Adopted by thousands of municipalities and consulting firms around the world, SewerCAD is the most advanced design, analysis, and planning tool, handling both pressurized force mains and gravity hydraulics with ease. SewerCAD leads the market hands-down with features such as steady-state analysis using various standard peaking factors, extended-period simulations of complete collection systems, and advanced automatic system design. SewerCAD’s easy-to-use interface allows you to spend time engineering improved sewer designs instead of wasting your time learning software!
 

Cost effective solutions for complex modeling problems:

Gravity Collection
Pressure Piping (Forcemains)
Automated Design
Flexible Loading
Infiltration and Inflow
Scenario Management
AutoCAD or Stand-Alone
GIS, SCADA, and Database Links
Construction Drawings
Report-Ready Output

Detailed Feature List:

Layout Tools

Work to scale if you have a base map, or work schematically. You can even mix and match scaled and schematic sections in the same project, which is especially handy in tight areas of a drawing (such as at pump stations or other complicated piping areas).
Maintain intelligent network connectivity. Move a manhole, and the connecting pipes rubber-band and snap to the new location.
Morph existing elements by simply dragging and dropping the new element on top of the old one. It’s easier than ever to change a junction chamber to a manhole, or to turn a manhole into a wet-well.
Split a pipe by inserting a new node (junction, pump, manhole, etc.) with a click of the mouse. The two new pipes will automatically have the same basic characteristics as the original pipe – there is no need to delete and rebuild sections of your model!
Set default element characteristics using prototypes.
Locate, view, and edit the information you’re looking for quickly and intuitively with the tabbed editor dialogs.
 

Undo & Redo

Undo and redo an unlimited number of actions. Just imagine trying to use a product without this error-averting feature!
 

Stand Alone

Build your network in any order. Move, edit, and delete elements as you please.
Work schematically, or work to scale with a DXF background base map.
Double-click on any element to edit the properties and view the results.
Locate, view, and edit data faster and easier with intuitive tools and well-organized dialogs.
Control the drawing environment completely, with total control over background and foreground colors, symbol and text sizes.

Pipe Networks

Mix gravity and pressure components freely, building your systems in parallel or in series as they exist in the field.
Combine any number of separate sanitary sewer networks in a single project file.
Use any number of pumps with your wet-wells. You can even pump to multiple downstream gravity systems.

Gravity & Pressure Hydraulics

Analyze pressure or partial (free surface) flow conditions automatically, including transitions. Gravity-based hydraulic grade lines are calculated using standard-step gradually varied flow algorithms. Using these robust algorithms, SewerCAD solves for subcritical, critical, and supercritical conditions - even for complex composite profiles.
Control pressure elements based on the time of day or system hydraulics, turning pumps on and off due to changes in flows and pressures.
Use various pipe materials, including concrete, PVC, and more. Choose different section shapes for individual pipes: circular, box, arch, or even elliptical.
Calculate using common friction methods. SewerCAD supports Manning's, Kutter's, Darcy-Weisbach, and Hazen-Williams formulas.
Perform gravity structure headloss calculations based on your choice of methods, including Standard, Absolute, FHWA HEC-22, and AASHTO.
Take structure properties into account automatically, including bend angles, structure geometry, benching, and more.
Analyze the system under an extreme flow condition, or perform an extended period simulation (EPS) to see how the system behaves over time.
Examine calculation warnings (such as a wet-well rising above an alarm level) in the new Message Browser. You can even sort to customize your view of the message, based on time, networked element, message type, and so on.
 

LoadingCapabilities

Load your model based on contributing population, service area, total dry weather discharge, or your own customized loading types.
Select from the numerous pre-defined extreme flow factor formulas and tables, including Babbit, Harmon, Ten State, and Federov’s – or enter your own formulas and tables.
Organize loading data in Engineering Libraries for reuse in any project.
Determine infiltration based on pipe length, diameter, surface area, length-diameter, or user-defined data.
Associate load with repeating diurnal patterns, or enter hydrographs directly.
Directly import patterns, hydrographs, and other loading data. This makes it especially easy to reuse information you already have in another program (such as Pondpack).

Automatic Design

Design the entire network, selected portions, or just a single element. What you design and the conditions you impose are completely up to you.
Determine pipe sizes and locations according to minimum and maximum constraints, such as cover, velocity, and pipe slope constraints.
Match pipe crowns or inverts at structures, with or without offsets. You can even choose whether or not to allow drop structures to avoid excessive slopes and unnecessary pipe trench excavation.

Cost Analysis

Assess the costs associated with the sanitary sewer collection and pumping system automatically.
Recommend future improvements based on both hydraulic impact and construction cost.
 

