What You Can Do with InfoDrainage
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See What Your Design will Look Like in Real Life
You can see the extent of a pond, how the underdrain connects swales, and the exact lengths of pipes, in InfoDrainage. You'll get a good feel for how your design will work out when it's built, and have less need for post-processing.
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Combine Sustainable and Traditional Drainage Design
Whether your brief calls for gullies and pipes, or for raingardens, detention basins and permeable surfacing, InfoDrainage can handle it. It enables you to make the best use of the land available including natural catchments; to reduce pollutants such as road runoff; and to control flows.
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Check the Details Quickly
InfoDrainage's plan and profile show lots of detail about structures and their locations – such as how much space a pond will take up, and where the inlet, underdrain, and overflows are for a swale. This means pipe length calculations are more accurate than connecting purely to the center point of a storage structure and you can export better data into your other programs.
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Analyze Flows and Flooding
Sustainable drainage - SuDS, WSUD and LIDs - can reduce the risk of flooding downstream. InfoDrainage shows how water will flow through the structures you choose based on their physical parameters enabling you to better understand the effects of your decisions. It models water levels and volumes, so you can drive an outflow control accurately in the hydraulic part of the model and connect it in the middle of a series of pipes or manholes, enabling you to design to meet required discharge rates. This is thanks to InfoDrainage's built-in detailed hydraulic analysis.
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Use Templated Designs for Speed and Convenience
You can set up templates for objects, to speed up the design process when repeatedly having to meet the same regulatory requirements. Templates can include details such as depth, filtration rate, and a percentage of void material in the base. You can drag and drop them into your design, and save a collection of templates to be available each time you start a project.
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Validate and Correct Mistakes Rapidly
The detailed, realistic graphics in InfoDrainage make it easy to spot and correct problems. For example, if there are incorrect levels, they will be obvious in a profile view. Validation highlights errors and gives warnings, with potential solutions proposed. With the built-in tools to correct levels if the user wants to use them, you can quickly move on with your design.
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