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Quick Storage Calculations For Soakaways Without The Use Of The Base

When looking at the preliminary quick storage calculations used for preliminary designs/drainage strategies, the quick storage tool is excellent up until the point you want to design soakaways as there is no option to get a quick storage calculati...
Guest 4 months ago in Flow 0

When changing gradients on pipe, automatically changing the downstream pipe to level soffit rather than having to change invert level manually.

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Tom Fox over 1 year ago in Flow 0

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
Guest 2 months ago in Flow 0

Total Volume of Structure

Finding total volume of a structure would be useful (similar to the volume Static Tool in MicroDrainage).At present the only way to do it is look at the storage tab and hover over a depth in the storage structure section and it shows the depth and...
Ian George over 1 year ago in Flow 0

Total Impermeable Area on Calcs Printout

The sum of the total impermeable area is not currently printed on the calcs, this could be incorporated with the total Time/Area information (as per a previous suggestion) as MicroDrainage does.
Ian George over 1 year ago in Flow 0

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...
David Collins over 1 year ago in Flow 1

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...
Ben Stoodley 7 months ago in Flow 1

Calculate time to half drain for link type structures

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Tom Fox over 1 year ago in Flow 0

Ability to reorder columns to user preference

Having the ability to reorder the columns and save as a user preference to avoid scrolling across the 30+ columns without having to hide them individually.
Ryan James about 1 month ago in Flow 0

Tracking - Non Standard Vehicles Types

The ability to create non-standard vehicle tracks i.e. all terrain cranes with multiple axles. Also update to the standard library.
Jamie Deakin 4 months ago in LiveDesign 0