AutoCAD is the industry standard even though there are newer programs that are simpler and easier to use. Unfortunately, the company you work for dictates the software you will use. 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). I know there’s a lot more out there. Typically our builds are system integration jobs with thousands of wires and each job is normally a unique build. The most important criteria at the moment is producing decent wiring schedules from schematic diagrams. May look at 3D panel design in the future to automatically calculate the length of the wires and to cut, strip and ident them using something like a Komax machine. Price is an important consideration but choosing the right package has a higher priority. Any advice would be well received. Thanks Craig:D. Hi James Thanks for the reply. I choose not to include AutoCAD electrical in my initial assessments because it’s not designed from the bottom up to be an electrical CAE tool. And reading the posts comparing EPLAN and AutoCAD Electrical, EPLAN seems to come out on top. I’ve been trawling through the posts on here and other sites quite a bit, and EPLAN receives a lot of positive comments. I’m just wondering if it’s worth the cost if initially (and possibly in the future) I’m only going to be producing wiring schedules, although these these are for 1 - 4 bay 19 inch rack systems up to 43U in height. Recently in a new job and don't want to balls things up:nerves: Demonstrations for all three coming up in the next couple of weeks, quite looking forward to seeing what they can do. Hi Opeleg I’ve almost finished evaluating E3, after reading all the positive reviews about EPLAN, I thought EPLAN would be the obvious choice, but it’s now looking very close between the two. E3.Cable offers true hierarchy in the schematic design, which the other packages do not seem to offer (including EPLAN), this is an important consideration as it is a natural way to think about the system. Apple usb ethernet adapter driver for windows. Being able to represent modules in the system as blocks and being able to tunnel down into the sub-modules below is a nice feature. Groups of cables and wires can be represented as a bus on the schematic and passed through to the sub modules below then broken out individually, or passed to the next level down. There doesn't seem to be a limit to how many levels you have either. It would be good to have the time to review some more packages, but I don’t want to spend too long evaluating rather than getting on with the actual work itself, but hierarchy could be the deciding feature for me. Hi PlC Kid There is a tree structure on the left hand side, but when using the schematic layout it looked a bit like a flat structure trying to look hierarchical, but maybe I missed something, I'll get back to EPLAN to see if they can do an online demo to clarify this, so thanks for the reply. The data portal looked really useful, but we use a lot of National Instruments equipment that wouldn't be in there, which is a real shame as I did notice a lot of other manufacturers do create library parts for EPLAN. I'm also still debating but it looks like Eplan might be a better choice for us. The E3 demo looked nice and the software seems more intuitive, but Eplan looks like it has a better library especially for Allen Bradley stuff.
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