Capabilities

  • Windows XP/7/8/10. 32/64-bit.
  • What you see is what you get
  • Mouse-based CAD
  • Post-processing (onScreen, Comtrade, Plot)
  • ~250 library components
    • Linear branches
    • Nonlinear branches
    • Lines & Cables (electrical, geometrical)
    • Transformers (Ideal, Saturable, BCTRAN, XFMR++)
    • Switches
    • Sources
    • Syncronous, induction and universal machines
    • TACS
    • MODELS
    • Steady-state
    • Power system tools (phasors, relays)
  • Dynamic MODELS handling
  • Multiple documents
  • Windows clipboard
  • Edit operation: copy/paste, import/export, undo/redo, rotate/flip
  • Multiple level modules/groups
  • Large drawing canvas
    • 30000 nodes
    • Unlimited number of objects; components, connections, texts, shapes, pictures, files, plots
    • Vector graphics
  • No limits on component data/node/icon
  • 26 phases pr. node
  • Unlimited number of conductors in LCC
  • Extensive help file system

Examples

MyFirst circuit. Single phase recitifer bridge.1 Transpositions and 3-phase nodes.2 Simple lightning study.3 Induction machine fed by PWM source.4 Reference cards and Library.5 12-pulse rectifier, groups.6 Switching study in 750 kV line.7 Controlled MOV in FACTS device.8 Detailed lightning study.9 Inrush current study, BCTRAN.10 Inrush current study, BCTRAN, groups.11 Statistical switching overvoltages.12 Simple DC-DC converters. GIFU-switches.13 24-pulse rectifier, harmonics.14 Lightning induced overvoltages, adv. Models.15 XFMR and BCTRAN inrush comparison.16 Windsyn synchronous machine.17 Resonance grounding, scanning and optimization.18 Double fed induction wind generator.19 Power system toolbox, loads and relays.20Monte Carlo simulations of lightning strikes to transmission line.21Control of synchronous machines.22abcControl of induction machines.23IEEE 9-BUS with distance protection.24PV interface with controls.25COMTRADE objects, single pole tripping.26Embedded plotting, inrush current dependency.27

User's Manual

357 p document, 7 chapters

  1. Introduction
    • About ATP and ATPDraw, capabilties
  2. Installation manual
    • Licensing, setup
  3. Introductory manual
    • Windows, menus, mouse, edit
    • My Frist Circuit
    • Post-processing
  4. Reference manual
    • All menus and windows
    • All components
  5. Advanced manual
    • Grouping, Non-standard dialogs, Use and verify line/cable parameters, MODELS, BCTRAN, XFMR, User Specified, Parameters and optimization
  6. Application manual
    • Switching study. JMarti 750 kV line.
    • Lightning overvoltages in 400 kV substation.
    • Modeling rectifiers with zigzag transformers, harmonic analysis.
    • Modeling machines and controls.
    • Simulation of transformer inrush.
    • Switching study with statistical simulations.
    • IEEE 9 BUS system with distance protection
    • PV interface and controls
    • Post-processing. COMTRADE, Embedded Plotting
  7. Appendix
    • Power Frequency Calculations, Line Check, XFMR, Power system tool calculators, XML format.