Data Sharing

Draw on existing pipe data, network topology, and digital terrain models within Autodesk Land Development Desktop / Civil Design (LDD/CD) projects.
Connect your SewerCAD model to GIS systems, databases, and spreadsheets.
Handle different unit systems, different data types, and even multiple data sources easily and without hassle.

Scenario Management

Take advantage of true scenario management to see how your system reacts to different conditions, including all of the extended modeling capabilities.
Track design alternatives and "what-if" conditions seamlessly with SewerCAD’s comprehensive Scenario Manager and wizards.
Minimize data entry (and the risk of error) with scenario management’s full data inheritance.
Make changes easily, and let the changes cascade through the inheritance tree. If a part of the system changes, just revise the appropriate "parent" data and let the "children" automatically update to reflect the change.
 

Data Sharing: GIS, Databases, & More

Link your hydraulic model to a GIS, SCADA, or other data management tool — in any location, any format, and any units. Just point at the data that you want, and let SewerCAD take care of the rest.
Connect directly to databases and spreadsheets, including Jet (Microsoft Access), dBase, Paradox, BTrieve, FoxPro, Excel, and Lotus, or use ODBC to connect to Oracle, SQL Server, and other popular database applications.
Convert existing CAD lines, polylines, and blocks automatically, creating intelligent hydraulic elements.
Utilize existing pipe data, network topology, and digital terrain models within AutoCAD Land Development Desktop / Civil Design (LDD/CD) projects.
Handle different unit systems, different data types, and even multiple data sources easily and without hassle.

Custom Data Extensions

Extend the model to include any information you want.
Fully customize your extensions as text, Booleans (true/false values), Y2K compliant dates, or even unitized numbers.
Utilize FlexUnits™, annotation, color-coding, data sharing, and more. All data extensions have the same editing and reporting capabilities as the built-in attributes.

Quick Attribute Selector

Color-coding, annotation, FlexTables™, and database connections all benefit from the new Quick Attribute Selector. From input to calculated results, and even custom user data extensions, the Quick Attribute Selector categorizes data types and allows you to speedily find and use any of the hundreds of pieces of data that describe your system.
 

Flexible Tables (FlexTables)

Open a tabular view of your network for quick reference and easy group data-entry.
Customize any table completely, or create your own. You choose which variables to display, the order in which they appear, their labels, and even the units and display precision.
Perform queries and other operations, such as filtering the table to include only elements that match certain criteria, sorting the table in any order, and globally applying mathematical transformations to the elements in the table.
Mix system elements (manholes, pipes, pumps, etc.) in your tables, to match required report formats.
Display duplicate columns in different units, to help you get a better "feel" for units that you aren't familiar with.

Color Coding

Color-code the system according to any characteristic: pipe diameter, flow rate, velocity, node elevation, hydraulic grade, etc.
Choose to color-code pipes, nodes, or both. Include color-coding legends directly in the project drawing, or simply display them on-screen with the QuickView™ window.

Annotation (Labeling)

Annotate your system by adding customized descriptive text and values to your drawing.
Watch the annotation update dynamically as you change input data or switch scenarios.
Align labels and annotation with pipes.
 

Comprehensive Reporting

Create detailed reports for any element or group of elements. Data is presented in a logical report-ready format.
Generate system-wide summaries and project inventories.
Use customizable tables to present data in the order and format you choose. Manipulate the tables to suit your needs, making use of the persistent built-in filtering, sorting, and editing tools.
Compare input and output from different scenarios with tools like comparative annotation.
Copy reports, profiles, and tables to the Windows clipboard for inclusion in your favorite word processor or spreadsheet.

Graphing

Create graphs of time-variable data, such as wet-well grade, pump operation, pipe flow, and so forth.
Compare results for multiple elements and multiple scenarios on the same graph.
Fully customize graphs and profiles by editing fonts, colors, and text to match your desired appearance.
 

Plan & Profile Results

Select a sequence of pipes to profile for elevation, hydraulic grade, pressure, etc. See where the hydraulic bottlenecks in the system are, select possible locations for pump installations, or just get a feel for the "lay of the land".
Profile through gravity and pressure sections of the system.
You control profile plots completely, choosing which variables to display and the position of profile annotations.
Enhance your profiles by automatically including the gradually varied flow water surface.
Customize profiles and other graphs by editing fonts, colors, and text to match your desired output format.
Store,recall, and modify profiles within the Profile Manager. Profiles are persistent, so you never have to recreate a profile from scratch.
Create and apply Profile Templates. Similar to a word-processing template, Profile Templates allow you to specify default presentation characteristics for your profiles, for everything from orientation and scale to annotation placement and leader style.

Animation

Animate results in any view of the model. Watch as SewerCAD automatically steps through the simulation times, updating color-coding, annotation, profile grades, and more as it progresses. This feature is especially useful for identifying trouble spots within the system, and evaluating the temporal effects of critical events.