Solar plants inside AutoCAD, from terrain to construction drawings It works on your own DWG: the plant that gets calculated is the plant that gets issued, and every number stays traceable to the model.
See what it does What it does
01 Terrain and layoutTerrain from 9 formats (TIN, DEM, contours and GIS) with OpenStreetMap obstacles Strings on the real terrain: fixed tilt, single-axis trackers and TFT, with a 3D view Near and far shading over the terrain Weather from PVGIS, NASA, Open-Meteo, NSRDB and Solcast, with your own API key Capacity optimizer: installed capacity against specific yield Sector 1 on satellite imagery SAT-01Sector 1 — plan SEC-01 / 1Row pitch and ground coverage DET-GCR-01
02 CivilGrading, cut and fill, and earthwork takeoff AASHTO 93 roads, Manning ditches, catchments and culverts Geotechnics from SPT tests Typical terrace and slopes DET-MOV-01Typical road sections DET-CAM-01Road and culvert details DET-CAM-03
03 Structure and pilingPiles and concrete blocks: overturning, sliding and pull-out Wind and snow loads per ASCE, and lightning risk Typical table — plan, supports and parts DET-MESA-01Support type 1 — front post, low side DET-PILE-01 / 2Wind zoning of the site WND-01
04 ElectricalDC stringing and MPPT per IEC, NEC or AS/NZS 5033 Cable sizing, voltage drop and trenches Resolved cable crossings, with their table and a section through each crossing Substation, step-up transformer, point of interconnection and BESS Electrical segment TR01 ELE-01 / 1Typical trenches DET-ZAN-01Transformer station TR01 — equipment layout EQP-CT-01 / 1
05 Protection and controlIEC 60255 protection coordination, with time-current curves and N-1 Proposed 87T, 87B, 21, 67, 79 and 25 settings, with criteria and verification Per-bay functional diagrams for the transformer station, the substation and the POI Bay three-line diagrams, AC and DC voltage distribution, and control cables Protection settings are issued for review: the signing engineer ratifies the criteria.
Time-current coordination ELE-CRV-01Functional diagram — trip matrix ELE-FUN-01 / 3Functional diagram — trip logic ELE-FUN-01 / 5
06 Grid studiesLoad flow and short circuit Arc flash per IEEE 1584-2018, from 0.6 to 15 kV Grounding per IEEE 80 Export to ETAP and row-by-row verification of its results Grid studies are screening-grade: the certified study still runs in ETAP or PSS/E.
The 33 studies, their standard and where each one stops Earthing — TR01 station grid ELE-PAT-01 / 2Typical earthing details — bonds ELE-PAT-02 / 1Time-current co-ordination at the fault current ELE-CRV-01 / 1
07 Drawings and documentsGeneral single-line and MV switchboard single-lines Auxiliary services, cable routing, pulling and a numbered cable schedule Earthing grid, transformer-station layout and mounting Piles, table cross-sections and earthworks Calculation reports, Excel workbooks laid out as issued documents, and PVsyst export What depends on purchased equipment stays as a drawing pending from the manufacturer, not drawn from memory.
What it delivers at each stage of a tender General single-line diagram ELE-SLD-0113.2 kV substation MV switchboard — panel single-line ELE-TAB-01 / 2Transformer station TR01 — plan and section DET-01 / 2