• InfraWorks + Civil 3D + InfoDrainage: a powerful drainage design workflow

    Autodesk has long been a leader in civil infrastructure and site design. With the addition of our comprehensive water portfolio in the last several years and our suite of construction tools, every aspect of civil planning, design, modeling, building, and operations can be done within the same cohesive and integrated ecosystem. While this is fantastic,…


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    InfoWater Pro 2025.4 brings map themes and performance improvements

    InfoWater Pro 2025.4 is here, bringing Map Themes to replace the Map Display interface as well as some speed and UI improvements to make your hydraulic modeling work more efficient. New Map Themes replace Map Display One thing we always hear from users of InfoWater Pro is how easy it is for them to visualize…


  • VHB simplified and streamlined their workflows by adopting InfoDrainage

    VHB was looking for an integrated drainage solution for their land development projects, so they partnered with Autodesk to try out new modeling software. VHB engineers shared their experience using InfoDrainage with Senior Product Manager Samer Muhandes at Autodesk University in their excellent presentation Navigating Stormwater: How VHB Overcame Drainage Challenges Using InfoDrainage. We’re excerpting…


  • Understanding fire hydrants: How do they work and why are they different colors?

    Fire hydrants are all around us. These above-ground pipe fittings can supply flows upwards of 1,500 gallons per minute to save lives and put out fires across the world. We all know what fire hydrants do – but how do they actually work? And why are they sometimes different colors? Hydrants may be painted different…


  • Risk Analysis Runs for cloud and copying cloud simulation results in InfoWorks ICM 2025.5

    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,…


  • Simulation Health Reporting now available in InfoDrainage 2025.5

    Troubleshooting is an annoying necessity of hydraulic modeling. Why couldn’t my model just work right the first time!? Well, we feel your pain, and we want to make the model troubleshooting process even easier for you. With our new Simulation Health Reporting feature inside InfoDrainage 2025.5, the identification of continuity and convergence errors within hydraulic…


  • Integrated highway drainage design with the Civil 3D + InfoDrainage end-to-end workflow

    Transportation infrastructure like highways and roadways remains a vital component of modern engineering work, but – as any highway designer knows – with it comes a series of rigid guidelines for drainage and regulatory compliance. Autodesk has long been helping engineers and designers build better highways, and part of that mission is delivering drainage design…


  • The path to digital transformation in water infrastructure is becoming more clear

    The water industry is undergoing a state of rapid change, which will only speed up as the climate shifts. GHD research estimates that droughts, floods and storms could wipe $5.6 trillion from the GDP of world’s top economies by 2050. Are we prepared as an industry for the challenges that are unfolding? Way back in…


  • Great Scott – it’s a webinar! ‘How Autodesk is Shaping the Future of Stormwater, Wastewater & Distribution’

    To quote Marty McFly, “I have to tell you about the future!” And, while you can’t just walk into a store and buy plutonium in today’s world like you could in the future in Back to the Future, you can register for our webinar to see into the future – the future of Autodesk’s desktop…


  • Land use and soil type incorporated into sub-catchments in InfoDrainage 2025.4

    It’s almost that time of the year where we start singing “I’m dreaming of… land use and soil type polygons.” If that wasn’t how you thought the song went, then you may not be a drainage designer. When it comes to hydraulic modeling, our goal is always to model our networks and systems as accurately…