The software supports a wide variety of engineering methods: from manual creation through to standardised and template-based approaches. Zuken have just released Engineering Data Management E3.EDM which also has within it Revision management and project management, cost depending on options is £2K – £5K, which then could bring it up to about the same price as EPLAN Professional. 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. part attributes (voltage, current, available contacts, price, etc). Project management could be very useful as well, but I’m not sure how much use I would get out of the other features here? Does anybody have any ideas what out of this list is really useful? Electrical drawings, however, lend themselves to the EPLAN Electric P8 paradigm. Revision management is essential really, unless third party software is used such as SVN or Vault (but this would only be version control), I’d much rather use the revision management native to the software. The above EPLAN prices are for network versions, there are dongle versions that are cheaper, but if you lose your dongle you would have to rebuy the software :bawling:ĮPLAN P8 Professional is very expensive, but the this version is required to be able to draw busses on the schematics which is definitely needed, but this version also includes the following.ĮPLAN Project Management (Basic and seats)
Zuken E3.Cable is not just for cables, it is basically the professional version of E3.Schematic, a bit confusing. Oops, made a mistake with the prices in the first post, so here are the latest list prices:ĮPLAN P8 Select Start : £4,963 (80 page limit)