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Remove Requirement for Infiltration coefficient for porous paving

If designing a lined porous paving system, you are unable to have it non-attenuating. This requirement should be removed to design it to discharge elsewhere
Guest 3 months ago in Flow 0 📋Registered

Ability to renumber and reorder design locked nodes and pipes.

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

Highlight if the Colebrook-White or the Manning's equations is being used by highlighting (or greying out) the "ks (mm)" or "n" in the link details.

It seems that if a pipe has a swale upstream then the pipe uses the Manning's equations to compute flows etc, but if it has nothing upstream or a pipe upsteam then it uses the Colebrook-White equations. This means that on the same storm water syst...
James Berry 6 months ago in Flow 0 📋Registered

placing retaining walls/stairs

some sites we are working on have had some significant level differences, which has led to the need for retaining walls. At present Live Design tries to grade the surface between these level differences. Please can you add a feature where a retain...
Guest over 2 years ago in LiveDesign 0 Planned

Flow through structure Mass balance Issue

Always having mass balance issues when utilising flow through structure. It could be something from adding orifice to inlets same size as pipe, lifting/dropping structure slightly increasing/decreasing length of structure, that sorts the issue. Th...
Guest 3 months ago in Flow 0 📋Registered

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 about 1 year ago in Flow 0 👷🏽‍♀️Promoted

Change Porosity display

In the new update when you add the porosity it displays that porosity but it is quite an eye sore and would be beneficial to be able to remove or tone it down a bit.
Guest 3 months ago in Flow 0 📋Registered

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 over 1 year ago in Flow 0 👷🏽‍♀️Promoted

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 about 1 year ago in LiveDesign 0

Ability to hide junctions/RWPs/etc. from the model output manhole schedule. Same with links.

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