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Make sharing Shared FlexTables easier

This idea is relevant to all drainage-related products, especially OpenRoads Drainage. Currently the way to share Shared FlexTables across laptops requries users to copy a FlexTables XML folder into a very specific folder on their Cdrive. It would...
almost 3 years ago in Storm and Sewer Products / CivilStorm 1 Future consideration

SewerGEMS: Implementing tools for model skeletonization

The SewerGEMS development currently has no module, function or option to simplify the sewer network model. Such a tool is present implemented in the WaterGEMS software. It is clear that simplification on the sewer network may be more difficult to ...
almost 3 years ago in Storm and Sewer Products / SewerGEMS 0 Future consideration

SewerGEMS: Grey out unnecessary tools and options in ribbons

SewerGEMS software dynamically hides attributes in the object properties window that are not used at given settings in calculations. However, this approach is not applied to the options and tools visible in the ribbons. Suggestion: Tools and optio...
almost 3 years ago in Storm and Sewer Products / SewerGEMS 1 Needs review

[Copy] Allow the road slope to exceed the gutter cross slope

My state agency commonly uses gutters with a 4% cross slope. The maximum superelevation rate is 7%. The gutter slope stays at 4% in this situation. Spread does not compute in this scenario because "A depressed gutter must have a Gutter Cross Slope...
about 1 year ago in Storm and Sewer Products 0 Needs review

WaterGems Quick Start Lessons

Missing step in quick start guide: In step 2, point 9 the lesson suggested that simply right-clicking in the drawing pane would let you add a reservoir. In reality, you needed to first click on the Pipe icon. After doing this, the right-click cont...
8 months ago in Water Distribution Products / WaterGEMS 0 Planned

HAMMER: Transient Results Viewer\Extended Node Data\Hydropneumatic Tank: the pressure or head engineering units indicated as absolute values on the Y axis. Without such mention a gauge value is assumed.

A new user looking for the first time at a pressure or head graph might be fooled by the fact that the Y axis does not mention that the units being graphed are in an absolute value. He or she might think hey I'm ok, minimum gauge value is 10 meter...
over 2 years ago in Water Distribution Products / HAMMER 1 Planned

Perform only necessary computations

Applicable to CivilStorm, StormCAD, and probably PondPack. Sometimes we only use the software to perform certain computations. For example, we are wanting to analyze the storm sewer. The drainage areas would be connected to catchbasin elements. Ho...
over 1 year ago in Storm and Sewer Products / CivilStorm 2 Needs review

[Copy] Make the Drainage Catch Basin Grate Perimeter and Open Area variables reportable

Some DOTs require input of an exact values for catch basin grate open area for orifice flow and catch basin grate perimeter for weir flow. ORD would consider these as calculated values, not inputs. These are not ORD outputs and are hidden from the...
8 months ago in Storm and Sewer Products 0 Needs review

Allow properties of multiple elements to be edited from properties tab

Useful to be able to edit all properties for multiple elements in the properties tab. Other similar software have these capabilities. This would allow streamlining some of the editing. Also, consider allowing all properties to be edited for multip...
over 1 year ago in Water Distribution Products / WaterCAD 0 Needs review

Improve Reporting for Drainage Reports

Overall, throughout the years I've been disappointed with the report compilation that Bentley generates. It's currently very cumbersome to generate a readable report of the computations so that they can be included in drainage reports. The "Custom...
over 1 year ago in Storm and Sewer Products 2 Needs review