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Mechanical & Electrical Design Options, Obstructions & Keepouts, Designer Features & Tools and Background Imagery

Mechanical Design

  • Independent Tilt
  • Field Segment Overview
  • Create multiple field segments
  • Copy a field segment
  • Draw perpendicular lines
  • Define a new point on a Field Segment
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Obstructions & Keepouts

  • Create Keepout Zones
  • Copy Keepout Zones
  • Similar Obstruction Detection
  • Create Tree Keepouts
  • Create straight line keepouts
  • Increase the setback on just one side of a field segment
See all 10 articles

Electrical Design

  • Batteries in HelioScope
  • Stringing in HelioScope
  • Create multiple Wiring Zones and inverter topologies
  • Conductor Terminology
  • Optimize conductor sizes
  • Combiner Poles
See all 14 articles

Designer Tools

  • Parcels
  • How to Use LIDAR
  • Where is LIDAR available in HelioScope?
  • Troubleshooting LIDAR
  • Optimize shaded modules
  • System Shade Losses vs Shaded Module Optimizer

Imagery

  • Change mapping provider
  • Overlays
  • Uploading and Scaling a Site Plan Image Overlay
  • How to Handle Skewed Imagery
  • Creating KMZ Files For HelioScope
  • Converting Images Inside KMZ Files
See all 9 articles

Additional Features

  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Multi-step undo
  • Orbit view in 3D
  • How to Rotate Field Segments and Keepouts
  • What is North in HelioScope?
  • Toggle Designer labels
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