Any referenced datasets can be downloaded from "Module downloads" in the module overview.
Transcript
00:00
[MUSIC PLAYING]
00:12
SHAWN HERRING: Hello, and welcome
00:13
to the introduction to InfraWorks for Road and Highway
00:16
Design Accelerator.
00:18
The Autodesk Accelerators are designed
00:20
to help your team stay ahead of the curve with the latest
00:22
workflows.
00:23
These include courses, videos, and live coaching, which
00:26
is what we're here to do today.
00:29
You can see a full list of topics in the Customer Success
00:31
Hub.
00:35
I'll give you a moment here to read the Safe Harbor Statement.
00:38
We may show things that are talking
00:40
about future or planned developments,
00:43
and these statements made in this presentation
00:45
are being made as of this time, in the date
00:47
of the live presentation.
00:49
My name is Shawn Herring and I'm happy to be with you today.
00:52
A little bit about my background,
00:54
I'm based here in Utah.
00:55
I've got about 15 years or so in the civil engineering space,
00:59
and mostly in Latin development and heavy infrastructure.
01:03
I've spent the last 12 or so years in the AEC marketplace,
01:06
specializing in Autodesk infrastructure tools
01:09
and helping adopt and expand and implement the Autodesk
01:13
portfolio into companies.
01:15
So let's take a look at what we'll learn today.
01:18
We'll first start off with analyzing and optimizing
01:21
our roads, taking a look at sight distance
01:23
analysis, quantities, optimization, and simulation.
01:28
We'll talk about where you can go to learn more
01:30
about these things.
01:32
We'll then talk about the types of roads component roads,
01:35
alignments and profiles, and exchanging that data
01:37
within Civil 3d, and then talk about ways
01:41
to take this beyond InfraWorks, getting into design
01:45
visualization, creating and sharing, and maybe using
01:47
some additional software, just to take that to the next level.
01:56
So one last time, let's take a look
01:57
at the model-centric design workflow that we've discussed.
02:00
We always start again with our existing context,
02:03
Model Builder, GIS data, whatever
02:04
it is that we have to supplement that model.
02:08
We move into our design, whether we're
02:10
mixing in some Civil 3d, some AutoCAD, some Revit,
02:13
some other GIS data.
02:16
We further our design in InfraWorks using
02:18
component roads, analysis.
02:20
We look at the presentations when
02:21
it comes to storyboards or snapshots, and then
02:25
some further optimization and analysis of watersheds,
02:28
volumes, and so forth.
02:32
Here in this session we're going to take a look at analyzing
02:35
and optimizing our roads.
02:38
So, InfraWorks has many options for visual analysis
02:41
for your component roads.
02:42
And this has to be a component road,
02:44
but there's a sight distance analysis.
02:46
It helps you identify the blind spots, any failure zones, where
02:50
sight may be compromised, maybe you've got a building or even
02:52
trees or something in there.
02:54
You can identify those by running a sight distance
02:57
analysis.
02:59
You get several colors, very good visual graphics
03:01
that tell you, kind of, what's going on.
03:03
You get the light blue that indicates
03:05
the zones, where it's clear.
03:06
You get the yellow which typically indicates the site
03:08
failure zones.
03:10
Red is obstructions, so that could be a building,
03:14
it could be a sign, it could be anything.
03:17
And then you get the darkened areas,
03:19
that is where the site is compromised.
03:21
You can hover over those and it tells you more.
03:26
And then when you get to an intersection,
03:28
so let's say we have an intersection, a four-way,
03:30
a T-intersection, whatever that is.
03:31
You can do a site distance analysis there
03:35
and you can tell at what type of traffic control may be.
03:38
Is it a yield, is a stop, is it no control?
03:41
Are you making a left turn or are you making a right turn?
03:43
And just as the other sight distance analysis shows,
03:46
you get the different colors that mean different things,
03:48
or the light blue indicates clear visibility,
03:51
yellow is failure, and red is obstructions.
03:54
You can perform earthwork quantities right in InfraWorks,
03:57
so you can view the Cut and Fill volumes
03:59
for the entire component road.
04:01
You can even specify a station and get
04:03
the volumes between that, or you can select multiple roads.
