PLS-POLE  is a powerful and easy to use Microsoft Windows program for the analysis and design
     of structures made up of wood, laminated wood, steel and concrete poles or modular aluminum
     masts. The program performs design checks of structures under user specified loads and can also
     calculate maximum allowable wind and weight spans. Virtually any transmission, substation or
     communications structure can be modeled, including poles, H-frames, A-Frames, and X-Frames.
     These models are rapidly built from components such as poles, arms, guys, braces, and insulators.

        -   Simple and Powerful Finite Element Analysis
            PLS-POLE takes the pain out of finite element analysis. An H-Frame in PLS-POLE is input as
            a collection of macro elements like poles, cross-arms and braces. These elements are selected
            from a library where you enter the properties of macro elements like a pole's top and base
            diameter, wall thickness and shape (round, 16 sided…). PLS-POLE automatically breaks your
            macro elements down into many cable, truss and beam elements. In just a few minutes with
            PLS-POLE you can build structures that would take days to model in a traditional finite
            element program.
        -   ASCE and ANSI/EIA/TIA 222 Code Checks
            Once PLS-POLE has calculated the forces and moments experienced in the different pieces of
            your structure it compares them against code capacities. The results of these checks can be
            displayed in text reports, spreadsheets or color-coded graphics. 

        -   Intuitive Graphical User Interface
            PLS-POLE makes extensive use of 3-d graphics to help you visualize your structure. We draw all
            elements as accurately as possible and let you view the structure from any direction making
            modeling mistakes immediately apparent. If you see a mistake you simply click on it to edit
            the problem element.

        -   Interoperability
            PLS-POLE results are presented in a combination of graphical views, spreadsheet views and text
            reports. All of this information can easily be exported to other programs. Graphical results
            can be saved in DXF files compatible with most CAD systems. Spreadsheet results may be pasted
            into spreadsheet programs, exported to ODBC compliant databases or saved to an XML file. Text
            results can be customized by the user and saved to files or pasted into word processing programs.