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Pipe Selection/visibility in output

There is often need to hide certain pipes from the final output. Either they are dummy pipes that have no relation to the final layout or they are areas outside the specific design network that do not need to be included in the report. Microdraina...
Guest about 1 year ago in Flow 0 👷🏽‍♀️Promoted

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 about 1 year ago in Flow 1 👷🏽‍♀️Promoted

Infiltration Half Drain time calculations

We have recently been challenged by Wiltshire LLFA regarding half drain times. As I understand it, Flow calculates the half drain time to CIRIA 156 which gives a significantly longer half drain time than the BRE365 method that Micro Drainage uses....
Ben Stoodley 8 months ago in Flow 1 👷🏽‍♀️Promoted

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 about 2 years ago in Flow 2 👷🏽‍♀️Promoted

Separating Flow Design Reports - Ability to split large flow networks into phased design reports.

There is a requirement to be able to produce design reports for separate sections of a larger Flow network when working on multi-phase developments.
Craig McNaughton 4 months ago in Flow 0 👷🏽‍♀️Promoted

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 almost 2 years ago in Flow 0 👷🏽‍♀️Promoted

Ability to renumber and reorder design locked nodes and pipes.

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Tom Fox almost 2 years ago in Flow 0 👷🏽‍♀️Promoted

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 10 months ago in Flow 0 👷🏽‍♀️Promoted

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 about 1 year ago in Flow 0 👷🏽‍♀️Promoted

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...
Guest about 1 year ago in Flow 0 👷🏽‍♀️Promoted