04:07
There are several methods.
04:08
It uses the Average End Area method,
04:10
and then in the intersections or roundabouts
04:12
it uses a Surface Comparison.
04:15
You can export that out via CSV report, pretty slick reports.
04:20
Materials, quantities, you can calculate, view, and generate
04:23
reports from materials based on your component road.
04:26
You can select that component road, and again, station ranges
04:29
or area of interest.
04:31
The road component can give you the total length and area.
04:34
As far as bridges go, you can get concrete and steel,
04:37
utilities, other model features such as city furniture
04:41
or decorations, hydrants, trees, whatever those decorations
04:45
that you put in there.
04:46
And then 3D model counts.
04:48
There's two different optimization options
04:50
in InfraWorks.
04:51
There's a Profile Optimization and a Corridor Optimization.
04:55
Those optimizations are going to help
04:57
you determine the optimal horizontal and vertical roadway
04:60
geometry.
05:01
The Corridor Optimization can take a lot more into account,
05:04
avoidance zones, anything that's undesirable,
05:08
topo, based on a horizontal alignment,
05:10
and kind of give you the best fit analysis of that corridor
05:14
and that profile location.
05:17
So, two optimizations, Corridor Optimization,
05:20
Profile Optimization.
05:21
They're both Cloud RAN.
05:22
They'll give you back a report, an emailed report,
05:25
a PDF report.
05:26
And you can always update your model based on that data.
05:31
There's also Traffic Simulation.
05:32
You can use that Traffic Simulation tool
05:34
to analyze traffic flow throughout your intersections,
05:37
display color-coded traffic analysis results,
05:40
and generate traffic simulation animations to play
05:43
in your model.
05:44
There's a Traffic Analyst panel that will pop up,
05:47
they'll bring it up.
05:48
You can input any type of data that you
05:49
have in there, vehicle types, matrices,
05:53
driver types, all sorts of variables there
05:55
to give you more realistic traffic analysis.
06:00
And then you also have Mobility Simulation.
06:04
The Mobility Simulation is an integrated engine directly
06:08
in InfraWorks.
06:09
You can use that Mobility Simulation to create animations
06:12
of transit areas, parking, people walking around,
06:17
how they're moving, how they're acting in certain areas, kind
06:21
of a taxi-mode modeling.
06:22
So, there's some key performance indicators,
06:25
like persons per hour, level of service,
06:28
economic and environmental assessments,
06:31
all sorts of stuff you can perform here in InfraWorks
06:34
using the Mobility Simulation .
06:39
And where do you go to get some more information about that?
06:42
One of the best places to find information, where
06:45
you can take a look at a video or you can further your skills,
06:47
is to go out to customersuccess.autodesk.com
06:51
and you can find information around all these InfraWorks
06:53
models that we're going over.
06:58
Next up, let's take a look at exchanging data
07:00
between InfraWorks and Civil 3D.
07:05
So let's take a further look in this model-centric design
07:08
workflow.
07:09
We've already gone through some of this stuff here,
07:11
so, existing content to our conceptual design.
07:14
But now we get further in our detailed design
07:16
where we're using Civil 3D to adjust alignments, adjust
07:20
profiles, adjust our corridor models, maybe our drainage.
07:24
Also the bridges, we can adjust our bridges.
07:26
We can make some changes in both InfraWorks and Civil 3D.
07:30
And we can also send this stuff out to Revit
07:32
or use other applications.
07:35
And that design validation and communication,
07:38
that bi-directional workflow, is key.
07:40
With Civil 3D, you've got IMX, Shapefile, SDF, back and forth
07:43
all day long there.
07:45
You can also connect directly to a Civil 3D model.
07:49
InfraWorks can be imported, exported to 3DS Max,
07:54
back and forth between Civil 3D and InfraWorks
08:01
So everything that you see here has this ability
08:04
to work with each other in this Autodesk ecosystem.
08:08
So let's take a little bit further
08:09
look on how that happens.
08:12
Guys, three simple steps in this data exchange workflow.
08:15
Coming from InfraWorks to Civil
08:19
either way, bringing that roadway geometry and corridor
08:22
model back into InfraWorks from Civil 3D
08:26
and then linking the data between those two programs,
08:29
enabling InfraWorks models to be updated
08:31
throughout the detailed design.
