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Status Needs review
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 23, 2024

Improve Reporting for Drainage Reports

Overall, throughout the years I've been disappointed with the report compilation that Bentley generates.

It's currently very cumbersome to generate a readable report of the computations so that they can be included in drainage reports.


The "Custom Reports" tool is often incredible tedious to set up, and does not yield readable reports.


My current workflow is to copy information from flextables into an excel file that is formatted to display computations in a readable format. We have used this because simply clicking the 'report' button in a flextable generates a report that is impossible to read if the flextable is too wide and/or tall to fit on a sheet of paper. But there are several other bits of information that are just poorly formatted when generating Bentley reports. Information that could be better formatted are Calculation Options, Rainfall Data, etc...


It would also be nice to be able to easily print a the drainage model (nodes, links, areas) to PDF. So that a schematic model can be printed and included in the computations. Schematic prints of the drainage system are typically easier to read than looking at several drainage plan sheets to see entire drainage system. Currently in CivilStorm, printing the model to PDF results in a horrible looking PDF of the model.


Better reporting should be expanded to all of Bentley's software: CivilStorm, StormCAD, etc....

Civil Product Used OpenSite Designer, OpenRoads Designer, OpenRail Designer