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IMAGINiT Technologies releases utilities for Autodesk Revit, Civil 3D and Vault 2022 software

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IMAGINiT Technologies now offers more than 75 utilities that extend the capabilities of Autodesk Revit, Civil 3D and Vault 2022 software.

The new Utilities enable teams to improve both productivity and accuracy by removing redundancies and rework, as well as by reducing errors associated with manual updates and changes. As a longstanding Autodesk Authorized Developer, IMAGINiT’s dedicated team of software developers rigorously beta test the Utilities to ensure the highest quality user experience.

“For more than a dozen years, our software development team has been listening to customer challenges we encounter in the field, to student feedback from our training courses and to the technical issues resolved by our support center,” says Bill Zavadil, president, IMAGINiT Technologies. “Our unique combination of software development expertise supported by real-world insights from both our customers and application engineers, enables us to transform these challenges into purpose-built tools that give our customers a distinct competitive advantage.”

All IMAGINiT Utilities run directly inside the Autodesk software eliminating tedious and time-consuming tasks and boosting productivity. And to further minimize downtime, all utilities now include a direct link to IMAGINiT’s popular online education portal, ProductivityNOW, where subscribers can quickly find answers to their toughest questions.  

 IMAGINiT is launching new tools in each of the following three collections of Utilities.

IMAGINiT Utilities for Revit  

More than 40 unique IMAGINiT Utilities for Revit now fully support Autodesk Revit versions from 2018 through 2022. In response to customer requests, IMAGINiT is also including the most popular tools from their previously-retired Scan to BIM software to help teams work more efficiently with point clouds in Revit. These new tools dramatically reduce time spent on tedious tasks, allowing teams to use their time more effectively.

 IMAGINiT Utilities for Civil 3D  

The IMAGINiT Utilities for Civil 3D include three new Utilities designed to maximize team productivity by accelerating processes through automation, making critical data easy to extract and simplifying complex workflows. Each of the 17 Utilities fully support Autodesk Civil 3D software versions 2019 through 2022 allowing more users access to the full power of these productivity tools.

 IMAGINiT Utilities for Vault Client  

More than a dozen IMAGINiT Utilities for Vault Client now fully support the Autodesk Vault 2022 software release. Each of these Utilities are designed with the sole purpose to improve management processes, automate workflows and provide access to critical data.                           

 IMAGINiT Utilities Availability 

Available in standalone or network versions, IMAGINiT Utilities are complimentary to clients who have an active Autodesk subscription through IMAGINiT. Otherwise, companies may purchase and download individual IMAGINiT Utilities directly from the IMAGINiT eStore. 

 

Radica Software integrates electrical CAD software with OpenBOM

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Radica Software, the developer of Electra Cloud electrical CAD software, has partnered with OpenBOM to integrate their online collaboration solutions. The integration creates a new feature that allows users of Electra Cloud to export and convert bills of materials (BOM) directly into OpenBOM with just a few clicks. This new feature is crucial for any team working on design projects using multiple software such as 2D/3D CAD drawing solutions, who can now have all BOM reports exported easily into a centralized location on OpenBOM and allow team members access the files in real-time. The new feature is particularly helpful to anyone using Onshape product design platform and at the same, it is also available to all users of Electra Cloud.
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Having a real-time access to BOM reports in a centralized location is crucial to speed up communication and collaboration between design, engineering, manufacturing, and purchasing departments.

Thomas Yip, CEO of Radica Software said, “Automation is key to making work efficient and productive. Previously, users of Electra Cloud ECAD had to manually export their bill of materials that contained a long list of parts, components, pricing info, and others into OpenBOM. We’ve been getting requests from users to make this process simpler and that motivated us to work with OpenBOM to solve the issue. This has kickstarted our partnership with OpenBOM.”

“The new integration between Electra Cloud ECAD software and OpenBOM helps engineers to streamline the information flow between engineers and the rest of the team. It eliminates the mistakes and supports modern connected SaaS application approaches,” says Oleg Shilovitsky, CEO and co-founder of OpenBOM. “By partnering with Radica Software, OpenBOM expands the line of CAD add-ins supported by OpenBOM and supports multi-disciplinary BOM collaboration,” continued Shilovitsky.

The integration also allows automatic extraction and synchronization of data via OpenBOM with accounting systems, which help improve purchasing processes for project owners. In addition, it provides users with real-time data and real-time collaboration, so they no longer need to worry about version control.

