You can create personalized maps of your site and floor plans of your buildings, by importing their background image from image files.
Procedure
- From the Config Tool home page, open the Map designer task.
- Click Create.
- In the entity tree, select an area or a parking zone to attach your map to, or click New area.
- (Optional) Select the icon to represent your area with a map (Default = ).
- Click Next.
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For the type of map background, select the Image option,
and click Select file.
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In the file browser, select a file and click Open.
NOTE: Image files, PDF files, and AutoCAD (DXF and DWG) files are supported.The selected image is shown in the preview window.
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If necessary, select which layers or page to import, and then rotate and crop
the image.
NOTE: The wizard does not create one map per layout, you must do so manually.
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Click Advanced settings (), and set the following options:
- Resolution
- The resolution of the image.
- Background
- The background color of the image.
- Click Next.
- (Optional) If you are creating the map from an AutoCAD file, import map objects from the AutoCAD file.
- Click Next.
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Set your map scale using one of the following options:
NOTE: Instead of setting the map scale, you can georeference the map.
- Room
- Floor plan for a small area such as a cafeteria or an auditorium.
- Building
- Floor plan for a large area such as a building floor, a stadium, or a warehouse.
- Campus
- Site map for an airport, a mall, or a university campus.
- City
- City map. For example: Montreal, New York, Paris, London, Tokyo.
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Click Create to generate the map.
The created map is displayed in the Map designer workspace.
- If required, set a set a specific scale for the imported map image.
- Configure the default map view and other presets.
- Configure the default information to display when someone opens this map.
- In the Map designer toolbar, click Save ().