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PLS-POLE^™- Analysis and Design of Structures with Wood, Steel and Concrete Poles or Modular Aluminum Masts

PLS-POLE improvements on our earlier structure programs

PLS-POLE incorporates all of the functionality of SPOLE, SFRAME, WPOLE, WFRAME, CPOLE, CFRAME and GMAST into a single program. PLS-POLE can open structure models from these older structure programs so your investment in existing structure models is preserved.

PLS-POLE can be configured with your choice of Wood, Steel, Concrete and Modular Mast capabilities (each option sold separately). Advantages of the initial release of PLS-POLE (many improvements have been made since) over our earlier programs include:

• More flexible modeling (allows for structures that couldn't be modeled in earlier programs)
  • Chaining of elements (2 part insulator on end of swing bracket...)
  • Addition of cable element for modeling of tie guys and sidewalk guys
  • Ability to model push-braces and stub poles.
  • Option to model eccentricities of elements attached to the face of a pole
  • Improved modeling of swing brackets, 2-part and braced post insulators
  • Can mix steel, wood and concrete components in the same structure (up to 64 poles)
  • User specified strength factors for each type of element
  • Application of equipment loads from a library of available loads
  • Capability to check basic foundation capacities
• Improved interface
  • Undo for all editing operations
  • Option to draw structure as line drawing, wire frame or fully rendered representation
  • Supports DXF and bitmap attachments (photos of actual structures, CAD drawings, company logos, drawing borders)
  • Text in graphics views automatically positioned to avoid collisions with other text
  • Click to edit (simply click on the member you want to edit in the graphics)
  • Results available in both text and spreadsheet form
  • Customizable reports
  • Improved warning and error reporting
• Implements TIA/EIA 222-F for tubular steel pole communications structures
• Automated material list generation
• Interaction diagrams (graphs of allowable weight span vs. allowable wind span)
• Implements automatic relative path mapping so models and their databases can be moved easily
• Faster analysis (30%-600% faster) that can be canceled
• Multiprocessor nonlinear analysis (N processors results in an N times speed up)