“One of the advantages of using OpenBOM is that it saves time and costs because it has ready-to-use templates, making creating a BOM report a simple task,” Thomas explained.

Both Radica Software and OpenBOM are also discussing potential deeper integration including allowing OpenBOM users to export data into Electra Cloud. Electra Cloud is the world’s first fully browser-based electrical CAD software with Vecta.io, a powerful graphics editor software, also developed by Radica Software, as its engine. The cloud-based software allows third parties to build their own custom vertical solution on top of Vecta.

Radica Software
radicasoftware.com

CAD/CAM Services announces first article inspection capabilities per AS9102

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CAD/CAM Services – a computer-aided design and engineering firm with expertise in 3D scanning, modeling, and conversions – announced the expansion of its inspection capabilities to include first article inspections (FAI) per customer or AS9102 standards.

The firm is certified for high precision conversions by both the aerospace industry and the Department of Defense; it offers in-depth inspection programs to provide OEMs with accurate CAD files. This ensures that all CAD drawings and models match the original specifications and are capable of producing parts and assemblies that meet all design requirements.

FAI is a comprehensive, independent and documented quality control process used by aerospace manufacturers to verify that a supplier conforms to all required physical and mechanical specifications. However, a number of other industries have also adopted the reports in recent years, including automotive manufacturing, shipbuilding, and general manufacturing.

CAD/CAM Services is known for its CAD Perfect conversions, and its engineers are capable of converting any CAD format file into any other CAD system. Its CAD engineers can also make the model (or drawing) compliant with any internal aerospace standard.

With its 3D scanning and reverse engineering expertise, the engineers can create replacement parts for both new and older aircraft to further assist aerospace suppliers. CAD/CAM models include full assemblies that are accurate to ±.002” over any X, Y, & Z axis.

In addition to AS1902 reporting, the firm can also supply any FAI reporting that a supplier may require, including Q-Checker.

CAD/CAM Services
www.cadcam.org

Keysight expands relationship with Ansys for wireless design workflow products

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Keysight Technologies, Inc., a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced an expanded collaboration with Ansys to integrate Keysight’s PathWave Advanced Design System (ADS) RFPro environment with Ansys HFSS electromagnetic simulation.

As a result of this collaboration, radio frequency (RF) and microwave engineers can eliminate the time-consuming bottleneck of manually coupling design tools to simplify workflow and improve time-to-market. The initial collaboration between the two companies, originally announced in February 2021, improved the workflow between the companies products to speed time-to-market for 5G, aerospace and defense, as well as automotive applications.

“Keysight’s PathWave framework helps customers get to market faster from design through production. Developing open interfaces between design and test software products, enables end-to-end workflow solutions across system/circuit design, verification and manufacturing,” stated Tom Lillig, general manager of Keysight PathWave Software Solutions. “We have expanded PathWave beyond Keysight products, to connect Ansys HFSS with PathWave ADS RFPro. This partnership enables customers to solve large, complex development challenges, even faster.”

Keysight’s RFPro simulation solution is an electromagnetic (EM) environment for RF and microwave circuit designers and is seamlessly integrated within Keysight PathWave ADS. RFPro makes performing EM analysis easy, simplifying EM-circuit co-simulation and saving hours to weeks of simulation setup time.

“Ansys is committed to building world-class products in an open ecosystem,” said Steve Pytel, vice president of Ansys Product Management. “Collaborating with Keysight complements this strategy, enabling Keysight and Ansys to provide comprehensive solutions that address our customers’ engineering challenges.”

Keysight’s ADS RFPro was introduced in PathWave ADS 2019 and has generated broad adoption within the ADS user community. Keysight is now addressing customers’ larger workflow challenges with PathWave workflow solutions. HFSS is a trusted, widely used, finite element method (FEM) solver and now in addition to Momentum and Keysight FEM, ADS design engineers have access to HFSS as an additional simulation option within ADS RFPro.

Steve Pytel, vice president of Ansys Product Management also commented, “Many customers couple Keysight’s PathWave ADS and RFPro for RF circuit design with Ansys HFSS to verify and validate their assembled RF modules. The manual process to move design files between tools is time consuming and can create bottlenecks — especially as die-counts increase for complex RF modules in applications like 5G and 6G. We are collaborating with Keysight to alleviate this pain point — ultimately creating an efficient workflow that drives fast results for our mutual customers and spurs innovation within the industry.”

