Everything new in Autodesk’s desktop hydraulic modeling software 2025 releases

The latest 2025 releases of all of our desktop hydraulic modeling solutions are out, and with them, there are a ton of new features waiting to help you in your workflows and processes.

The Autodesk Water team has been hard at work developing solutions to real-world challenges you face in your day-to-day work and implementing those solutions inside of our hydraulic modeling tools. In this post, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about what’s new in the 2025 model year of all your favorite hydraulic modeling software tools, along with a survey of the great features released over the last year.

InfoWorks ICM 2025

InfoWorks ICM 2025, our network-wide catchment modeling, planning, and design software, brings with it several enhancements oriented around the cloud. For one, you can now access simulations results directly in the cloud. Scalar and spatial time-series data can now connect to cloud networks as well. Alongside new 2D culvert modeling tools and enhanced simulation engine updates, your hydrologic catchment modeling capabilities just got a big boost.

However, if you haven’t updated your software since last year, there’s other features you’ll find in the 2025 version to get you excited. Over the year, our team launched:

• XP Importer:  You can now move an existing XPSWMM model into InfoWorks ICM in the matter of a few clicks with our XP Importer.
• CNSWMM infiltration routing:  This feature has been introduced to directly help improve the use cases of several customers moving between CNSWMM-based models and InfoWorks ICM-based networks via an improved CNSWMM infiltration option.
• Integration with Civil 3D:  Civil 3D designers can now easily share their designs with hydraulic modelers. You can export a sanitary and storm sewer pipe network into InfoWorks ICM, run simulations on the network model, and make adjustments where needed. These changes in InfoWorks ICM can then be transferred back to the model in Civil 3D, streamlining the planning and design process.
• Support for FEH22 rainfall:  InfoWorks ICM now supports the newest Flood Estimation Handbook (FEH) 2022 design rainfall, allowing the use of updated design rainfall methodology for the UK.
• ICMExchange API:  The powerful ICMExchange API, which provides the ability for users to automate routine tasks through Ruby scripting for things like data import, running simulations, and exporting results is now included with an Autodesk InfoWorks ICM Ultimate subscription.

Do you use Civil 3D? Access the InfoWorks ICM export functionality from the Add-ins tab.

Among these marquee features, there were a number of other improvements to InfoWorks ICM over the past year, which you can explore more about on our InfoWorks ICM help documentation pages.

Also, our support teams launched the InfoWorks ICM Technical Information Hub, your one-stop-shop for every bit of documentation and support you’ll possibly need for InfoWorks ICM.

InfoDrainage 2025

InfoDrainage 2025, our site-specific drainage design software, had an exciting year of releases filled with AI, cloud improvements, and integrations with Civil 3D. InfoDrainage 2025 brings enhanced interoperability with Civil 3D and more interactivity with machine learning Deluge flood models as the focus features for this annual release.

But it’s worth noting that this version includes all of the features released over the last year, which you might have missed. Over the last year, the InfoDrainage team launched:

• Plotting HGL and EGL:  New features that allow users to plot the Hydraulic Grade Line (HGL) and Energy Grade Line (EGL) within the long section of the drainage network.
• Part-family awareness in InfoDrainage:  You can now specify materials for pipes and structures/manholes to control the cost and durability directly within your project.
• Civil 3D interoperability:  Our team of drainage experts and product developers have made it their mission to solve this industry challenge through expanding integrations between InfoDrainage, Autodesk’s drainage design solution, and Civil 3D, the world’s foremost civil design software.
• HEC-22 Inlet improvements:  We extended the HEC-22 inlet calculations provided by SWMM5 to increase their usability in the design and sizing context. Our improved HEC-22 inlet calculations now account for the grate type and the throat angle, both critical factors affecting water inflow rates into the inlet.
• Clash Detection Analysis:  The Clash Detection Analysis tool is becoming an essential asset for intricate drainage system designers. It is specifically engineered to identify and visualize “clashes” or intersections between different components within your design, such as pipes, channels, or other structures.
• Cloud analysis:  InfoDrainage has achieved a significant milestone in its journey towards enhanced operational excellence: the migration of our rainfall and runoff services to the cloud. This transition enhances operational resilience through a robust, multi-regional data center architecture, thereby mitigating the risks associated with hardware failure and local power outages. Additionally, our cloud-based platform offers unprecedented scalability, seamlessly accommodating both small-scale and large-scale projects.
• Machine Learning Deluge:  Traditional flood mapping often involves complex simulations that can be computationally intensive and time-consuming. Our new ML Deluge tool addresses this issue by utilizing advanced algorithms that quickly analyze water depth across a site. The result is a rapid and accurate flood map that provides essential data in a fraction of the time typically required.

The biggest addition: The ML Deluge Tool.

