Inserting Image Files

Image files in the JPG, BMP, ICO, PNG, or TIFF formats can be inserted in EPLAN.

Precondition:

You have opened a project. You have opened an editor such as the graphical editor, the plot frame editor, etc.

Select the following commands: Tab Insert > Command group External > Image file.
In the Select image file dialog, select a file using the file selector.
In the Copy image file dialog, you decide whether the file should be copied into the project directory (that is, into the Images subdirectory of the project) or the source directory should be kept.
Click [OK].
Pull a frame open in which the image will be scaled.

The original page ratios are kept when placing.
You can change the display properties of the image file in the Properties (image file) dialog.
Click [OK].

Notes:

Only image files located in the project directory are saved when backing up the project.
When deleting a page, the image files copied into the project directory are not deleted.
Image files that have not been inserted into the project directory can be copied into the project directory by using the command Store documents (store external documents), and the links modified correspondingly. (To this purpose you first have to Customize the ribbon and then assign the desired command to a user-defined command group.)

If an image file has been deleted from its directory and can therefore no longer be displayed, a rectangle with the file path is displayed in its place.

Tip:

You can insert an image file using drag and drop, by dragging the selected image file from the Windows Explorer into the graphical editor of your project.