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Cumulative area discounts flow through structures and network before

The cumulative area calculation discounts everything before a flow through structure and the nodes attached to the structure. LLFA's are now requesting calc files due to the print out also reading your incorrect pathing of calculations. Theirs no ...
Guest 8 months ago in Flow 0 👷🏽‍♀️Promoted

Ability to renumber and reorder design locked nodes and pipes.

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

BIM Collaboration

Improved modelling, including building drainage so designs can be modelled to base of internal stacks within buildings to allow for greater collaboration between other design disciplines for general clash detection. Typically, Architects, Structur...
Matthew Woods 7 months ago in Flow 0 📋Registered

Automatic introduction of backdrop manholes to limit pipe slopes/velocity in steep sites

Would it be possible for Flow to introduce backdrop manholes in order to reduce pipe slopes/flow velocity (storm and foul)? In steep sites it is often necessary to do this manually in the software and it is time consuming to optimise. It is alread...
Ian Reilly 3 months ago in Flow 0 📋Registered

Volume Summary Report

One page formal print out summarising the manhole, pipe and storage structure volumes within the SW network. This is often requested during planning stages of developments.
Guest over 1 year ago in Flow 0 👷🏽‍♀️Promoted

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

Customise the section box appearance for long sections

Being able to adjust the depth of the rows in the section box will speed up the process of producing the long section drawing. Alterations to the table are typically also required in order to be able to read all the information. Setting the text m...
Guest 7 months ago in SmartTools 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

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

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