Adaptive Grid accelerate designs from the field.

Adaptive Grid empowers your design team to work flexibly, either from the office on a computer, on-site using an iPad, or even a blend of both. With Adaptive Grid, desktop is no longer king, the user is king. Today we're going to look at how the point and span wizard accelerates the design of an underground residential distribution loop. So in this next demo, I'm going to show you how Adaptive Grid's interactive point and span wizard, which you may hear me abbreviate throughout to P&S wizard just for brevity, how it can make previously time intensive designs like this URD loop I'm about to build, both quick to create and mistake proof on the front end, with the help of our pre-configured assembly pallets and data validation guardrails. Go ahead and start this video. So we received a service request for this new residential community that you'll see shortly. While I open my design that I've already created in the Adaptive Grid environment in my browser, high level engineering plan here is to install an underground loop, which will be fused from these two vaults when I zoom in, and made up of four transformers with one being a normal open point. Just want to put it out, obviously this is just an example, you'll later see that the work has already been performed in the field, but let's play along and see what a typical design progression might look like. So from my toolbar, I'm able to activate my pallet as well as the point and span wizard. You'll notice that the point and span wizard does have both overhead and underground modes. You will be taking advantage of underground mode for this loop design. So once you've launched the point and span wizard dialog box, the crosshairs are already activated and you can snap to your existing network like I just clicked on this vaults where we'll be taking off from. And each time you see me click here on the map, a point is placed and a subsequent span is then generated in between the points in sequential order. In parallel, you'll see the point and span dialog box grows along with your placements on the map, adding new individual rows for each point and each span. Now the tool always is going to assume that you're designing from upstream to downstream and it's going to inherit properties such as phasing connectivity circuit association. There's a lot of really cool things that you can set up with calculated fields here. If I realize I need to extend the route or add more points after I've already freed up my cursor like you see me doing here, I can simply click the midpoint to add another point in span and adjust accordingly on the fly. Some of these distances are getting long, so in theory I could add intermediate hand holes in after the fact as well, just an example. But since we're in underground mode here, only the start structure and ending structures are going to be mandatory fields, which are denoted by the red asterisk you're going to see in the dialog box, whereas the grayed out rows are going to be optional so we can dictate the curvature of our trench. So I've added my first primary definition. Go ahead and save that. can see the properties right in the window. Now I can always cover my mouse to see which point in span I'm affecting on the map as well. You'll see the individual points and spans on the map highlight in halo. And the tool also has the concept of default properties built in. So I only defined that first primary and I can go ahead and leave the rest of the span options blank because it's going to inherit that default value throughout without having to redefine it each time. I use the plus sign there to add a transformer to my piece of structure that I've already created. So at each structure you do have the ability to add equipment. And as I'm filling these out here, I want to point out that you can either have these as blank features going one by one or use macro assemblies like you see in the palette on the right side there. But these macros can be tailored to corresponding compatible units for design user like you see here or this can also be set up in a way to accommodate what a GIS tech, for example, might see when they're as built in data. So once I have everything good to go there for the first side of my loop, I'll click save and I'm already done with that first half. So while I'm clicking on the save button here, there is some stuff running in the background. We're doing some validation checks to make sure that no rules were broken upon entry and it's going to quickly generate my new structures, the routes in between my structures and then the equipment and conductor along the way within the hierarchical model and adaptive grid. Now, if I go ahead and navigate over to this transformer here. Do a quick upstream trace that verifies my connectivity back to the source at the substation should be the circuit breaker should all be connected and ready to go. Just to point out when you see a trace here, the blue polygon on the right is my substation footprint. There is a circuit breaker halo within there. You can see that. IQ Geo Adaptive Grid is the new approach to managing the entire lifecycle of electric grids. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to see other examples of network design from the office to the field or to see your own network data in adaptive grid.