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After some feedback from my students I've finally invested time and energy to create this EPLAN beginner's course. Only the essentials, only EPLAN (no design this time).If you're into learning the basics of EPLAN, the essential functions and sections to be able to create some decent circuit diagrams in EPLAN then you've come to the right place. Home / Head to Head / ePlan vs AutoCAD Electrical Comparison. EPlan vs AutoCAD Electrical Comparison. IB February 11, 2016 Head to Head No Comments. A peculiar topic and discipline in the field of CAD, from designing electrical circuits to laying out electrical schematics for a building, electrical CADing is a complete industry all together. Eplan is much more easier, much more concentrated and it has whatever you want from projects pre-planing to the very last steps of manufacturing. But let's not to forget about AutoCAD it's a very common software and lots of engineers are familiar with it. In my opinion AutoCAD is just a CAD software, but eplan is an engineering software. EPLAN Electric P8 is a consistent, integrated and fast engineering system for you to plan and design the electrical engineering for machines and plant systems. The software supports a wide variety of engineering methods: from manual creation through to standardised and template-based approaches. Electric P8 offers training via documentation, and webinars. Electric P8 is engineering software, and includes features such as 2d drawing, 3d modeling, chemical engineering, civil engineering, collaboration, design analysis, design export, document management, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, mechatronics, and presentation tools.
: Solutions – Integration – EPLAN Vault Integration
- Integration
Integrated engineering requires transparent, uniform data management in all disciplines. EPLAN Vault Integration builds bridges between electrical engineering, fluid power and mechanical engineering. Now, in addition to the mechanical data from, e.g. AutoCAD® Mechanical and AutoCAD® Inventor®, electrical engineering and fluid engineering projects from EPLAN Electric P8, EPLAN Fluid and EPLAN Preplanning can also be managed. The data management can be handled more efficient, costly errors can be avoided, testing and approval procedures can be implemented quickly.
Implementation
Eplan Cad
An advance workshop and customer-specific implementation are required.
Features and advantages at a glance
- Secure storage and management of EPLAN projects in Autodesk® Vault
- Use drag & drop to directly store or import EPLAN projects into Autodesk® Vault
- Management of header data in Autodesk® Vault
- Bi-directional interface to synchronize parts metadata
- Viewing of EPLAN projects in PDF format using the standard integrated viewer
- Opening of EPLAN projects via Vault Client
- Display of parts lists and bill of materials in Vault
- Revision management in Autodesk® Vault
New ways to efficient engineering processes!
A new graphical user interface, increased ergonomics and enhanced macro technology are all hallmarks of the new EPLAN Platform, Version 2.8. A new portal directly integrated into the software solution welcomes users upon start-up. Offering comprehensive information, it includes tips and tricks that make users’ everyday work easier, as well as news and innovations from the EPLAN product portfolio, tutorials, details about training opportunities and more.
Individual systems such as EPLAN Electric P8 are showcasing new features. The first step includes improvements in the bidirectional interaction between EPLAN and TIA Portal. In Nuremburg, users can discover how the AutomationML format more effectively supports round-trip engineering, which optimizes the configuration of PLC data.
In the “Edit terminal strip” dialogue, users will soon be able to assign several alignable accessories at the same time. All devices selected in the appropriate context menu are then assigned to the marked terminal strip.
Eplan P8 Vs Autocad Electrical Panel
With a new menu item, users can now transfer configuration projects—for instance the data for a PLC box—to the corresponding bus ports, eliminating the time-consuming task of manually inputting the data for each individual port. Potentially existing bus port entries are hereby updated. If an individual bus port is assigned to another configuration project, this value can then be manually changed, all of which provides more flexibility in engineering.
EPLAN Electric P8 users could previously only input bus data for single-line network/bus wiring cable connections. What’s now available to users in the properties dialogue for bus connections is the “Bus data” tab for all representation types. This allows bus data to be input into the schematic and displayed without a single-line representation being specified. Bus data are no longer deleted when changing the representation type. This provides more freedom within a project.
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