08:33
So if you're still making some changes in Civil 3D,
08:35
somebody may be over here modeling in InfraWorks,
08:38
you can still have those changes reflected in InfraWorks,
08:41
if set up properly.
08:44
A few things to be mindful of, and this is key.
08:48
So if Civil 3D and InfraWorks are installed,
08:50
you can use the local import in InfraWorks to import Civil 3D.
08:54
That's just found on the InfraWorks tab in Civil 3D
08:57
and you go to Open Model.
09:01
If Civil 3D is not installed, you
09:03
can use IMX to transfer the Civil 3D objects.
09:06
So I can export out from Civil 3D
09:08
and IMX file and maybe send that to somebody else that's
09:11
doing the modeling and they can import the IMX file.
09:14
And then if InfraWorks is not installed,
09:16
you can also use IMX to transfer InfraWorks data out
09:20
of InfraWorks.
09:22
And then the product versions, if they don't match,
09:24
your only option is to use IMX.
09:27
So ideally you want 2022, both Civil 3D and InfraWorks.
09:32
But if you do have different versions
09:34
there's a way to work between the two,
09:35
but you do have to import, export IMX.
09:41
Coordinate systems, Model Builder creates the LL84,
09:45
lat/long 84 coordinate system on default.
09:47
Civil 3D will use a projected coordinate system.
09:51
So typically, you will know your coordinate system
09:54
that you want this project to be in,
09:56
and you can change that at any time in InfraWorks.
09:59
So if you don't change it on the Creation and Model Builder,
10:02
don't worry about it, you can always
10:04
go into the model settings and adjust that coordinate system.
10:07
It's going to re-project, which then, Civil 3D,
10:10
InfraWorks going to work even better back and forth.
10:13
It's always a good idea to have the same unit type.
10:16
A couple more items to be mindful of is the behaviour
10:19
of the alignment and profile entity types between Civil 3D
10:22
and InfraWorks.
10:24
InfraWorks uses pre-defined style rules
10:26
to display the Civil 3D data.
10:28
The Drainage Design for InfraWorks
10:30
uses a default part catalogue with component object mapping
10:34
for the pipe connectors.
10:38
And that roundabout workflow, going from InfraWorks
10:40
to Civil 3D.
10:41
That data is exchanged really easily,
10:43
and you can go from your alignment's profile's corridors
10:47
and see how those look in Civil 3D
10:50
and see what you get in Civil
10:53
and what you get in InfraWorks.
10:55
So you can see, for example here, on the left side,
10:59
in Civil 3D we're getting alignments, corridors,
11:01
profiles, bridge models.
11:04
The roundabout is a detailed corridor model
11:06
when brought into Civil 3D.
11:10
And that bridge design is a 3D solid, but their parametric 3D
11:13
solids, those components can either stay in AutoCAD
11:17
for further detailing, or you could even bring that
11:19
into Revit for detailed-- some fine detail-detailing
11:22
of that bridge.
11:24
Now, let's talk a little bit about the design visualization.
11:27
Our current situation, this is really
11:28
typical across a lot of companies,
11:31
we go from a CAD-output to a visualization.
11:34
There is no in-between.
11:35
There's no middleman there to kind of help
11:37
streamline that workflow.
11:38
We go from AutoCAD, or we go from Civil.
11:40
We go from whatever it is straight into, say,
11:48
And there's a lot of data loss, and there's
11:50
a lot of time lost over anything else there,
11:53
it's because you're pretty much re-doing everything.
11:55
The exchange isn't as smooth as you like,
11:58
and so it's going from CAD straight to the visualization
12:01
team.
12:03
So what about introducing a specialist, a design viz
12:07
specialist, whatever you want to call them.
12:09
A lot of companies, especially bigger companies,
12:11
have individuals-- or they have groups or divisions, that
12:15
are just design specialists.
12:17
They may not be engineers, they may not be drafters, designers,
12:20
they may not know much about the industry as a whole.
12:23
But they know visualization.
