What's New

This section provides a list of new features in Drainage and Utilities found in the OpenSite, OpenRoads, and OpenRail Designer CONNECT Edition products, also referred to as OpenX Designer products. Features that are only available in specific products are appropriately noted as such.

Connect Edition 2020 Release 2

• Added Vertical Offset property and manipulator to Drainage Node Feature Definition

Video: Vertical Offset Manipulator

• Added support for OpenFlows Tap and Property Connection types in the Structure Type property of a node feature definition.
• Fixed several issues with manipulators for nodes and conduits in a profile model. Note that the Set Invert to Start / Stop properties on a conduit, if set to True, will cause the related invert manipulator to be read-only. Also, the File > Settings > User > Preferences > View Options – Civil > dialog now includes an option to “Show OpenFlows Calculated Slope, in the Drainage and Utilities category. This will cause the conduit slope manipulator to use the OpenFlows slope, which is measured using the center to center length of the conduit, instead of the exact (i.e. clipped) length. Note that the OpenFlows slope is a read-only value.
• Fixed a crash when deleting a delineated catchment, if the catchment is connected to a node and the node is deleted before the conduit.
• Fixed an issue loading data when a link does not have a start and / or stop node.
• Added a new dialog that displays the links with missing nodes in each database and allows you to delete some, or all, of the links. The key in for this is SUBSURFACE OPENLINKSMISSINGNODESDIALOG.
• Added the ability to use the local design constraint for a conduit, instead of the default design constraint. This lets you override default values such as the depth of cover, minimum velocity, etc., which can be helpful if the conduit is modelling an open section such as a ditch.
• Enhanced the catchment acreage to update when the catchment area is modified.
• Fixed the Update Standards from dgnlib tool to correctly synchronize drainage and utilities standards. This means that the properties for a prototype and associated catalog that are used by a feature definition in the DGN will be updated from the dgnliib.

Connect Edition 2020 Release 1

The name of the workflow has changed to "Drainage and Utilities" to better reflect the functionality.

• Added setting to allow headwalls to use the slope of the incoming pipe slope.
• Ability to copy a prototype and catalog when the Feature Definition is not in SUDA_SEED_FILE.
• Allow annotation of elements in reference files. This requires a utilities project in the active DGN, which triggers the ability to annotate elements in up to four references.
• Support for OpenFlows gutter sections functionality. This creates intermediate sections along a gutter element by sectioning a terrain model. Spread widths are calculated at each section.
• Draw the spread widths for a gutter element as a polygon.
• New method to allow placement of gutters from a start node and downstream trace.
• Relative Rotation for a node from a linear element is supported.
• Extend the Critical Scenario Analysis wizard so that it can use flow in conduits as a critical criteria, as well as the HGL at nodes.
• The default value for a User Data Extension (UDX) can now be overridden in a feature definition, so you can assign one User Data Extension to multiple feature definitions and use a different default value for each one.
• The wall thickness of a utility conduit is now available as a property, so it can be annotated by a text favorite.
• The settings for Set Invert to Start/Stop are no longer overridden and are applied 'as is' from the conduit prototype.
• Flow arrows are now displayed for drainage conduits in Element Symbology. Note that the property for this needs to be toggled off then on to activate it in the DGN.