• Eplan P8 Vs Autocad Electrical
• Autocad Vs Autocad Electrical

Hi I’m currently evaluating a number of electrical wiring packages for Electrical CAE. I’m initially looking at PC-Schematic (£2,295), Zuken E3 (£2,290) and EPLAN Electric P8 (£4,700). Conversion of AutoCAD Electrical drawings to EPLAN format, no design work, just a straight like for like copy of existing design. Please contact me ASAP for more information, I need quotes urgently as part of costing process, though job is not for a few months.

• Company
  • About us

  • News
  • Press

  • Events
  • Partner
  • Career
• EPLAN Experience
• Industry
  • Automotive
  • Food & Beverage
  • Machine Tool Engineering
  • Oil and Gas

  • Panel Building
  • Power Engineering
  • Railway systems

  • Steel & Metal
  • Water & wastewater treatment
• Solutions
  • Mechatronic
  • Electrical engineering
  • Control cabinet and switchgear engineering

  • Fluid power engineering
  • PCT engineering
  • Configuration

  • Integration
  • Manufacturer catalogues

  • Product overview
• Services
• Support
  • EPLAN Solution Center

• Electrical engineering
  • EPLAN Electric P8

EPLAN Electric P8 is an electrical engineering design software program that offers unlimited possibilities for project planning, documentation, and management of automation projects. The automatic production of detailed reports based on wiring diagrams is an integral part of a comprehensive documentation system and provides subsequent phases of the project, such as production, assembly, commissioning and service with the data required. Engineering data from other project areas, such as fluid and pneumatic engineering, can be exchanged via interfaces within our CAE software. This therefore guarantees consistency and integration throughout the entire product development process.

EPLAN develop solutions for greater efficiency, putting integration and automation at everything it does by providing end-users with all the core functions required of an electrical design package, and easily-integrated additional tools that can be adapted for industry-specific processes; from fluid and pneumatic engineering to enclosure design.

As a result, EPLAN offers many advantages over traditional CAD packages. The main benefits include:

• The ability to automatically connect, mend or break lines
• Instantaneous device tagging and wire numbering
• Provision of point to point wire lists
• Automatic creation of reports and BOM's
• Provisions that go far beyond providing the software itself, for example, by offering our Data Portal which delivers online device data on over 500,000 components from leading manufacturers such as ABB, B&R, Mitsubishi Electric, Omron, Phoenix Contact and Schneider Electric.

Eplan P8 Vs Autocad Electrical

• Store unlimited, simple, complex or scalable schematics with ease
• Options technology
• Language translation
• Instant multi-user access
• Intelligent parts selection and management
• Conversion into electrical engineering standards including IEC, GHOST and NFPA
• Automatic conversion into PDF, DWG, XML files
• Data exchange with PLC
• Pre-schematic engineering
• Bus topology representation

EPLAN provides users with advantages throughout all project phases; from generating initial graphical layouts or plant overviews to creating schematics and other project information, independently of graphics. This is achieved as our electrical engineering software supports these different phases with equal priority. Users can automatically select the operation most suited to their requirements; providing continuous consistency in the project data, regardless of your method of design.

With comprehensive and individually configurable check runs, you determine how strictly EPLAN monitors the quality level of your documentation. In this way, the downstream stages of the process are provided with all of the required information – supporting continuous product creation from manufacturing, installation, commissioning, servicing and maintenance.

You concentrate on your engineering work, and EPLAN looks after the consistent management of project data. This enables you to quickly create high-quality machinery and plant documentation.

Recycling and standardisation are the keywords for saving time over the long term. Schematic macros for easy production of standardised partial circuits speed up your engineering process. EPLAN Electric P8 consistently goes a step further: partial circuits (macros) can contain graphical variants, different types of display and predefined value tables.

EPLAN Electric P8 supports global standards such as IEC, NFPA, the Russian GOST standard and the Chinese GB standard with appropriate master data and sample projects. The optional standard conversion ensures that you remain competitive as globalisation increases. Thanks to continuous Unicode capability, EPLAN Electric P8 provides schematics in any language on the basis of your individual translation databases – from Chinese circuit diagrams to Russian part lists, everything is translated online or as soon as the plant is complete.

The combination of standard functions and optional extensions in EPLAN Electric P8 allows you to optimise your entire planning process and increase the quality of your automation documentation in the long term.

Autocad Vs Autocad Electrical

• Graphical and device-oriented planning
• Automatic and individual DT allocation and connection numbering
• Automatic creation of cross references between
  • Interruption points, contacts, symbols and components, PLC’s
  • Single line, multi-line display and mounting layout
  • Different subsystems (E-technology, fluid power and I&C)
• Auto connecting and Smart connecting
• Macro variants, value sets and project-wide option technology
• Automated processing using scripts
• Integrated IEC, NFPA, GOST and GB symbol library
• Quick and easy navigation with “go to” and search function
• Mass editing of project data in Excel
• Undo and redo function
• Checking procedures for signalling logical planning errors
• Quick information and context-sensitive help
• Adaptable layer management for selective display of project data
• Navigators for rapid project data locating and direct processing
• Automatic addressing of PLC components (I/Os)
• Integrated part management with configuration of the part structure and SQL access
• Unicode capability for project creation and translation in any language
• Project, version and rights management

The functions and options always relate to the maximum configuration of the product.

EPLAN Pro Panel

Software solution for the 3D engineering of control cabinets and switchgear systems.

Are you interested in EPLAN Electric P8? Request further information from us if you would like to arrange for a product demo or to receive a price.

EPLAN Competence Centre
Braithwell Way Hellaby Industrial Estate
GB-Hellaby, Rotherham S66 8QY
+44-1709-704 100
+44-1709-730 285
info@eplan.co.uk
www.eplan.co.uk