Neara

Introduction to Neara 4

• About and signing up
• Setting up your application
• Support channels
• Product features and pricing

Your First Design 7

• Tutorial 1 - Project Settings
• Tutorial 2 - Georeferenced Map Overlay and Terrain Building
• Tutorial 3 - Creating poles / conductors / constructions / components
• Tutorial 4 - Modelling the existing network
• Tutorial 5 - Modelling changes to a network
• Tutorial 6 - Checking Clearances
• Tutorial 7 - Exporting Reports

Templates 1

• Creating Template Files

Modelling 7

• Individual cable tensions on a conductor span
• No cable constructions
• Modelling with LiDAR
• Conductor spans properties
• Tip Load
• Modelling poles / conductors / constructions / components
• Creep Modelling

Cloud 3

• Working with Powerlines Pro files
• Collaborating on the Cloud
• How to create and use organisations within PLP

Tools 31

• Analysing the impact of multiple stays on a pole
• Classify spans and poles to be existing, new, replaced, retension or removed.
• How to orient a design using hotkeys
• Importing and Managing LiDAR (dataset tool)
• Creating and using custom libraries
• How to edit conductor colour coding and LiDAR point size
• Extracting/fitting poles to LiDAR and adding/removing image tiles
• How to add a map overlay to your design
• Project menu
• Specifying a cross section of your model for the Profile view
• Navigating a model without using a mouse
• Fine tuning the fitting of poles/conductors to LiDAR data
• How to split or join conductors
• How to add pole stays/guy wires
• How to place poles relative to other objects
• How to place obstructions
• Setting environmental variables
• Placing poles
• How to place conductors
• Adding real world elevation data (Google Earth Elevation / KML)
• Setting conductor properties
• Measuring Blowout Distance
• Measuring conductor clearances
• Measuring ground clearances
• Setting up your application
• Using a dataset in your model
• Coordinate System
• Example Construction and Components
• Constructions and Components Library
• Working with Libraries
• Placing map tiles in design

Data Imports and Exports 4

• CSV Import and our Feature Codes (Survey Import)
• DXF import
• LiDAR Import
• Model files

Underground Tools and Designs 6

• Tutorial 1 - Underground Tools
• Tutorial 2 - Modelling the Existing Underground Network
• Tutorial 3 - Single Lot Subdivision Example
• Tutorial 4 - Large Lot Subdivision Example
• Underground Voltage Drop Reports
• Underground Cable Tension Reports

Analytical Features 5

• Overview Limit State Table
• Resultant Forces Graph
• Detailed Forces Table
• Advanced Tip Load Features
• Set up derating strength factors on conductors and poles

Calculations 11

• Example Models from AS7000 HB 331-2012
• Sag Measurement
• General Conductor Properties and calculations
• Blowout Calculation
• Tip Load Calculations
• Stay Calculation
• Sag Tension Calculation
• Pole Plant Calculation
• Span Clearance Calculations
• Limit State Calculations
• Catenary Definition

Reports 5

• Bill of materials
• General Reporting
• How to create custom reports
• Clearance report
• Creating custom formulae

FAQ 23

• How do I split and join a conductor?
• How do I model a T-junction construction?
• How do I move my view camera around?
• How do I specify a precise span length?
• When calculating wind load, how do I specify a Span Reduction Factor?
• How do I measure clearances?
• How to create a ground/terrain profile using the terrain tool?
• How do I extend an existing conductor?
• How do I insert a pole into an existing conductor span?
• How do I find the blowout of a span?
• How do I create a new construction?
• How do I change from one pole top construction to another?
• How do I create a new component?
• How to create a double cross-arm?
• How to change project units between Metric and US Customary?
• How to use the NESC Clearance Rules tool?
• How do I import a model/template file?
• How do I add a stay/guy wire to a pole?
• How can I model objects/buildings?
• Customising view layout
• Modelling with LiDAR
• Snapping tool guideline
• How to model a Side-Walk Stay?

Troubleshooting 2

• DXF Import Issues
• What to do when your Graphic Performance is Slow

Product Updates 0

Miscellaneous 2

• Tutorial 7 - Overlaying a Terrain Image
• Stay Editor

Sub-Transmission 6

• FEA - Unstressed Lengths Option
• M(z,cat) Gust Wind Speed Multiplier
• Span Reduction Factor SRF and Tension Section Reduction Factor TSRF
• Wind and Weight Spans
• Wind Speed
• Wind Speed - Australia / New Zeland

Point Cloud (Spatial) 0

Analytics 0

Cross Arms 10

• Cross Arm Parameter - Second Moment of Area
• Cross Arm Parameter - Torsion Constant
• Cross Arm Parameter - Section Modulus
• Cross Arm Parameters
• Cross Arm Parameter - Material
• Cross Arm Parameters - Length, Width, Depth
• Cross Arm Parameter - Mass
• Cross Arm Parameter - Maximum Bending Moment
• Cross Arm Parameter - Max Bending Moment vs Horizontal/Vertical
• Cross Arm Parameter - Material Strength

Poles 3

• Mid-Span Poles
• Pole Library - Derive Modulus of Rupture From Tipload
• Custom Pole Strength

Stuctural 10

• Torsion Constant
• Neutral Axis
• Moments of Area
• Second Moment of Area
• Section Modulus
• Maximum Bending Moment
• Modulus of Elasticity
• Stress/Strain
• Maximum Bending Stress / Material Strength
• Common Shapes - Second Moment of Area and Torsion Constant