help · Masts and parts

Site plan

Drawing the wires on a plan to take their spans and angles.

On the site plan you draw each wire at the mast and let BEAM measure its spans and its angle, instead of entering them by hand.

The picture

Choose a JPEG or PNG, a page of a PDF (pick the page, then drag a rectangle over the area you need), or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V. A picture larger than 1 MB is reduced; choose a smaller area if it still doesn't fit.

Scale

Choose Calibrate, click two points whose distance you know, and enter it as Reference length. The distances are then in metres.

Wires

  1. Choose Place wire.
  2. Click the start point, then the vertex at the mast, then the end point.
  3. BEAM shows the two spans, their sum and the angle. Drag a point to move it.
  4. Assign the wire to a parts group under Parts group.

When you save, the span and the angle go into every part of that group: span weight and span wind both become the span. Green wires are assigned, red ones not yet.

The wires are listed left of the plan, with the Properties of the chosen wire below them; the plan takes the rest of the window.

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