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- Introducing ikeAnnotate, a hardware and software combination that enables rapid and accurate PLS-POLE model creation from field measurements of poles.
- Version 12 Released: see the Winter 2011 newsletter for more information.
- The Hubbell Power Systems / Ohio Brass Quadri-Sil® insulator library is now available for download.
- Handouts from the 2011 PLS-CADD Advanced Training and User Group Meeting are now available.
- Suzhou Furukawa Power Optic Cable Company's PLS-CADD cable models are now available for download.
- Prysmian's PLS-CADD cable models are now available for download.
- K-LINE's insulator library with properties for strain, suspension and post insulators is now available for download.
- Duratel's Fiber Reinforced Polymer pole library for PLS-POLE is now available for download.
- Version 11 Released: see the Spring 2011 newsletter for more information.
- Please join us for the 2011 PLS-CADD Advanced Training and User Group Meeting July 19-21, 2011 in Madison, Wisconsin.
- Laminated Wood Systems PhaseRaiser library is now available for download. This should be used in conjunction with the new PhaseRaiser Wizard.
- Brugg's OPGW cable models have been updated and expanded with additional designs.
- A PLS-POLE PUPI Fiberglass Crossarm library is now available for download.
- NERC Issues Facility Ratings Methodology Alert recommending consideration of actual field conditions in determination of facility ratings, suggesting that “...Discrepancies exist between the design and actual field conditions of transmission facilities, including transmission conductor locations.”
- MacLean Power Systems/Reliable Insulator Library containing the APEX Family of strain, suspension and post insulators is now available for download.
- Technical note: Linear Elastic Cable Model With Creep Proportional to Tension describes an improved linear model for conductors.
- Additional AFL Telecommunications OPGW PLS-CADD cable models are available for download.
- ANSI O5.1.2008 PLS-POLE component files are now available for download from the online library.
- Version 10.35 available: adds GPS integration and reprojection of project, survey data, raster and vector attachments.
- A Spanish edition of the PLS-POLE manual is now available for download using the Help/Check For Updated Manual command.
- Version 10.20 supports Windows 7 upon it's release
- Resin Systems' RStandard Fiber Reinfored Polymer pole library for PLS-POLE is now available for download.
- A PLS-POLE RUS structure model library may now be downloaded from the Online Library
- Review many other recent program improvements
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- Design of Overhead Transmission Lines using PLS-CADD (includes 32 PDHs), January 9-13, 2012 in Madison, WI (Full, wait list only)
- Computerized Transmission Line Design: PLS-CADD Hands-On Training (Organized by the University of Wisconsin) February 20-24, 2012 in Orlando, FL
(Check availability)
- Design of Transmission Lines, Structures and Foundations February 27 - March 2, 2012 in Orlando, FL
(Check availability)
- Design of Overhead Transmission Lines using PLS-CADD (includes 32 PDHs), March 12-16, 2012 in Madison, WI (Full, wait list only)
- Analysis and Design of Transmission Towers Using TOWER (includes 28 PDHs), April 24-27, 2012 in Madison, WI (Space still available)
- Design of Transmission Lines, Structures and Foundations August 13-17, 2012 in Madison, WI
(Check availability)
- Computerized Transmission Line Design: PLS-CADD Hands-On Training (Organized by the University of Wisconsin) December 3-7, 2012 in Orlando, FL
(Check availability)
Classes organized by authorized PLS agents:
- Otto Lynch discussing the State of America's Grid after the San Diego blackout on the September 9th, 2011 NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams
- NERC Facility Ratings Methodology Alert mentions PLS-CADD as a tool for utilities to "more easily assess their lines"
- "Airborne Surveying Aids in Vegetation Management", by Thomas Wells, British Columbia Transmission Corp., Transmission & Distribution World, November 2005
- "Aerial Surveys Calculate Vegetation Growth", by Bryan Hooper and Tom Bailey, British Columbia Hydro, Transmission & Distribution World, October 2004
- "Use of Probabilistic Temperatures in the Calculation of Transmission Line Ratings using PLS-CADD"
by Milind Khot, Transpower New Zealand, Presentated at EEA Annual Conference & Trade Exhibition, June 17-19 2004, Christchurch, NZ
- Press Release: Composite Technology Announces Ten Sizes of its ACCC Cable Now Available in PLS-CADD Software
- "California Bulks Up to Provide More Transmission Capacity",
by Tom Boyko, Transmission & Distribution World, Jun 1, 2004.
- "DVP Refurbishes Guyed Transmission Towers",
Transmission & Distribution World, Feb 1, 2004
- Press Release: Composite Technology's ACCC Cable to be Featured in Power Line Systems' CADD Design Tools
- "Vegetation
Management Takes to the Air", by Bryan Hooper, British Columbia Hydro, Transmission & Distribution World, September 2003
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"KCP&L Reconductors Energized 345-kV Line", by John E. White, Quanta
Services, and Paul S. Beaulieu and Rick Albertson, Kansas City Power & Light,
Transmission & Distribution World, September 2003
Link
to September issue with graphics
- See how Transpower New Zealand Ltd. saved 34% of total project cost using
PLS-CADD's FE options by reading "Design
Tool Reduces Line-Uprating Costs" by Trevor E. Jacobs and Robert Lake in
the April 2003 edition of Transmission & Distribution World.
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"Technology Enhances Joint-Use Planning Process" by Matt Brungardt,
Brungardt Honomichl & Co., P.A.,Transmission & Distribution World, March 2003
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"Finding 'Hidden Capacity' In Transmission Lines" by Blake Forbes, Public
Service Company of New Mexico, and Dale Bradshaw and Fisher Campbell, Tennes,
Transmission & Distribution World, September 2002
- "Line Design Goes Airborne" by John E. Lionberger and Leslie Duke of Burns &
McDonnell Engineering, Transmission & Distribution World, September 2001
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"3-D modeling boosts transmission capacity" by John E. Lionberger and
Leslie Duke of Burns & McDonnell Engineering, Electric Light & Power, July 2001
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PLS-CADD
Miscellaneous
User Contributed
- Video showing flyby of PLS-CADD model exported to Google Earth
- Video demonstrating the TerraServer (now MSR-Maps) Image Download command
- Video showing how to Digitize Plan and Profile Drawings
- Video showing check of clearances between wires for an entire line at once.
- Video showing check of clearances in a roll from a horizontal substation structure to a vertical transmission structure.
- Video showing check of structure and guy clearances to wires.
- Video showing how to use USGS data with PLS-CADD. Also helpful for those using data obtained via LIDAR or photogrammetry.
- Video showing PLS-CADD/PLS-POLE import of information from field populated database.
- Video of joint use example in PLS-CADD/Lite and PLS-POLE (demonstrates new wizard interface).
- Video of PLS-CADD customize structure command for moving structure attachments and guy anchors (in French).
- Video showing import of pictures and staking list from a spreadsheet.
- Summary of recent user group meetings and trade shows
- You can meet with us in booth 1263 at the IEEE PES Transmission and
Distribution Conference and Exposition in Orlando, Florida, May 7-10, 2012.
- Please visit with us at the 2012 CIGRE Technical Exhibition, Palais des congres de Paris, France, August 27-31, 2012
- Please visit with us at the 2012 ASCE Electrical Transmission and Substation Structures Conference in Columbus, Ohio, Nov 4-8, 2012.
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