Power Line Generator

Pylons, utility poles and railway catenary with sagging cables

Power Line Generator builds complete overhead lines inside Blender: a German Danube pylon line with quad bundles and glass insulator strings, a British barrel tower line, a US wooden utility pole street with transformers and cobra-head lights, a Japanese urban pole, an Asian cable tangle, a historic telegraph line, or the overhead catenary of a main line railway, a high-speed line, a tram or a trolleybus street. Pick one of 37 designs, then change anything: every part is a number, a choice or a switch, and the line rebuilds live as you drag.

The cables hang the way real ones do. The sag is solved as a true catenary from the ruling span, so longer spans hang lower, spans on slopes hang between supports at different heights, and the panel shows the ground clearance.

Run the line straight, along any curve you draw, or string it between objects you already have. Pick a terrain object and every support stands on the ground while the wires sag over the hills.

One click, a new line

Pick a design in the sidebar and the whole line rebuilds: towers, insulators, bundles, earth wires and the sag between them.

One click, a new line

Pylons from around the world

Danube, barrel, Christmas tree, cat-head, guyed-V, UHV, Japanese four-circuit, Soviet portal, steel monopole and wooden H-frame.

Pylons from around the world

Poles, streets and railways

US, UK and European distribution poles, Japanese and Asian city poles, a telegraph line, railway catenary, tram and trolleybus wires.

Poles, streets and railways

Real catenary sag

Drag the sag and every span hangs lower as a true catenary; the panel shows the sag in meters and the ground clearance.

Real catenary sag

Features

  • 37 real-world designs: transmission, distribution, urban, telegraph and railway lines
  • 7 support types: lattice pylons, steel monopoles, wooden, concrete and H-frame poles, guyed-V and portal towers
  • 17 head layouts, from flat, delta and barrel to Danube, Christmas tree, four circuits and low-voltage racks
  • Suspension, V-string, pin and line-post insulators in glass, porcelain or polymer
  • Single to eight-wire bundles with spacers, dampers, earth wires, comm cables, bird diverters and aircraft markers
  • Pole transformers, streetlights, guy wires and a substation at either end
  • Railway catenary with cantilevers, portals, headspans or span wires, ballasted or street track
  • Straight, along a curve, over a terrain, or between selected objects, plus crossing lines
  • Rust, paint, aged conductors and weathered wood, with Poly Haven textures packed in
  • UV-mapped game-ready meshes, three detail levels and Convert to Mesh for export
  • Surprise and Vary buttons for endless new lines
  • Picture-driven sidebar with tabs and a Shift+A menu
  • Works in Cycles and EEVEE

Requires Blender 4.2 or newer. Tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.

Install in under a minute (Blender 4.2+)

  1. In Blender open Edit › Preferences › Get Extensions.
  2. Open the arrow menu at the top right and choose Install from Disk.
  3. Pick the downloaded zip. Do not unzip it.

Questions

Which Blender versions are supported?

Blender 4.2 and newer. It is tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.

Is the cable sag realistic?

Yes. Each span hangs as a true catenary solved from the ruling span of the section, so the sag grows with the span, follows slopes and is shown together with the ground clearance in the panel.

Can I use the lines in a game engine?

Yes. Every part is a UV-mapped mesh with Principled BSDF materials. Pick the Low detail level, use Convert to Mesh and export as usual (FBX, glTF).

Can the line follow my own path or terrain?

Yes. Select a curve and add the line along it, pick a terrain object so every support stands on the ground, or select your own objects and string wires between them.

Are the textures included?

Yes. The wood, concrete, rust, gravel and asphalt textures are CC0 textures from Poly Haven, packed inside the addon, so nothing has to be downloaded.

Details

Version
1.0.0
Blender
4.2 or newer
Tested on
4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS
Render engines
Cycles, EEVEE
Category
Modeling
Download
2.0 MB zip
License
GPL v3
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