# MicroDrainage Reviews **Vendor:** Innovyze **Category:** [Civil Engineering Design Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/civil-engineering-design) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 28 ## About MicroDrainage Advanced drainage design software that optimises the performance and effectiveness of drainage systems, including SuDS – both greenfield and retrofit. ## MicroDrainage Reviews ### 1. A Simple & Easy to Learn Tool for Wet Utility Network Modelling **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** 1. Simple and Self Explained User unterface 2. Much useful AotoCAD Interface Drawnet 3.In built FSR date for UK 4. MD to 3D model conversion option in the latest update 5. the "F1" button help which covers almost everything you need 6. Have used source control module extensively to model SuDS **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** 1. Expensive compared to peers 2. Lack of Self learning materials available online compared to Bentley counterparts 3. Network license some times crashes especially while working from home 4. Can not work online through Projectwise 5. The 3D view could be better 6. Not all modules are available in all licenses **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** If you are not sure about any if the tools in MD, just click F1! **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been using MicroDrainage for the last two years for Modelling Storm water Drainage Networks and Foul Networks related to various projects in and around UK. Have worked in nearly 10 projects and currently working on another 2 at the moment. A simple user interface and an inbuilt FSR data make MD a better option for Network modelling especially for UK Projects. The latest version made the 3D modelling job much simpler. ### 2. The Best Drainage Software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** TARAKESWARA RAO V. | Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** I have been using the Windes software from last 3years, It's an amazing experience. Interface is very much User-friendly and it's reduce alot of time in laying and analyzing the storm networks. Earlier I felt it would be great if there is a Civil 3D output, but in 2019 version it is incorporated. I am very much happy after seeing that option. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** It would be very much helpful to the designers if the Network details tab can be of excel sheet, i.e If we want to change the IL of any pipe we need to calculate everything outside and need to provide the level and for subsequent pipes also. So, if it is of excel format we can perform copy and past operations. Which reduces alot of time for the users. **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** Very much user friendly, Easy to build Storm networks and accurate results compared to other softwares. We can see all the technical queries using help. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have modelled Storm water network for SMP M4, J3-J8. Designed Storm water network for HS2 Highway diversions like Oxford Road, Radstone road etc..., Used SUDS to design Detention Ponds, Retention Ponds and Swales Used Flow control options to attenuate the flows ### 3. Ease of using MicroDrainage Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jayvin S. | Senior Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** MicroDrainage is a user-friendly and highly interactive platform which is essential for developing a wide range of drainage engineering solutions to meet the statutory requirements. The platform allows me to plug-in with Civil 3D software which helps me to use different levels of information from various disciplines and develop viable solutions in a short time. The software had various inbuilt tools which become one-stop solutions for varying levels of calculations. The software results are generally accepted by statutory authorities, which gives me the confidence for the accuracy of results produced by its engine. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** 1. Although the software can generate results for crossing and conflicts between the network; however, the software cannot generate the combined long-sections for various networks located within a single file. For this, I rely on Civil 3D software or PDS software to generate combined long-sections say of foul and stormwater networks to assess whether the networks are proposed within the same plane or not. 2. The software cannot plot the curved pipes while importing model designs in Civil 3D. This led to manual work of remodelling of curved pipes in Civil 3D which is not only time consuming but also disconnects the 3D models from the designs. I believe, if the software could plot the curved pipes then it could potentially save the time of designers in producing BIM compatible models and checking of modelling work. **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** The benefits of MicroDrainage outweighs other software which is available in the market. The software is user-friendly, interactive, and highly graphical which helps the designer to make an informed decision while developing designs. It is a one-stop solution for different levels of design as it has various inbuilt tools to generate calculations as per one's need. The software is compatible with other platforms such as Civil 3D which could be used to develop layout drawings and 3D BIM model within no time. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using MicroDrainage to develop conceptual to detailed drainage strategies. The software has multiple functions which allow me to generate designs, layout drawings, and 3D models for federated BIM models. ### 4. After my graduation I started my career with Drainage design. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chethan K. | Assistant Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** -Calculations of drainage components made simple and easy to understand. - Attenuation storage size calculation is simple. - Importing Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) designed in Microdrainage SuDS to network on link or node locations. - Simulation of network, pipes, manholes, online and offline controls to for design operations as expected. -Drawnet (Addon option to Civil 3D) is very helpful in working simultaneously with Civil 3D software. - Easy to make out where the error has been occurred. - Various inbuilt sections viz Rectangular, trapezoidal, circular etc are easy to import and calculate. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** - Exporting pipe network into Autodesk Civil 3D is not easy. - Importing 3D surface and 3 Dimensional checking is not easy. - Drawing catchment areas for network is repetative and time consuming. Making changes to drawn area is not easy. - After simulation it creates separate MDX files for results. if anyone is opens the model later again they need to run and simulate to see the results. