PR - Bentley
Systems, Incorporated today announced the release of SewerCAD V8 XM
Edition, a powerful tool for sewer design and rehabilitation. SewerCAD
V8 XM provides innovative modeling tools featuring an easy-to-use
interface and advanced capabilities that enable engineers from
municipalities, utilities, and consulting firms to get the most value
from their capital improvement funds.
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.”
Additional new features in SewerCAD V8 XM include:
· Air valves at high points in force mains,
· TRex for automated ground elevation data assignment,
· Tractive stress calculations,
· Active topology,
· Interpolating properties between elements,
· Accurate variable speed pump analysis,
· Improved graphing of dynamic results,
· Engineering profiles in DXF,
· Network navigator,
· Ability to import StormCAD and SewerGEMS models,
· System head curves,
· Easier creation of controls,
· Complex manifolded pump stations/force mains,
· Great numerical stability/performance,
· Enhanced graphical user interface featuring dynamic zooming, named views library, and dockable windows,
· AutoCAD 2009 support.
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.
SewerCAD V8 XM is now generally available. To learn more about SewerCAD, visit www.bentley.com/SewerCAD.
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