Trevor English
Samer Muhandes
InfoWorks 2025.5 is here, marking the last release of the 2024 calendar year. With it comes new abilities to copy cloud simulation results, run risk analysis on cloud databases, and improved NetCDF file formats for TSD objects. In this post, we’re going to walk through what each of these improvements mean for InfoWorks ICM users, new and old.
Copying cloud simulation results
If you watched our recent webinar How Autodesk is Shaping the Future of Stormwater, Wastewater, and Water Distribution, you’ll know we talked about not reinventing the wheel, but making it more efficient, more agile, and more useful. In that same vein, the ability to copy cloud simulation results will help you save time and improve your workflow efficiency.
In InfoWorks 2025.5, you can now copy results from a run in a cloud database to a transportable database. Previously, if you wanted to share results with approving authorities or reviewers, you had to pass the model without the results and ask the authority to re-run the model – a time consuming, tedious, and annoying process when involving non water stakeholders. But no longer! We’ve now removed this limitation, making copying cloud simulation results directly to transportable databases easy in the software, which should make your approval process that much smoother.
Now, you might be thinking, “Hey, that’s a pretty cool feature. I wonder where we got that idea?” The answer might surprise you: We got it from you! This feature was requested by cloud users that we spoke with, leading us to prioritize rolling it out. If you have an idea for improvements or features you want to see in InfoWorks ICM, you can add them to our Autodesk Water feedback portal. If they get enough votes, we try to fast track their development.
Risk analysis runs for cloud databases
The cloud is democratizing our access to high compute and, as a result, giving more modelers access to compute intensive simulations to build more accurate hydraulic models. Our team is committed to making the cloud adoption process as easy as possible, which is why we rolled out risk analysis runs for cloud databases.
In the previous state, in order to run risk analysis you were asked to copy your cloud database to on-premises. However, now we’ve lifted that limitation, meaning that damage receptors and risk impact zones are now supported in cloud databases. These are vital components of risk analysis runs and help make the already powerful cloud capabilities of InfoWorks ICM even better.
Other updates and learning more
- Along with this update, we also extended the source projection formats supported for NetCDF files when configuring spatial TSD objects. To learn more about that update and how to get started with the latest version, you can read the what’s new page.
- Our technical support team has been hard at work compiling every resource that InfoWorks ICM users could need access to into one central location – the InfoWorks ICM Technical Information Hub. Here, you will find access to version information, training materials, what’s new and feature updates, and plenty more.
- Ready to update? You can update your app by signing in to your account at manage.autodesk.com.
- Want to see what else is new – and upcoming? Peer into the future with our high-level Water Solutions Product Roadmap.