Archives : November-2015

This document describes the coordinate conventions used to describe all physical and notional elements in the PPL system. By convention all linear values are in inches and all angular values are in radians. Overview All coordinates in PPL are described using in a cylindrical polar form relative to a single parent object. X describes a ..

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When creating scripts and plugins it is sometimes convenient to be able to process a tokenized template and fill in selected values from calculated values or form attributes on the structure. Some examples of this is the default file name template that allows the user to format the default file name of a PPLX file, ..

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The default O-Calc Pro Report template will create a simple report with default header and a single table of pole capacity utilization values.  Below are some explanations of the various code components of this simple report example. Defining the Report Format, Fonts, and Colors: < View plain text > C# public static class ReportFont { ..

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Introduction This document describes the development process to create a customized O-Calc Pro Plugins and Reports. O-Calc Pro Plugins can be created to perform a wide verity of functions within the O-Calc Pro interface from importing data from some type of field data collection device to exporting the data to different formats or into specialized ..

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O-Calc Pro allows the use of scripting to automate repetitive tasks, to perform structure verifications, and for other tasks. The use of the scripting system is covered in detail in the manual, through training videos, and in other articles. The purpose of this article is to detail the steps involved in configuring the scripting system ..

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O-Calc Pro provides a complete set of routines for performing all of the units conversion that might be required by O-Calc developers. It is important to understand that the stored units and the displayed units in O-Calc Pro are not always the same. The integrated Schema Explorer tool allows you to find the name and ..

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