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** - I am preparing storm network model for Highway works. - MicroDrainge made my job easier in calculations and network modelling as per standards. - Providing online and offline control to restrict the flow into pipes/Attenuation. - Calculation of pipe network and checking for proper slope, length, diameter, matching invert level and cover levels, maintaining min and max velocities. ### 5. User friendly interface and replicates the actual scenario to a greater extend. Well recommended. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Libu K. | Assistant Engineer, Highways & Drainage,UK, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** Replicates the actual scenario to a greater extend. Advantage is that the toolkits associated will make the modelling tasks more easier for you. User-friendly, well defined, and self explanatory. 3D visualisation helps us understand what is happening inside the pipes and chamber network for different events, which helps us take decisions easier during the further modelling stages. Efficient compared to other modelling softwares that used before. CAD compliance helps us build BIM models efficiency. MD Suds makes most of the modelling easier. Other modules are provided for calculating Greenfield flowrates using different methods, for volume calculations etc. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** Providing a bit more description about providing flow control chambers in help will be better. Will be helpful if we can connect twin outgoing pipes from the same chamber to understand scenarios which shows filter drains above carrier drains **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** Being user friendly and replication of actual scenarios are the best quality a software can provide and WINDES provides that. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly working on highway drainage designs and modelling. Analysis of the results based on different events based on different levels of critical scenarios is a benefit, which helps in a coordinated design of network for different events. I have used it for adoptable as well as private drainage networks. ### 6. Experience with MicroDrainage **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rama Sastry Y. | Assistant Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** MicroDrainage lets the user to skip the hydrology calculations part as the rainfall is completely embedded in the software and its just the location within the UK that the user must know to proceed with the design. Also the design criteria pane helps the users to provide all the inputs in a single window without juggling around much. The help/user guide will provide a detailed overview of the tool and the search option is very dynamic as it lets the user to dive into the section directly and provide great understanding on how the tool behaves. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** There are couple of things I want to draw out here and hopes it reaches Innovyze 1. While modelling storage structures (eg; detention ponds) if the user selects the node as a Manhole instead of a junction, the tool assigns the dia of the manhole as 10m without any pop-up or warning (although a warning appears when we go for simulation), and during simulation MicroDrainage routes the flows through the 10m Dia manhole before they enter the basin, and as the manhole being 10m is dia has huge storage which is double counted by MicroDrainage during simulation and there is huge risk of underestimating the actual storage volume required or to be executed in site. So I feel the tool shouldn't allow the user to model the storage structures with a Manhole or should make amendment so that the tool pushes a warning about the dia of the manhole being assigned for the manhole in which storage is modelled. This will alarm the user and correct the inputs accordingly. 2. Once a catchment assigned to a node/manhole can't be reassigned to any other node, and it has to be removed and re delineated before one can assign it to another node. My feeling is that there should be flexibility to quickly assign a catchment from one node to another. 3. Also when a node is being removed, no warning pops up about the removal of the catchment assigned to the node (this becomes an issue when the areas are turned off) and user might end up deleting the area assigned to that particular node. It would be great if there is a pop-up that warns the user about the risk (deleting area) factor associated with it. 4. From my experience what I observed is that MicroDrainage has a bizarre way of modelling pumps. Upon simulation I have observed a great mathematical instability in the model (understood after checking the hydrographs) and the user guide doesn't have much on design of pumps neither does the website. So I feel Innovyze should provide some basic training videos in its website on MicroDrainage which would be really helpful for rookies to get a basic understanding of the tool. **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** MicroDrainage is an excellent tool for analysis of storm water drainage networks and provides integration with products of Bentley and AutoDesk which makes the production of 3D models and drawings really simple. The help guide/user guide that comes along with the MicroDrainage is just amazing as it provides a great understanding for a rookie and helps to work smoothly. The flood flow analysis comes in as an added advantage which helps to analyze the behavior of storm water drainage networks in case of higher events and employee relevant mitigation measures. Source control and MDSuDS are in compliance with the Environmental agency guidelines which helps the user to proceed with the design of the drainage networks directly if the project location is within the UK. So overall MicroDrainage is an excellent tool which helps the users to analyze and provide solutions for Storm water drainage problems for urban developments and linear construction projects where interception, collection, attenuation and disposal has a great importance. I have been using MicroDrainage in my day to day professional career from last 18 months working on Detailed Design of Drainage for East West Rail Phase-2, Preliminary Design for A40 in wales. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storm water Drainage Networks for Linear construction projects (Highways & Railways). The important benefits of MicroDrainage is the amount of manual calculations it reduces for analysis, design and cost estimating for drainage networks. It is a complete package using which all the tasks involved in storm water drainage design can be delivered right from the scratch. By integrating with modelling software like Civil-3D the production of 3D models and drawings has become really effective and efficient as the number of human errors decrease as everything can be be directly imported from MicroDrainage. ### 7. The Best Network Modelling Software especially for UK **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** The software is very easy to learn and almost all the tools are self explanatory. The interface with Aucad software, Drawnet makes it easy for the engineers to model it very easily and efficiently. The inbuilt FSR data available for UK makes the modelling further easier. The latest updation of the software added an easy way to convert the MD model directly to 3D model. Design audit option helps us to run an audit check on our design standards. Various online and offline control option make the software a complete package for network modelling. The "F1" help button is most helpful option of all. We will get all the details about the software from the help button. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** The 3D visualising option could be better. The software is a bit costlier as compare with Bentley counterparts **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** If you are working on UK specific projects, then MD would be a good option. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storm water and Foul Water network modelling ### 8. Easy Functional Drainage Design Platform. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joyce W. | Graphic Designer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** MicroDrainage its an efficient drainage designing tool for the Engineers to easily design quality and accurate designs for the various construction projects. The tool allows easy integration with other design product like AutoCAD etc, which helps on the design accuracy. The tool design products are professionally 3d objects like Pipes, Manholes and others, and even the file importing and exporting through the tool its quite simple. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** MicroDrainage, has nothing which i remember as a usability problems. The installation its easy and functions are also simple. **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** Easy and accurate drainage systems designing and modeling software, and the features are not very complicated to get used to. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Accurate drainage systems design production and management of various drainage installations documents. ### 9. It has its own set of pros and cons. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hardik S. | Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** The preliminary rainfall data and all other related constant values are taken by the software very easily by one click. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** Not so user friendly when it comes to editing existing pipe network. Also hardly any options given which can be used for editing the presentation of how the drawing and its labels look (i.e. cannot use it for printing ) **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** A definite easy to use basic drainage software , one should consider using if he is new for drainage. Not many options are available on this software and just a basic version of all what what is needed for any drainage with some rigid featues. Easy for setting up a new project , but a little difficult for editing. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use microdrainage mostly for complete infrastructure design for projects in uk ### 10. MicroDrainage review from a surface water network design perspective. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eneko I. | Gap Year, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** Iteration between Autocad 2D where you can design in plan and import the design into MicroDrainage. Same for catchments. It is also helpful to double check pump station requirements for a given design flow. When the surface water discharges in a river or sea, it is great to obtain the Join Venture for the worst case scenario depending on the network return period and the outfall river/sea level water level return period. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** Interaction with Autocad Civil 3D, is not straightforward and you still need to do the initial design in Autocad 2D. **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** Before starting to use the software, learn which are the principles of gravity pipe network design. Also, learn the Standards of the pertinent Authority, and the Design Basis of the project. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Surface water network design. Check existing surface water and foul network capacity. ### 11. MicroDrainge made my job easier in calculations and network modelling **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarath chandra P. | Project Planning, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** As a fresher in Industry i had basic knowledge about the Water resources. But Micro Drainage software is user friendly and explanation include for all the tools we use. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** nothing to dislike itsseems really great tool **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** can we see any updates feature **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** we really use this a Auto design tool inbuilt in it every much. According to its sequence the software will take its suitable design in modelling of drainage system which will reduce our time ### 12. Microdrainage Feedback **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** We can view the model in various ways, Longitudinal, Schematic, and also 3D View. This feature has helped to modify the invert levels and identify the issues based on ground data. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** Overall Microdrainage works well. If we can incorporate more effective SuDs modeling tools also to the source control, it will be useful. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Highway Drainage Designing. Easy to check and identify the pitfalls of the model. Both DrawNET and stand-alone options are helpful. The civil3D export option is a savior. ### 13. Best software to design mega scale projects on a micro scale level detail and precision **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Khawar R. | Assistant Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** The best feature is excel based model optimization interface with real-time result updates **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** Import of sub models can cause sometimes created issue for ma. Moreover, the 3D viewer can be better **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** If price is not an issue, you can never go wrong with the MicroDrainage software **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most of my work is related to wet utilities design and I use Micro drainage WinDes for designing gravity based networks ### 14. Powerful & intuitive **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dale L. | Site Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** Visualisation of a system under simulation. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** Not always the best user interface/friendly. But you get used to it like anything else, not a big drawback. **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** Use it in bundles such as PDS modelling etc. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Overflow basins, residential drainage systems and retention (hydro flow) systems/soakaway systems. ### 15. Microdrainage **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** manasjyoti d. | Senior Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** Microdrainage is a very easy to use software for drainage design. Highly recommended to use for drainage calculation. