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From Water and Wastewater.com Industry News
The new tools help engineers cost-effectively evaluate capacity, size pipes, select pumps, and identify the locations of potential overflows, and are particularly well suited for systems that are a mix of gravity and pressure flow. Included in SewerCAD V8 XM’s many new capabilities are advanced thematic mapping, configurable element symbology, and improved utilities that allow users to quickly convert and integrate data from CAD, GIS, and other data stores. The latter means that users do not have to recreate existing CAD or GIS data, saving them substantial time on complex projects and enhancing their ability to support owner-operators using a variety of data sources. Commenting on the new SewerCAD, Ryan Johnson, program manager at Veolia Water North America, said, “We have applied SewerCAD on several important projects with great success. Its incredibly short learning curve and ease of use increase our productivity, and its broad set of feature-rich tools improves the quality of our designs.” Said Thomas Walski, Bentley SewerCAD product manager, “SewerCAD’s features, stability, and performance were developed specifically for the needs of engineers working on the hydraulic aspects of wastewater collection systems. As a result, users of this software won’t face the frustrations commonly associated with overly complex modeling engines – including the need to constantly readjust the input data and modeling assumptions.” Walski continued, “An array of new features in SewerCAD V8 XM facilitates everything from designing a small subdivision to working on huge systems with a mix of gravity and pumped networks. For example, the newly included LoadBuilder module helps modelers allocate sewer loads based on a variety of GIS-based sources such as customer water-use data, area-wide flow measurement, or polygons with known population or land use.” The constraint-based design features in SewerCAD enable modelers to automatically design gravity piping and structures. They allow users to specify elements to be designed, from a single pipe size to the entire system, by simply entering the design restrictions, including minimum and maximum velocities, covers and slopes; pipe and manhole matching offsets; and allow or disallow drop structures. SewerCAD will automatically determine cost-effective pipe sizes and invert elevations, eliminating unnecessary pipe trench excavation. For more information visit: http://www.bentley.com/SewerCAD © Copyright 1998 - 2009 Water and Wastewater.com |
