10. Printing, drawing set and DXF

Drawing printout (one floor)

The Print button of the floor plan editor opens the print view of the saved drawing in a new tab. The following can be set:

the paper size (A4/A3) and the orientation;
the scale;
the content (Everything, Power plan, Low-current plan, Architectural base, or as the editor's layers);
the Elements shown menu picks by layer (walls, furnishings, symbol groups, run systems, dimensions, notes, cable IDs…) what goes on the sheet (the content then reads “Custom”);
the Labels menu sets the detail of cable labels (full / short: ID and circuit / none), device labels (full / short / none) and room labels (name and area / name only / none), and Resolve overlaps automatically: labels are moved, shortened or left out so they do not cover each other (identical cable labels on a shared trunk appear once);
showing the legend, the circuit list and the device designations;
the package setup (selection, order, paper size) is saved to the project on the server; as a reader it changes only in your own view; the program takes over the old browser settings once;
the Distribution board drawings group gives, per board, the single-line diagram, the enclosure view, the terminal schedule and the multi-line current-path diagram; the Calculation appendix group gives the supply, the limit values, the per-board summary and the per-circuit sizing table;
the revision and date columns of the title block, and the table of contents, show the revision per sheet (with floor / board / project scope); the Revision strip above the title block option writes the last 3 revisions above the title block;
the cover sheet (the first sheet by default) brings together the project data; the “Save as PDF” file name has the form <projekt>_<fázis>_<rev>; the data export (tervcsomag.json) also contains the setup;
Mark changes: a revision cloud is drawn around the devices and cable routes added or modified since the previous revision, with the revision mark in a triangle at the corner of the cloud (for the current state, with the next, not yet issued mark). For the first revision, and without revisions, there is nothing to compare with.

The sheet is produced in the project's document language (set on the project page, in the Title block section), regardless of the interface language: so an English drawing can be printed from a Hungarian interface, and vice versa. The drawing set, the schedules (PDF, XLSX, CSV), the quotation printout, the single-line diagram and the DXF are produced in the same language. At the bottom of the sheet there is a standard title block with the details of the designer, the company and the project (see the descriptions of the Profile and the Title block). The Print / Save as PDF button opens the browser's print dialog: to paper or to PDF. Every printed sheet carries the site name (avenler.com): on the drawing sheets, above the title block, on the right.

Drawing set

The Print drawing set item of the project page combines several sheets in one printout, with continuous page numbering:

the sheets can be selected by group: Floor plans, Floor plans by layer (e.g. power and low-current on separate sheets), Wall elevations, Legend and circuits, and the schedules (Cable schedule, Circuit schedule, Bill of materials);
the paper size, the orientation and the scale (Fit to sheet, 1:50, 1:100…) are common settings;
every sheet gets the same standard title block;
the Revision sheet is a table of the issued revisions (mark, date, issuer, note, changes), in chronological order;
the Changes since the previous revision sheet compares the issued revision with the previous one: it lists what is new, deleted or modified (a moved item is given in millimetres);
the Table of contents sheet (off by default) becomes sheet 1: it lists the sheets of the package with number, drawing number, title and scale;
the up/down arrows in the selector reorder the groups and, in multi-sheet groups, the sheets; sheet numbers, drawing numbers and the contents follow the order (the order is saved to the project);
under a plan sheet a reference points to the elevation and legend sheets ("See: Elevations: sheet 3–4 · Legend: sheet 5");
Mark changes can also be switched on for the floor plans of the drawing set (revision cloud);
with the State selector, an old revision can be printed instead of the current state (the Print button of the Revisions table also leads here): the sheets are produced from the revision's snapshot, a banner above the sheet says so (“Revision B (07/10/2026) – not the current state”), and the title block shows the revision mark and date, and the drawing number prefix and design stage at the time of issue. For an old revision, the schedules (cable schedule, circuit schedule, bill of materials) cannot be printed, because they are calculated from the current state.

