Project and Resource Administration

You can use this function to open the Project and Resource Administration dialog box, where you can select the active project, create new projects, assign attributes to projects and change the path setting for the resources (office-specific or project-specific), amongst other things.

For Allplan Share projects you also have access to Bimplus project management as well as any associated tools.

If you work in a Allplan workgroup then as administrator you can manage users and their access rights as well as locking information for individual projects within the workgroup.

Open on a Project-Specific Basis

This function opens the Open on a Project-Specific Basis: Drawing files from drawing/building structure dialog box, in which you can, for example, change the status of drawing files or create building and drawing structures. If you are in the Layout Editor, the function calls the dialog box Open on a Project-Specific Basis: Layouts dialog box, in which you select the current layout, among other things.

Save

You can use this tool to save the current drawing file and the files open in edit mode or the current layout.

Edit

You can use this tool to open a drop-down list with general edit tools you know from other Windows applications.

Print Preview

You can use this tool to open print preview. The printout will be an exact match of what you see in print preview. You can define printer settings and margins, select the scale, add headers and footers, and specify how the elements look. In addition, you can change the paper size and orientation of the page.

Undo

You can use this tool to undo one or more actions. You cannot undo changes in dialog boxes.

Redo

You can use this tool to redo actions you have undone.

Repeat

You can use this tool to repeat the last tool you selected or one of the tools you selected most recently.

View

You can use this tool to open a drop-down list with tools for controlling what’s on your screen.

Window

You can use this tool to open a drop-down list with tools for using and arranging viewports.

Defaults

You can use this tool to open a drop-down list with tools for defining office standards and default settings for your daily work with Allplan. In addition, you can open a dialog box in which you can define keyboard shortcuts for all Allplan tools.

Customize Quick Access Toolbar

You can use this tool to open a drop-down list for arranging the tools on the Quick Access Toolbar.

In addition, you can customize the user interface or show and hide the menu bar all the time. Remember: You can use the Alt key to temporarily show the menu bar.