Windes Drainage Design Software

[Cyrille Mixtapes]

Thereis continuous demand from our longer term clients to generate 3D drainage design information in CAD format to coordinate with other utility services and for long-term maintenance regime. InUKindustry, professional softwares primarily Microdrainage and Infoworks CS do not have facility to extract 3D designed information of water infrastructures.

I think Microdrainage files can be imported in C3D to which may enable to fulfill requirements (3D drainage cad file) but I am not sure about this .Could someone please confirm is this possible and shed the light on this process.

The UKIE Country kit has some tools for use with Microdrainage. Namely Rename Pipes, Export to File, and Import from FIle. If it's not already installed (verify this by looking on the Reports tab of Toolspace, if installed you will have Uk and Ireland Reports as a branch) it can be installed using the C3D uninstall and choosing Add Features option.

Don't ask me how to use them, or how well they work, as I have never used them (located in California). But I think if you search for the user Mike Evans, he has done a fair bit of work with these tools.

I have just imported a 250 pipe .SWS file with no problem. You have to ensure your parts list contains the parts which are in the .SWS file for correct display but Civil 3d will warn you if a part is missing and substitute an alternative which you can swap out later or you can update your parts list and re-import.

The SWS link with Civil3D is being used increasingly for this very purpose. The link is produced and maintained by Autodesk as part of the UKIE country kit as suggested by Jeff_M, so if you need more information they are probably the best guys to speak to. That said we are currently working with Autodesk to help improve the link further to make it even more usable.

The MDCAD module. mentioned by Krite1. is designed to be used for sketching out the network within the AutoCAD/Civil3D enviroment ready to bring through to WinDes for design. It will create 3D lines (lines with levels) within its layers which some users find is enough, but quite often we find they now require full 3D entities for clash detection etc.

We are looking to improve WinDes in the Building Information Modelling area for the next release and aim to provide additional export options to help get the network data out in a 3D CAD format. That said we do value this link and will continue to work with Autodesk on it.

I am trying to import a .sws file into 3D Civil however it is not picking up a part lists file and therefore I can't complete the import. How do I ensure the Set Network catalog dropdown boxes reference the UKIE pipe and structures??

It sounds as if you do not have any part lists defined in your drawing. You can simply add a parts list with all parts in by selecting the "Create Full Parts List" from the "Create Design" tab from the main ribbon or by typing

at the command prompt. This can take some time to generate the complete list. Once this command is completed you can now run the import command as before and you should now be able to select a parts list called "Full Catalog".

Can you also try running the "Import from file" command from the "Toolbox" in the "Toolspace" (ensuring that you right click on the one under the "MicroDrainage WinDES Link 64bit Only" assuming you have the 64bit version installed - if not can you use the 32bit one)?

Firstly, Please run the setnetworkcatalog and browse to the following folder: C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\C3D 20xxx\enu\Pipes Catalog\ Do you get an error message? If so you're apc files are corrupted or missing. Reinstall the parts by copying over from the default user folder.

Now what did you use to detail the windes model? The windes file must be coordinated (the manholes must have Eastings and Northings) and have differing manhole numbers (Matthew Webber pls note Windes allows duplication of numbers, is this correct?).

Was the file originally created from Civil3d? Check the first lines of the SWS file from one created by Civil3d and one created by windes - There can be differences which cause issues with the Civil3d import.

I use Windes import/export all the time with no trouble. If an item is missing it resizes to the next available. The only issue which I do have is that windes will import the file and swap all the information out.

If you wish to design in Civil3d and bring it to Windes to test then please import to windes as an existing file. This way it will keep all your designed pipework and levels as they should be. (Again Matthew, might this be corrected somehow?)

"Firstly, Please run the setnetworkcatalog and browse to the following folder: C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\C3D 20xxx\enu\Pipes Catalog\ Do you get an error message? If so you're apc files are corrupted or missing. Reinstall the parts by copying over from the default user folder.

I have managed to install the MicroDrainage Utility, when I try to import the .SWS file it shows errors "Part family for this pipe is not available". I have regenerated the pipe and structures but still the problem persist.

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