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There is now an Option under Tools->Options menu item to set your preference to display and use either Metric or Imperial units when working with Quick Pole. This feature will be implemented in stages over the next few updates. The first module to have this feature implemented in is the DataManager ...

The Data Manager within Quick Pole has been upgraded. In addition to fixing a couple of User Interface irregularities, you will now see the effect of your changes instantly within the tool. As before, any changes you have made will be available to your project the next time it is opened. Some databa...

Online Help via the Help-> Contents menu option has been greatly expanded. This should provide you with much more detail about how to do certain things and what Quick Pole is looking for. For those that might have missed the event, Quick Pole now has completes a full Nonlinear Analysis on every pole...

Largely a maintenance release to improve several items, this update also includes the Nonlinear Structural Analysis feature that we promised. Quick Pole first does a Linear analysis on the pole (s), then it does a Geometric Nonlinear Analysis on the pole. This is the nonlinear method that takes into...

Quick Pole is in the process of fully implementing the Nonlinear Structural Analysis method for wooden pole structures. The first part of this has been implemented and rolled out today that deals with Stability or Buckling Analysis. The reports have been updated as well to include the results of thi...

The Pole Segment Input Loads Report has been improved. This is the report that shows you all of the loads that are applied to the pole before the Structural Analysis process begins. In other words, exactly what the pole needs to support. In addition to calculating the weight of each pole segment, th...

Several people identified that they were having trouble starting Quick Pole for the first time after they installed it. After some investigation we discovered that our server was not responding correctly. Our IT department believes this problem is now solved and that it was caused by a corrupted dat...

Two major enhancements were deployed over this week and last. 1.Internet Connectivity: Quick Pole does a much better job now in searching for an Internet Connection to keep Quick Pole up to date. If it fails to find one automatically, it will prompt you to enter manually your Proxy settings; plus al...

Quick Pole has been updated to contain even more information in its Sag & Tension Reports. There is a quick Summary of Sag & Tension results for attachments in Projects, as well as a more Detailed Report that contains much more specific information to drill down into; as desired. Each set of...

Full support to install Power Wires and Communication messengers to either an Organization's standards, or custom values that can be have more tensions for special applications or "Slack" for cases where guying, anchoring and/or the poles cannot fully support full tensions. While some othe...