Profile View is one of seven viewing selections in the Graphic View Panel, providing users with a span-centric view from the active location to a selected wire end point (WEP). This view allows users to measure clearances between wires and to the ground at any point along the span, define different weather conditions for each usage group, and model changing topography.
Profile View Tools
Within Profile View, users can utilize the dropdown menu in the top left to switch between spans on the active location, if more than one WEP is present in a project.
Additionally, the Profile View Toolset consists of several buttons to help users evaluate clearances on the selected span:
- Show/Hide Zoom and Pan Sliders: Zoom in or out of Profile View.
- Edit Weather Cases: In Profile View, SPIDAcalc draws wire catenaries for all wires at a default temperature of 60°F. By utilizing the Edit Weather Cases button, users can define different weather conditions for each usage group at Initial, Final without Creep, or Final with Creep conditions. Once the weather case(s) have been defined, catenaries are redrawn at the specified state and calculated separations are updated to reflect the new wire state(s).
- Add Environment Region: To-ground clearance requirements can be configured in the client file based on a given environment. Profile View allows multiple environment regions to be modeled along the span; in this way, users can set different minimum vertical clearance requirements at different points along the span depending on the environment.
- Add Terrain: When terrain points are defined, above-ground measurements are relative to the defined terrain instead of level ground. Terrain points are displayed as [Horizontal Distance from Active Pole, Relative Elevation].
- Insert Span Point: Span points show wire heights at any point along the span. Add a span point to view calculated clearances at that point or to record measured heights at a location other than the midspan.
- Show Calculated or Measured Clearances: Toggle between calculated and measured clearances. Calculated clearance values are determined by SPIDAcalc using the wire’s engineering properties and selected weather case; measured clearances are manually entered in the Component Properties Panel.
- Show Line of Sight Annotations: Toggle lines of sight and associated annotations on or off.
- Show/Hide Measurements: Toggle at-pole height measurements on or off.