Installation Instructions

EPLAN Education
Version 2.1
Level: 10 / 2011

EPLAN Software & Service GmbH & Co. KG

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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 inte-
gration 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 day-
to-day needs, and an international presence all contribute to our suc-
cess.
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 pres-
ence 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 cus-
tomers in staying competitive over the long run.

EPLAN efficient engineering

Our motto stands for high-end solutions for engineering disciplines in in-
dustrial 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 develop-
ment and design processes, which end up involving all kinds of disci-
plines 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 op-
timize 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 func-
tions that are required in electrical, as well as in fluid or EI&C engineer-
ing equally.
All systems are fed from the same database. Furthermore, the platform
contains uniform, interdisciplinary basic functions, like the graphical edi-
tor, a common rights management, viewer, translation functions, and re-
vision 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 directo-
ries (local and network).

Software
You will need to have Microsoft .Net Framework 4 installed on the work-
station.
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
RAM: 4 GB *1
Hard disk: 160 GB
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 registra-
tion, 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 installa-
tion.

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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 follow-
ing 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