Bentley Systems has announced immediate availability of its new WaterCAD and WaterGEMS V8i (SELECTseries 4) information modelling software releases for the analysis and design of water distribution systems.
The new V8i (SELECTseries 4) releases allow users to perform flushing studies with multiple flushing runs and areas. Moreover, new reports showing the location of valves and hydrants that field staff need to operate when carrying out flushing programmes can be automatically generated. As a result, modellers need no longer spend valuable time creating these reports manually.
Forthcoming releases of WaterCAD and WaterGEMS will also provide the ability to bring hydraulic modelling results into utility control rooms, increasing information mobility across engineering and operations departments and improving decision-making capabilities.
An enhanced interface includes new capabilities such as background layer and element symbology copy/paste, symbology definition import/export, and property search to filter element properties; The 64-bit support, already available in WaterCAD and WaterGEMS, to increase addressable memory and performance, now also enables users to run WaterCAD for AutoCAD or WaterGEMS within the 64-bit version of AutoCAD 2013.