12:26
You can get somebody in there that-- he's, maybe
12:29
he or she's a gamer and they are really immersed in those gaming
12:32
engines and just know how to put on a really compelling show
12:37
and take your data to the next level.
12:40
So not a bad idea, that if you are
12:43
getting into this, if you're new or getting into visualization,
12:46
or if you've been doing it, to really find that specialist,
12:50
find that special person or that special group,
12:53
and allow them to do what they do,
12:56
and while you kind of focus on the design and do what you do.
13:01
And by that, that's kind of adding
13:02
the design into the visualization
13:05
by using InfraWorks.
13:06
That's adding that middleman, in a way, to where we go from CAD.
13:11
But we're not just going from CAD to visualization.
13:13
We're going from CAD to, say, InfraWorks,
13:15
where we're doing some design in there,
13:17
or we started in InfraWorks, even.
13:19
And we went from InfraWorks, to CAD, to InfraWorks.
13:22
And then taking that amount of information, the CAD
13:26
output, the InfraWorks output, that presentation quality
13:30
model that you already have, and just
13:33
take it a step further into the full visualization
13:36
tool of, say, a 3DS Max.
13:40
So, just adding that word design to the visualization,
13:42
because in InfraWorks you really are.
13:44
You're doing more of the design, you're
13:46
doing more of that visualization than maybe just
13:48
a CAD individual would.
13:51
And you're doing more design than just a visualization,
13:54
or a 3DS Max expert would, kind of
13:57
help bridging that gap between CAD and visualization.
14:03
And then you want to take it beyond InfraWorks.
14:05
There's a whole new world out there.
14:06
If you haven't experienced the VR/AR, if you haven't by now,
14:10
you've been asleep for a while there because VR is everywhere,
14:14
AR is everywhere.
14:16
And you can do that, that process to go from Civil 3D
14:20
to InfraWorks, or InfraWorks to Civil, to Max design,
14:24
but just taking it past Max design
14:26
into a program like Unity, and there
14:27
are several others out there, but take it into Unity
14:30
and put on that interactive experience for your client.
14:35
Some people can't see a 2D set of plans
14:38
and understand really how that site is going to look.
14:42
Those same people can take a look
14:44
at a site and a fly-through and get a better idea.
14:47
But strap a headset to their face
14:50
and throw that in a gamer experience or VR experience
14:53
and let them virtually walk that site,
14:56
takes your projects to a whole new level.
14:59
There's a lot of resources out there.
15:01
I recommend going out to the Customer Success Hub
15:03
where you can take a look at the courses and the learning paths.
15:08
wanted to accomplish for that week, that month.
15:11
There's recorded coaching sessions.
15:13
There's a lot of live coaching topics out there.
15:16
Just go to customersuccess.autodesk.com
15:19
and take a look, see what you can do.
00:00
[MUSIC PLAYING]
00:12
SHAWN HERRING: Hello, and welcome
00:13
to the introduction to InfraWorks for Road and Highway
00:16
Design Accelerator.
00:18
The Autodesk Accelerators are designed
00:20
to help your team stay ahead of the curve with the latest
00:22
workflows.
00:23
These include courses, videos, and live coaching, which
00:26
is what we're here to do today.
00:29
You can see a full list of topics in the Customer Success
00:31
Hub.
00:35
I'll give you a moment here to read the Safe Harbor Statement.
00:38
We may show things that are talking
00:40
about future or planned developments,
00:43
and these statements made in this presentation
00:45
are being made as of this time, in the date
00:47
of the live presentation.
00:49
My name is Shawn Herring and I'm happy to be with you today.
00:52
A little bit about my background,
00:54
I'm based here in Utah.
00:55
I've got about 15 years or so in the civil engineering space,
00:59
and mostly in Latin development and heavy infrastructure.
01:03
I've spent the last 12 or so years in the AEC marketplace,
01:06
specializing in Autodesk infrastructure tools
01:09
and helping adopt and expand and implement the Autodesk
01:13
portfolio into companies.
01:15
So let's take a look at what we'll learn today.
01:18
We'll first start off with analyzing and optimizing
01:21
our roads, taking a look at sight distance
01:23
analysis, quantities, optimization, and simulation.
01:28
We'll talk about where you can go to learn more
01:30
about these things.
