On this page, you’ll find a continuous changelog for DRAINS releases.
ADDED:
- New Perpetual Licencing (Softlock) Options
- New Help Menu option: Activate a New Licence
- New Dialog Box: Maintenance Expired, with ‘Copy Licence’ button
- New Dialog Box: Demo and Training Licence disclaimer
FIXED & IMPROVED:
- Refactored Pit database to fix potential corruption of model when pit family or size names have not been entered
- Improvements to XML (Civil Site Design) import and export
- Improvements to Overflow Route results displayed
- Improvements to Detention Basin Table paste function
- Potential bug with Pit Coordinates
- Potential crash when opening DRAINS from a drn model in File Explorer
- Potential crash during Lite Hydraulic Analysis
- Potential crash when displaying Peak HGL Charts
- WBNM Overflow Route warning preventing analysis
- Other minor issues and enhancements
REMOVED:
- ‘Standard’ & ‘Premium’ wording from the Run Menu & Licencing dialog box
CHANGED:
- Orifice diameter range limits changed (5mm – 3000mm)
ADDED:
- Added ability to create a temporary Pit size and display a warning if no Pit size has been detected for a Pit family
- Enabled Double-Click to edit or open a property sheet
- Added Copy, Clear and Cancel buttons to the Pit Inflow Hydrograph
- Added X, Y coordinates to Drainage Pit Properties Page
FIXED:
- Fixed Rainfall Multiplier issue when pasting from a spreadsheet
- Fixed Run Analysis Error Messages not being displayed
- Fixed opening of older template files
- Fixed possible race condition in a Detention Basin Dialog
- Enhanced the Overflow Route velocity and HGL long section
- Prevented Outlet Node Dialog from closing after setting Water Level for Storm Events
- Minor bug fixes
CHANGED:
- Updated and improved XML data exchange workflow for Civil Site Design (CSD), including Safe Pond Depth & IL/CL Loss model
- Updated IL/CL Catchment import/export parameters with spreadsheet
- Updated pre-run checks for a parabolic weir
- Removed Project Options Custom Time Step minimum value check
- Added Project Options Custom Calculation Time Step must be greater than zero check and message
- Added error detection when drawing background
- Changing Pipe Type sets default Pipe Roughness option in Pipe Dialog
- Removed Climate Change Rainfall Multiplier Limit from Project Options
- Updated Catchment Time of Concentration in Balloon Help
- Updated backend interface for Infiltration page of Detention Basin Dialog
- Minor GUI and syntax changes
ADDED:
- Added warning when default hydrograph model has not been selected
- Added Rainfall Multiplier to the GIS import / export of a sub-catchment custom storm
FIXED:
- Fixed false positive Catchment percentage warning when using the Rational method
- Fixed potential crash when viewing an Infiltration Hydrograph
CHANGED:
- Minor GUI and syntax changes
ADDED:
- Added ability to copy Version and Licence details to clipboard
- Added ability to change the Simulation Run-Time Multiplier to extend the model run times
- Added Detention Basin Infiltration Effective Ratio Multiplier for Floor and Wall Areas
- Added Detention Basin Limit for the Minimum Perimeter
- Added Sub-Catchment Pre-Run Checks
- Added warning when ARR2019 Procedures are unchecked in Project Options
- Added warning if duplicate shape labels are detected in a model
IMPROVED:
- Improved Property Balloons for IL-CL Sub Catchment Data
- Improved model loading when no Pipes are associated with a Pipe Type in the Pipe Database by displaying an error and creating a Default Pipe
- Improved detection of duplicate Node Names (Outlet) via display of warning
- Improved wall permeability calculations for circular tanks
FIXED:
- Fixed Downstream Headwall from affecting Independent Upstream Node
- Fixed Sub-Catchment issue when importing data via XML or GIS
- Fixed potential WBNM crash with weir links
- Fixed issue with Rational Hydraulics and Results
- Fixed issue with Rational Method switching between ARR87 and ARR2019
- Fixed potential crash in Rational Method
- Fixed potential crash with QUDM chart 2-dimensional array lookup
- Fixed issue when auto-launching DRAINS after selecting a .drn file with results in Microsoft Windows File Explorer
CHANGED:
- Updated Overflow Cross-Section Table Functionality
- Removed ‘Fixed Pipe’ warning during Hydraulic Analysis for pipes attached to detention basins and head walls
- Increased maximum Manning’s Roughness limit for RAFTS Hydrological model sub-catchments
- Increased Storm Duration Limit to enable up to a 20-year continuous storm analysis in non-ARR procedures
- Increased Minimum Manning’s Roughness
- Reduced Sag Pit Volume Storage Limit
- Refactored Overflow Route Cross-Section Database Window
- Refactored Pipe Database and Error Messages
- Refactored Project Options Window
- Serialized upstream and downstream settings in the overflow cross-section page of an overflow
- Changed Overflow Cross-Section Major, Minor Safe Depth or Width to only calculate the corresponding value
- DRAINS Installer will now force-exit DRAINS if it’s already running
- Other minor changes
UPDATED:
- Improved compatibility with 2020 version of DRAINS
- Improved Pipe Database validation
- Refactored Detention Basin Dialog
- Removed Detention Basin Ratio Limitation for Perimeter and Area
- Other minor changes
UPDATED:
- Refactored the view when loading a model with saved results
- Updated Cross Section switching from Safe Depth to Safe Width in an Overflow Route Cross Section Database
- Unexpected File Format Error Prevention when saving a Pipe Database
- Pre-Burst Rainfall Table Selection during an Import from the ARR Data Hub
- Enabled the option to report the critical Mean results (BETA) in the Project Options
- Automatically open the Project Hydrological Models if no Default Model has been set
- Automatic selection and deselection of the ARR2019 Procedures for the Rational Method
- Prefixed ‘??’ for the pipe label if incomplete pipe properties are detected
- Refactored the About DRAINS window
- Updated the Help to reflect the changes within the application
ADDED:
- Network communication error feedback
- Extra Pre-run checks
- Option to display Release Notes after installing DRAINS
CHANGED:
- Improved the storing of results for full storm ensembles
- Minor improvements to User Interface
- DRAINS version format to Major, Minor, Build, Revision
- Licence error feedback
- Minimum Detention Basin Area to 0.1
- Run Log Information, Warnings for Channel and Overflow Route Spills
- DRAINS Upgrade text
- Improvements to the Licence Server Reporting
- Updated installation software
- Updated Run Log text
REMOVED:
- Continuing Loss limit for IL CL Hydrological Model
- Minimum hydraulic analysis Time Step limit in the Project Options
FIXED:
- Possible crash when saving storm results.
