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AutoGridPro

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Configure AutoGrid Pro to meet your needs and budget.

You no longer have to settle for substandard grounding packages because of budget limitations. The
latest version of AutoGrid Pro enables you to select the required components from a flexible array
of options such as:
Several soil structure models
Fault current distribution support
Soil resistivity interpretation analysis support
Technical support options
This powerful, yet easy-to-use software package provides a simple, integrated and automated
environment for carrying out grounding studies. It consists of several integrated engineering
modules that are designed to study the effectiveness of grounding installations with respect to
electrical safety of both personnel and equipment, allowing you to suggest improvements to existing
installations or design new installations. Flexible data reporting and graphing utilities allow you to
collect and illustrate any aspects of the results that are important to your work. The program
computes and reports the earth potentials, touch and step voltages, fault current distribution in the
adjoining circuits, etc
The component-based nature of the software package allows you to focus on your immediate
needs, from the computation of the resistance of a simple grid to a complete safety analysis of the
complex grounding system of a substation. Simply add more components as your needs evolve!
Typical AutoGrid Pro packages include:
AutoGrid Pro (Lite): This entry-level package supports any arbitrarily shaped grounding
system buried in a uniform soil. It computes the grounding system resistance and potential
rise. This package is ideal for users not interested in computing soil potentials, touch and
step voltages. This package also includes a graphical grounding system specification
interface (SESCAD) and a conductor ampacity computation module (Ampacity) and other
useful tools. This package has the ACDER capabilities (Automatic Configuration and
Dimension of Electrodes that meet a specific earth Resistance target).
AutoGrid Pro (Uniform Soil): This package analyzes any arbitrarily shaped grounding
system located in a uniform soil. It computes the grounding system resistance and potential
rise, as well as the earth potentials throughout any regions of interest. It also allows you to
carry out a full analysis of the touch and step voltages at any location inside or outside the
grid.
AutoGrid Pro (Uniform Soil & Fault Current Distribution): This package includes
everything found in the Uniform Soil package and adds a powerful module which computes
the distribution of fault current between the grounding system and other metallic paths such

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SESsystemViewer
SoilModelManager
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the distribution of fault current between the grounding system and other metallic paths such
as overhead ground wires, shield wires, neutral conductors, or cable sheaths and armors.
AutoGrid Pro (Two-Layer Horizontal Soil & Soil Resistivity): This package includes
everything found in the Uniform Soil package and adds the ability to model soil structures
composed of two horizontal layers. It also adds a resistivity measurement analysis module
that converts measured data into a suitable soil model.
AutoGrid Pro (Two-Layer Horizontal Soil& Fault Current Distribution): This package
includes everything found in the Uniform Soil package and adds the ability to model soil
structures composed of two horizontal layers. It also adds a powerful module which
computes the distribution of fault current between the grounding system and other metallic
paths such as overhead ground wires, shield wires, neutral conductors, or cable sheaths
and armors. Note that the resistivity measurement analysis module that converts measured
data into a suitable soil model is not included in this package.
AutoGrid Pro (Two-Layer Horizontal Soil, Soil Resistivity & Fault Current
Distribution): This package includes everything found in the preceding Two-Layer
Horizontal Soil packages.
AutoGrid Pro (Multi-Layer Soil, with Fault Current Distribution): This package includes
everything found in all other packages and adds several useful soil models, including
multilayer horizontally layered soils, vertically layered soils, spherically and cylindrically
layered soils and an all-purpose finite-volume soil model consisting of several arbitrarily
shaped regions with different electrical properties. All packages also includes a conductor
ampacity computation module and other useful tools. This package can not be ordered
without the resistivity analysis or fault current distribution modules.

Highlights
AutoGrid Pro is a powerful, yet easy-to-use tool, which provides a simple, automated and integrated
environment for carrying out grounding studies. The software package consists of several
integrated engineering modules that are designed to study the effectiveness of grounding
installations with respect to electrical safety of both personnel and equipment, allowing you to
suggest improvements to existing or new installations. AutoGrid Pro supports a wide variety of soil
structures and can determine the soil structure from field resistivity measurements. The program
can model grounding grids of any shape and size; several electrodes can be modelled
simultaneously. It can also determine the fault current distribution between the grounding system
and other metallic paths such as overhead ground wires, shield wires, neutral conductors, or cable
sheaths and armours.