You can explore everything new with InfoDrainage in the last year on our InfoDrainage help documentation site. Additionally, our support teams launched the InfoDrainage Technical Information Hub to serve as your go-to destination for any technical questions you might have.

InfoWater Pro 2025

InfoWater Pro, our ArcGIS-based water distribution modeling software, recently launched an exciting enhanced integration with our Info360 cloud analytics tools in the 2025 release, but the development teams have been hard at work over the year delivering new features like:

• Water quality batch runs in the cloud:  We’ve enabled batch runs in the cloud, meaning that you can run many simulations in parallel, getting high-quality simulation results back at the same time.
• MSX 2.0 engine upgrade:  The latest release also brings access to the latest MSX 2.0 engine. This new multi-species engine extension to EPANET grants access to new capabilities for water modelers like diffusivity and some new numerical improvements in the model.
• Cloud simulations for Fire Flow:  Fire Flow analyses can now be parallelized in the cloud for rapid simulations of many hydrants at once. This can save you significant time when running large models.
• Surge analysis with InfoSurge:  InfoSurge, our app for transient analysis, used to be a paid add-on to InfoWater Pro. It is now included as part of an InfoWater Pro Autodesk subscription, which means many more hydraulic modelers can now simulate surge events and protect their water systems.
• Improved performance with GIS Gateway:  Many of our customers rely on GIS Gateway, so we focused on updating the geometry of objects while running the GIS Gateway. If you’re one of those customers, you should notice that this runs much faster than before.

Water distribution modeling for Esri ArcGIS users got much easier with these new features. You can read more about everything released over the last year in our release notes. Additionally, be sure to bookmark the InfoWater Pro Technical Information Hub that was also released this year.

InfoWorks WS Pro 2025

InfoWorks WS Pro, our standalone water distribution modeling software, delivered a powerful new integration with our Info360 apps (just like InfoWater Pro), with the 2025 release.

Some of the newest details of InfoWorks WS Pro 2025.

This past year our development team also made great headway in bolstering the power and ease of use of this water distribution modeling tool, releasing:

• Model diagnostics:  Finding and interpreting data in your model just got even better with the introduction of Diagnostic Tables. Diagnostic information for each simulation run’s log file is now available in easier to read and understand tables that better allow reviewing, sorting, mapping, and running queries.
• Demand Area Analysis:  As you work to model demands within your hydraulic model, you now have the option to “scale existing demands” for the Demand Area Analysis function.
• Reserved runs in the cloud:  Reserved runs in the cloud allow quick and easy exploration during model build or calibration. Additionally, in response to user requests, we added functionality that allows you to test simulations with unsaved changes in your model.
• Easier live data configuration:  Connecting with live data has become increasingly important for modeling teams and has become a priority across the platform. The InfoWorks WS Pro team has improved the workflow of using live data feeds while also removing the need to configure redundant live data points.
• InfoWorks TS in the cloud:  InfoWorks transient analysis is now fully supported in the cloud. Additionally, you can run multiple scenarios simultaneously, meaning that you can run nearly unlimited surge event analyses in the cloud, as needed.
• Generalized multi-run improvements:  The improvements mean that InfoWorks WS Pro now enables criticality analysis based on isolation areas. You can then also join results to maps based on any available field.

You can learn more about the fantastic features our WS Pro development team released over the year in the product documentation. Also, check out the InfoWorks WS Pro Technical Information Hub. Like all of these technical hubs, you can sign up for regular emails to keep updated on important releases.

The year ahead…

There’s never been a better – or easier – time to embrace digital transformation, machine learning, cloud computing, and powerful hydraulic modeling tools than now. As we’ve delivered these features to users over the last year, we’ve heard fantastic feedback. Feedback like Denver Water, who said their fire flow “simulation times went from over 1.5 hours to 5 minutes” when utilizing InfoWater Pro’s new fire flow in the cloud functionality.

These features aren’t just built for large public utilities. We also serve small businesses and consulting customers, like Mira Chokshi, Principal Engineer at Climate Adaptive Systems, who shared her thoughts about the convenience of adopting cloud simulations: “I absolutely love the subscription model use for a small business like me and the use of cloud computing for setting up simulations.”

It was a very productive year! As we look back on these user-driven feature enhancements and the industry-wide outcomes we were able to achieve with our desktop hydraulic modeling products, it’s time to look ahead to what’s on the roadmap for the coming year. Did you know that Autodesk keeps a public Water Solutions Roadmap of everything under consideration, in development, and launched? Did you also know that a significant portion of our features come in through customer feedback from our Autodesk Water feedback portal? Be sure to look at what’s on the road ahead as we continue to integrate cloud, simulation improvements, modeling integrations, and Autodesk AI in the coming year.

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