At Power Line Systems we continually improve our software.
Below we list some of the more significant enhancements made during the year 2015.
Click here for improvements made in 2014 or here for the most recent enhancements.
- Version 14.00 released - supports Windows 10
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Structures can now be located by specifying their XY coordinates instead of stations along an alignment. XY Based Structures can coexist with station/alignment based structures
(see the documentation and video).
- Virtual Profiles can display a 3D view oriented and scaled to look like a profile view along a temporary virtual alignment. This enables working in a profile like view in XY Based Structure projects without alignments. It can also be useful to cut profiles through LIDAR data that doesn't follow an alignment.
- Added Inset Report View feature for display of tabular output from reports or external spreadsheets on a plan & profile sheet. Inset Report Views tied to PLS-CADD reports can be set to update automatically when new reports are generated or they can be static snapshots that do not change (watch the video).
- Version 14.00 released - supports Windows 10
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Added the Framing Manager which bundles together structure elements and insulators into reusable components. These components are stored in a new Framing Library (.frm file) which you manage with Components/Framing Manager. Click on the Framing Manager to the right for a video introduction.
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Added File/New/Framing Wizard to make creating a new structure from a pre-existing framing trivial (watch the video)
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Added a Drafting menu with functionality similar to PLS-CADD's. You may define a set of sheets (title, note, drawing and appendix pages) upon which you can draw using annotation and send schema output from reports to these pages (watch the video).
- Added Inset Report View feature for display of tabular output from reports or external spreadsheets on a sheet. Inset Report Views tied to PLS-POLE reports can be set to update automatically when new reports are generated or they can be static snapshots that do not change (watch the video).
- Automatic creation of loading trees on the new drafting sheets.
- Added the "Report Navigator" toolbar which allows you to quickly Goto, Table View and XML Export the various tables in a report.
- Added ANSI O5.1-2015 option for checking wood poles.
- Version 14.00 released - supports Windows 10
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Added a Drafting menu with functionality similar to PLS-CADD's. You may define a set of sheets (title, note, drawing and appendix pages) upon which you can draw using annotation and send schema output from reports to these pages (watch the video).
- Added Inset Report View feature for display of tabular output from reports or external spreadsheets on a sheet. Inset Report Views tied to TOWER reports can be set to update automatically when new reports are generated or they can be static snapshots that do not change (watch the video).
- Automatic creation of loading trees on the new drafting sheets.
- Added the "Report Navigator" toolbar which allows you to quickly Goto, Table View and XML Export the various tables in a report.
- The Family Manager now allows an extension to be used as a body extension in some models and a leg extension in others.
