1. Getting started

Avenler is a browser-based program for building electrical installation designs: from the drawing it produces an itemized quantity take-off, a quotation, schedules and a printable drawing set. This chapter takes you from creating an account to preparing your first project.

Registration and login

1. On the home page or in the header, choose the Register button (/regisztracio).
2. Enter your e-mail address and your password twice, and accept the terms of service, the data processing agreement and the privacy notice (these are public and can be read without logging in).
3. A confirmation e-mail arrives at the address you gave. Click the link in the e-mail to activate your account.
4. You can then log in on the Log in page. If you tick Keep me logged in, the session lasts for up to 30 days; without it, it lasts until the browser is closed.
5. If you have forgotten your password, you can request a link for a new password on the Forgotten password page.
6. With the Continue with Google button (on both the Register and the Log in page) you can also register and log in with a Google account, without a separate password. For a new account, first tick the acceptance of the terms of service and the privacy notice. If you already have a password account with the same (Google-verified) e-mail address, Google is linked to it. If the page does not show the Google button, the operator has switched it off; logging in with an e-mail address and password keeps working as before.

If a new version of the terms of service or the privacy notice is published, after login the acceptance page asks you to accept it again.

Interface language

With the language selector in the header (the button shows the code of the language, e.g. HU), you can choose from forty-four languages: Hungarian, English, German, Romanian, Slovak, Polish, Slovenian, Czech, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch (also for Belgian users), Ukrainian, Russian, Icelandic, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Hindi, Arabic (the Arabic interface runs right to left), Korean, Turkish, Croatian, Serbian, Danish, Estonian, Latvian, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Kazakh and Kyrgyz. The whole interface (including the drawing editor, the distribution boards, the check, the quotation and the schedules screens) is available in all forty-four languages. When you are logged in, your choice is stored with your account (it follows you to another computer); without logging in, it stays in the browser; on your first visit the browser's language is used. The language also sets the format of numbers and dates, but not the symbol set of the drawings: you choose that separately for each project.

Printed and exported documents (drawing sheets, legend, single-line diagram, quotation printout, DXF, XLSX/CSV) take their language not from the interface but from the project's document language: you set it on the project page, with the title block data (see the Projects and floors chapter). So a designer working in the English interface can deliver a Hungarian design, and vice versa. Your own data (project name, room names, price list items, labels) are never translated.

Profile: company details and designer details

On the Profile page, it is worth filling in two groups of data before your first project:

• Company details: these appear in the “Contractor” box on quotations.
• Designer details: these appear in the standard title block of printed drawings. In a shared project, the owner's details appear in the title block.

Here you can also change your password, download all your data and delete your account (see the Sharing and privacy chapter).

On the Appearance card you can choose how the interface looks (default: Cool slate; also Calm, structured, Plain, Technical grid, Warm paper). The choice takes effect immediately and is kept in that browser; it is independent of light/dark mode.

You can also switch on the newsletter here (off by default, and a separate checkbox at registration); every newsletter has a one-click unsubscribe link at the bottom.

Preparatory settings

The left-hand menu has four pages that are worth reviewing before first use, because the take-off and the distribution boards build on them:

You do not have to fill in everything in advance: if something is missing, the take-off and the check warn you, and the warning leads to the place to fix it. The shared items, symbols and settings are managed by the administrator; your own ones override them.

What next?

On the Projects page you can create your first project, floor and drawing: this is the subject of the next chapter.

For an American (NEC) project, set the unit system and the electrical code system right at the start under More settings on the project page, or start from the US Starter House template; the details are in the Designing to the NEC chapter.

On your first visit, while you have no project yet, the Projects page asks what you would like to do now: I am drawing a floor plan (a new project), I am preparing a quotation and I am designing a distribution board (you start from a ready-made project template), or I will look around (the 5-minute introduction). Whichever you choose, the others stay available later. If you just want to look around, the examples on the home page show the drawing, quotation and material list of a fictitious apartment. The home page gallery shows five sheets of a sample project that you can enlarge; on the Sample plan package page (/minta-tervcsomag) the whole plan package can be opened and saved as a PDF, in the interface language.

If you would rather get to know the program by doing, use the buttons at the top of the Help page: the Tour walks you through the interface on a ready-made apartment, the Practice accompanies you while you draw by yourself on an empty practice floor; the Editor tour shows only the parts of the drawing editor.