Trevor English
Samer Muhandes
InfoDrainage 2025.2 is here and with it comes culvert analysis functionality, enhanced flexible reporting capabilities, and speed and simulation improvements. Our team of developers and product leaders have been hard at work not only developing the next generation of drainage design software, InfoDrainage, but also understanding what drainage designers around the world need in their design and hydraulic modeling tools.
In the last update, we delivered flexible reporting tools that makes drainage reporting in spreadsheet formats simple. This update iterates on that release, making it even easier to generate and customize the reports you need to get client buy-in or stakeholder approval. While flexible reporting was hugely requested by users – a feature we delivered on in InfoDrainage 2025.1, so too was culvert analysis. We’re happy to announce that InfoDrainage 2025.2 now has 57 different culvert types and full FHWA support for culvert analysis.
This is an important release for delivering the design and analysis tools you need, so let’s explore what’s new in more detail.
Culvert Analysis with InfoDrainage (FHWA)
Fifty seven. That’s the number of culverts we just added to InfoDrainage for analysis. This means that InfoDrainage 2025.2 enables you to accurately represent the true-to-reality hydraulic behavior of culverts of all various shapes and sizes, fully supporting the Federal Highway Administrations (FHWA) culvert analysis requirements and making utilizing InfoDrainage for US DOT projects easier than ever.
The new culvert analysis tools inside of the software are SWMM-based capabilities that include access to a comprehensive selection of culvert types, like circular, box, ellipses, arches, and various shapes and entrances. While drainage design tools of past, like drainage spreadsheets, often resulted in oversizing of infrastructure and overestimation of costs, these new tools inside of InfoDrainage enable more accurate and detailed modeling of culvert behavior, enhancing the overall drainage design process.
Enhanced flexible drainage reporting capabilities
We spoke briefly in our last post together about how flexible reporting capabilities inside of InfoDrainage improve efficiency and remove tedium from the drainage design process. Now available in InfoDrainage 2025.2 as a tech preview, we’ve rolled out new flexible reporting enhancements. The enhancements include a critical storm button to easily access key hydraulic modeling results and the ability to move columns in reports for proper ordering without manual editing. You can now also sort columns numerically and alphabetically, save and load templated reports, and even add attributes related to inlets and outlets like orifice diameter and weir crest levels. All these enhancements are aimed at making the drainage reporting process as efficient, flexible, and straightforward as possible.
Many of these improvements were the direct result of user suggestions following the last release. If you have thoughts on improving InfoDrainage, you’re encouraged to continue submitting feedback through our feedback portal. Our teams are eager to build the drainage design tools you need, so if InfoDrainage currently doesn’t have a key feature, let us know and we’ll get to work!
Other speed improvements in InfoDrainage 2025.2
To round out this release, we’ve also rolled out a number of speed improvements to make InfoDrainage run even faster and reduce RAM consumption. Primarily, we’ve switched off background 3D updates in the software which has improved RAM consumption and enhanced performance and speed. It may seem like a simple change, but it’s making big improvements. InfoDrainage 2025.2 will now consume less RAM when running, have a markedly faster performance, and allow you to utilize InfoDrainage on larger projects.
It’s important to note that 3D views remain available inside of InfoDrainage. We’ve simply updated the software to no longer continuously update with each change, making your experience smoother and more efficient. Essentially, it ensures that you can work on what you need to, how you need to, without compromising on the functionality of the 3D view.
Read the release notes and update
This latest release underscores our commitment to continually refining InfoDrainage, integrating best-in-class capabilities to ensure you have the tools you need to produce outstanding drainage system designs. Ready to update?
- You can update InfoDrainage via the Autodesk Access app, or, if you utilize a Thales License, from our legacy support site.
- Go deeper into this release with our product release notes.
- Stay up to date on what’s coming next with our high-level Water Solutions Roadmap.
- Need help getting started? Explore our InfoDrainage free learning series.
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