About PROCAD Systems

The com­pa­ny’s jour­ney began in the ear­ly 1980s. Elpro­jek­t­byrån Möller & Olson AB had a need for its own elec­tri­cal appli­ca­tion pro­gram for elec­tri­cal dia­gram con­struc­tion inter­nal­ly with­in the com­pa­ny. This type of design pro­gram was unusu­al, but inter­est in the indus­try proved to be very high. To sep­a­rate it from the elec­tri­cal con­sult­ing busi­ness, but also to mar­ket and sell the pro­gram, a new com­pa­ny was formed; PRO­CAD Sys­tems AB. The pro­gram was named ELPROCAD.

The pro­gram was shown com­mer­cial­ly for the first time at the ELFACK trade fair in autumn 1985. The pro­gram imme­di­ate­ly received a good response for its work­ing methodology.

Pro­gram devel­op­ment con­tin­ued over the years. Already in the 1980s, func­tions for device lists and auto­mat­ic con­nec­tion tables were added. The pro­gram was adapt­ed to var­i­ous oper­at­ing sys­tems such as DOS, Win­dows and Sun. When Autodesk released the sim­pler ver­sion of its pro­gram, Auto­CAD LT, sales of ELP­RO­CAD in com­bi­na­tion with Auto­CAD LT took off.

As a com­ple­ment to our Auto­CAD-based pro­grams, we released ELP­RO­CAD ic in 2004, which worked with the CAD pro­gram Bric­sCAD. ELP­RO­CAD ic was intend­ed for com­pa­nies that want­ed an inte­grat­ed soft­ware pack­age with both elec­tri­cal appli­ca­tion and CAD pro­gram at a good price. In 2008 we also released ELP­RO­CAD ic Plan for instal­la­tion draw­ings, duct­ing, pow­er instal­la­tion, light­ing instal­la­tion and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions, which is also based on BricsCAD.

Since our entire ic fam­i­ly was based on the Bric­sCAD CAD engine, it was nat­ur­al to deep­en our col­lab­o­ra­tion with Bric­sys. Since the 2000s, we at PRO­CAD Sys­tems have been a part­ner com­pa­ny to Bric­sys, and today we are a Bric­sCAD Solu­tion Partner.

In 2015, we cel­e­brat­ed our 30^th anniver­sary, and at the same time there was a change of own­er­ship and a gen­er­a­tional change of staff.