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Transcript
00:01
[MUSIC PLAYING]
00:14
RUSS NICLOY: Now I'm going to move this data from InfraWorks
00:17
over to Civil 3D.
00:19
That way, the road design portion of this
00:23
can be started and be looked at.
00:26
To do this, I'll go to the Present and Share
00:28
tab of the ribbon, to the Share panel, the IMX Export--
00:32
it's the middle icon there.
00:34
If you ever want to see the names of the icons,
00:36
click the panel pulldown and it is in the pulldowns as well.
00:40
I'll click Export IMX.
00:43
And I am going to bring in the whole model,
00:45
although you could bring in just the part
00:47
that you're concerned with.
00:48
I kept the project small enough that I'll
00:50
bring in the entire model in this case.
00:53
I do want to check that the Coordinate
00:54
System is set correctly.
00:56
And I do also want to set the Target
00:58
File that I'm going to here.
00:60
I'm going to leave this named IM Export.
01:02
It's an IMX file.
01:04
As long as I keep that name consistent,
01:05
I'll be able to return to it later.
01:07
I'll click Export.
01:09
And this does take a second or two
01:11
as it brings all that data in.
01:13
This IMX file is going to bring in planning roads,
01:17
if you have any, and we do have some planning roads.
01:20
Those will not have profiles to them.
01:22
But the component road that we have for our bridge,
01:25
it will bring in the profile for that, as well,
01:27
as well as the corridor shape and design.
01:31
It will be a basic design based on what's known by InfraWorks,
01:36
but it will bring it over to Civil 3D for work.
01:39
It also brings over water as polylines,
01:42
just to mark its location, and surface information--
01:46
the existing ground information--
01:48
that we're looking at here around our project.
01:50
And when it stops running, then it's ready to go.
01:55
You could continue on in InfraWorks
01:57
and send the IMX file to who the road designer is.
02:01
The road designer, with Civil 3D open,
02:03
it's going to go to the InfraWorks tab, the Import
02:06
panel, Import IMX.
02:10
And then, in here, come over to our project location,
02:16
and find our IMX Export file.
02:19
I'll click Open.
02:22
And it will start to bring that data in.
02:27
And there you can see our data.
02:28
Now, it looks a lot larger than our project area.
02:31
That's because the river area was a little bit longer
02:34
and because it was in the captured area.
02:36
It doesn't break things, it just drops them in.
02:39
Now that being said, I don't necessarily
02:41
want the water polylines.
02:42
So I'm going to select one.
02:44
Right-click, select Similar, and you'll
02:46
see all of those highlight.
02:47
I'll hit Delete and delete those out.
02:50
There are also some alignments I don't need.
02:52
The road that's at the bottom of this valley here,
02:55
I'll just select on that alignment and delete that out.
02:58
There are some others by the rest stop
03:00
that's over to the west here.
03:03
I'm not going to change that.
03:05
You can see-- actually, I'm going
03:06
to also change the existing ground here
03:08
from the Contour style.
03:10
I'll right-click Surface Properties
03:13
and change it from the 2 and 10, to the Border Only.
03:16
That way, we'll be able to see where
03:18
the surface is, but the contour lines won't
03:21
get in the way of what we're doing with our actual design.
03:24
We want to show here--
03:26
we've got two things that I want to point out.
03:28
First of all, this is the corridor.
03:30
The corridor is based on InfraWorks and the roadway
03:33
that we designed there, and the bridges here.
03:36
We're not going to be editing the bridge in Civil 3D,
03:38
but it lets us see where that is and what
03:41
the construction is like.
03:44
I am very interested in what's going on with the corridor,
03:46
however.
03:47
I'm going to zoom back a little bit.
03:48
And I happen to see it to the south here.
03:51
There is the assembly that is used to build
03:55
the corridor in Civil 3D.
03:56
It's borrowing this information from InfraWorks.
03:59
And here, you can see, we've got those jersey barriers
04:02
marking the sides, but we have our lanes--
04:04
we have two lanes-- and a shoulder as I come in here.
04:08
And it does have daylight tools on the sides.
