Automate EPLAN Electric P8

The book first explains how toolbars can be customized without any programming. It is followed with a step-by-step creation of scripts with C#. The complexity of programming is kept low so that beginners without previous knowledge can follow.

The text covers the following script functions:

• Creating and expanding menus 
• Changing single or multiple settings simultaneously with a push of a button 
• Creating user interfaces with individual control elements - such as check boxes, loading beams and buttons
• Program control through user interactions and much more
• Exchanging data with outside systems

The chapter “Interface Programming” teaches the automated generation of inscriptions, PDF files and the import and export of bills of material and project properties. It also covers how to export data through common formats such as CSV and XML into other programs. The final chapter “Practical Examples” contains immediately usable scripts, thus saving you the work of programming your own solutions.

The website of the book has the complete project with all examples and finished scripts for direct use in EPLAN.