Network design & construction
Comprehensive, cloud-based network engineering design and analysis tools
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Tutorial: Your first design
A step-by-step guide to creating and inspecting your first project and network design in Neara
- Create a new, blank project
- Set the project Coordinate Reference System, terrain map overlay, and design location
- Create poles, conductors, components and assemblies
- Model your existing network
- Create a cross section in the Profile view
- View utilization and model changes to your network
- Check Clearances
- Manage an asset's Status
- Export Reports
- Overview of project librariesConfigure poles, conductors, assemblies, mid-cable objects, soil layers, and more
- Assemblies library
- Creating a new Assembly
- Poles with no-cable assembliesPlace a pole with an assembly, but no cables
- Edit a pole top construction
- Model a T-junction construction
- Create a new Component
- Pole Library: Derive MoR From Tipload
- Migrating to the new poles library
- Poles library
- Pole Elasticity, Shear Modulus and Poisson's Ratio
- Concrete Pole Capacity Checks
- Composite Poles
- Wood Poles
- Concrete Poles
- Steel Poles
- Standard Structures
- Improved Assembly Modelling
- Equipment
- Overview of Underground tools
- Videos: Model an existing underground network
- Underground cable tension reportsNeara can calculate the tension required to pull underground cables through conduits
- Underground voltage drop reportsNeara is capable of performing voltage drop calculations for underground designs
- Import and model terrainYou can import or manually create terrain in projects
- Create a ground / terrain profileThere are a number of ways to create a ground profile in a project
- Add feature points with real-world elevation dataManually using the Survey tool, and by importing Google elevation / KML data
- Model terrain override for polesAnd control the display of ground line indicator boxes
- CSV structure and feature codes for Survey importImports a CSV file with points in 3D space
- Visualize terrain and contour linesOnce a project has terrain data modeled, you can view it in the Perspective, Schematic, and Plan views
- Tutorial: Import imagery for Terrain Overlays using the Importer toolHow to import custom imagery overlays into your Neara project to replace Google Satellite views
- Import terrain data and terrain image overlays from DXF filesData in a DXF file can be used to generate terrain contours, or rendered as an image to use as a terrain overlay in a project
- Import and work with DXF objects
- Export DXF dataExport Plan and Profile views and data, Custom Report data, and uploaded objects, as DXF files
- Troubleshooting import from DXF files