PLS-CADD is the most powerful overhead power line design program on the market. PLS-CADD runs under Microsoft Windows and features an easy to use graphical user interface. It integrates all aspects of line design into a single stand-alone program with a simple, logical, consistent interface. No other program can match the sophisticated engineering capabilities available in PLS-CADD. This sophistication and integration leads to more cost-effective designs being produced in only a fraction of the time required by traditional methods.
PLS-CADD addresses the reality that terrain modeling, engineering, spotting, and drafting are not disjoint processes but are all interrelated. By integrating all these functions into a single environment PLS-CADD streamlines the design process. The result is simplicity, flexibility and efficiency not attainable when using a collection of programs from different vendors. PLS-CADD’s engineering features are unsurpassed giving you the state-of-the-art in sag-tension, structural analysis and automatic spotting. From distribution wood poles all the way to 500 kV or higher guyed frames and lattice towers, PLS-CADD has the power and flexibility to do it all. Proven in over 1000 organizations in more than 115 countries, PLS-CADD is the worldwide standard in line design.
- A Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8 (32 bit or x64) environment that lets you:
- Run on powerful yet inexpensive computers
- Use the most common graphical user interface (GUI) in the world
- Print reports and plot drawings directly on a wide variety of printers and plotters
- Run the user interface in English, French or Spanish
- A 3-dimensional terrain model (including automatic TIN triangulation) that lets you:
- Select your route by clicking the mouse on line angle points
- Move structures in the plan or profile views
- Automatically generate centerline or side profiles
- Identify any terrain or obstacle with a unique feature code and symbol
- Automatically draw the required vertical clearance line for any specified voltage
- Render terrain in color by elevation and light incidence
- Import terrain data from GPS, photogrammetry or total station surveying equipment
- A simple system for strength and clearance design criteria that lets you specify:
- Weather cases with individual wind, ice, temperature, and reliability adjustments
- Load factors for checking the strength of the structures
- Cable conditions (Initial, after Creep or after Heavy load)
- A 3-dimensional model of the line that lets you:
- Represent all structures with all attached cables and insulators
- Select structures and cables from user editable libraries
- Spot structures interactively or automatically (global cost optimization)
- String and sag the line interactively or automatically
- Perform any sag and tension calculation, including the effect of creep
- Select various conductor models to better represent behavior at high temperature
- Determine complete design loading trees
- Compute vertical or lateral clearances from ground or obstacles to any cable
- Check structure strength by allowable wind and weight spans methods
- Check structure strength by direct link to structural analysis programs
- Check clearances between conductors and structures (including guy wires)
- Visualize the line in 3-d with actual wind blowout and insulator swings
- A graphics system that lets you:
- Generate plan & profile sheets automatically
- Plot directly or send drawings to commercial CAD system
- Export plan & profile sheets to PDF (requires Adobe Acrobat)
- Superpose aerial photographs or maps on your plan view
- Digitize scanned plan & profile drawings
- A material management system that lets you:
- Import parts, assemblies and labor units from existing databases
- Automatically generate structure costs for optimization
- Automatically generate material lists for construction
- structural and geometrical design of overhead power lines
- terrain modeling, engineering, spotting, and drafting
- 3-dimensional terrain models (including automatic TIN triangulation)
- 3-dimensional model of the line
- Structure Modeling
- Advanced Sag-Tension routines
- 3-dimensional Engineering Model
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