01:32
We'll then talk about the types of roads component roads,
01:35
alignments and profiles, and exchanging that data
01:37
within Civil 3d, and then talk about ways
01:41
to take this beyond InfraWorks, getting into design
01:45
visualization, creating and sharing, and maybe using
01:47
some additional software, just to take that to the next level.
01:56
So one last time, let's take a look
01:57
at the model-centric design workflow that we've discussed.
02:00
We always start again with our existing context,
02:03
Model Builder, GIS data, whatever
02:04
it is that we have to supplement that model.
02:08
We move into our design, whether we're
02:10
mixing in some Civil 3d, some AutoCAD, some Revit,
02:13
some other GIS data.
02:16
We further our design in InfraWorks using
02:18
component roads, analysis.
02:20
We look at the presentations when
02:21
it comes to storyboards or snapshots, and then
02:25
some further optimization and analysis of watersheds,
02:28
volumes, and so forth.
02:32
Here in this session we're going to take a look at analyzing
02:35
and optimizing our roads.
02:38
So, InfraWorks has many options for visual analysis
02:41
for your component roads.
02:42
And this has to be a component road,
02:44
but there's a sight distance analysis.
02:46
It helps you identify the blind spots, any failure zones, where
02:50
sight may be compromised, maybe you've got a building or even
02:52
trees or something in there.
02:54
You can identify those by running a sight distance
02:57
analysis.
02:59
You get several colors, very good visual graphics
03:01
that tell you, kind of, what's going on.
03:03
You get the light blue that indicates
03:05
the zones, where it's clear.
03:06
You get the yellow which typically indicates the site
03:08
failure zones.
03:10
Red is obstructions, so that could be a building,
03:14
it could be a sign, it could be anything.
03:17
And then you get the darkened areas,
03:19
that is where the site is compromised.
03:21
You can hover over those and it tells you more.
03:26
And then when you get to an intersection,
03:28
so let's say we have an intersection, a four-way,
03:30
a T-intersection, whatever that is.
03:31
You can do a site distance analysis there
03:35
and you can tell at what type of traffic control may be.
03:38
Is it a yield, is a stop, is it no control?
03:41
Are you making a left turn or are you making a right turn?
03:43
And just as the other sight distance analysis shows,
03:46
you get the different colors that mean different things,
03:48
or the light blue indicates clear visibility,
03:51
yellow is failure, and red is obstructions.
03:54
You can perform earthwork quantities right in InfraWorks,
03:57
so you can view the Cut and Fill volumes
03:59
for the entire component road.
04:01
You can even specify a station and get
04:03
the volumes between that, or you can select multiple roads.
04:07
There are several methods.
04:08
It uses the Average End Area method,
04:10
and then in the intersections or roundabouts
04:12
it uses a Surface Comparison.
04:15
You can export that out via CSV report, pretty slick reports.
04:20
Materials, quantities, you can calculate, view, and generate
04:23
reports from materials based on your component road.
04:26
You can select that component road, and again, station ranges
04:29
or area of interest.
04:31
The road component can give you the total length and area.
04:34
As far as bridges go, you can get concrete and steel,
04:37
utilities, other model features such as city furniture
04:41
or decorations, hydrants, trees, whatever those decorations
04:45
that you put in there.
04:46
And then 3D model counts.
04:48
There's two different optimization options
04:50
in InfraWorks.
04:51
There's a Profile Optimization and a Corridor Optimization.
04:55
Those optimizations are going to help
04:57
you determine the optimal horizontal and vertical roadway
04:60
geometry.
05:01
The Corridor Optimization can take a lot more into account,
05:04
avoidance zones, anything that's undesirable,
05:08
topo, based on a horizontal alignment,
05:10
and kind of give you the best fit analysis of that corridor
05:14
and that profile location.
05:17
So, two optimizations, Corridor Optimization,
05:20
Profile Optimization.
05:21
They're both Cloud RAN.
05:22
They'll give you back a report, an emailed report,
05:25
a PDF report.
05:26
And you can always update your model based on that data.
05:31
There's also Traffic Simulation.