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Detailed Description
AutoGrid Pro is a powerful software package for the analysis of the effectiveness of grounding
installations. It computes the resistance of any grounding system, earth potentials anywhere inside
or outside the installation and the ground potential rise of the grid and of nearby buried metallic
structures. It also computes the expected touch and step voltages around the installations, and
indicate the regions where safe limits are exceeded. It accounts for complex soil structures and for
the presence of transmission or distribution lines or cables connected to the grid. The computational
engine of AutoGrid Pro is based on the MALT, RESAP and FCDIST engineering modules which have
been used in grounding studies for over twenty years. The user interface consists of a CAD drawing
module for the design of the grounding grid, along with several integrated modules such as:
The Soil module determines the characteristics of the soil from field resistivity
measurements.
The Circuit module computes the geometrical and electrical properties of adjacent
transmission or distribution lines or cables and determines the fault current distribution.
The Safety module establishes the criteria used when evaluating safety issues around the
installation.
The Report module manages the results that should be reported or plotted.
Other utility modules and tools, such as a circuit viewer and a conductor ampacity
assessment tool.

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To accommodate a wide range of applications, many of the programs features are optional, and
can be added at any time, should the need arise.
The CAD drawing module offers full 3D drawing capabilities to create the grid. It also doubles as a
central location for project management. Several tools are available to simplify the creation of
complex structures and to move, rotate, and view the grid from any angle. Use the Object Database
to quickly add commonly encountered structures to your design, or to store your own structures.

The Soil module defines the characteristics of the soil where the grounding grid is installed. Choose
a soil model from among several types, including horizontally layered soils, vertically layered soils,
and soils with arbitrary heterogeneities where the electrical properties of the soil can vary
arbitrarily as a function of position. Alternatively, specify the data obtained from soil resistivity
measurements and let the program determine a suitable soil model.

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The Circuit module is used when it is necessary to take into account the contribution of adjacent
transmission and distribution circuits to the grounding. Specify the geometrical locations of the
neutral and phase wires and the electrical characteristics of the neutral wires, or select these
quantities from extensive conductor databases. You can also add your own products to the
databases. Alternatively, you can specify the impedances of the wires explicitly, for a finer control.
An input processor is available to view the circuits and their characteristics.

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The Safety module lets you select the criteria that should be used during the safety analysis of the
grounding installation. This includes limits on touch and step voltages, based on standards of your
choice (e.g., IEEE, IEC). Choose from several safety scenarios. Let the program decide which area
should be examined for safety issues (based on the size of the grid) or draw explicitly the region of
interest on top of the grid. The program reports which areas exceed the safety limits, allowing you
to quickly assess the effectiveness of corrective measures.

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The Report module provides an exhaustive list of available plots and text reports, whose
appearance you can customize. For all computed quantities, you can choose among 2D curve plots,
3D-perspective plots, color intensity plots and contour plots. Plots can be produced in most popular
graphics formats.

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Documentation and support are second to none. An extensive, context-sensitive help system is
available for each field or item on your screen. Furthermore, a detailed, step-by-step How To...
engineering manual is provided to guide you through each phase of the engineering and modeling
tasks required to complete the analysis. This tutorial is based on a realistic grounding study.
Finally, if you still need help, SES experts are available to help you no matter where you are on this
planet. Use our toll-free international telephone numbers or send us a fax or email for immediate,
unconditional and free technical support.

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In Summary
AutoGrid Pro provides the following capabilities:
CAD-based design of the ground grid, allowing for the presence of ground rods. There are no
restrictions on the geometry of the grid.
Accounts for the presence of nearby passive or energized buried structures.
Models a wide variety of soil types. Accepts soil resistivity measurements made using the
Schlumberger, Wenner or generalized method.
Computes the distribution of fault current along the circuits connected to the main grid,
thereby reducing the net amount of fault current injected in the main grid.
Computes the ampacity of conductors, the minimum size of conductors capable of carrying a
certain current, or the expected temperature rise of conductors.
Spreadsheet functions ease and speed up data entry.
Key screens provide illustrations clearly representing the data to be entered and extensive
on-line help is only one keystroke or mouse click away.

Context-sensitive online help and a detailed, step-by-step engineering How To... manual

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Context-sensitive online help and a detailed, step-by-step engineering How To... manual
explain the software session and technical concepts based on a realistic grounding
installation.

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