The PathWave ADS RFPro HFSS link option will be available in Keysight’s ADS 2022 and is expected to ship in the summer of 2021.

Keysight Technologies
www.keysight.com

ECAD/MCAD capability keeps electronic and mechanical designs in sync

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In the process of designing electronic products for industries like IoT, autonomous vehicles, and industrial automation—mechanical and electrical engineers face multiple challenges. One of the greatest sources of frustration happens when mechanical and PCB designers collaborate on the same electronic design assemblies.

During the design process of any complex electronics product, both mechanical and PCB designers are continually importing, exporting, and converting files in an effort to keep mechanical and electronic designs in sync. This adds hours of manual labor, data loss, and rework to the design process – and yet engineers on both sides are still working in serial, and largely isolated from each other.

“Export and import of files is what most EDA companies are calling co-design,” says Ted Pawela, Chief Ecosystem Officer at Altium. “That’s like sending someone a letter in the mail and calling it collaboration. Altium CoDesigner simply keeps MCAD synchronized with ECAD so that electronic and mechanical design teams can truly work concurrently.”

Altium’s CoDesigner capability gives PCB designers using Altium Designer (with an active subscription) a much faster and easier way to collaborate with mechanical designers working with tools like PTC Creo, Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS, Autodesk Inventor, and Autodesk Fusion 360. Mechanical engineers can use CoDesigner capability at no cost and while staying in their favorite MCAD design environment.

“With CoDesigner capability, we can detect potential problems like we couldn’t before,” reports Jeremie Waller, Sr. Electrical Engineer at Quantel Laser USA, a division of Lumibird, a global leader in laser technology. “We can see silkscreens, hidden vias, make sure polarities are correct, where copper traces are—our models are now 100% complete, including overlay and copper. I don’t have to worry about board shapes, or connector placements, even in very tight spaces. With CoDesigner capability, we have the confidence that everything will fit exactly as planned when it goes to manufacturing,” Waller adds.

To set up CoDesigner, mechanical engineers only need to download a free plug-in from the Altium website or the MCAD plug-ins page inside Altium 365 for their MCAD tool. Once they’re ready to share, mechanical designers can just synchronize their MCAD tools with Altium Designer and Altium 365.

Paul Spendley is a Senior Electronic Engineer at YASA, LTD., a manufacturer that specializes in electric motors, controllers and powertrain solutions for hybrid and electric automotive and aerospace manufacturers. For Spendley, the combination of Altium 365 and CoDesigner has completely changed the way his team works.

As he explains, “MCAD/ECAD collaboration before CoDesigner was emailing STEP files; sometimes they would open, sometimes they wouldn’t. Components would get lost, so it would take us multiple iterations to get designs right. On the ECAD side, this required at least 3-4 steps that took about 10 minutes each; and on the MCAD side, it took hours.”

The addition of CoDesigner has changed this process completely. “Our mechanical designers always have the most up-to-date ECAD design. I can push the latest design changes directly to their MCAD tool—we have a two-way design process now,” Spendley reports.

Laine McNeil, Sr. Mechanical Engineer at Quantel Laser USA, concurs. “Before we started using Altium’s CoDesigner, there was an element of “Us vs. Them.” It is a much more collaborative process now. We no longer lack context when working with our PCB design teams.”

Eliminating hours of extra work using a simple plug-in

Altium’s CoDesigner gives mechanical engineers the ability to design alongside PCB designers in real-time, and empowers effortless product design reviews.

Accessing CoDesigner is easy for both ECAD and MCAD users. The MCAD CoDesigner extension is included in the standard Altium Designer installation, appearing as a panel that’s always available in the PCB editor. Once MCAD users install the aforementioned plug-in, CoDesigner is just as effortlessly accessible.

 For Thomas Pottle, Electronic Design Engineer at AERQ, a leading digital cabin technology firm, Altium CoDesigner has been a huge time saver. As Pottle explains, “Before we started using CoDesigner, we were manually transferring files over email, from ECAD to MCAD only. In just one project, I generated over 40 files in ECAD, with each taking about 30 minutes to upload into my MCAD software. This was especially frustrating when files didn’t work, and I had to spend hours trying to figure out why.”

Once AERQ’s electronics design team added Altium CoDesigner, their processes changed dramatically. “With CoDesigner, it’s just so much easier,” Pottle confirms.