05:32
You can use that Traffic Simulation tool
05:34
to analyze traffic flow throughout your intersections,
05:37
display color-coded traffic analysis results,
05:40
and generate traffic simulation animations to play
05:43
in your model.
05:44
There's a Traffic Analyst panel that will pop up,
05:47
they'll bring it up.
05:48
You can input any type of data that you
05:49
have in there, vehicle types, matrices,
05:53
driver types, all sorts of variables there
05:55
to give you more realistic traffic analysis.
06:00
And then you also have Mobility Simulation.
06:04
The Mobility Simulation is an integrated engine directly
06:08
in InfraWorks.
06:09
You can use that Mobility Simulation to create animations
06:12
of transit areas, parking, people walking around,
06:17
how they're moving, how they're acting in certain areas, kind
06:21
of a taxi-mode modeling.
06:22
So, there's some key performance indicators,
06:25
like persons per hour, level of service,
06:28
economic and environmental assessments,
06:31
all sorts of stuff you can perform here in InfraWorks
06:34
using the Mobility Simulation .
06:39
And where do you go to get some more information about that?
06:42
One of the best places to find information, where
06:45
you can take a look at a video or you can further your skills,
06:47
is to go out to customersuccess.autodesk.com
06:51
and you can find information around all these InfraWorks
06:53
models that we're going over.
06:58
Next up, let's take a look at exchanging data
07:00
between InfraWorks and Civil 3D.
07:05
So let's take a further look in this model-centric design
07:08
workflow.
07:09
We've already gone through some of this stuff here,
07:11
so, existing content to our conceptual design.
07:14
But now we get further in our detailed design
07:16
where we're using Civil 3D to adjust alignments, adjust
07:20
profiles, adjust our corridor models, maybe our drainage.
07:24
Also the bridges, we can adjust our bridges.
07:26
We can make some changes in both InfraWorks and Civil 3D.
07:30
And we can also send this stuff out to Revit
07:32
or use other applications.
07:35
And that design validation and communication,
07:38
that bi-directional workflow, is key.
07:40
With Civil 3D, you've got IMX, Shapefile, SDF, back and forth
07:43
all day long there.
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You can also connect directly to a Civil 3D model.
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InfraWorks can be imported, exported to 3DS Max,
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back and forth between Civil 3D and InfraWorks
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So everything that you see here has this ability
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to work with each other in this Autodesk ecosystem.
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So let's take a little bit further
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look on how that happens.
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Guys, three simple steps in this data exchange workflow.
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Coming from InfraWorks to Civil
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either way, bringing that roadway geometry and corridor
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model back into InfraWorks from Civil 3D
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and then linking the data between those two programs,
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enabling InfraWorks models to be updated
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throughout the detailed design.
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So if you're still making some changes in Civil 3D,
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somebody may be over here modeling in InfraWorks,
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you can still have those changes reflected in InfraWorks,
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if set up properly.
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A few things to be mindful of, and this is key.
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So if Civil 3D and InfraWorks are installed,
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you can use the local import in InfraWorks to import Civil 3D.
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That's just found on the InfraWorks tab in Civil 3D
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and you go to Open Model.
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If Civil 3D is not installed, you
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can use IMX to transfer the Civil 3D objects.
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So I can export out from Civil 3D
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and IMX file and maybe send that to somebody else that's
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doing the modeling and they can import the IMX file.
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And then if InfraWorks is not installed,
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you can also use IMX to transfer InfraWorks data out
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of InfraWorks.
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And then the product versions, if they don't match,
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your only option is to use IMX.
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So ideally you want 2022, both Civil 3D and InfraWorks.
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But if you do have different versions
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there's a way to work between the two,
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but you do have to import, export IMX.
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Coordinate systems, Model Builder creates the LL84,
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lat/long 84 coordinate system on default.
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Civil 3D will use a projected coordinate system.
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So typically, you will know your coordinate system
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that you want this project to be in,
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and you can change that at any time in InfraWorks.
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So if you don't change it on the Creation and Model Builder,
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don't worry about it, you can always
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go into the model settings and adjust that coordinate system.
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It's going to re-project, which then, Civil 3D,
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InfraWorks going to work even better back and forth.
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It's always a good idea to have the same unit type.
