Trevor English
InfoWater Pro 2027.2 is here, bringing a major expansion to Autodesk Assistant alongside new ways to visualize network data, understand the duration of isolation events, and work with unidirectional flushing.
The biggest story in this release is Autodesk Assistant. When we introduced Assistant in InfoWater Pro 2027, we asked a simple question: Can AI actually help water professionals do their jobs faster and with more confidence?
With InfoWater Pro 2027.2, we are taking a much bigger step toward answering that question.
Autodesk Assistant can now investigate hydraulic model behavior
The Autodesk Assistant introduced in InfoWater Pro 2027 could help you find answers, navigate workflows, and interact with your model in some useful new ways. In 2027.2, it becomes a much more interesting conversational partner.
That’s because Autodesk Assistant can now access significantly more of the information inside an InfoWater Pro model, including most database tables, alternate scenarios, hydraulic results, and even simulation engine logs. More importantly, it can actually do something with that information.
You can ask Autodesk Assistant to perform exploratory simulation runs, investigate the effects of changing model parameters, or use hydraulic-based network tracing to understand connected and affected portions of the network.
Imagine you have a model that isn’t behaving quite the way you expected. Rather than simply asking Autodesk Assistant where a particular setting lives or how a feature works, you can begin asking questions about the behavior of the model itself:
- Why am I seeing an unexpected result here?
- What does the engine log tell me?
- What happens if we change this parameter?
- How does this scenario compare with another one?
Autodesk Assistant can draw on model data, simulation results, diagnostic information, and exploratory simulations to help you investigate those questions: It’s now hydraulically aware AI.
The more context it can access – and the more it can explore that context – the more useful that conversation becomes for troubleshooting, sensitivity studies, scenario comparison, and everyday model investigation. While the Autodesk Assistant is our headline in this release, there’s more goodies, like Polygon Map Themes and updates to Criticality Analysis.
A new way to visualize node results with Polygon Map Themes
While the Autodesk Assistant can help you conversationally understand a model, it’s useful to have great visuals as well. That’s where Map Theme enhancements come into play. InfoWater Pro 2027.2 adds another customer-requested improvement with Node Polygon Map Themes. You can now create a polygon layer based on Thiessen polygons and use those areas to visualize node-based input data or simulation results across the network.
For example, you might visualize simulated junction pressure across associated service areas while using the junction symbols themselves to display something different, such as demand served. That gives you another way to move from individual node results toward the bigger spatial picture.
Pressure zones are an obvious use case, but the same approach can be applied to values like pressure, head, or other junction data. For modelers trying to understand how hydraulic conditions translate into impacts across the communities they serve, that spatial context can make results much easier to interpret.
Adding time to Criticality Analysis
Criticality Analysis has also continued to evolve over the last several InfoWater Pro releases. In 2027, we added the ability to run hydraulic isolation simulations directly from the Isolation Areas table. With 2027.2, we’re adding another important dimension to that analysis: time. You can now specify an isolation duration and evaluate what happens when part of the network remains out of service for an extended period.
A system may be able to tolerate an outage for a short period, but it might behave very differently several hours later as storage is depleted and hydraulic conditions change. Extended-duration simulation allows Criticality Analysis to account for those changes over time.
For utilities evaluating operational risk, emergency response, or the consequences of taking an area out of service, that provides a more complete picture of what an isolation might actually mean.
Learn more about InfoWater Pro 2027.2
Ready to explore the new capabilities?
- Check out the InfoWater Pro 2027.2 What’s New help article for the complete details on Autodesk Assistant enhancements, Node Polygon Map Themes, Criticality Duration Modeling, and an updated Unidirectional Flushing experience.
- Ready to update? Sign in to your Autodesk account at manage.autodesk.com to download the latest version of InfoWater Pro.