Available today as a free upgrade for Bentley SELECT subscribers, WaterCAD users will benefit from dozens of new features that make version 8 much faster, powerful, and easier than ever!
Overview of the new features
Interoperability and model building
New MicroStation platform: Build, edit, run, and visualize your water model leveraging MicroStation's geospatial engineering environment.
LoadBuilder module for demand allocation: Use LoadBuilder directly from WaterCAD's stand-alone interface to allocate demands using geospatial water consumption data sets.
TRex for elevation extraction: Extract elevation information from DEM's, CAD contour files, shapefiles, and spot elevations directly from the stand-alone interface.
Thiessen polygon creator: Automatically create thiessen polygons around your model nodes to support demand assignment (LoadBuilder) methods that require service polygons.
Data management
Query-based selection sets: Manage persistent and dynamic element groups using advanced multi-parameter SQL queries.
Network Navigator: A powerful new utility to find and fix network topology and connectivity issues resulting from inconsistent source data.
Enhanced Undo/Redo support: Lay out elements, use FlexTables, and edit data with unlimited confidence with undo/redo support across your entire model.
Copy/Paste support from external sources: The new WaterGEMS V8 grids allow bi-directional Copy/Paste support. Great with spreadsheets and FlexTables!
Operations modeling
Criticality analysis: Evaluate the consequence of failure across your entire system, and discover the assets with the highest hydraulic and operational impact.
Pressure-dependent demands: Calculate demands as a function of pressure to effectively model intermittent supply scenarios, sprinkler heads, and water loss.
New isolation valve element: Use this new element to model system segments, perform trace analyses, and find vulnerable infrastructure assets.
New hydrant element: Model hydrants as independent nodes leveraging the new pressure-dependent demands, and fire flow navigator features.
New variable-speed pump battery element: Model complex batteries of variable speed pumps using a single simplified element that correctly models series and parallel installations as a whole.
Fire flow and demand management
Fire Flow Navigator: Run system-wide fire flow analyses, and navigate your entire network to evaluate flows, velocities, and pressures for every element.
Hydrants: Model hydrants as independent nodes leveraging the new pressure-dependent demands, and Fire Flow Navigator features.
Demand Control Center: Globally manage simple, composite, and pressure dependent demands across your entire model.
Unit demand engineering libraries: Develop and maintain your own area, count, discharge, or population-based unit demands for quick demand estimation.
Mapping and presentation
Thematic mapping: Use property-based element-sizing, color-coding, and annotation, to easily visualize and map your input data and modeling results.
Background layer manager: A new utility to organize, group, customize, and display DXF, shapefile, BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, and MrSID backgrounds.
GIS-style symbology: Configure your model to display zoom-dependent symbol sizes that dynamically change while navigating your model.
Advanced contouring: Superimpose unlimited contour maps directly on your system layout, and streamline map production with the new contour definitions.
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V8-Powered Water Distribution Modeling
WaterCAD V8 XM Edition advances the water modeling technology standard once again. Read all about it in the Haestad Methods Solutions newsletter, Issue 14. Download PDF
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Watch video clips of WaterCAD V8 XM Edition in action
All-new stand-alone interface:
Discover a fresh, more responsive and functional stand-alone interface. Customize your work environment with dockable dialogs, enjoy extended background image support, powerful thematic mapping features, bi-directional copy/paste from external applications, and much more.
Play video clip: 56 seconds
Geospatial model building modules:
Watch how easy it is to use the new stand-alone LoadBuilder, TRex, and Thiessen Polygon Creator modules. Leverage your geospatial data sets to automatically allocate demands and assign elevations, saving time and avoiding unnecessary data entry errors.
Play video clip: 1 minute, 52 seconds
Pressure-dependent demands
Learn about the new Pressure-Dependent Demands (PDD) feature. Review the necessary input for a PDD analysis, graph and compare scenarios with and without PDD, and realize the benefits of PDD for intermittent supply systems.
Play video clip: 4 minutes, 32 seconds
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Download white papers
Using Criticality Analysis to Identify Impact of Valve Location. ASCE 8th Annual International Symposium on Water Distribution System Analysis, Cincinnati (OH), August 2006
Efficient Pressure Dependent Demand Model for Large Water Distribution System Analysis. ASCE 8th Annual International Symposium on Water Distribution System Analysis, Cincinnati (OH), August 2006
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Frequently asked questions about WaterCAD V8 XM Edition
When is WaterCAD V8 XM Edition going to be available?
WaterCAD V8 XM Edition is available now! Bentley SELECT subscribers can download the new version right away.
Is the new MicroStation interface included?
Yes. The new MicroStation platform comes standard with WaterCAD, as well as the classic stand-alone platform. You will be able to add AutoCAD integration for an additional fee.
Do I need MicroStation or AutoCAD to run the new WaterCAD?
Only if you want to work within one of those environments. WaterCAD stand-alone doesn't require any additional platforms.
Are the new LoadBuilder and TRex (Terrain Extraction) add-ons for additional price?
No. LoadBuilder and TRex come standard with WaterCAD V8 XM Edition. You can use them within the stand-alone, MicroStation, or AutoCAD interfaces.
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