Creating The Engraving File - AMX KEYPADBUILDER Manual

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5. Click Update to set the values for your selected button. Clicking on another button before clicking
Update will drop all settings for your selected button. Repeat this for all of your buttons including
the LCD button.
6. Set the Configuration Options
It is important to set your blank and combined buttons before creating the engraving
file; they are included in the custom order you place with AMX.
7. Click OK to confirm the changes or Cancel to exit and drop all changes.

Creating The Engraving File

With a new KeypadBuilder project file open, click Engraving in the Navigation Pane.
1. By clicking on a button in the Keypad Device area, select a button you wish to engrave.
2. In the Font Selection drop down menu, select between placing a symbol, AMX Icon 2, or text, Arial
Unicode MS. There is a maximum of 10 characters per button.
The KeypadBuilder Engraving module supports the engraving of its listed supported
OS languages. You must have the language loaded on you OS and then use Unicode
to render the text on the button.
3. Set the size of either the symbol or text on the button. Click on the Scale drop down menu and select
in a range from 0.5 to 1.5.
4. Click Update.
5. To preview the .DXF file as it appears to the engraver, click Preview...
6. Click Export DXF File... to create the DXF file.
7. Within the Export DXF File dialog window, set the destination directory for the file. Either type or
click Browse to determine where to save the file.
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To create blank buttons, click Blank Buttons. Now click on any button in the Keypad Device
area to make it a blank. Making a button that previously held information blank drops all
configuration information. Click Blank Buttons again to exit mode.
To combine buttons, click Combine Buttons. Click on any button and it combines with the
button to its immediate right. The button configuration information of the right button is
dropped. Click Combine Buttons again to exit mode.
The Number field cannot be edited, it is set by the firmware for the keypad device
selected.
If you have already set the Button Configuration module, the Name and Menu Action
fields are populated.
If you selected Arial Unicode MS, type the text you want displayed in the Text field.
If you selected AMX Icon 2, the Symbol drop down menu is enabled. Either select the symbol
from the list or type the corresponding keyboard character in the Text field. Buttons can have
more than one character.
KeypadBuilder v2.1