The Revision field of the title block, if the project's title block has no manually entered value, is the mark of the most recently issued revision.

Utility documentation and technical description

For a Hungarian-market project, the Utility connection sheet appears under More settings on the project page (not for other markets): the connection site (address, parcel number), the distribution operator, the request and connection type, and the metering points (phases, existing and requested power, pre-meter breaker, the board assigned to the point) can be entered. The sheet is documentation data; the calculated demand comes from the board circuits, and a warning is shown if it exceeds the requested power. In the drawing set, the Utility documentation group adds three sheets: Connection data sheet, Power demand (per metering point) and Metering point diagram (the single-line diagram of the meter position). The Technical description is generated automatically from the project data (opened from the project page, a separate group in the drawing set); each block can be overridden, up to 10 custom blocks can be added, and Reset to automatic restores the original text. A note is shown if the automatic text has changed since the edit. A shared user with read access can only view it. All of this is an informative compilation, to be checked by the designer; it does not replace the distribution operator's own form. The sheets are produced in the document language.

Client link

You can create a read-only link to a quote or a plan package that the client can open without signing in. The client can view and print it; the link shows the frozen state at the time it was created. The link expires and can be revoked at any time; you see the full address only when it is created.

Single-line diagram and schedules

The single-line diagram of a distribution board and the schedules (cable schedule, circuit schedule, bill of materials) have their own print views, with the same title block; see the Distribution boards and the Take-off, quotation and schedules chapters.

Printing a quotation

In the print view of a quotation, the Floor plan at the end of the quotation checkbox also attaches the drawing sheets, with a short title block. On the cover page of the quotation, the site name is at the bottom edge; on the further pages, at the bottom of the page (the latter appears in Chrome and Edge).

Creating a PDF

There is no separate PDF generator: every print view uses the browser's Print / Save as PDF command. For the best result, in the browser's print dialog switch off headers and footers, leave scaling at 100%, and make the paper size match the one chosen in the view.

When signed in, the Documents → Protocol templates menu offers blank A4 record templates that print the same way, in four types: electrical safety inspection, measurement records (insulation resistance, protective conductor continuity, loop impedance, residual current device, earth resistance), handover and lightning protection inspection. The country can be changed with the selector above the list; templates are currently available for 15 countries (Hungary, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Czechia, Poland, Romania, United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium), the non-Hungarian ones in the market language, in English or in Hungarian. The templates are based on the legislation and official guidance of the country concerned, with the sources at the bottom of each sheet; where no verified source exists for a type, there is no template, and on templates marked “Partly verified” the items found only in standards are blank rows; the fields can be filled in on screen, but the entries are not sent to the server and are lost when you leave the page. The templates are informative only: the findings are given and signed by the authorised professional, and the program does not certify anything.

DXF export (for CAD programs)

An overview of exporting and of loading a DXF as an underlay is given on the DXF electrical design page. The DXF menu in the top bar saves the floor to a DXF file:

This floor, This floor – visible items only, This floor – devices without blocks.
The file is produced in the browser, from the drawing currently being edited (even if not yet saved), in mm.
Content: walls, openings, devices (as blocks by default), cable routes on layers by system and kind, conductor marking and circuit labels, stairs and risers, furnishings (on the BERENDEZES layer).
From the project page, all floors can be put into a single file, placed side by side.

The DXF can be opened with a CAD program (e.g. LibreCAD, QCAD).

IFC export (for BIM software): the IFC export button in the floor list saves the electrical devices and routes of all floors of the project into one IFC4 file in the browser (class, placement on the floor, properties). If the IFC import left a coordinate reference, the file uses the architect's coordinate system; otherwise the origin is 0. The All floors, with floor plan item also writes the walls, openings and rooms, so IFC import into another Avenler project restores the full floor plan and the devices (not the routes). Next to the architect's model use plain All floors, otherwise the walls are duplicated.