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Can PIMP areas be defined

Can PIMP (percentage impermeable) areas be defined to allow catchment areas to calculate the effective impermeable area when catchments include multiple runoff areas such as roof, hard standing and soft landscaping?
Guest over 1 year ago in SmartTools 0 🧑‍🔬Researching

Import Multiple Networks into one PFD file

For example if you had two PFD files, one for the west side drainage network and one for the Eastern side drainage network (perhaps because two people were designing them). But once designed you wanted to combine into one PFD file. i believe you c...
Ian George over 2 years ago in Flow 2 👷🏽‍♀️Promoted

COBie information for drainage systems

Clients are requesting we provide COBie information for drainage systems - it would be useful to have the ability to embed COBie data into the drainage model and export it for others to use. This is likely to be a more suitable feature in Flow but...
Amy Norman 10 months ago in Flow 0 👷🏽‍♀️Promoted

Support for custom LISP routines

We use several custom LISP routines in AutoCAD to streamline our design process. The flexibility for users to write and code their own tools using LISP routines and to then use these in CausewayCAD would reduce reliance on AutoCAD and allow others...
Paul Sloan 10 months ago in CausewayCAD 0

Actual discharge rates achieved in the approval report

Report the actual discharge rates achieved in the approval report, not just that they are below the GFR rates.
Tom Fox about 2 years ago in Flow 0 👷🏽‍♀️Promoted

Manhole Schedule Degree Reference

We’ve noticed a significant increase in the use of precast manholes across nearly every development we’re involved in. The companies supplying these typically issue drawings where each incoming pipe is referenced by its angle relative to the outgo...
Guest 5 months ago in Flow 0 📋Registered

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 5 months ago in SmartTools 0 📋Registered

editing finished surface

When a road/plot is added the finish surface displays this, and then ties back to the base surface as soon as possible. While I can add batters/features to a road/plot to control how this is tied into the finished surface, the issue still remains ...
Jason Bale 10 months ago in LiveDesign 1 Planned

Live Design running within BricsCAD

Given that there are other CAD based Packages other than those by AutoDesk, it would be useful to be able to run Live Design within others, probably one of the largest alternatives is BricsCAD - pair this with greater functionality within the Swep...
Guest about 2 years ago in LiveDesign 0

Slope annotation for links to be rounded to the nearest whole number.

When adding the slope annotation for a pipe it always comes through with 2 decimal places. Looks untidy and takes up unnecessary space on the dwg sheet. If this could be rounded to the nearest whole number or the nearest 5 or 10 then we would use ...
Guest over 1 year ago in SmartTools 1 🧑‍🔬Researching