“Using Altium 365 and CoDesigner has been a quantum leap in our design process. And CoDesigner’s right there inside Altium Designer—I can’t imagine not using it,” Quantel’s Jeremie Waller concludes.

Altium
www2.asx.com.au

 

 

CADfix PPS solution boosts AVEVA E3D design performance

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Leading interoperability solution provider International Technegroup Incorporated (ITI) has collaborated with AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, driving digital transformation and sustainability, to use ITI’s CADfix PPS model simplification solution to enhance the performance of AVEVA E3D Design, the advanced 3D design solution for the process plant, marine and power industries.

CADfix PPS automatic simplification of complex MCAD equipment assembly models

Fueled by the CADfix PPS automatic model simplification solution, AVEVA E3D Design has been enhanced with two new add-on products – AVEVA Model Simplification and AVEVA Native Model Simplification – which allow engineers to resolve the complex issues faced when importing very large and complex equipment assembly models. The advanced CADfix PPS automatic simplification wizard enables the rapid and automatic removal of small parts and unwanted computer-aided design (CAD) features, as well as the removal of internal parts and simplification of complex parts to basic shapes, which further helps to improve overall performance.

Brian Hughes, Senior Portfolio Manager of AVEVA’s Design & Execute software, said, “A plant layout includes many machines and large equipment installations. Having a CAD model of these installations with all the non-essential details can adversely impact performance in the layout tool. The new AVEVA simplification tools powered by CADfix PPS allow users to eliminate excessive details and small CAD features to seamlessly integrate the equipment model into the plant model. Customers can now significantly increase the performance of AVEVA E3D Design solution and enhance productivity across design teams.”

The new add-on products enable users to import into AVEVA E3D Design complex 3D CAD models of equipment items that have been created in external Mechanical CAD (MCAD) systems. During the import process, the equipment items can be simplified before being inserted into the typical design database to greatly enhance performance. Smaller models mean faster working, loading, clashing, and creation of drawings. The imported equipment items behave in the same way as other AVEVA E3D Design objects to ensure customers can work on projects more efficiently with ease and accuracy.

Andy Chinn, Director, ITI, said, “We are delighted to have worked with AVEVA to deliver the new model simplification products that extensively heighten performance and allow customers to shrink large files ahead of integration of CAD models into AVEVA E3D Design. It is rewarding to see CADfix PPS contributing to the enriched stability and usability of plant design systems containing large equipment models, saving days of non-productive geometry handling, and ultimately helping customers increase efficiency and get to production faster.”

ITI, a Wipro company
www.iti-global.com

Industrial CT software version 3.5 detects and corrects design flaws and manufacturability issues

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The latest version of Volume Graphics’ high-end CT data analysis software suite, version 3.5, brings enhanced capabilities to manufacturers looking for better ways to inspect parts and improve designs—however they are made.

Particularly in the automotive, aerospace and defense industries, engineers exploring novel materials and manufacturing methods are increasingly turning to CT scanning to achieve a more accurate, non-destructive evaluation of product robustness and performance. Volume Graphics is a leading developer of software technology that interprets CT data from scans of almost any material to detect, analyze and visualize minute structural deviations that might affect part quality.

Version 3.5 provides automated design-geometry adjustment and repair tools that can be used to correct and/or offset issues that stem from the manufacturing process itself. Moldmakers, casting shops, and additive manufacturing providers can use the software to detect and visualize material and/or design defects or distortions—and then use included functions to correct their CAD designs, compare values against nominal limits and ensure that final part quality meets applicable industry standards.

Here are some of the highlights in version 3.5 of the data analysis software suite (which includes VGSTUDIO MAX, VGSTUDIO, VGMETROLOGY, VGinLINE, and myVGL):

· A reworked manufacturing geometry correction module. This software module benefits all those who work with some kind of mold, i.e., injection molders or casters. Enhancements in usability, with continuous updating and feedback on quality, give the CAD designer information that can be used to improve manufacturability. Filtering out points that can cause erroneous compensation results, the software fine-tunes surface fitting and provides compensations that are within tolerances, enabling the user to immediately see if their design changes are compatible with mold-making.

CAP: Manufacturing Geometry Correction Module. When compensating a geometry, a new filter option in Volume Graphics’ industrial CT software version 3.5 allows users to find fit points that cause inaccurate compensation results.

