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SewerGEMS/StormCAD/PondPack

Hello Bentley,

In our office mostly we are using Bentley Products for drainage and post construction stormwater design. We have sewergems, stormcad, watercad, pondpack , culvertmaster, flowmaster etc. We are in license renewal stage.I saw Sewergems have capability to perform task which stormcad and pondpack does. 

We are in the middle of project where we already use stormcad and pondpack. Also, I figure out we can still open those files in sewergems and perform remaining work. Still, I want to remove some repeated products like stormcad and pondpack if the things can be done in sewergems and add new ones. Please help me to figure out this problem which to keep and which to remove.

Thank you,

HD

  • Hello Hari, 

    PondPack is specifically used for pond design, where you can setup pre and post development scenarios indicating the development of the area and then design the pond. 

    In SewerGEMS, tool from PondPack to design ponds has been incorporated - Pondmaker, so along with storm water network you can also design the pond. StormCAD model can be directly opened in SewerGEMS. For storm-sewer modeling or combined modeling you can use SewerGEMS instead of using SewerCAD and StormCAD separately. SewerGEMS includes StormCAD solver and SewerCAD solver i.e. GVF-Rational solver and GVF-Convex solver resp. along with implicit and explicit solvers for dynamic modeling. 

    Differences between solvers: GVF-Convex vs. GVF-Rational vs. Implicit vs. Explicit (SWMM)

    Whereas Flowmaster is used for hydraulic calculations of elements like conduit, catch basins, channels etc. and Culvertmaster is specifically used for modeling culverts. 

    Regards,

    Sushma Choure

    Bentley Technical Suppport