entities.

Print Layouts

You can use this tool to print a layout.
If you have logged in as the administrator or as a user with administrator privileges, you can create or modify print profiles.

Export PDF Data

You can use this tool to save and archive one or more layouts as PDF files, which you can immediately open using the associated application. The transparency settings and layers set in Allplan are taken into account.

Export HPGL File, Bitmap File

You can use this tool to print one or more layouts to file in HPGL/2 monochrome or HPGL/2 color format.
In addition, you can save the current contents of the layout as a bitmap file.

Print HPGL File

You can use this tool to print layouts that you printed to file (known as a print file).

Layout Content Reports

You can use this tool to create reports that analyze the data of the documents placed in a layout.

Reports are used for analyzing data in Allplan. They are saved as templates in RDLC format.

Reports can be printed, placed as PDF files in documents and exported to Excel and other formats.
You can change the layout of reports and save the result as a new template.

Import Layouts

You can use this tool to import files from third-party systems like DXF, DWG, and DGN directly into the Layout module.

Export Layouts

You can use this tool to export layouts as a DXF, DWG or DGN file.

Import NID files

You can use this tool to import an NID (Nemetschek Internet Document) file. When the file is imported, a new project is created. This is to prevent any data in the current project from being overwritten.

Export NID files

You can use this tool to compress an entire layout into an NID (Nemetschek Internet Document) file. NID files are a convenient way of exchanging data with partner offices, for example.

Allplan Exchange Layout Distribution

You can use this tool to open Allplan Exchange, which helps you dispatch layouts. In particular you can specify who receives which layouts as well as define and manage the layout and project attributes of the current project.

Layout and Project Attributes

You can use this tool to define and manage layout and project attributes of the current project.

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List Layout Elements

You can use this tool to display a list with information about the documents already placed in the layout. You can modify the properties of the documents, alter the sequence in which the documents print, exchange documents or remove documents from the layout.

Move Page

You can use this tool to move the page over the layout. The page is displayed as a white area with a shaded border. This way, you can also print different parts of the layout on a small output device.

Update Layout

You can use this tool to adjust drawing files to the borders delimiting them.

Transfer Layer Visibility

You can use this tool to change the print set of drawing files placed in the layout. This way, you can generate different views of the layout without having to assemble a new one.

Modify Layout Window

You can use this tool to add documents to a layout window, move elements within a layout window, resize layout windows, edit documents in a layout window and explode layout windows.

Edit Drawing Files

You can use this tool to select one or more drawing files in the layout module for editing. When you open the drawing file(s), Allplan creates the Layout fileset, which contains the selected drawing files.