How to use DashEditor

For DashEditor v0.2.7. Windows 10/11.

1. Install

1. Download DashEditor-portable.zip (~29 MB) .
2. Right-click the ZIP → Properties → tick Unblock → OK. (Windows flags anything from the internet; unblocking here skips several prompts.)
3. Extract anywhere — e.g. C:\Tools\DashEditor\.
4. Double-click DashEditor.exe.

2. First launch

DashEditor tries to auto-detect your RaceStudio 3 install (stable at C:\AIM_SPORT\RaceStudio3\). It reads your user config directory so "Open config" already points at the right place.

• Without a license, the editor runs in demo mode: browse layouts, move elements around, but Save / Insert / Delete / Resize / New Page / CSV playback are locked.
• To activate, Help → License, copy your Machine ID, follow the link from your purchase email.

3. Open a config

1. File → Open config — DashEditor lists every .zconf2 in your RS3 user dir.
2. Pick one. DashEditor detects the target device automatically (MXG 1.2 Strada, MXG Strada, MXS Strada, MXS Strada Light, MXK 10, MXP, MXP Strada, Solo 2 DL, MyChron 5).
3. The correct background, bezel, and grid for that device load immediately.

4. Edit pages, elements, themes

Elements

• Left panel: every channel the .zconf2 carries (ECU, GPS, A/D, Accelerometer, Gyro, Odometer, Internal, Battery).
• Drag a channel onto the canvas to create a numeric field, bar, or graph.
• Select any element → properties panel on the right (font, colour, min/max, alarm thresholds).
• Drag to move, corner-handle to resize, Delete to remove. Ctrl+Z undoes everything.

Themes

• View → Theme designer — change colours, fonts, and the background image in a live panel; the canvas repaints as you tweak.
• Themes apply to the current layout. Save one and you can reapply to any future config.

Pages

• Tabs along the top of the canvas are pages (driver, tech, endurance, etc.). Right-click → New page / Duplicate / Clear.
• For PDM32 layouts: pages stack as multi-overlay — flip on the device just like here.

5. Export as .dashtheme

A .dashtheme is a portable bundle of the look you've built — colours, fonts, background, element styles. It does not include your channel mapping, so you can reuse the same theme across configs.

1. File → Export → Dash theme…
2. Pick a name and save. The bundle is a signed .dashtheme zip.
3. Share the file (email, Discord, whatever) or upload it to the gallery.

6. Install from the gallery

The public gallery lives at dasheditor.speedfreaks.no/templates. Five themes are seeded; more when people publish.

1. Browse → click a theme tile.
2. Click Install. Your browser launches a dashtheme:// link — the first time it'll ask which app to use. Pick DashEditor (it registered itself on first run).
3. DashEditor fetches the bundle, verifies the signature, and drops it into your library. Next time you open the theme designer it's there.

7. Send a debug report

Something broke? Save Kristoffer a round of email tennis:

1. Help → Send debug report…
2. Optional message — describe what you were doing when it went wrong.
3. DashEditor packs your settings, the last chunk of the log, your device list, and the currently-open config (you can untick this) into a ZIP.
4. Click Send. The ZIP is POSTed to this server and Kristoffer gets an email with a download link.

If upload fails (offline, firewall), DashEditor saves the ZIP to your desktop with the same name and you can email it to support@speedfreaks.no manually.

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