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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

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...
Ben Stoodley 7 months ago in Flow 0

select hydrobrakes manually and/or change the flush-flow point

Given the development of "fit to outlet pipes (XP)" and the ability to manually set the Flush-Flow point on other ones, it would be useful to be able to have more flexibility within flow to either manually select a specific hydrobrake or at least ...
Guest about 2 months ago in Flow 0

Ability to renumber and reorder design locked nodes and pipes.

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Tom Fox over 1 year ago in Flow 0

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 Flow 0