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** Tedious job to define catchment area for bigger plant **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have design AOC network of different project in Microdrainage. It help me to anlayses the network and save lots of time ### 16. A user-friendly drainage design and analysis software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** A A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** Ease of integration with other CAD software. Effortless Importing and exporting of models. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** Lack of options for gully sizing and modeling **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it to do most of the design and analysis work required for further use into client software that is not widely available. ### 17. Very useful, efficient software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** Complex Network modelling, Multiple rainfall runoff analysis methods Can be used for simple catchment modelling instead of river modelling software **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** Expensive, you have to buy each module, it should come as a whole package like PDS or Civil3D. **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** It’s a useful design software, comprehensive, you can buy as less or as much modules as you need to do your job. Great support team. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple to Complex Network modelling, rainfall runoff analysis, simple catchment modelling instead of river modelling software, Foul network design etc ### 18. Micro-drainage for Beginner **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** Micro-drainage is quite self-explanatory for a novice. Used to design soakaway drainage. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** No downsides found yet. Although was a bit confused as to how to undertake attenuation design, therefore use an alternative programme for this. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** MicroDrainage is used for designing soakaways. ### 19. Great product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** I like the 3D simulations for the flood events **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** The user interface could be a bit more friendly **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** Works great with pds for producing drawings **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Usually just drainage designs for residential developments and the benefits are that i know how the software works and can use it to my best abilities. ### 20. Microdrainage **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2020 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** Accuracy on calculations, menu and items **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** The use and combination of attenuation tanks. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Attention to maximum flow and flood ### 21. A superb and essential piece of software, but expensive to use its full capability **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2019 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** - Very user friendly, and some great guidance given in the user manuals - Huge range of applications and modules, which seem to be evolving in line with the developing needs of the industry - Some clever little tools allowing for quick changes and re-runs of modelling - Extremely helpful and knowledgeable support team who respond to queries very promptly **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** - It is still relatively cumbersome to work the interface between MicroDrainage modules and other software, e.g. AutoCAD, Civil 3D, etc. which cannot realistically be avoided when working on multi-disciplinary projects - Keeping up-to-date with changes to the software and improving one's capability of using each of the new applications as they are developed is both time consuming and expensive - As we have a company licence, the majority of the users are not aware of the full capabilities of the software and so either do not use it to its full extent or do not ask for other modules to be added to our licence - Little technical explanation given as to the reasoning behind certain default factors **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** - Listen to the free webinars that Innovyze provided in relation to the recent developments in their MicroDrainage software **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** - New drainage designs - Improving existing drainage designs - SuDS designs - Weir designs - Exceedance event flood modelling - Quick and easy method for modelling and simulating a range of engineering solutions to manage surface water ### 22. Quick, accurate and compliant design of foul and surface water networks **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mikhil U. | Assitant Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** Micro Drainage is a range of fully integrated modules, developed for the design and modelling of surface water and waste water systems. It is a user friendly interface, which helps to test designs against extreme weather patterns for climate change and automatically size drainage networks. It Include flow controls, infiltration systems and attenuation structures within one fully integrated hydraulic model **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** Sometimes it Shows Sentinel Key not found error and the same time software will crash without any notice. The changes to model which can cause a bit of more additional time to re-work. Also loading big files are a big challenge in this software. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is very useful software to Identify, understand and solve hydraulic problems within designs automatically, quickly and easily. We can easily model extreme rainfall by applying rainfall data directly to the terrain. Also, easy import and Exort. GIS data in a number of formats including .pwf, .csv, .txt, .xml and .asc. ### 23. Industry leading drainage software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2019 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** Ability to do both quick estimates and detailed designs. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** Lack of synchronicity with autism desk products. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Surface water storage issues to support planning applications. ### 24. It is very clear understanding drainage network design and analysis **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2019 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** Very helpfulfull design out put to 3D modeling **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** We can't draw a pipe network without using drawnet **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hydrology analysis ### 25. Great for Highway drainage design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaditya P. | Hydraulic Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** Microdrainage does what its supposed to do. great for drainage design and helps newbies like me with ease. Its integration with autocad is best. Also the SUDS options modelling are best in microdrainage. Can use it for small areas as well as large highway drainages like HS2. