BESS DesktopDocsInstallRelease notes

Troubleshooting

Symptoms you can search for — nothing placed, missing cables, absent energy figures, empty export pages — with the setting or input behind each one.

Find the symptom below and read the entry under it. Each one says what the application is doing, why, and which input or switch to change.

Licence messages are not here. Every message the licence check produces has its own entry in Licence problems.

Three things that explain most surprises

  1. A missing figure is usually a step you have not run. Cables and energy are separate, opt-in calculations, and a — in the summary means not computed.
  2. Missing tables are usually a subtraction that is switched on. The boundary is shrunk by the perimeter road, then obstructions, corridors, terrain exclusions and equipment footprints come out of what is left.
  3. A table is placed only where it fits entirely inside the usable area. A partial fit is not placed at all, so table size decides how much of an irregular plot is usable.

Starting up and licensing

Loading a boundary file

The layout

Cables

Energy

Terrain

Exports

Projects

Where to go next

Getting help

The in-app guide, and what to include when you report a problem

Every parameter and its default

Field by field, with defaults and ranges

Summary table columns

What each column means, and why one reads as not computed

Glossary

The terms used across these pages

Glossary

Every term used across these pages, defined — with the values the application ships and a note wherever it uses a word differently from the industry.

Release notes

What changed in each release, and where to see which version is installed on your machine.

On this page

Three things that explain most surprisesStarting up and licensingLoading a boundary fileThe layoutCablesEnergyTerrainExportsProjectsWhere to go next