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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
+ More
  • 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

Network design & analysis

Comprehensive, cloud-based network engineering design and analysis tools

About Options and multi-project designs

Project setup

Using and configuring project settings, libraries, and environmental variables

Using Libraries

Using Environments

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

Overhead

Poles

Conductors

Stays / Guys

Crossarms

Obstructions and structures

Structural analysis

About Options and multi-project designs

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

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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