How to Export an EPLAN project to PDF

EPLAN project pages can be easily converted into the generally supported PDF format, which is ideal for sharing with colleagues or customers who do not have EPLAN themselves. The export itself is simple, but there are a few settings that are worth going through.

First, let's open the settings dialog in the path File > Export > Project Data > PDF.

In the subsequent dialog, we can see the main export settings and the pages that will be exported. In this case, we can only see the project name in the Source field, so we export the entire project. However, the export works contextually – you can export only the pages that we choose in the party navigator or use a filter, for example, to limit export for a customer or production.

The following is a diagram in which you can find detailed export settings. Click on the three dots and go through the two most commonly used items here.

The first is the page filter. For example, you can create two schemes (the ‘+’ button in the upper left), where one will use a filter that will remove the sheets that are intended only for production, and the other will be complete.

The second setting is colour. In the schemes, different types of connections and displays are distinguished by colour. But this is not always desirable when printed. It's therefore possible to select export in colour or ‘black and white,’ which exports all colours as black (except for embedded images that remain in colour). So there is no need to worry that light colours will be illegible in print.

Record changes

The PDF format is generally supported, it can be easily sent by email. Notes can also be added to it. But isn't there a better way to share projects with colleagues? A way that would allow online cooperation and comment on a specific version?

Try EPLAN eVIEW – a cloud application where you can upload projects directly from the EPLAN cloud environment and share them with selected colleagues or customers. They can then add their comments to the project and draw requirements that will be written back to EPLAN.

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