Neara provides designers with strong integrated design software that covers everything from scoping to project submission. Our suite of design and management tools empower all styles of workflows for distribution and transmission projects.
In Neara, you typically work in Projects. Each Project can contain data, models, settings, workspaces and more.
The Home screen
The Home screen is where you access your existing and recent Projects, Project templates, and options to create new Projects. After you have logged in and done the first-time setup click the Home tab to see your Home screen:
Your Home screen may show different items depending on your organization's setup, but will typically include the following sections:
Start lists options to create a new Project from network model, from a model file, potentially from templates used by your organization, or a preset blank project
Recent shows Projects that you have recently created or accessed
Sample Designs contains example Projects that you can explore to familiarise yourself with Neara
Tutorials includes helpful videos that demonstrate essential Neara concepts and features
Create a new, blank Project
Click on the Preset File 1 tile in the Start section to use as the basis of a new, empty Project that you can use to explore and test out different features.
You'll be prompted to give the Project a name, and confirm author information:
Rename a project
To update the project information later, choose Project / Project properties on the menu:
Start a new project from a template
You can save a collection of project settings as a Neara "model" file that can be used as a template for you and others to use as a quick-start on new projects.
To base a new project on an existing template file rather than the default Neara configuration, select the From model file tile on the Home screen, and select the exported model file (the file will have a .power filename extension) when prompted:
Save a project
Your Neara project is automatically saved every couple of minutes to the cloud.
In addition, Versions of a project are saved when key changes are made to the design elements or network model in the project.
To browse available versions of the project, select Project / Version History from the menu:
To make project versions easier to identify in future, you can add a note to the current version:
