Drawing the schematic is half the project; the real cost is the manual work between drawing and bill of materials. Transcribing the BOM into Excel by hand, keeping the terminal schedule on a separate sheet, noting cable lengths in a notebook — that work starts when the drawing is done, and it is exactly the part that inflates the project budget.
In EupCAD that transfer is one step: when the drawing is done, reports are generated with a single click and downloaded as CSV. This article covers what comes ready and how these reports speed up field work.
From drawing to reports: which lists are there?
EupCAD turns the data in your project into engineering output. The lists produced:
- BOM (bill of materials): part number, manufacturer and quantity — ready to send to the supplier.
- Device list: every device in the project and its classification.
- Terminal schedule: the address and connection of every terminal — the field installer's compass.
- Cable list: cables and which terminals each one connects to.
- PLC I/O list: device mapping for digital and analog inputs/outputs.
All of these lists are produced from the same source: the devices and connections in the drawing. That is why the lists and the drawing can never fall out of sync — if the drawing changes, the lists change too.
Why CSV?
In an electrical office, data lives mostly in Excel: budget, purchasing, stock, revision. EupCAD reports coming as CSV fit that flow directly:
- Opens straight in Excel — columns ready, formulas can be attached.
- Revision is easy — as the project updates, you download a new CSV; the old version is not overwritten.
- Sharing is clean — the file attached to the email looks the same on everyone's machine.
In short, you receive the report as data, not as an image.
Practical scenario: panel revision
Think about a panel revision: two contactor types changed, one phase line was added. In the classic flow you apply those changes to the Excel BOM by hand — and you probably miss one row. In the EupCAD flow:
- Change the device / add the line in the drawing.
- Re-download the BOM and terminal schedule.
- The new CSV is perfectly consistent with the drawing.
No missed rows, no drift from manual transcription — because the list was not written by hand.
Data is born from the drawing
This approach rests on one principle: engineering data is an output of the drawing. Not in a separate file, but produced together with the drawing. This brings both consistency and speed: if the drawing is correct, the reports are correct.
Next step
In the demo project (ZONE1_PUMPS), open the reports: download the BOM as CSV, browse the terminal schedule by page, check the PLC I/O list. See the connection between drawing and reports live.