Structural Attachments
A structural attachment association lets you model supporting structures and their attachments in a network. This is helpful when a utility needs to report what structural features, such as poles, are associated with a subnetwork, or to locate a manhole where a critical piece of equipment can be reached. Structures are not part of the network for purposes of tracing the resource, but It can quickly identify and list structures that have network features attached to them.
Structural attachments logically associate structure features with other features in a utility network. These associations allow you to model the relationship between structures that support equipment and associated assets that are attached. For example, a pole can serve as the structure, with a transformer as the attachment.
The following shows a tapped transformer and how it is associated to a pole and the electrical network.
Structural Attachments with Tapped Transformer
The following shows a switch and how it is associated to a pole and the electrical network.
Structural Attachments with Inline Equipment
The following shows how to attach a pole using a pole attachment ElectricJunction feature. This allows the attachment of a pole to the electrical network without a device present on the pole.
Required Configurations
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Designer XI requires structural attachments to the electrical network for items like poles to be exported and viewable in the application.
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Autoupdaters will be required to make the structural attachment associations for all spatial features that exist on a pole, examples – Transformers, Switches.
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Connection points must exist even when no device is present on a pole.
Product Limitations
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When placing a pole in Editor XI or Designer XI that doesn’t have a switch or a junction point, creating the attachment point will fall to the editor to create and attach the pole.