Beta test Eplan Platform 2026

Get more out of your engineering

Eplan Platform 2026: More structure and even easier to use

Eplan Platform 2026: Help with the beta testing!

Do you use Eplan and want to contribute to making the software even better? Would you like to be amongst the first to try out the new features? Then register to help beta test the upcoming version!

You can try out the new features before the release and take advantage of the testing phase to familiarize yourself with the useful functions before everyone else. Your feedback is invaluable to us and will be incorporated into the final version of the upcoming software. 

Get more out of your engineering with the new Eplan Platform 2026

The new Eplan Platform 2026 simplifies our portfolio, puts your benefits even more strongly in the spotlight and enables you to design your processes to be even more efficient and consistent in the different phases, from concept development to detail engineering and manufacturing, and even through commissioning and operations.

To achieve this, we fundamentally reworked all our products in the Eplan  Platform 2026 and added an enormous amount of functionality – for one thing, previously optional extensions such as Elements or expansion modules for our solutions are now included as standard features in the various product expansion upgrades.  

Another is all Eplan solutions now have in common is the cloud-based Eplan Apps such as the Data Portal, the Parts Manager (eStock), and the File Manager (eManage), are all included as standard in Eplan Preplanning just as for Eplan Electric P8 and Eplan Pro Panel.

For the beta testing, your existing license will be automatically transferred to the new product structure while also taking into account any extension you may already have.

Even if products and product names have changed, your new license offers functions and services at least to the same extent as you already have. All current basic systems will be transferred to the next higher expansion stage of the new portfolio from version 2026. If basic systems are equipped with Add-on's or Elements, they will usually be transferred to an even higher expansion stage.
 

Product in 2025New Product in Version 2026

Systems
Eplan Fluid Compact Eplan Electric P8 Basic 
Eplan Fluid Eplan Electric P8 Advanced 
Eplan Fluid Professional Eplan Electric P8 Premium 
Eplan Electric P8 Compact Eplan Electric P8 Basic 
Eplan Electric P8 Select Eplan Electric P8 Pro 
Eplan Electric P8 Professional Eplan Electric P8 Premium 
Eplan Pro Panel Professional Eplan Pro Panel 
Eplan Preplanning ProfessionalEplan Preplanning 
Eplan Harness proD 100  Eplan Harness proD 300 
Eplan Harness proD 300 Eplan Harness proD 300 
Eplan Harness proD Professional  Eplan Harness proD Professional 
Eplan Smart Wiring Eplan Smart Production 
Eplan Smart Mounting  Eplan Smart Production 
Eplan Engineering Configuration: Config Eplan Engineering Configuration: Config 
Eplan Engineering Configuration: Develop  Eplan Engineering Configuration: Develop 
EEC Config: Job-Server Eplan Engineering Configuration: Automation 

Add-ons  
Eplan Preplanning Professional (Add-on) Eplan Preplanning (Add-on) 
Eplan Pro Panel Professional (Add-on) Eplan Pro Panel (Add-on)  
Eplan Eplan Pro Panel Professional SA with Fluid Add-OnEplan Electric P8 Pro with Pro Panel Add-on
Eplan Pro Panel Professional SA with Preplanning Add-on  Eplan Electric P8 Pro with Pro Panel Add-on and Preplanning Add-on

 

The expansion stages of the Eplan Electric P8 software have been newly defined within the Eplan Platform 2026 and are now as follows: 

  • Eplan Electric P8 Premium
  • Eplan Electric P8 Pro
  • Eplan Electric P8 Advanced
  • Eplan Electric P8 Basic
Expansion stages Eplan Electric P8 2026

All the Eplan Electric P8 expansion stages have one thing in common: the functionality for creating fluid power engineering schematics is now an integral part of Electric P8.

As such, we may provide you with a license for Eplan Electric P8 instead of an Eplan Fluid license moving forward. Along with the functions that you’re familiar with from Eplan Fluid, your new license will also include the functionality for creating electrical schematics.

Eplan Electric P8 new functionalities Basic and Advanced

The new Eplan Electric P8 expansion stages all build on one another and include additional functionality in each respective higher level.

For instance, the Electric P8 Pro expansion includes all of the functions found in the Basic and Advanced packages and, along with a variety of different enhancements for cross-team collaboration, also now includes the Schematic Generator (eBuild).  

In Electric P8 Premium, as an example, the functionality package also includes functions for creating mounting panels and control cabinets, all in 3D, and the option of expanding the functional scope of your Eplan solution with your own software developments with the help of our API programming environment.

Eplan Electric P8 new functionalities Pro and Premium

All the extensions to Eplan Pro Panel that were previously only available as options – including the automated routing of connections in 3D, the provision of data for a wide range of automation solutions in manufacturing and the design of flexible power distribution boards in 3D as examples – are now all part of the standard range of services available in Eplan Pro Panel.

Eplan Pro Panel new functionalities

Eplan Preplanning remains available as a stand-alone system or as an add-on element.

What’s new is that the functions for managing PLC controllers and bus systems are now just as much a part of the program’s overall functionality as defining user rights and the option of creating single-line schematics as part of the project documentation directly in Eplan Preplanning.

Eplan Preplanning new functionalities

Eplan Platform 2026 highlights

Eplan is continuing to focus on the software’s ease of use and efficiency with the upcoming version. Information is collected in one place and useful functions have been added to the most popular products.

More structure – even easier to use 

Direct access to the Eplan Data Portal from the software makes it possible to use comprehensive data sets without having to change applications. The search for various objects is now also more comprehensive, and Eplan Pro Panel has expanded to include useful functions for control cabinet and switchgear system engineering. 

More information in the Download Center

The Eplan Download Center is now available for all Eplan users. Software, tools and license information can all be directly accessed.

Users can find information on the release currently in use as well as customized updates, which also allows for larger jumps in updates from older versions of the program with just one click. The 2026 Beta Version is also available here!

Eplan Data Portal: Now directly accessible

Access from device management in Eplan will soon also allow direct device selection in the Data Portal. Users will no longer have to have different applications open or switch back and forth between the Platform and the Portal.

Just a click in Eplan Electric P8 takes users directly to device selection in the Portal so that they can immediately download the required project data.

The same applies to eStock, the cloud-based device database. With over 400 new device properties, components can now be described even more precisely and enriched with even more detailed data.

More search options

Can’t directly find what you’re looking for? In this case, we have expanded the search options. You can now search for more objects in various locations. It helps find the desired object faster and easier – and most importantly, without interrupting the workflow. 

Eplan Pro Panel: Customized views into the control cabinet

Users are even more efficiently supported now for control cabinet designs with up to ten different views of projects in Eplan Pro Panel. Customized, application-specific views of the designed control cabinet can be saved and viewed from different perspectives. This significantly accelerates the intuitive 3D navigation. 

Improved cable routing

The new Wiring Manager will improve the routing of cables. Access to the project is now also easier and more convenient because all the cabling information can be managed from a central dialogue, giving users a better overview of the overall project.