RiverCAD® is the leading software that incorporates HEC-RAS and HEC-2 in AutoCAD. It includes a range of features and capabilities that automates HEC-RAS modeling tasks. Automatic cross section cutting, mapping of roughness values and bank station locations, floodplain mapping, floodway determination, bridges, culverts, and more. RiverCAD is used by over 2,500 organizations worldwide such as URS, Jacobs, CH2M Hill, AMEC, HDR, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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RiverCAD Case Studies
Challenge: Streamline modeling by moving beyond manual HEC-RAS and HEC-2 methods, while still providing the same standard HEC input and output files that government review agencies require.
Solution: The firm automates HEC-RAS and HEC-2 within AutoCAD using RiverCAD, so that HEC input and output files can seamlessly be shared with clients, county review agencies and FEMA.
Challenge: Streamline taking topographic data to HEC-RAS, and then making floodplain or floodway maps.
Solution: With RiverCAD, the Hawks staff produces floodplain and floodway mapping projects from start to finish – all within AutoCAD.
Allen Consulting Engineers, Inc. is a civil engineering & surveying company at Mesa, AZ. Clinton J. Garner, P.E. used RiverCAD for civil engineering project at Allen Consulting Engineers and found that RiverCAD has been a great time saver with simple and complex HEC-RAS models.
Challenge: Minimize HEC-RAS modeling time and agency review time in order to keep projects on track.
Solution: RiverCAD replaces manual cross section cutting and data input by automating HEC-RAS and HEC-2 within AutoCAD.
Challenge: With frequent HEC-RAS floodplain projects, the firm
needed an efficient, accurate and automated modeling solution.
Solution: In just a couple of clicks, engineers can generate a
finished FEMA floodplain map, and easily produce the
documentation and mapping that clients and FEMA require.
Challenge: Roche needed to model a major river diversion as part of a highway expansion project in Quebec, taking into consideration a number of native species habitats.
Solution: RiverCAD incorporates HEC-RAS directly into AutoCAD, eliminating manual input of 150 cross sections and automating floodplain mapping.
Challenge: McKim & Creed modeled rivers manually using U.S. Army Corps of Engineers HEC-RAS, which resulted in a time-consuming, error-prone approach.
Solution: RiverCAD enables HEC-RAS to run directly within AutoCAD, and provides additional engineering automation capabilities to HEC-RAS and AutoCAD.
