Asset types & dishes
12 parametric types cover most of what stands on a utility or telecom site. Every type works the same way: a few dimensions in, true-scale 3D out — in the preview, the site view, and the export.
The library
- Wind turbine
- Tower, nacelle, and three-blade rotor from hub height and rotor diameter. Derived facts include tip height and swept area. Exports with the high-detail model automatically.
- Monopole
- Tapered steel pole — the standard telecom structure.
- Lattice tower
- Self-supporting lattice tower with tapering faces.
- Guyed tower
- Slender mast held by guy wires, anchors included.
- Met tower
- Meteorological mast of the kind used in wind resource campaigns.
- Solar array
- Tilted panel array — set the footprint and tilt.
- Transmission H-frame
- Two poles and a crossarm carrying conductors.
- Water tank
- Cylindrical storage tank.
- Equipment shelter
- Rectangular equipment building for compound layouts.
- Grain silo
- Silo cluster — useful for obstruction checks in rural areas.
- Microwave dish
- A dish with mount and radome option. Usually attached to a structure — see below — but it can also stand alone at its own coordinates.
Attaching dishes to structures
A microwave dish can attach to a monopole, lattice tower, guyed tower, met tower, H-frame, or wind turbine. When you attach one, you set its mount height above ground and its azimuth — the direction the dish points, degrees clockwise from north.
An attached dish always sits at its parent's coordinates. Move the tower and every dish on it moves too — in the 3D scene and in the export, with no re-entry. Deleting the parent structure deletes its attached dishes with it.
Common fields on every asset
Every asset has a label, latitude/longitude, a heading, and an optional color tint. The tint carries through to the exported model — handy for flagging proposed vs. existing structures in the same scene. Type-specific dimensions are validated as you type, and the same rules apply during CSV import.