General Operations

EBSILON^®Professional is based on the Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) and supports the well-known standard features of Windows programs. It is designed in a document/view architecture like MS Office programs.

A document is the complete description of one cycle. It is stored in a binary file with the extension ".ebs".

If you want to move an EBSILON^®Professional cycle from one place to another (e.g. sending it through E-mail), you just have to transfer this ".ebs"-file.

The ".ebx" format is a combination of EBSILON^®Professionaland the Microsoft Excel format. This combined file stores the data of an EBSILON^®Professionaldrawing and the properties of the corresponding Excel sheet in one file. To create an ebx file, use the command "FileàExportàebx-Format" from the menu bar. To load an ebx-file, use the standard Open dialog and set file type to ".ebx" in this dialog.

Under "View"à"Application Look" it is possible to select various variants for the display of the Ebsilon windows.

Instructions for importing old cycles:

All cycles created with "Ebsilon 2000"- and "EBSILON^®Professional"-releases can be opened with the current version of EBSILON^®Professional. While saving, however, they are saved in the new format. so that opening them with a earlier release is not possible any more.

Cycles created under the DOS-Version of Ebsilon or with the first Windows NT-version cannot be imported directly by EBSILON^®Professional but else must be imported with Ebsilon 2000 (version 1.0 or 2.0) in an intermediate step and then saved in the Ebsilon 2000-format. Thereafter, they can be opened in EBSILON^®Professional.