Installation Instructions EPLAN Education

Version 2.1
Level: 10 / 2011

EPLAN Software & Service GmbH & Co. KG Technical Information

Copyright 2011 EPLAN Software & Service GmbH & Co. KG EPLAN Software & Service GmbH & Co. KG assumes no liability for either technical or printing errors, or for deficiencies in this technical information and cannot be held liable for damages that may result directly or indirectly from the delivery, performance, and use of this material. This document contains legally protected proprietary information that is subject to copyright. All rights are protected. This document or parts of this document may not be copied or reproduced by any other means without the prior consent of EPLAN Software & Service GmbH & Co. KG. The software described in this document is subject to a license agreement. The use and reproduction of the software is only permitted within the framework of this agreement. RITTAL is a registered trademark of Rittal GmbH & Co. KG. EPLAN, EPLAN Electric P8, EPLAN Fluid, EPLAN PPE, and EPLAN Cabinet are registered trademarks of EPLAN Software & Service GmbH & Co. KG. Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access and Notepad are registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation. PC WORX, CLIP PROJECT, and INTERBUS are registered trademarks of Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. AutoCAD and AutoCAD Inventor are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. STEP 7, SIMATIC and SIMATIC HW Config are registered trademarks of Siemens AG. InstallShield is a registered trademark of InstallShield, Inc. Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Inc. TwinCAT is a registered trademark of Beckhoff Automation GmbH. Unity Pro is a registered trademark of Schneider Electric. RSLogix 5000 and RSLogix Architect are registered trademarks of Rockwell Automation. All other product and trade names and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. EPLAN uses the Open Source software 7-Zip (7za.dll), Copyright by Igor Pavlov. The source code of 7-Zip is subject to the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). The source code of 7-Zip as well as details on this license are available on the following Internet page: http://www.7-zip.org EPLAN uses the Open-Source-Software Open CASCADE, Copyright by Open CASCADE S.A.S. The source code of Open CASCADE are subject to the Open CASCADE Technology Public License. For the Open CASCADE source code and more details about this license, go to: http://www.opencascade.org

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Introduction
EPLAN Software & Service
EPLAN Software & Service engineering solutions has been developing software to speed up the product development process for more than 25 years. Interdisciplinary expert systems assure productivity and data integration to the highest degree. As a solution provider, we develop PDM and PLM concepts tailored to our customers' requirements, and offer comprehensive services like customization, consulting and training. Innovative expertise in development, consistently orientated to your dayto-day needs, and an international presence all contribute to our success. EPLAN is part of Rittal International and is therefore a subsidiary of the Friedhelm Loh Group, with 11,500 employees worldwide and sales of 2.2 Bn expected for 2011. EPLAN is therefore synonymous with continuity and investment security. Seven German EPLAN locations and our presence in 50 countries support 19,500 customers with 65,000 installations worldwide. "Efficient Engineering" is our company's motto and it emphasizes our competency in optimized and efficient processes, which support our customers in staying competitive over the long run.

EPLAN efficient engineering

Our motto stands for high-end solutions for engineering disciplines in industrial automation engineering, and individually tailored adaptations and integrations of our systems into existing IT landscapes. Our cooperation with autodesk underscores top competencies in the field of mechanical design. The customer request is the beginning this is where many development and design processes, which end up involving all kinds of disciplines usually start. Data relevant to the processes must be exchanged and synchronized across all project phases. The main focus, aside from the requirement of interdisciplinary engineering and production integra-

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tion, is creating machinery and plant documentation that reaches across all trades. The core challenges are factors like globalized markets, cost and time pressure, increasing demands on documentation, as well as the ever stronger growing competition. EPLAN products and services are geared to each other so that they optimize your engineering processes and provide long-term support in the efficient and cost-effective realization of your projects.

EPLAN Platform Your key to success

The revolutionary EPLAN platform technology allows you to unlock the future of cross-disciplinary engineering. The platform provides core functions that are required in electrical, as well as in fluid or EI&C engineering equally. All systems are fed from the same database. Furthermore, the platform contains uniform, interdisciplinary basic functions, like the graphical editor, a common rights management, viewer, translation functions, and revision system. Of course it can be connected with third-party tools as well.

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Prerequisites
Rights
To install EPLAN Education you need to posses local administrator rights, and after the installation the "Change" right for all EPLAN directories (local and network).

Software
You will need to have Microsoft .Net Framework 4 installed on the workstation. Please ask EPLAN for additional prerequisites.

Hardware
Recommended workstation configurations: Processor: Comparable to an Intel Pentium D at 3 GHz or comparable to an Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.4 GHz 4 GB *1 160 GB

RAM: Hard disk:

Monitor / graphics resolu- 2-screen solution 21" or 16:10 graphics tion: system with a resolution of 1680 x 1050 3D display: Graphics card from ATI or Nvidia with the latest OpenGL driver

*1: Individual functions like PDF or DXF output require more memory in connection with projects or very extensive graphics.

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Installation
Starting setup
Put CD into the DVD drive of your computer. Setup starts automatically. If auto-run does not start on its own, double click the setup.exe file in the main directory of the CD.

Registration
You must register to be able to use EPLAN Education. This is necessary to associate your activation and create an appropriate validation code. Please use the form integrated in the setup to send us your information.

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Your data input will be checked by us for plausibility. Then, after the check, we can send your personal validation code to your email address. Should you not have internet access at that time, or missed the registration, you can reregister at a later time via the internet by running the setup.exe file again.

License agreement
Please read the license agreement and accept it to continue the installation.

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Target directories
Setup the target directories appropriately. The optimum basic settings for your system come from the setup file. If several parallel installations of EPLAN Education in various versions exist, we recommend you install all data (program and master data) completely separate from each other. Enter a unique code in the Company code line, for instance your last name or initials.

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Standard installation
The setup function installs the following program components of EPLAN Education:

Start the installation.

Desktop
During the installation of EPLAN Education the following icon will be put on your computer's desktop as a link to the program:

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Starting the software

1. Double click the EPLAN Education icon on your desktop to start the software.

You will be prompted on how you want to validate the license. 2. Select "With a validation code". 3. Enter the validation code, which you received per email, in the following New validation code dialog and confirm your entry with [OK]. (Note the sample email on the following page.)

You have now completed the installation and registration. The software will start.

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Sample email

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EPLAN Software & Service GmbH & Co. KG An der alten Ziegelei 2 40789 Monheim am Rhein Germany Phone: +49 (0) 21 73 / 39 64-0 Fax: +49 (0) 21 73 / 39 64-25 Info@eplan.de www.eplan.de