· Enhanced mesh compensation. For those working in simulation and AM/3D printing, this module provides easier navigation and understanding of the relationships between elements for better interpretation of part warpage, deformation and displacement—and automatically compensates designs to correct for deviations from manufacturing intent. Mesh updating is 10X faster, with improved results when scan and reference objects differ greatly in size or show other significant deviations. There are a greater number of control points for more granular and accurate results. In the case of lattice structures and other complex geometries, a uniform control-point placement function ensures full analysis of a design. The software can also shorten the 3D-print-and-test process by automatically running two sequential design-compensation results to move a design for AM closer to nominal before the first print.

Enhanced Mesh Compensation. A new compensation mesh color overlay in Volume Graphics’ industrial CT software version 3.5 helps users to clearly visualize, analyze and annotate any displacements in the compensation mesh.

· Porosity and inclusion analysis of castings. CT scans of cast parts can be inspected for porosity and compliance with Reference Sheet P 203 of the Federation of German Foundry Industry (BDG). With the help of the BDG P 203 porosity key, users can perform a 3D evaluation of detected volume deficits both in the complete casting and in freely defined sub-areas, such as functional areas with special attributes. The software enables inspection of multiple, different regions of interest in a part to see if porosity is within tolerances and whether there are any post-machining issues in the finished part. The data from this analysis is then ready for Q-DAS process control.

New Porosity and Inclusion Analysis of Castings. Usability improvements in the P 203 analysis, in Volume Graphics’ industrial CT software version 3.5, include combining the generation and editing of global and freeform porosity keys in one dialog. A new BDG P 203 name field allows users to add a comment for each porosity key.

Capability enhancements support engineering across many industries
Other enhancements in version 3.5 strengthen existing functions that support science, R&D, medical device development and other industries in addition to automotive and aerospace & defense. Among these is advanced reporting, which is now more user-friendly and fully integrated with viewing. The nominal/actual comparison module has also been made more user-friendly with easy-to-understand visualization of deviations of scanned objects from their reference data sets.

Volume Graphics and Hexagon
www.volumegraphics.com

Tacton introduces full CAD automation to eliminate manual tasks in the sales and engineering process

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Tacton announced Tacton CPQ with CAD Automation, an enhanced product capability that automates the generation of CAD drawings of custom and configured products. CAD automation allows manufacturers to configure, design, and deliver custom products faster and with precision, eliminating errors and empowering customers, sales teams, and engineering to generate technical CAD drawings automatically.

In manufacturing, customers often require detailed technical drawings to close a sale, but challenges such as manual handovers can lead to long and drawn-out sales processes. In addition, stakeholders often lack a single source of product data, leading to costly technical product design errors — not to mention, unhappy customers. Tacton CPQ with CAD Automation eliminates these pain points by empowering customers and sales reps without CAD skills to automatically generate technical drawings based on configurations. This automation empowers customers and sales while allowing engineers to focus on innovation, new products, and other value-creating tasks.

“In complex sales, engineering needs to be involved in every customer case to provide detailed technical drawings to close sales and build the custom products, but misunderstandings and a lack of technical product knowledge often lead to invalid quote requests,” said Bo Gyldenvang, Chief Executive Officer at Tacton. “When paired with our CPQ, CAD Automation automates these manual processes, which makes sales teams more effective, frees up time for engineers, and, ultimately, delivers a pain-free experience to end customers.”

Tacton’s 15-plus years of experience and extensive knowledge of manufacturing vertical requirements contribute to making Tacton CPQ with CAD Automation easy to use because it is:
• Easy to implement: Fast and easy CAD mappings via point-and-click with no coding required can be validated immediately and directly connected to the CPQ platform to exchange data in the background.
• Easy to use: A simple and context-sensitive UI speeds up navigation, matching the UI of the host CAD system to ease orientation while integrated help texts speed up the onboarding of new users.
• Easy to maintain: Clear separation between configuration models and CAD mappings along with intuitive recognition of already mapped elements allows users to simply test individual values or a complete configuration. In addition, one set of constraints means administrators don’t need to worry about synchronizing systems.

Generating and providing CAD files early in the sales process eliminates misunderstandings and costly errors, ensuring reliability to the customer and promoting trust. Tacton CPQ with CAD Automation allows manufacturers to offer customized designs at a much lower cost, creating a valuable competitive advantage and boosting customer satisfaction.

