PRODUCT DATA SHEET

StormCAD®
Storm Sewer Design and Modeling

StormCAD is a comprehensive modeling software program for

the design and analysis of storm sewer systems. StormCAD
provides calculations for catchment runoff, inlet capacity, and
gutters and pipe network flow.
Interoperability
Out of the box, StormCAD users can employ this product as a stand-alone
application or work directly from within MicroStation®, while an additional
integration option lets users model directly in AutoCAD.
Regardless of the platform used, StormCAD maintains a single set of modeling
files for true interoperability across platforms.
The stand-alone interface offers easy-to-use model layout tools, multiple
background support, conversion utilities from CAD, GIS, and databases,
and unlimited undo and redo layout.
The ability to run from within MicroStation, which is included at no additional Users can employ StormCAD as a stand-alone application, within MicroStation,
cost with all StormCAD versions, provides a geospatial and engineering design or, with optional integration, within AutoCAD.
environment with unrivaled visualization and publishing tools.
that region. Engineers can work with an unlimited number of sub-watershed
AutoCAD users can add the ability to run StormCAD from within AutoCAD to
areas and C coefficients for each inlet watershed.
build, lay out, and plot models with engineering precision within an environment
where they are already comfortable. StormCAD allows the input of external contributing areas, additional flows, and
carryover flows to model non-local runoff contributing to the discharge at any inlet.
StormCAD can now import and export drainage data directly from InRoads,
StormCAD provides several methods for computing travel time, including full pipe
GEOPAK, and PowerCivil for North America, providing engineers and designers
velocity, normal velocity, average end velocity, and weighted average velocity.
with a way to achieve an optimized workflow and better coordination between
engineering teams.
Automatic Design
The constraint-based design features in StormCAD allow modelers to automati-
Inlet and Network Hydraulics
cally design gravity piping and structures.
StormCAD determines intercepted flow at network inlets, and routes bypass
flow to selected bypass targets. Inlets can be computed using the U.S. Federal The design is flexible enough to allow users to specify the elements to be de-
Highway Administration (FHWA) HEC-22 methodology and users can choose from signed, from a single pipe size to the entire system, by simply entering the appro-
grate, curb, slot, ditch, and combination inlet types. Engineers can use a variety priate design conditions: minimum/maximum velocities, covers, and slopes; pipe
of methods to compute headloss, including HEC-22 Energy and AASHTO. elevation offsets (including whether or not to allow drop structures), maximum
spread and depth for inlets in sag; and minimum efficiency for inlets on grade.
StormCAD solves for subcritical, critical, and supercritical conditions with its
robust gradually varied, standard-step algorithm. StormCAD calculates friction StormCAD will automatically determine cost-effective pipe sizes and invert eleva-
losses using Manning, Kutter, Darcy-Weisbach, and Hazen-Williams, and users tions while minimizing pipe cover to avoid unnecessary pipe trench excavation.
can choose circular, box, arch, or elliptical pipe section shapes or irregular,
trapezoidal, or triangular channel sections. Comprehensive Scenario Management
With StormCAD scenario management center, engineers can evaluate, visualize,
Hydrology and Loads Allocation and compare an unlimited number of what-if scenarios within a single file.
StormCAD uses the Rational Method to calculate peak flows in the storm sewer They can easily make decisions by comparing design approaches with varying
design, or accepts direct input of known flows for inlet inflows. StormCAD allows velocity, slope and cover restrictions, evaluating system capacity for multiple
users to specify Intensity-Duration-Frequency data using equations or tables. storm events, or analyzing outlet flow using different estimations for the
Modelers can then plot the IDF curves, and reuse their data for other projects in catchment Rational Coefficients.

