• How ISG got their InfoWorks ICM software models FEMA approved

    The City of Brookings in South Dakota, like many other inland US cities, is struggling with increased amounts and instances of flooding. They enlisted ISG, a nationally recognized, 100% employee-owned, multi-disciplinary architecture, engineering, environmental, and planning firm to help them update the city’s master drainage plan, which hadn’t been revised in 15 years. ISG’s Jacob…


  • 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…


  • Info360 Asset adds ‘Event’ record and smarter ways to link assets and data

    We’ve collected the most recent updates to Info360 Asset, our web-based app for asset management professionals, which include a new record type, Events, easier ways to add media, and smarter ways to connect your assets and data. We have added Events to Info360 Asset as a new record type. This allows asset managers to upload…


  • 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 does a fire hydrant work? And why are they sometimes different colors? Hydrants may be painted a…


  • Lead & Copper Rule: How smart asset management software can help get the lead out

    Are lead pipes in America finally going to be fully removed? That’s the plan. Utilities have spent the last three years preparing for the requirements of the Revised Lead and Copper Rule, and the first deadline has now passed. By October 16, 2024, all US water utilities should have completed an inventory of their pipes…


  • [e-book] Unlock the potential of operations and maintenance with digital transformation

    Operations and maintenance (O&M) in water and wastewater management are at a crossroads. Aging infrastructure, regulatory demands, climate uncertainty, and labor shortages create immense challenges for utilities and municipalities alike. In this complex environment, maintaining service levels and system performance is not a simple task. However, the growing influx of data from utility plants and…


  • 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…