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  • Getting started
    Fundamentals Tutorial: Your first design
  • Network design & analysis
    Project setup Overhead Underground Measuring Clearances Working with Terrain
  • Working with LiDAR data
    Automatic LiDAR Classification Modelling with LiDAR
  • Reports and visualizations
    Vegetation Management Formula language reference
  • Collaboration
    Segmenting, importing, and comparing designs
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  • Getting started
      • A video overview of Neara
    • Fundamentals
        • Recommended devices & supported browsers
        • Creating an account & logging in
        • Setting up your organization account & users
        • First-time setup
        • The Home screen & your first Project
        • Using the Project screen & workspaces
        • Project design settings
        • Moving and selecting objects
        • Positioning and orienting the camera in 2D and 3D views
        • Review & export Project settings as a template
        • Collaborating on designs with other users
        • Connecting external cloud data sources
        • Create a cross section of your model in the Profile view
        • Importing a model/template file
        • Set a project's units of measurement to Metric or US
        • Improving display performance
    • Tutorial: Your first design
        • 1 - Create a new, blank project
        • 2 - Georeferenced map overlay and terrain building
        • 3 - Creating poles, conductors, components and assemblies
        • 4 - Modelling the existing network
        • 5 - Modelling changes to a network
        • 6 - Checking Clearances
        • 7 - Exporting Reports
  • Network design & analysis
      • About Options and multi-project designs
    • Project setup
        • Working with the coordinate system
        • Setting up and using Environments
        • Adding a map overlay to your design
        • Create a cross section of your model in the Profile view
        • Viewing & using datasets in your network model
        • View options: asset color coding, displayed visuals, and point cloud display
        • Video: Scoping in Neara Designer
        • Video: Rapid project scoping for overhead powerline design
        • Video: View and export profiles of overhead line models
        • M(z,cat) Gust Wind Speed Multiplier
        • Span Reduction Factor SRF and Tension Section Reduction Factor TSRF
        • Importing a model/template file
        • Set a project's units of measurement to Metric or US
        • Improving display performance
        • Issues importing DXF files
      • Using Libraries
          • Using and updating libraries
          • The Constructions (Assemblies) library
          • The Constructions and Components Library
          • Example Constructions and Components
          • No cable constructions
          • Creep Modelling
          • Video: Editing Pole Top Constructions
          • Video: Editing Pole Top Construction components
          • Pole Library: Derive Modulus of Rupture From Tipload
          • How do I create a new construction?
          • How do I model a T-junction construction?
          • How do I change from one pole top construction to another?
          • How do I create a new component?
      • Using Environments
          • Setting up and using Environments
          • Video: Conductor Environment labelling
          • Overview Limit State Table
    • Overhead
        • About Options and multi-project designs
      • Poles
          • Placing poles
          • Adding a stay/guy wire to a pole
          • Using precision relative placement to place poles relative to other objects
          • Extracting & fitting poles to LiDAR and working with imagery tiles
          • Using the Snap tool to fine tune the fit of poles & conductors to LiDAR data
          • Analysing the impact of single & multiple stays on a pole
          • Viewing detailed tip load results in the Tip Load panel
          • Classify spans and poles to be existing, new, replaced, re-tensioned, or removed
          • Video: Using the precision placement tool
          • Video: Editing Pole Top Constructions
          • Video: Editing Pole Top Construction components
          • Overview Limit State Table
          • Resultant Forces Graph
          • Detailed Forces table
          • Creating mid-span Poles
          • Setting a manual or calculated custom Pole Strength
          • Specifying Pole Lean
      • Conductors
          • Using the Conductor tool to place & configure conductor spans
          • Viewing & modifying conductor span properties
          • Setting conductor properties
          • Splitting conductors
          • Joining conductors
          • Creating and attaching Mid-cable Objects to spans
          • Using the Snap tool to fine tune the fit of poles & conductors to LiDAR data
          • Measuring Blowout distance
          • Measuring conductor clearances
          • Measuring ground clearance
          • Individual cable tensions on a conductor span
          • Creep Modelling
          • Classify spans and poles to be existing, new, replaced, re-tensioned, or removed
          • Video: Using the NESC Ground Clearance tool
          • Video: Creating Multiple Conductor Groups
          • Video: View and export profiles of overhead line models
          • Set up derating strength factors on conductors, poles, and components
          • Creating mid-span Poles
          • How do I specify a precise span length?
          • 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?
          • Defining Bimetallic Conductors
          • Analysing Bimetallic Cables
      • Stays / Guys
          • Adding a stay/guy wire to a pole
          • Analysing the impact of single & multiple stays on a pole
          • Overview Limit State Table
          • Resultant Forces Graph
          • Detailed Forces table
          • The Stay editor
          • How to model a Side-Walk Stay?
      • Crossarms
          • Overview of crossarm parameters
          • Crossarm parameter: Second Moment of Area
          • Crossarm parameter: Torsion Constant
          • Crossarm parameter: Section Modulus
          • Crossarm parameter: Material
          • Crossarm parameters: Length, width, depth
          • Crossarm parameter: Mass
          • Crossarm parameter: Maximum Bending Moment
          • Crossarm parameter: Max Bending Moment vs Horizontal/Vertical
