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Import a panel drawing

Import a panel drawing, on My designs, makes a design from the PDF drawing a panel shop or avionics dealer drew for your panel, such as an Advanced Flight Systems drawing.

  1. On My designs, press Import a panel drawing.
  2. Press Choose the PDF and pick the drawing. It is read in your browser; only the panel's outline, its cutouts and their words are sent.
  3. On Check the drawing, each cutout is numbered on a map of the panel, and the table below proposes an instrument for each:
    • A blue box will be placed; a white one is left off.
    • Change a row with its list, or type in Or search the library to choose any instrument.
    • Choose Leave off for anything you will add yourself.
  4. Under Design name, name the design. The template the drawing names is chosen for you, marked named on the drawing; choose another from the list if it is not yours.
  5. Press Create the design. It opens in the designer with each instrument where the drawing has it.
  • Only the main panel is read. Enlarged views of parts of the panel elsewhere on the sheet are left alone.
  • The drawing needs to be a drawing, made by a drawing program, not a scan or a photograph.
  • Check each instrument in the designer, and add anything the drawing did not name.

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