Find the True Capacity of Your Cables

Use Grøft Design® Software to correctly dimension cables, minimize failures, and optimize cable utilization with easy to use ampacity calculations

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Features

All the tools you need

Magnetic Field Calculation: Ensure Safety and Regulatory Compliance

Be a good neighbour and verify that the cables don't interfere with surrounding infrastructure. Simulate the effectiveness of shielding to ensure safety and regulatory compliance.

Thermal Calculations: Prevent Overheating and Minimize Losses

Built as an easy-to-use web application on the foundation of Comsol Multiphysics' Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Grøft Design® delivers more flexibility and improved accuracy over traditional analytical methods. Whether you need fast simulations or advanced control, Groft Design® adapts to your needs.

Dynamic Loads

Enter your load curve and simulate variable load, cyclic load, load factor in addition to steady state analysis.

Quickly Explore Different Designs

With the flexible designer and a rich component library, you can quickly explore different designs. Run simulation and share the final technical drawings with contractors via PDF, AutoCAD, or a direct project link.

Configure Complex Simulations in Minutes

Built from the ground up using Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Grøft Design delivers improved accuracy compared to traditional analytical models. With Grøft Design, you get the best of both worlds—quick, intuitive simulations when you need them and advanced controls when precision matters.

Set up simulations in minutes
Leverage cutting-edge FEM analysis with zero learning curve
Access powerful, pro-level features when needed

Custom components

Flexible Component Designer

With the Component Designer create, customize, and manage your own cables, pipes, and other components for use in your projects.

Customizable: Tailor components to fit any project specification
Verifiable: New components is verified with FEA simulation
Reusable: Share across projects and with your team for consistent design standards

Seamless Teamwork, One Unified Platform

Say goodbye to endless email chains and scattered PDFs. With our modern web-based platform, grid companies, cable manufactures, consultants, and entrepreneurs can collaborate effortlessly in one shared workspace.

Share live documents, not only dead PDF's
Develop your project together with all stakeholders

Verification

Verified by Research

Verified Against IEC

Grøft Design® has been verified against Technical Brochure 880 (TB 880), issued by CIGRE Working Group B1.56. The verification process not only found that Grøft Design® accurately reproduces the results of TB 880, but in some cases went beyond TB 880, by producing more accurate cable ratings.

Verification with CIGRE TB880

Real World Experiments

Developed for the industry by the industry through several research projects. REN AS have together with SINTEF Energy, Norway's leading research center on power systems, developed and verified the simulations in Grøft Design® with experiments in the field.

INCA

Verified components

Complete Library of Verified Components

Access an extensive library of predesigned cables and components, including both generic cables and specialized cable designs shared by cable manufacturers.

Document and verify your cables all in one place
Fast track new projects with pre configured and verified components
Develop new cables and share with your team

Three Steps to Understand Your Cables

Design the Cable Layout

Design the trench and add cables in the model.

Add load

Calculate ampacity based on load profiles, temperatur and soil conditions.

Run simulation

Run steady state og time variable load simulations to optimize cable performance.