SPIDAcalc’s Project Panel offers a quick way to navigate through defined project layers and organizes the hierarchical infrastructure levels. The Project Panel also offers multiple local and online analysis options.

Project Panel Analysis Options

The two buttons at the top of the Project Panel provide users with the ability to analyze an entire project or project parts using local analysis or cloud analysis. One of the following analysis options can be selected:

• Project: will analyze all locations and designs within the entire project
• Design Layer - Name: will analyze all design layers with the selected layer name
• Lead - Name: will analyze all locations and designs within the selected lead
• Location - Name: will analyze all design layers within the selected location
• Design - Name: will analyze only the selected design layer

There is also a setting to Skip Analyzing Designs with Current Results. If enabled, SPIDAcalc will not perform an analysis of a design that has current results.

Local analysis and/or SPIDAcee will only be available if the user account has access. Users may view Tools > Authorizations to confirm whether they have access to these features. If “Structural Analysis” is listed under the License Modules, the user has local analysis. If the SPIDAcee button is enabled in the Toolbar and Project Panel, the user has access to cloud analysis.

Project Hierarchy

The Project Panel organizes project components into pole leads, locations, and designs.

• Project: The highest level which includes all sublevels that ultimately narrow the focus to a single-pole design.
• Lead: A segment of continuous poles. Multiple leads can exist within a project.
• Location: A site where a single pole exists or may potentially exist. Multiple locations can exist within a lead.
• Design: A version of a pole at a location. Multiple designs can exist within a location. Design layer names are established in the client file. Below are a few examples:
  • Measured: Created from original or imported engineering data
  • Theoretical: Proposed attachments are added to Measured Design
  • Recommended: Final design that has been remedied to bring a pole into structural compliance

Project Panel Buttons

Add Lead: Selecting this button once will add a lead to the project. When a lead is created, one location and its first design layer are created. There is no limit to the number of leads a user can add to a project.

Add Location: Selecting this button once will add a location to the project. There is no limit to the number of locations a user can add to a project or to a lead. New locations are added after the location that is currently selected.

Clone Design Layer: An extended menu will list design layers that are available per client file settings. With the exception of the Create New Design Layer selection, these selections are dynamic; once they are selected, they are removed from the extended menu.

• When a design layer is selected from the extended menu, a clone of the preceding design will be represented. The new design layer will also be added as a place marker to all locations in the current project.
• When Create New Design Layer is selected from the extended menu, a design layer name and type can be identified. A clone of the preceding design will be represented in this new design layer.

Remove Design Layer: An extended menu will list design layers that are currently active in the project. The selections are dynamic, meaning that once they are removed from the project, they will no longer appear in the dropdown list. A warning dialog will appear to notify the user of how many designs will be removed from the project by this action.

Collapse All/Expand All: Collapse all locations and designs to only show Project Name and Leads or expand all Project Tree parts to show all locations and design layers.

Empty Design: Any existing design layer that contains a design can be emptied. A warning dialog will appear to notify the user that this action cannot be undone. If a design contains connected locations, a dialog will also appear to determine how to handle connected locations.

Add or Clone Pole: If an empty design layer is present, this button will appear with a dropdown prompting the user to add a new pole or to clone one of the existing design layers.

Clone into Draft Design: Any existing design layer that contains a design can be cloned into a draft design. The draft design will appear at the end of the design layers list within a given location. A draft design can be merged into a design layer by dragging and dropping it over the desired layer. This application cannot be undone.

Remove Lead/Remove Location: When more than one lead and/or location exists, the Remove Lead or Remove Location button can be used to remove that selected lead or location. There must always be one lead, one location, and one design in the project.

Positioning the Project Panel

Every time SPIDAcalc is launched or a new project is initiated, the Project Panel either appears docked in a workspace or in a hover state.

The Project Panel can be viewed and used in several different ways:

• For the Project Panel to appear in a hover state, select the Project button from the Side Dock.
• To dock the Project Panel while in a hover state, select the Dock button. The Project Panel will then appear in the active workspace.
• To pop out the Project Panel while in a hover state, select the Pop Out button. The Project Panel can then be docked into the current workspace, moved to a different monitor, maximized, or closed.
• To dock the Project Panel on the right side of the SPIDAcalc screen, left click and hold the Project Panel header while dragging to the right side. When a red vertical line appears, release the mouse.

Renaming Project Parts in the Project Panel

To edit the name of the lead or location, double-click on a particular lead or location in the Project Panel. Type the name in the editable field, then select Enter to complete the update. To update the project or design layer names, use the General and Design Layers tabs in the Project Settings dialog box.

Project Tree Color Codes

The design layers in the Project Panel will appear in one of four colors based on the analysis status of the design.

• Purple represents a design that has not been analyzed or a design that has been modified and needs to be re-analyzed.
• Green represents a design that has been analyzed and passes the loading analysis based on load case parameters.
• Orange represents a design that has been analyzed and is nearly failing the loading analysis based on load case parameters.
• Red represents a design that has been analyzed and is failing the loading analysis based on load case parameters.