InfoWorks ICM

  • HEC-RAS: Its history, benefits, drawbacks, and alternatives

    For much of human history, rivers were one of the most prevalent resources to civilization, serving as the liquid highways for goods and providing needed water for irrigation. It’s no wonder then why the world’s top minds have long toiled over how to control rivers and understand their flow. While understanding rivers presented persistent toil…

    Storm, sewer, flood

  • InfoWorks ICM Sewer vs. Flood vs. Ultimate: which one do you need?

    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

  • New Autodesk learning courses for InfoWater Pro, InfoWorks WS Pro, InfoDrainage and InfoWorks ICM

    We’re happy to report that we’ve just released our latest course on the Customer Success Hub for InfoWorks ICM. It joins three other new Autodesk Water courses: The importance of basic training Autodesk water apps can help engineers do powerful things – and the deeper you go into the details, the more power you acquire…

    Product news

  • Mitigating wet weather events with InfoWorks ICM: an overview of the software’s essential use cases

    Understanding and mitigating storm, sewer, and flooding events is a complex challenge known well by those in the water industry. In this post we walk through how InfoWorks ICM empowers users through the capacity planning process, Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) mitigation, and even walk through its integration with Autodesk Civil 3D. What are the essential…

    Storm, sewer, flood

  • 4 new Water Drop videos: templatizing, SQL, water quality workflows

    We are back with another edition of Water Drops, wherein we share four new workflow videos. We have been releasing new videos every month since we began releasing them six moons ago. You can find them all on our YouTube channel playlist. Subscribe and turn on notifications and you’ll be alerted whenever a new batch drops.  …

    Water Talks

  • InfoWorks ICM 2024.3: XP Importer, UI simplification, and Grid Layouts 

    InfoWorks ICM’s most recent version update provides new XP Importer functionality for users migrating from XPSWMM and XPStorm models into InfoWorks ICM, UI simplifications, and additional improvements to grid and shareable property layouts.   Our development and QA team have been heavily focused on improving usability and workflows for InfoWorks ICM users throughout our product update process,…

    Product news

  • Combining BIM and hydraulic modeling expertise to (re)build a better dam in small-town Brazil

    When the Diego Cuê Dam ruptured in the town of Caarapó deep in the southern tip of Brazil, it wasn’t only flooding that the authorities had to manage. The dammed lake, located in the Ayrton Senna Park, is an important recreation space for residents and is perhaps Caarapó’s only tourist attraction. The flooding of the…

    Customer stories

  • [Webinar] Creating a city-wide 1D + 2D flood model

    Can you create a combined 1D/2D model of an entire city to determine its risk for flooding? Not too long ago, the answer was no. But it’s becoming increasingly possible using GIS platforms, tools like InfoWorks ICM, and by taking advantage of the vast amount of public data that’s increasingly being shared. This openness with…

    Storm, sewer, flood

  • Calculating sinuosity of a river’s path with Pi: Is it really possible?

    We investigate whether Pi (π) can actually be used to help compute details related to a river’s path. Is there something special about Pi that can make modeling rivers, bridges, culverts, spillways, levees, floodplain and floodway delineations, stream diversions, channel improvements, and split flows easier? The constant Pi has been associated with everything from crop…

    Commentary

  • A fresh batch of Water Drop workflow videos

    As summer winds down and students get back to hitting the books, you can step up your hydraulic modeling skills with four new Water Drop workflows. I’ve also been told these are great to listen to while enjoying a late summer afternoon thunderstorm. Another Civil 3D and InfoWorks ICM integration Ryan Brown takes a look…

    Water Talks