Welcome to the Automated Logic EIKON for Educator's page

Our intent is to provide a forum for educators who are using EIKON software to exchange ideas, files, and programs to improve the teaching of HVAC Controls. We'll provide whatever support we can, but since we're primarily organized to support the HVAC Controls industry the applications we're most familiar with are a little different than those needed in the classroom.

Our hope is that you can help each other. Anyone developed a good first or second order response simulator? Send it to us as an EIKON symbol file and we'll put it in our download library so others can use it to "close the loop" of their control algorithms and use EIKON to demonstrate control loop stability. Got an effective lesson plan? Let us have it in a text file and we'll post it for others to use. And if you've got any ideas on how we can improve this web site, please feel free to share them with us.

Chariti Young
Software Product Manager
Automated Logic Corporation

Eikon LogicBuilder for Educators Available for Download!

Automated Logic pioneered the concept of graphic programming when we released Eikon in the early 1990s. It's intuitive programming structure, ease of troubleshooting, and powerful simulation tool immediately made it a success in the marketplace and it wasn't long before educators and consulting engineers discovered it could also be a powerful too for teaching or documenting control system logic. Automated Logic recognized this potential and developed a special Eikon for Educators version which we have provided free of charge to these professionals. The program grew more powerful over the years with many new features added but the user interface remained, uh, uniquely Eikon. Users accustomed to UI conventions like "ctrl-c" for copy or "ctrl-v" for paste were sometimes perplexed why Eikon (which was developed long before these conventions emerged) operated on a different model. All that has changed.

Eikon LogicBuilder has been developed from the ground up to be a completely new program - one which retains Eikon's intuitive programming structure and other virtues while discarding all of its vices. The new UI makes it much easier to create or edit programs with features like cutting and pasting between multiple open windows, double-clicking to open property dialogs, and "rubber banding" of connecting wires. The new EquipmentBuilder wizard (under the File menu) provides an extemely flexible way to create thousands of typical HVAC applications. As with previous versions of Eikon for Educators, this latest version is available free of charge to Educators, consulting engineers, and other professionals. Download it directly from this site or request a CD be mailed to you. Check it out in the "Downloads" section.

(Note: Eikon LogicBuilder can import files created by previous versions of Eikon for Educators and it saves control programs in a format that can be imported into Automated Logic's WebCTRL building automation system. The files it creates cannot be opened by previous versions of Eikon for Educators, however, or used with our legacy SuperVision product. Older Eikon programs compatible with these legacy products are still available as Legacy documents on the Downloads page.)