Version 15.30 shipping now: use Help/Download Upgrade to upgrade today. Several of the more significant changes are highlighted below.
PLS-CADD Improvements
Defining and Labeling Circuits and Electrical Phasing:
Watch the circuits demonstration video.
Read the circuits technical note.
Automated the creation of phasing diagrams with the new Drafting/Inset Views/Add/Inset Phasing Diagram... command (watch a video demonstration)
Added "EN50341-3-2:2001 Belgium NNA" and "EN50341-2-9:2017 UK NNA" wind loading options
LAS 1.4 support
Optimum Body and Leg Extension Selection with grillage foundation considerations
Watch the optimum body and leg extension video.
Read the technical note.
Thermal rating calculations using TNSP 2009 (for Australia).
Numerous KML/KMZ Export improvements that result in better visual fidelity
Many more improvements described in the detailed change list accompanying upgrades.
PLS-POLE Improvements
Added support for Comrod FRP poles
TOWER Improvements
Numerous Family Manager improvements: input for "Maximum differential leg height", exported models now retain a pointer to the parent Family Manager model, control over Naming Conventions and support for PLS-CADD's Structures/Automatic Spotting/Optimum Body and Leg Extension Selection... command.
Implemented EN50341-2-9:2017 ECCS and EN93 variants for both member strength and connection capacity calculations.
Improvements Shared by TOWER and PLS-POLE
Windows User Interface Improvements (see the video to the right)
Added Drafting/Inset Views/Pan, Rotate, or Zoom Inset Structure View command to graphically pan, zoom and rotate inset views.
Many more improvements described in the detailed change list accompanying upgrades.
CAISSON Improvements
We have also made a number of improvements to CAISSON as demonstrated in this video.
Support for multiple loads cases
User defined steel area percentage, embedment depth, and diameter
We are looking for engineers interested in the development of zero sequence line constants directly from PLS-CADD.
If you are interested in working with us on this new feature then please
send us an email
You can use Help/Download Upgrade to upgrade to version 15.30 today.
The current shipping versions of our software are listed below. These versions support Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 10 (both 32 and 64 bit).
We recommend you run a 64 bit edition of Windows so that you may take advantage of the enormous investment we have made in the x64 Edition.
The 32 bit edition will cease being supported in 2019.
We strongly encourage you to upgrade to the current release of all the applications you own. To do so please use
the Help/Download Upgrade command built into your PLS software and select the option "I need to request an upgrade code".
This would also be a good time to use the Help/Check for Updated Manual command to obtain the version 15.30 edition of the manuals.
As always, we welcome your suggestions and comments on our software.