POLESOFT — The Complete Guide: Free Base Fixing Design for Lighting and Power Poles
POLESOFT by ADIT deals with the critical point of lighting and power poles — the connection at the base. You enter the pole height, the wind load and the base plate arrangement, and the tool checks the anchors into the foundation and returns a fixing design with a calculation report. It runs in the browser, with a Hebrew interface, nothing to install and no registration.
POLESOFT — lighting and power pole design
ADIT Ltd (ADIT)
Designs the base fixing of lighting and power poles.
Get it from the vendorWhat you get
- Pole height — the starting input for the calculation.
- Wind load — the load case that governs most pole bases.
- Base plate arrangement — the anchor positions around the pole.
- Anchor check into the foundation — with the fixing design as the result.
- Full calculation report — to attach to a submission.
Why wind governs
A tall, slender pole turns a fairly modest wind load into a large bending moment at the base, and that moment becomes tension in the anchors. That is why the design focuses on this case, which governs for most poles.
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STRUCTSOFT — 2D Structural Analysis
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Get it from the vendorThe bottom line
POLESOFT gives a documented design for the pole base, instead of a standard detail copied from project to project — free and in the browser.
Disclosure: the owner of this site also owns ADIT.