It’s always amazed me that all North American water utilities essentially do the same things – cleanse, distribute, and collect water – but the methodologies they use vary widely. If you look at almost every other established industry, there’s often a set or standardized way of solving problems or serving customers. When one competitor makes…
Events
Without a purpose-built tool, asset management work can be tedious, exhausting, and frustrating, especially when trying to tie your data to existing hydraulic models. For this reason, Autodesk is happy to re-introduce InfoAsset Manager, now made more robust with included mobile and online capabilities, to help utilities manage their water infrastructure and water assets more…
Asset management
In the world of stormwater management and drainage design, selecting the right software tool is crucial for effective planning, analysis, and implementation. Among the myriad of options available in the water industry, we often get asked how Autodesk InfoDrainage compares to potential alternatives like HydroCAD, TR-20, and TR-55. Each of these tools offers unique features…
Storm, sewer, flood
Sewer pipeline assessment can be a dirty job. To make it easier, Autodesk’s Tim Medearis and VAPAR’s Michelle Aguilar teamed up at Autodesk University to show customers How AI/ML in Info360 Asset Can Assist in Sewer Pipeline Condition Assessment and Management. If you’re at all interested in Artificial Intelligence for the water industry, this presentation…
AI and Machine Learning
It’s been a dry fall in Colorado where I live (and indeed across the US). It’s also been a bit dry on the Water Drop workflow video front in the last month as many of us were meeting customers and industry regulars at Autodesk University. But you can consider this mini-drought over because we now…
Water Talks
Generally, Water Drop videos are recorded and produced by our North American technical team, but this edition is happy to welcome some expertise from ‘the land down under’! Welcome Tran Nguyen as she tackles how to utilize the Area Takeoff Method in InfoWorks ICM and Matt Piggot who demonstrates a hydrologic workflow between InfoWorks ICM…
Water Talks
Can you believe it? We’ve been publishing Water Drop workflow videos for a full year. What started as a trickle is now an April downpour. We’ve now created over 40 videos in our Water Drop Workflows playlist, and we’re open to suggestions if you have a workflow you want to learn about. Let us know…
Water Talks
A new year to learn new workflows! We’re kicking off 2024 with four additional Water Drop workflow videos. Check out our YouTube playlist to catch up on all our short-form workflow tutorials, and please do let us know in the survey at the bottom of the page if you have any suggestions for future videos.…
Water Talks
“There is nothing permanent except change.” Though Heraclitus uttered these words in the 6th century BC, it’s easy to forget that change is necessary for growth. We fall into our comfortable, day-to-day routines and temporarily forget this truth. This can be particularly evident in the workplace where everyone is busy. Change can conflict with a…
Commentary
Autodesk’s InfoWork ICM is catchment modeling software which can be applied to hydraulic modeling challenges as diverse as: Goodbye, ‘Standard vs Ultimate’ In the past, InfoWorks ICM was available in two flavors: Standard and Ultimate. However, in June of 2025, Autodesk announced two new options for customers who didn’t require access to every toolset available in InfoWorks…
Storm, sewer, flood