Photovoltaic bracket design cad modeling

What is Virto CAD?

Virto.CAD is a powerful PV design plugin for AutoCAD and BricsCAD to speed up the design and engineering process of large-scale solar plants. It allows EPC, engineering firms and developers in the solar industry to create detailed drawings and calculations for Commercial & Industrial and utility-scale ground-mount PV projects.

How does pvcad auto-populate a template?

Instead of manually entering system data into the site plan, the array layout, the single-line diagram, and other documents, PVCAD auto-populates fields in the template. For example, PVCAD’s IronRidge templates side cutouts of the IronRidge mounting system in the model space.

What is pvcad & how does it work?

The solar industry has long made due with “vanilla” AutoCAD for the creation of permit plan sets and construction drawings. PVCAD provides energy production modeling, automatic module layout and wire sizing and stringing, and electric single line diagram generation all inside a CAD environment.

How do I add a template to pvcad?

Adding Templates to PVCAD Steps to add these files to your standard template location: 1) From AutoCAD, select ‘New Drawing’ 2) The default template window show up showing you a list of available templates. 3) Copy your newly downloaded template files, right click in this window, and select ‘Paste’.

How do I generate a Module & rack layout?

Generate your module and rack layout in seconds on a complex 3D mesh or TIN surface. The row pitch can be fixed or variable based on a predefined shadow angle. A variable row pitch will lead to smaller inter-row distance when building uphill, and larger inter-row distance when downhill.