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 System Requirements StormCAD At-A-Glance
Refer to the ‘Installation Requirements’
section of StormCAD’s ReadMe file: Interface and Graphical Editing • Drawing review tools for connectivity consistency
• Stand-alone Windows interface • Automatic topology review
www.bentley.com/StormCAD-Spec • Ability to run within AutoCAD (AutoCAD license required) • Drawing navigator
Platform pre-requirements: • Ability to run within MicroStation (MicroStation • Orphaned node and dead-end pipe queries
StormCAD runs without platform license required) • Hyperlink for network elements
restrictions as a stand-alone • Ability to run within PowerCivil for North America • Custom data fields (with user-assigned or formula-
application. (PowerCivil for North America license required) based values)
• InRoads®/GEOPAK®/PowerCivil™ drainage file import/export • Surface water flow direction displayed across any terrain
It can also run from within AutoCAD
and MicroStation. The requirements • Unlimited undo/redo of layout and editing • ProjectWise® and ProjectWise® Geospatial Management support
are also available in the StormCAD • Element morphing, splitting, and reconnection
Hydraulics
ReadMe file. • Nodes in close proximity merging tool
• Steady-state simulations
• Automatic element labeling
• Flow profile methods: capacity and backwater analysis
• Scaled, schematic, and hybrid environments
• Headloss methods: AASHTO, HEC-22 (2nd and 3rd editions),
Find out about Bentley • Scaled catchment and gutter elements standard, absolute, generic, and headloss-flow curve
• Element prototypes • Diversion simulation
at: www.bentley.com • Aerial view and dynamic zooming • Automatic constraint-based design
Contact Bentley • Named views library • Friction loss methods: Manning, Kutter, Darcy-Weisbach,
1-800-BENTLEY (1-800-236-8539) • Multiple background-layer support and Hazen-Williams
Outside the US +1 610-458-5000 • Image, CAD, and GIS background support • Curb, grate, ditch, slot, generic, combination, and
Global Office Listings • Element Prototypes (one-click setup) user-defined capture curve inlet types
www.bentley.com/contact • Automatic input and result fields filtering (based on solver used) • Open channel and closed conduit hydraulics
Interoperability and Model Building • Support for V-shaped and parabolic gutters
• Single set of model files for four compatible interfaces • Support for pressure elements (including pumps)
• Import of MX Drainage files • Pond outlet structure calculations
• GIS-ID property (to maintain associations between records in • Culvert inlet control calculations
source file and elements in model) • Support for culvert headwalls and endwalls
• LandXML data import and export Hydrology and Load Allocation
• Oracle spatial support • Rational Method
• Polyline-to-pipe connections from DXF and DWG files • Rainfall data input: user-defined Intensity-Duration-
• Spreadsheet, database, Shapefile, and ODBC connections Frequency (IDF) table, Hydro-35, IDF table equation,
• Automated assignment of elevation data to IDF curve equation, IDF polynomial log equation
manhole elements • Time of concentration methods: User-defined, Carter,
• Unified file format with CivilStorm, SewerGEMS, Eagleson, Espey/Winslow, Federal Aviation Agency, Kerby/
and SewerCAD Hathaway, Kirpich (PA and TN), Length and Velocity, SCS Lag,
TR-55 Sheet Flow, TR-55 Shallow Concentrated Flow, TR-55
Model Management
Channel Flow, Kinematic Wave, Friend, Bransby-Williams
• Unlimited scenarios and alternatives
• External load assignment
• Comprehensive scenario management
• Active topology (to activate or deactivate network elements) Results Presentation
• Scenario comparison • Thematic mapping
• Tabular reports with global editing • Dynamic, multi-parameter, and multi-scenario graphing
• Tabular report sorting and persistent filtering • Advanced profiling
• Customizable engineering libraries • Advanced tabular reporting with FlexTables®
• Dynamic (query based) and static selection sets • Property-based color coding and symbology
• Element selection by polygon • Property-based annotation
• Element selection inversion • Contouring with Shapefile and DXF export
• Table opening on selection • Publishing of i-models in 2D or 3D, including to
• Global engineering units management Bentley Map Mobile

StormCAD’s constraint-based design automatically Locate bottlenecks quickly using thematic mapping,
determines diameters and invert elevations. FlexTables, and profiles.

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