PanelPro Studio Beta

Control panel design · in the browser

Draw the panel.
See it built.

Lay out DIN rail, duct and gear at true size, and watch the panel come together in 3D as you go. Drawings and the bill of materials keep themselves up to date — nothing to install.

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A panel built in PanelPro Studio, rendered in Lumion

A photoreal render of a control panel interior: a copper earth bar, electronic circuit breakers, two blue contactors, relay modules, a cellular router and eighty-seven terminal blocks, all mounted on DIN rail between runs of slotted duct.
Panel Condense 109 parts · 13 unique · 1 enclosure · exported from PanelPro Studio, rendered in Lumion

Item list as exported

  1. 1U1NE32A earth barNetec
  2. 2×7Slotted duct, cut to length—
  3. 3CB1–CB3CBM E8 24 V DC breakerPhoenix Contact
  4. 4KM1–KM2Contactor, 11 kWSiemens
  5. 5U3RUT951 cellular routerTeltonika
  6. 6X1–X87Terminal blocks, 3 typesPhoenix Contact

Every one of those is a separate, named body in the export — not a single welded mesh.

Layout

Everything snaps to the rail

Draw the plate, run duct, drop DIN rail, and place gear straight onto it — every part lands aligned. Terminals number themselves as you go: X1 through X87 without touching the keyboard.

  • Snap placement on DIN rail, at true size
  • Slotted duct in standard widths, 20–100 mm
  • Auto-numbered terminals and reference designators
  • Several enclosures and backplates in one project
The 2D editor: a 1602 millimetre backplate laid out at true size — a row of twenty-six single-pole breakers, contactors, PLC I/O modules and a cellular router snapped onto DIN rail between runs of 40 and 60 millimetre slotted duct, with terminal strips numbered along the whole lower rail.

Wiring

Wire it, and the schedule falls out

Click two connection points and the conductor routes itself into the duct and along it — around corners, at the right depth, clear of the parts it passes. Every wire carries its number, designation, size and colour, and each end says how it is terminated.

  • Routed through the duct network, not drawn as straight lines
  • Cut lengths from the real route, plus your slack allowance
  • Ferrule, lug, spade or bare — set per end, counted per end
  • Colours named as well as shown, so a mono print still reads
  • DuraSleeve markers on the model at both ends, printed insert and all
  • Multi-core cables gland to gland, each core landed and scheduled
  • Busbar links across poles, ordered by part number like anything else
The same panel in wiring mode: thirty-eight wires and cables and nineteen busbar links in place, every available connection point on every part marked, conductors leaving the breakers and dropping into the 60 millimetre duct to run along it to the terminal strips, with cable runs C01 and C02 crossing between them.

3D

Check the build before it's built

The same layout is a solid 3D model the whole time you're working. Backplate, duct and rail are modelled true to size, and components use the manufacturer's own geometry where you've imported it — so clashes and clearances show up on screen, not on the bench.

  • Duct, rail and plate modelled at true size
  • Real manufacturer geometry from imported STEP files
  • Section cuts that stay on when you switch back to 2D
The same panel in 3D, turned three-quarters on: the backplate carrying slotted duct and DIN rails, a long row of breakers, contactors, PLC I/O and hundreds of terminal blocks, with conductors running between them at duct depth.

Drawings

Sheets your workshop can build from

The sheet is ready the moment the layout is. Add a zone-referenced view with ISO linework and an editable title block, then print true-to-scale PDFs at any size from A4 to A1.

  • Plan, enclosure-face and 3D views on one sheet
  • Dimensions and leader notes
  • Editable title block
  • True-to-scale PDF printing, A4 to A1
An A3 landscape drawing sheet: zone references down both margins, a dimensioned 2D plan of the barrier box with its duct runs and the real parts showing through under the symbols, a bill of materials table beside it listing maker, part number and references, and an editable title block along the bottom.

