PlanElec Pro

What Pro does today

From the AI assistant to teamwork: the feature areas of Pro. Anything still in pilot is marked.

• AI assistant and plan recognition

  Describe the result in your own words: the PlanElec assistant plans directly in the project model, and every change runs through the AREI self-check.

• Floor plan and shared project model

  Capture the building, floors, rooms and installation data once, then use them throughout the planning workflow.

• Automatic room equipment

  Start with suggested standard equipment, then adjust every placed element yourself.

• Automatic electrical planning

  Let PlanElec create editable suggestions for connections, circuits, cables and phases.

• Photovoltaics and inverters

  Plan the DC and the AC side of your PV system in the same project model as the rest of the installation.

• Distribution board and single-line diagram

  Populate the board from the electrical topology and review the generated single-line diagram.

• AREI/RGIE self-check

  Shows open points and missing data for the supported AREI/RGIE rules before the inspection (keuring).

• Documents and installation dossier

  Export the single-line diagram, situation plan, board layout and self-check report separately or bundled in the installation dossier. Material, circuit and cable lists are in pilot.

• 3D view of the building

  Review the project in space instead of reading the floor plan alone.

• Teamwork on one project

  Work with colleagues on the same project without sending files back and forth.

• Every feature in detail and a sample dossier from a fictitious project.

  Explore all featuresDownload pilot dossier

Pro in detail

Eight functions the overview only touches on: from the distribution board to cables, bus and photovoltaics, through to 3D, energy, furniture and lighting. Every visual shows a real function; the animations are schematic and carry no project values.

1. Distribution board and single-line diagram

   Fit and wire the distribution board

   Fill the DIN rails automatically by residual-current-device group or place every module yourself. PlanElec estimates the space needed with reserve, suggests matching enclosures, creates sub-boards with their feed and shows the wiring with terminal blocks and N and PE bars. Photos of a board turn into a verifiable fitting proposal.

   Guide in the help centre

2. Automatic electrical planning

   Cable routes, lengths and voltage drop

   Cables automatically follow the drawn walls, ceiling lights the ceiling plane; you correct the run with waypoints, and floor changes go via a staircase or shaft. PlanElec carries the length of every cable into the cable and material lists and checks the voltage drop against the limits for lighting and the other circuits.

   Guide in the help centre

3. Automatic electrical planning

   Bus lines and home automation

   With an active automation profile (KNX, Niko Home Control, Loxone, Shelly, Sonoff or vendor-neutral) you place control points on the floor plan, assign actuator channels to loads and document bus lines with power supply and bus-current budget. “Lay bus” proposes the bus cable along the walls; channel plan and terminal plan export separately or in the handover dossier. Group addresses and programming stay in the manufacturer’s software.

   Guide in the help centre

4. Photovoltaics and inverters

   Photovoltaics from roof to inverter

   Choose the roof shape, from flat to gable, hip and mono-pitch, and fill the roof faces in 3D with single modules, rows, fields or whole faces. Assign strings to the MPPT inputs with live checks of voltage and current, pick the inverter from the verified catalogue or the Synergrid C10/26 list and derive DC lengths via roof penetration and earthing point. The yield forecast calculates with PVGIS per orientation.

   Guide in the help centre

5. 3D view of the building

   3D view of the whole project

   The 3D view shows the same state as the floor plan: floors, walls, openings, stairs, furniture, devices and cable routes. You move walls, openings and devices directly in 3D, edit cables with points and heights, stack or explode floors and work with 2D and 3D side by side on wide screens. Without WebGL everything stays usable in 2D.

   Guide in the help centre

   

6. Photovoltaics and inverters

   Pilot

   Self-consumption, battery and electric car

   Estimates self-consumption and self-sufficiency per month and year from a standard profile of Flemish households and the PV generation of a typical year. Shows how a home battery in the model affects self-consumption and grid draw; the size suggestion rests on an assumed threshold. Takes one or two electric cars into account with flagged assumptions. No tariffs, no savings, no report.

   Guide in the help centre

7. 3D view of the building

   Furniture and interior

   Furnish rooms from a catalogue of living, dining, bedroom and kitchen furniture plus outdoor objects so sockets, switches and lights fit the later use. You set dimensions in centimetres; kitchen units follow common widths. Furniture appears in 2D and 3D and can be shown or hidden on the situation plan.

   Guide in the help centre

8. 3D view of the building

   Lighting planning and lighting study

   Place luminaires individually or as a spot grid and manage luminous flux, colour temperature, beam angle and mounting height per room. The light preview in 3D shows scenes such as everyday and evening with light cones and shadows; the daylight study sets sun position and shadows for Brussels. The heatmap on the floor plan gives indicative values of direct illuminance: a planning aid, not a standards-based lighting calculation.

   Guide in the help centre

Who Pro is for

• Installers

  From floor plan to inspection dossier, with distribution board layout and self-check.

• Engineering offices

  PV design, lighting study and distribution board in one project, handed over cleanly to the installer.

• Architects and developers

  Reuse the floor plan, agree on the fittings and share plans with the electrician.