Importing PAL files

Using Content

Program: Allplan 2016

PAL files are RGB color palette files. You can select them in the Select RGB Color dialog box.

To import PAL files

1. Download the file.
2. Decompress the file and save it in any folder on your computer.

   Tip: It makes sense to use the same folder for data of the same format.

3. Determine the path to the std folder of your Allplan installation. To do this, open the Services application, select Hotline Tools on the Service menu and choose showcfg.
4. Start Windows Explorer and copy the PAL file into the office folder.
5. Start Allplan 2016.
6. Open a tool that you can use to select an RGB color, Fill, for example.
7. Click Properties.
8. Click the Color system button and choose Custom RGB color palette.
9. Select the new color palette.

Saving custom color palettes as PAL files

To create your own RGB color file

1. Click a tool that you can use to select an RGB color, Fill (How), for example.
   

   Activate Fill in one of the following ways

   • Menu bar: Create Draft

   • Toolbar: Basic Tools Draft flyout
   • Palette: Tools Create area in the following module(s):

   Draft

   Paint

2. Click in the Properties color box.

   The Select RGB Color dialog box opens.

   Note: If the Color Gradients and Transparency dialog box is displayed, click the Reduce << button.

3. Click the button to the right of Color system and choose Custom RGB color palette.
4. Click the button beside Color file and select New color palette.
5. Enter a name for the palette and additional information in the New Color Palette dialog box.

   Allplan uses this name to save the color palette as a *.pal file in the $STD folder (office standard). Any additional information you entered is displayed when you select the color palette.

6. To define colors for the new color palette, do the following:
   • Click in the color overview box and select a color or define the color using the slide bars.
   • Enter a name for the new color in the New entry box and press ENTER to confirm.

     This adds the new color to the palette and saves it.

7. Repeat step 6 and define more colors.

To provide your planning partners with custom RGB color files, you can select and back up the required *.pal files using the Services application. Select the Data Backup menu, Create, Individual files, Office standard.

Your planning partners can then import the files using the Services application (Data Backup menu, Import, Office standard).