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** Not really dislike as this may be related to PC specs but handling of big size files can be improved which sometimes might crash the software. **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** Since I use it with for modelling and designing SUDS solutions, its works well with my softwares. GIS is important to me and this software delivers in proper way. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** The cost benefit analysis is great tool to help find out optimal solution to many of our problems. Also the integration with GIS data and AutoCAD is very useful and many other softwares will make this difficult compared to microdrainage. Also simulating rainfall events is very fast which saves time since this task takes most time in most other software. ### 26. Micro Drainage- UK water **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Keerthana S. | Engineer- Water, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** The best is the user friendly interface of the MicroDrainage and its ability to integrate with the CAD software's helping the designers to design with their own standards. one of the best is the automatically size drainage networks as well as designing of the stormwater and foul water systems graphically. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** The major disadvantage I felt is that when we load big files as well as when we gets an error MicroDrainage will crash in between with out any prior notification which make its really difficult to deal sometimes and the visual effects can be improved which will give more clarity as well as clear cut ideas to the users. **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** The friendly user interface which will even help the beginners to work with an ease without feeling this is something new. As a hydraulic modeler MicroDrainage helps to design, audit and model integrated sustainable drainage systems which inturn results in efficiently managed cost benefit model. If you are in search of a good software to SUDs you got one !. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** The easy import of CAD and GIS data which will reduce the time of the project. When we are in short of Infoworks ICM license we can use the MicroDrainage to understand how much volume of water is required for a pond with this much incoming water from a particular return period rain and apply that volume and level to our solutions instead of waiting for the license. ### 27. You want to be sustainable be in touch with MicroDrainage ! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** VISHNU K. | Graduate Engineer Water, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** The best is the user friendly interface of the MicroDrainage and its ability to integrate with the CAD software's helping the designers to design with their own standards. one of the best is the automatically size drainage networks as well as designing of the stormwater and foul water systems graphically. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** The major disadvantage I felt is that when we load big files as well as when we gets an error MicroDrainage will crash in between with out any prior notification which make its really difficult to deal sometimes and the visual effects can be improved which will give more clarity as well as clear cut ideas to the users. **Recommendations to others considering MicroDrainage:** The friendly user interface which will even help the beginners to work with an ease without feeling this is something new. As a hydraulic modeler MicroDrainage helps to design, audit and model integrated sustainable drainage systems which inturn results in efficiently managed cost benefit model. If you are in search of a good software to SUDs you got one !. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** The easy import of CAD and GIS data which will reduce the time of the project. When we are in short of Infoworks ICM license we can use the MicroDrainage to understand how much volume of water is required for a pond with this much incoming water from a particular return period rain and apply that volume and level to our solutions instead of waiting for the license. ### 28. Easy to use drainage design software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emily C. | Drainage Engineer, Civil Engineering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2015 **What do you like best about MicroDrainage?** Micro Drainage (Windes) is a great program for designing integrated drainage solutions. The program is able to design pipe networks, storage facilities and has flood modelling capabilities. It integrates well with AutoCAD and can output pipe schedules and long sections making it ideal for design on construction projects. **What do you dislike about MicroDrainage?** The program can become frustrating when making changes to pipe networks which can cause a bit of re-work and it would be ideal to be able to import information via a spreadsheet format into the program to save set up time. **What problems is MicroDrainage solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am currently using Micro Drainage for highway drainage design and it has proved useful to be able to input the full drainage solution (rainfall, pipe networks and storage facilities) into the one program to produce a more accurate design. The program also has an interface with AutoCAD and can import surfaces from CIvil3D which makes designing the drainage easier. ## MicroDrainage Discussions - [How do I use this software to design of Pumping stations?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/33022-how-do-i-use-this-software-to-design-of-pumping-stations) - 1 comment - [View MicroDrainage pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/microdrainage/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+03%3A21%3A45+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=ab977996-c194-47b1-a075-a53ca8e49824&secure%5Btoken%5D=c37c273340146810d9bf1ab4c215fa8ada2307040838c857ee7cf103b531b4d1&format=llm_user) ## MicroDrainage Features **Plan** - Documentation - Sequence - Annotate - Collaborate **Design** - 3D Modeling - 3D Rendering - Drawing - Editing **Construction** - Fabrication - Reinforcement - Clash Detection - Grading - Earthwork **Engineering** - Hydraulic engineering - Hydrologic engineering - Transportation engineering - Structural engineering ## Top MicroDrainage Alternatives - [Civil 3D](https://www.g2.com/products/civil-3d/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (288 reviews) - [MicroStation](https://www.g2.com/products/microstation/reviews) - 4.0/5.0 (388 reviews) - [ZWCAD](https://www.g2.com/products/zwcad/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (347 reviews)