Video transcript
00:01
[MUSIC PLAYING]
00:14
RUSS NICLOY: Now I'm going to move this data from InfraWorks
00:17
over to Civil 3D.
00:19
That way, the road design portion of this
00:23
can be started and be looked at.
00:26
To do this, I'll go to the Present and Share
00:28
tab of the ribbon, to the Share panel, the IMX Export--
00:32
it's the middle icon there.
00:34
If you ever want to see the names of the icons,
00:36
click the panel pulldown and it is in the pulldowns as well.
00:40
I'll click Export IMX.
00:43
And I am going to bring in the whole model,
00:45
although you could bring in just the part
00:47
that you're concerned with.
00:48
I kept the project small enough that I'll
00:50
bring in the entire model in this case.
00:53
I do want to check that the Coordinate
00:54
System is set correctly.
00:56
And I do also want to set the Target
00:58
File that I'm going to here.
00:60
I'm going to leave this named IM Export.
01:02
It's an IMX file.
01:04
As long as I keep that name consistent,
01:05
I'll be able to return to it later.
01:07
I'll click Export.
01:09
And this does take a second or two
01:11
as it brings all that data in.
01:13
This IMX file is going to bring in planning roads,
01:17
if you have any, and we do have some planning roads.
01:20
Those will not have profiles to them.
01:22
But the component road that we have for our bridge,
01:25
it will bring in the profile for that, as well,
01:27
as well as the corridor shape and design.
01:31
It will be a basic design based on what's known by InfraWorks,
01:36
but it will bring it over to Civil 3D for work.
01:39
It also brings over water as polylines,
01:42
just to mark its location, and surface information--
01:46
the existing ground information--
01:48
that we're looking at here around our project.
01:50
And when it stops running, then it's ready to go.
01:55
You could continue on in InfraWorks
01:57
and send the IMX file to who the road designer is.
02:01
The road designer, with Civil 3D open,
02:03
it's going to go to the InfraWorks tab, the Import
02:06
panel, Import IMX.
02:10
And then, in here, come over to our project location,
02:16
and find our IMX Export file.
02:19
I'll click Open.
02:22
And it will start to bring that data in.
02:27
And there you can see our data.
02:28
Now, it looks a lot larger than our project area.
02:31
That's because the river area was a little bit longer
02:34
and because it was in the captured area.
02:36
It doesn't break things, it just drops them in.
02:39
Now that being said, I don't necessarily
02:41
want the water polylines.
02:42
So I'm going to select one.
02:44
Right-click, select Similar, and you'll
02:46
see all of those highlight.
02:47
I'll hit Delete and delete those out.
02:50
There are also some alignments I don't need.
02:52
The road that's at the bottom of this valley here,
02:55
I'll just select on that alignment and delete that out.
02:58
There are some others by the rest stop
03:00
that's over to the west here.
03:03
I'm not going to change that.
03:05
You can see-- actually, I'm going
03:06
to also change the existing ground here
03:08
from the Contour style.
03:10
I'll right-click Surface Properties
03:13
and change it from the 2 and 10, to the Border Only.
03:16
That way, we'll be able to see where
03:18
the surface is, but the contour lines won't
03:21
get in the way of what we're doing with our actual design.
03:24
We want to show here--
03:26
we've got two things that I want to point out.
03:28
First of all, this is the corridor.
03:30
The corridor is based on InfraWorks and the roadway
03:33
that we designed there, and the bridges here.
03:36
We're not going to be editing the bridge in Civil 3D,
03:38
but it lets us see where that is and what
03:41
the construction is like.
03:44
I am very interested in what's going on with the corridor,
03:46
however.
03:47
I'm going to zoom back a little bit.
03:48
And I happen to see it to the south here.
03:51
There is the assembly that is used to build
03:55
the corridor in Civil 3D.
03:56
It's borrowing this information from InfraWorks.
03:59
And here, you can see, we've got those jersey barriers
04:02
marking the sides, but we have our lanes--
04:04
we have two lanes-- and a shoulder as I come in here.
04:08
And it does have daylight tools on the sides.
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