Drain Design Tools When designing drains, there are several aspects that you will find that are across all the different Drain Design tools.  The most important feature of the drain design tools that you will find will be the cross section found at the bottom of the screen.  The cross section displays all the ups and downs along the drain surface. The cross section is made up of three different lines. The  Red  line is the proposed design that you are currently working on. The  Blue  line is the existing surface that has been surveyed. The  Yellow   dotted line is the current design surface, when starting a new design this will be overlapped with the Blue line and when a design is applied it will overlap with the Red line UNLESS a second design is being made on top of that. The  Green  dotted line shows any markers along the drain path.