User preferences

You can make your personal settings in User Preferences in the Tech Tool menu. The languages and units that you can select are defined in central systems. This means that the number of languages available to select from may vary between different users.

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Set language

In this section, you select the default display language for Tech Tool. If the default language is missing for some reason (e.g. a new operation has not yet been translated), the secondary language will be used instead.

Note: If both the default and secondary languages are unavailable, English (United Kingdom) will be used instead.

  1. Select Default language.
  2. Select Secondary language.
  3. Click OK to save the settings and close the window.
  4. If a dialog box appears asking you to restart external applications, click Yes.

Set unit system

Units in Tech Tool can be displayed in Metric or U.S..

  1. Select Unit.
  2. Click OK to save the settings and close the window.
  3. If a dialog box appears asking you to restart external applications, click Yes.

Set connectivity

Note: This is only valid for Volvo Trucks, Volvo Buses, Mack Trucks and UD Trucks service information.

Checking the Impact box under Always use offline files from: makes it possible to view service information even if you are working offline. To do so you must be authorized to use both online and offline information, and offline information must be installed on the client.