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The PVcase team introduces the direct integration between AO Prospect and PVcase Ground Mount to streamline your design development process. This integration will help users increase time efficiency and design accuracy by eliminating manual work that would potentially contain human and data errors.

Users can import AO assets into Ground Mount using the PVcase Export feature.

Parcels analyzed using the Buildable Area Analysis feature will have high-resolution terrain data when enabling the Export Terrain Data selection (this is turned ON by default). Users have the option to export up to 30 parcels with topographic data (see more on how to run Buildable Area Analysis here).

Users should keep the exported file as a .zip file without “Extract all”. The file contains a .KML file and a .TIF file (only available with sites that previously performed slope Buildable Area Analysis).

Users must ensure the selected units match between the AutoCAD file and PVcase.

Starting from PVcase version 2.37.1.25, users will have the option to import AO data in PVcase.

Once the .zip file is imported, PVcase will automatically detect the project location. PVcase uses the geolocation pin as the left-most intersection point of the PVcase Parcel Boundary lines. Users can bypass the geolocation setting steps or adjust the location pin accordingly.

If users performed Slope Buildable Analysis within AO prior and exported it with the terrain data, PVcase will automatically use AO terrain data and display it will be displayed in the layout generation setting as PVcase GeoTIFF Terrain.

If the user didn’t perform the Slope Buildable Analysis within AO, they’ll have an option to obtain the terrain data via PVcase Online Import Terrain, select the user’s provided terrain data, or without topographic data. Users can then continue their design workflow as usual.