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COBie information for drainage systems

Clients are requesting we provide COBie information for drainage systems - it would be useful to have the ability to embed COBie data into the drainage model and export it for others to use. This is likely to be a more suitable feature in Flow but...
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Include check dam option in swales

Check dams are commonly used in swales to temporarily pond runoff to increase pollutant retention and infiltration and decrease flow velocity, but Flow does not have an option to model them. As they are a recognised SuDS feature, and commonly used...
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Calculate time to half drain for link type structures

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Tom Fox over 1 year ago in  0 📋Registered

Urban Creep

Global urban creep isn’t helpful. We have a process of assessing UC on a pipe-by-pipe basis. We separate the areas that UC should be applied to and areas such as flats the highway that don’t need it. If global UC is applied, then you are adding 10...
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Flow through permeable paving

On sites where there's a shallow outfall it would be useful to be ablet to model permeable paving without the need to have an under drain, in doing so it would be similar to flow through ponds
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General user interface improvements

Having used Flow now for the last 6 months we feel there are plenty of user interface improvements than can be made. Add the link references in the results? When a link is selected, can the corresponding link on the section be highlight with a col...
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Ability to renumber and reorder design locked nodes and pipes.

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Tom Fox over 1 year ago in  0 📋Registered

Add Urban Creep locally for each area/catchment

This is especially applicable now given some areas may have 100% impermeable while other will have greenfield with a possible option to turn to impermeable. Users can also adjust Cv value locally. The design report should contain the new additions.
Tom Fox over 1 year ago in  0 📋Registered

Ability to generate longsections with multiple selected surfaces and drainage networks in SmartTools, and Live Design.

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Tom Fox over 1 year ago in  0 📋Registered

sort tables

Either add facility to sort table entries numerically by node or link number - or amend software so that the tabulated data automatically displays in numerical order even after a model has been altered by adding or renumbering nodes. This would he...
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