          • Crossarm parameter: Material Strength
          • How do I create a double cross-arm?
      • Obstructions and structures
          • Modelling obstructions such as buildings and fences
      • Structural analysis
        • Wind analysis
            • Wind and Weight Spans
            • Wind Speed
            • Wind Speed - Australia / New Zeland
            • M(z,cat) Gust Wind Speed Multiplier
            • Span Reduction Factor SRF and Tension Section Reduction Factor TSRF
        • Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
            • Analysing the impact of single & multiple stays on a pole
            • Design Setting - Removed Status Stops Loads From Being Applied
            • Set up Simulations for use with FEA
            • Set up derating strength factors on conductors, poles, and components
            • FEA: Unstressed Lengths
            • FEA: Deflection and Rotation Angle
            • FEA: Load Source
            • FEA: Load Factors
        • Static Analysis
            • Analysing the impact of single & multiple stays on a pole
            • Viewing detailed tip load results in the Tip Load panel
            • Design Setting - Removed Status Stops Loads From Being Applied
            • Set up derating strength factors on conductors, poles, and components
            • Overview Limit State Table
            • Resultant Forces Graph
            • Detailed Forces table
            • Setting a manual or calculated custom Pole Strength
        • Calculations
            • 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
            • Catenary Definition
            • 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
    • Underground
        • 1 - Underground tools
        • 2 - Modelling an existing underground network
        • 3 - Single lot subdivision example
        • 4 - Large lot subdivision example
        • Underground voltage drop reports
        • Underground cable tension reports
    • Measuring Clearances
        • Setting up and using Environments
        • Measuring conductor clearances
        • Measuring ground clearance
        • Measuring Blowout distance
        • Using the NESC Clearance Rules tool
        • Video: Using the NESC Ground Clearance tool
        • How do I measure clearances?
    • Working with Terrain
        • Adding feature points with real-world elevation data from Google Earth Elevation / KML
        • CSV structure and feature codes for Survey import
        • Creating a ground / terrain profile using the Survey tool
        • Video: Importing elevation data
        • Model Terrain Override for Poles
  • Working with LiDAR data
      • Importing LiDAR data
      • Troubleshooting LiDAR import issues
      • Improving display performance
    • Automatic LiDAR Classification
        • Step 1: Import & preview LiDAR data
        • Step 2: Automatically classify LiDAR data
        • Step 3: Exporting classified LiDAR data
    • Modelling with LiDAR
        • Quickstart: Overview of modelling with LiDAR
        • Video: Modelling with LiDAR in Neara
        • View options: asset color coding, displayed visuals, and point cloud display
        • Manage density, view, and sets of LiDAR
        • Extracting & fitting poles to LiDAR and working with imagery tiles
        • Using the Snap tool to fine tune the fit of poles & conductors to LiDAR data
        • Viewing & using datasets in your network model
  • Reports and visualizations
      • An introduction to Neara Reports
      • Preset reports
      • Creating custom reports
      • Managing existing Reports
      • Working with tables in Reports
      • Using formulas in reports
      • Interactive Parameter controls in Reports
      • Export data from a Report
      • Quick exports with built-in Reports
      • Built-in Point Cloud clearance report
    • Vegetation Management
        • Vegetation management: Overview
        • Vegetation management: Identification
        • Vegetation management: Prioritization
        • Vegetation management: Operationalize
        • Vegetation management: Audit
    • Formula language reference
        • Using formulas in reports
        • Logical & Boolean operations
        • Mathematical operations
        • Constants
        • Text operations and formatting
        • Units: types and operations
        • Lists and Collections
        • Engineering operations, calculations, and simulations
        • Geometries and Bodies
        • Creating Volumes and making Point Cloud selections
        • User Interface operations
        • Miscellaneous operations
        • Example formula: Custom clearance height check
  • Collaboration
      • Viewing, adding, and working with comments on designs
    • Segmenting, importing, and comparing designs
        • About Options and multi-project designs
        • Importing a design Option from a related project
        • Comparing design Options
        • Working with Asset Statuses in Neara

Getting started

Access, setup, use, and collaborate in Neara

A video overview of Neara

Fundamentals

Get familiar with the Neara platform, workspace, and tools

Recommended devices & supported browsers

Creating an account & logging in

Setting up your organization account & users

First-time setup

The Home screen & your first Project

Using the Project screen & workspaces

Project design settings

Moving and selecting objects

Positioning and orienting the camera in 2D and 3D views

Review & export Project settings as a template

Collaborating on designs with other users

Connecting external cloud data sources

Create a cross section of your model in the Profile view

Importing a model/template file

Set a project's units of measurement to Metric or US

Improving display performance

Tutorial: Your first design

A step-by-step guide to creating and inspecting your first project and network design in Neara

1 - Create a new, blank project

2 - Georeferenced map overlay and terrain building

3 - Creating poles, conductors, components and assemblies

4 - Modelling the existing network

5 - Modelling changes to a network

6 - Checking Clearances

7 - Exporting Reports

Popular Articles

Importing LiDAR data

CSV structure and feature codes for Survey import

4 - Large lot subdivision example

Example Constructions and Components

Creating an account & logging in

Working with the coordinate system

Torsion Constant

Sag Measurement

6 - Checking Clearances

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