📡2. Add Ancillaries

Now that your tower structure is in place, it's time to add antennas, microwave dishes, feeders, and other equipment.

🎥 Watch the video: Add Ancillaries in Shapemaker

📍 What You’ll Do

• Add antennas, dishes, GPS units, and other equipment to your structure

• Place them at the correct height, azimuth, and position

• Assign tenants (e.g., Telia, AT&T)

• Add linear ancillaries like feeders and ladders

🛠️ How to Add Equipment

1. Open the structure we just created by entering it from the all structures view.

2. Navigate to the Ancillaries page. You'll see the option of adding discrete ancillaries (antennas, RRUs, lightning rods etc), and linear ancillaries (feeders & access ladders).

1. Let's add some antennas. Press the Add discrete ancillaries from database field and search for Ericsson. You can also search for a specific ancillary type, like RRU or GSM.

You can add your own ancillaries to the database in the Database tab. There, you could also specify your own custom force coefficient, or calculate the force coefficients from wind tunnel data.

1. As you antennas, you'll see the possibility of specifying the tenant, its status, precise positioning and more.

2. Moving to the Linear ancillaries tab, you'll see the opportunity to add both feeders and access ladders.

We use force coefficient 1.2 for feeders and 2.0 for access ladders.

Importing Ancillaries From Other Sources

If you already have ancillary information structured in, e.g., Excel, you can directly import this onto your site. Have a look at this blog post!

To re-use common ancillary configurations, use the Ancillary Groups functionality found in the top right corner.