Tacton
www.tacton.com

NVIDIA launches Omniverse design collaboration and simulation platform

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NVIDIA announced the coming general availability of NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise, a technology platform that enables global 3D design teams working across multiple software suites to collaborate in real time in a shared virtual space.

NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise makes it possible for 3D production teams, which are often geographically dispersed, to work seamlessly together on complex projects. Rather than requiring in-person meetings or exchanging and iterating on massive files, designers, artists and reviewers can work simultaneously in a virtual world from anywhere, on any device.

NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise has been in early evaluations with design teams at companies like BMW Group, Foster + Partners, and WPP. It follows the launch three months ago of an open beta for individuals.

Said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, “Building on NVIDIA’s entire body of work, Omniverse lets us create and simulate shared virtual 3D worlds that obey the laws of physics. The immediate applications of Omniverse include connecting design teams for remote collaboration to simulating digital twins of factories and robots.”

Omniverse Enterprise includes the NVIDIA Omniverse Nucleus server, which manages the database shared among clients, and NVIDIA Omniverse Connectors, which are plug-ins to industry-leading design applications.

It also includes two end-user applications: NVIDIA Omniverse Create , which accelerates scene composition and allows users in real time to interactively assemble, light, simulate, and render scenes, and NVIDIA Omniverse View, which powers seamless collaborative design and visualization of architectural and engineering projects with photorealistic rendering. NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation (vWS) software, also part of the platform, gives collaborators the freedom to run their graphics- intensive 3D applications from anywhere.

Omniverse Enterprise is tested and optimized for professionals to run on NVIDIA RTX laptops and desktops, and NVIDIA-Certified Systems on the NVIDIA EGX platform. This makes it possible to deploy the tool across organizations of any scale, from small workgroups using local desktops and laptops, to globally distributed teams accessing the data center using various devices.

NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise software is available on a subscription basis and includes NVIDIA’s Enterprise support services. NVIDIA’s partner network of leading computer makers — including ASUS, BOXX Technologies, Cisco, Dell Technologies, HP, Lenovo and Supermicro — are supporting NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise.

NVIDIA
www.nvidia.com

EPLAN eManage: Easily upload, share and manage projects in the cloud

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The digital transformation of engineering continues to advance. As part of its cloud services, EPLAN is presenting a new service for cross-project collaboration – EPLAN eManage – which lets users upload EPLAN Platform projects into the cloud environment to share and work on them there. The free version was launched mid-March – and an expanded, paid version will follow in August 2021.

Users of EPLAN Electric P8 and EPLAN Pro Panel can easily upload their projects into the cloud and transfer them back to the EPLAN Platform for further processing.

Innovative cloud services and the systems of the EPLAN Platform are now become increasingly integrated. As a first step, the new software solution EPLAN eManage Free was launched in mid-March. This free, cloud-based software enables the easy uploading of projects from the EPLAN Platform and web browsers into the secure ePulse cloud environment. A paid version of the software will be released in August and will offer expanded functionality.

Cross-project collaboration
EPLAN eManage makes it easy to upload, manage and share projects in the cloud. Since today’s ecosystem of industrial automation is characterized by many media discontinuities when processing and transferring documentation, the advantages of this system are clear: the EPLAN Platform systems in connection with this new cloud service will network control cabinet manufacturers and panel builders, OEMs and system integrators as well as machine and plant system operators. They all work together in a central project that can be synchronized on the EPLAN Platform via eManage in roundtrip engineering. Clear access rights and role assignments ensure data security and provide flexibility for project access. Users of EPLAN Electric P8 and EPLAN Pro Panel are already benefitting from these integrated processes whereby they can easily upload their projects into the cloud and transfer them back to the EPLAN Platform for further processing.

Direct data transfer to EPLAN eView
Users only need one click to publish their project data directly in EPLAN eView. This allows defined stakeholders the opportunity to look and comment on entire projects. It further enables cross-company review processes to be digitally implemented. And thanks to this clear, central availability in the cloud, eManage supports project participants in quickly searching for specific content.

Synchronised and current data
EPLAN eManage means that the EPLAN Project is synchronized for all project participants and stakeholders. Changes in the project are visible to all participants and the project documentation is always current – across the entire project life cycle and even into operations and service scenarios.

EPLAN
www.EPLAN-software.com/emanage