Anchors in Quick Pole are defined as items placed into soil/rock that enable the attachment of guy wires for the purposes of supporting tension forces. Most anchors you will need will come from the Master Organizational Grouping, but you can select from others or enter your own under the User Organization.

The Report button will create a Report on all Anchors within the Organizational Grouping being displayed.  The "Make-Copy" button is useful to copy an item from the current dataset into another; perhaps with some slight changes.

If you are in an Organizational Grouping that you don't have permission to change, there will be a "View" button enabled at the bottom of the Window. Alternatively there would be an "Edit" button, and the Add button would be enabled. View, Edit and Add buttons display a Dialog with the same fields as follows:

Anchor Description

A description for the anchor which helps it be found later

Label

A small amount of text that will be used for display purposes on the Work Plan and other locations

Type

The type of Anchor. Available choices are Plate, Screw, Log, Rock and other. Screw anchors describe the Helix anchors that are normally screwed into the soil with machines.

# of Guy Wires

This is for the maximum number of guy wires that are permitted to be attached to the end of the anchor rod.

Anchor Rod size

Enter the diameter of the rod in millimeters.

Anchor Surface Area

The amount of surface area of the anchor available to hold against the soil. For log anchors, this would be the diameter times the length; not the actual surface area.

Holding Capacity

Enter the Rated capacity of the anchor and rod combination for each Soil Class. Enter 0 if not applicable or essentially no holding strength.