The contact image settings can be pre-defined on a project-specific basis, but they can also be individually defined for every device. The component settings have priority over the project settings.

Define contact image settings on a project-specific basis

Precondition:

You have opened a project.

1. Select Options > Settings > Projects > "Project name" > Cross-references / contact image.
2. Select the General settings section.
3. In the Contact image table group box, enter the character for labeling the contact image table.
4. In this group box, you also enter the Width and Height values for the contact image table.
5. Select the Contact image on component settings section.
6. Here you define the defaults to be used when displaying contact images at the component.
7. Select the Show in tabular form check box if page number and column designation in the cross-reference are to be entered in tabular form; the table headings for NC and NO contacts are taken from the Contact image table: Labeling (General) settings section.
8. Select the Table cross with variable length check box if the table cross should be automatically adjusted to suit the maximum size of the contact image entries, in this case, the setting Contact image table: Width / height (settings area General) is not taken into account.
9. In the Rotation field, select the desired value if the contact image is to be displayed at a different angle to the default value.
10. If the part and / or type numbers on the contact image of the component are to be displayed at different positions, select the appropriate entries in the Display of 1st / 2nd part number and Display of 1st / 2nd part type drop-down lists.
11. Select the Contact image in path settings section.
12. Here you define the defaults to be used when displaying contact images in the component path. (The data entry possibilities are identical to those for contact images at components).
13. Click [OK].
    
    The settings are adopted.

Define the contact image at the component

Preconditions:

• You have opened a project and selected a schematic page for editing.
• You have used a double-click to open the properties dialog of a component for which you can define a contact image (e.g. general device, cable, or shield).

1. Select the In path or On component entry in the Display tab of the Property dialog from the Contact image drop-down list. 
   
   EPLAN displays the Contact image setting tab.
2. Select the Contact image settings tab.
3. Select the User-defined check box if you do not want to use the default settings from the project settings.
4. In the Display group box, define how the contact image for the currently selected device is to be displayed.
5. Click [OK].
   
   The contact image is displayed according to the component settings.

Change the contact image position

Precondition:

You have selected the In path or On component entry in the Display tab of the property dialog from the Contact image drop-down list.

1. Click [...] next to the Contact image drop-down list.
2. In the Contact image position dialog, select the Automatically aligned check box if EPLAN is to automatically position the contact image vertically below the associated main function.
3. Deselect the check box if you wish to define the contact image position yourself, and enter the distances by which the contact image is to be offset in the X position and Y position fields.
4. Click [OK].

See also

Tab Contact image setting

Dialog Contact Image Position

Dialog Settings: Contact image on component / Contact image in path