Export to Image Format

Need your drawing as an image – for documentation or a presentation? Choose Outputs - Export or click this icon: icon: export as image.

A window appears where you choose exactly what to export:

  • Whole document including the title block – the complete drawing with its title block.
  • Whole document without the title block – just the diagram itself.
  • Used part of the document – the program automatically finds the smallest area that contains all symbols and graphic objects.

After you confirm with OK, another window appears where you choose the target folder and the image format.

Supported Formats

  1. Bitmap (BMP) – a raster format that takes up a lot of disk space.
  2. PNG – a compressed raster format with much smaller files than BMP.
  3. EMF – a vector format with the smallest file size. An excellent choice especially for large drawings.

Pasting a Drawing into MS Office

You can transfer the drawing directly to another program without saving it to disk:

  1. In ProfiCAD, choose Edit - Copy to the clipboard as an image or press Ctrl + B.
  2. Switch to e.g. MS Word and press Ctrl + V.
  3. The image is pasted. You can change its size, position, background color, border, etc.

Note

⚠️ When you export to EMF format, only the used part of the document is exported – the Whole Document and Used Part of the Document options give the same result. Need the whole page? Choose Whole Document + Frame and Title Block.

💡 Pro tip: Use the EMF format for inserting drawings into Word or PowerPoint. Unlike PNG, it does not become pixelated when enlarged, and the file is much smaller.

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