Bill of materials

The take-off writes itself

Every part you place counts itself in, the instant it lands — with manufacturer and part number, grouped by category, and duct and rail totalled as cut lengths rather than as a count of pieces.

  • Quantities with reference ranges — CB1–CB3, X1–X87
  • Manufacturer and part number on every line
  • Duct and rail as cut lengths
  • Copy the table, or download CSV for purchasing
The bill of materials: twenty-three line items grouped by category — circuit breakers, contactors, relays, terminal blocks — each carrying manufacturer, model, part number, quantity and the reference designators it covers, with Copy CSV and Download at the top.

Materials

Paint it before you render it

Click a face and PanelPro Studio selects the whole region it belongs to — a housing, a lever, a terminal body — so a part takes a few clicks, not a few hundred. Colours are saved on the catalogue part, so every panel you build after that is already right.

  • Region selection by surface, or the whole part at once
  • A 48-colour palette, grouped the way real gear is finished
  • Printed labels and rating plates placed on the part as stickers
  • Colours travel with the part into every project
Close-up render of the panel: terminal blocks with orange levers, a white relay module with green indicator LEDs, blue contactors and breakers, mounted between slotted duct runs.
Colours set in the material editor, rendered in Lumion with no cleanup.

Export

The model comes out organised, not as one lump

Export the panel and you get a real hierarchy: the enclosure at the top, each backplate under it, and every component as its own named object with its reference designator attached — so you can select, hide and re-material parts individually wherever it lands.

  • OBJ zipped with its .mtl, so materials never arrive missing
  • GLB — the full tree and colours in one file
  • STL for fabrication and 3D printing
  • One object per part: a duct run is one object, not 183 meshes
Panel Condense
└─ Enclosure 1
   └─ Backplate 01
      ├─ U1       NE32A earth bar
      ├─ U2       EC2016 load dump
      ├─ U3       RUT951 router
      ├─ CB1–CB3  CBM E8 24 V DC
      ├─ CB4      Circuit breaker C40
      ├─ KM1–KM2  Contactor 11 kW
      ├─ K2–R1    PLC-RPT relay module
      ├─ X1–X87   Terminal blocks
      ├─ Duct     ×7, cut to length
      └─ Rail     ×2
The object tree from this panel's export.

Your organisation

Two people, one project, no overwriting

Everyone opens the project read-only. To make changes you check out an enclosure or a backplate — and while you hold it, nobody else can write to it.

Check out what you're working on

Right-click a node in the assembly tree and unlock it for editing. Your colleague keeps working on the enclosure next door.

Nothing gets stranded

Close the tab or lose your connection and the lock releases itself. An org admin can force-release any node.

One library for everyone

Set a part up once — dimensions, mounting, 3D model, colours — and it appears at every desk, live. Publish to the public catalogue or import from it.

Pricing

Three plans. Full output quality on every one.

Free

Real panels, no card

US$0

  • 1 user · unlimited private library
  • 5 cloud projects, unlimited local files
  • Full-quality drawings, schedules and BOMs
  • OBJ, GLB and STL export
  • 1 active share link for the floor
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Pro

For the solo professional

US$39 / month

or US$390 / year

  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited cloud projects
  • Unlimited share links for the floor
  • Cut lists, crimp counts and wire take-off on every panel
  • Email support
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Shop

For teams and switchboard shops

US$59 / user / month

or US$590 / user / year

  • Everything in Pro, for the whole team
  • Shared team library with realtime sync
  • Concurrent editing with node check-out
  • Your logo and details on every drawing
  • Priority support · 5+ seats, talk to us
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Every new organisation starts with a 14-day Shop trial — the whole team, every feature, no card required.

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Beta

What beta means here

PanelPro Studio is in active development and you may hit rough edges. Features can change, and exports and drawings should be checked before they go to a workshop or a customer. Keep your own copies of work you cannot afford to redo — there is a Save a copy in the File menu, and every backplate can be exported to a file you keep.

There is a bug report button in the bottom-right corner of the app. It attaches a screenshot, and we read every one.