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A couple more items to be mindful of is the behaviour
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of the alignment and profile entity types between Civil 3D
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and InfraWorks.
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InfraWorks uses pre-defined style rules
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to display the Civil 3D data.
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The Drainage Design for InfraWorks
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uses a default part catalogue with component object mapping
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for the pipe connectors.
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And that roundabout workflow, going from InfraWorks
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to Civil 3D.
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That data is exchanged really easily,
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and you can go from your alignment's profile's corridors
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and see how those look in Civil 3D
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and see what you get in Civil
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and what you get in InfraWorks.
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So you can see, for example here, on the left side,
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in Civil 3D we're getting alignments, corridors,
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profiles, bridge models.
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The roundabout is a detailed corridor model
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when brought into Civil 3D.
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And that bridge design is a 3D solid, but their parametric 3D
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solids, those components can either stay in AutoCAD
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for further detailing, or you could even bring that
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into Revit for detailed-- some fine detail-detailing
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of that bridge.
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Now, let's talk a little bit about the design visualization.
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Our current situation, this is really
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typical across a lot of companies,
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we go from a CAD-output to a visualization.
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There is no in-between.
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There's no middleman there to kind of help
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streamline that workflow.
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We go from AutoCAD, or we go from Civil.
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We go from whatever it is straight into, say,
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And there's a lot of data loss, and there's
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a lot of time lost over anything else there,
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it's because you're pretty much re-doing everything.
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The exchange isn't as smooth as you like,
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and so it's going from CAD straight to the visualization
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team.
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So what about introducing a specialist, a design viz
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specialist, whatever you want to call them.
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A lot of companies, especially bigger companies,
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have individuals-- or they have groups or divisions, that
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are just design specialists.
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They may not be engineers, they may not be drafters, designers,
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they may not know much about the industry as a whole.
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But they know visualization.
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You can get somebody in there that-- he's, maybe
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he or she's a gamer and they are really immersed in those gaming
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engines and just know how to put on a really compelling show
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and take your data to the next level.
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So not a bad idea, that if you are
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getting into this, if you're new or getting into visualization,
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or if you've been doing it, to really find that specialist,
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find that special person or that special group,
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and allow them to do what they do,
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and while you kind of focus on the design and do what you do.
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And by that, that's kind of adding
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the design into the visualization
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by using InfraWorks.
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That's adding that middleman, in a way, to where we go from CAD.
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But we're not just going from CAD to visualization.
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We're going from CAD to, say, InfraWorks,
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where we're doing some design in there,
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or we started in InfraWorks, even.
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And we went from InfraWorks, to CAD, to InfraWorks.
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And then taking that amount of information, the CAD
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output, the InfraWorks output, that presentation quality
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model that you already have, and just
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take it a step further into the full visualization
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tool of, say, a 3DS Max.
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So, just adding that word design to the visualization,
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because in InfraWorks you really are.
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You're doing more of the design, you're
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doing more of that visualization than maybe just
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a CAD individual would.
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And you're doing more design than just a visualization,
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or a 3DS Max expert would, kind of
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help bridging that gap between CAD and visualization.
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And then you want to take it beyond InfraWorks.
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There's a whole new world out there.
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If you haven't experienced the VR/AR, if you haven't by now,
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you've been asleep for a while there because VR is everywhere,
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AR is everywhere.
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And you can do that, that process to go from Civil 3D
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to InfraWorks, or InfraWorks to Civil, to Max design,
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but just taking it past Max design
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into a program like Unity, and there
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are several others out there, but take it into Unity
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and put on that interactive experience for your client.
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Some people can't see a 2D set of plans
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and understand really how that site is going to look.
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Those same people can take a look
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at a site and a fly-through and get a better idea.
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But strap a headset to their face
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and throw that in a gamer experience or VR experience
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and let them virtually walk that site,
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takes your projects to a whole new level.
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There's a lot of resources out there.
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I recommend going out to the Customer Success Hub
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where you can take a look at the courses and the learning paths.
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wanted to accomplish for that week, that month.
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There's recorded coaching sessions.
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There's a lot of live coaching topics out there.
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Just go to customersuccess.autodesk.com
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and take a look, see what you can do.
