360 of InfraWorks 360

ANGEL ESPINOZA: As soon as there's a small lull in the beeping back there, we'll go ahead and begin. Because I think we're going need every bit of the 90 minutes to discuss things. Hello.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

ANGEL ESPINOZA: Yes sir.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] I'm doing media capture [INAUDIBLE].

ANGEL ESPINOZA: Absolutely.

AUDIENCE: OK, and do you have any audio on your computer at all?

ANGEL ESPINOZA: No.

AUDIENCE: OK, thank you.

ANGEL ESPINOZA: Certainly. OK, how about now? Is it any better? I think a little bit better. That should work.

What just happened? My screen went to blank. That'd be the 8 o'clock buzzer, isn't it? Class is in session. As soon as my screen comes back-- I think they-- let's see if they can toggle it back so I can-- right as we were getting ready to start too, how unfortunate.

It's still obviously showing what it needs to show. My screen is completely black. They captured it back there. I don't want to have to work over my shoulder, but I will if I have to. Who's the room monitor for the event? We will work with what we have. We'll try to make it work.

OK, so I'm going to be working then over my shoulder, looking at the large screen, and we will proceed. Thank you all for joining us this morning. I know it's not often easy on the last day after the big party to be present and fully aware at 8:00 AM on the last day, but I certainly appreciate you coming out and being here this morning.

Earlier, as people were trickling in, I did ask how many in the group had used InfraWorks 360. And now that we seem to be-- have the vast majority here, I'll ask it one last time. How many of you have used InfraWorks 360 already?

We have a couple over here. So we're still in the neighborhood of now about 15% to 20% of the group, so that's great. That's wonderful that not everyone has seen this already.

So very briefly, one of the things that we're going to learn about InfraWorks 360 is that it is possible to create just about anything that you can imagine, both that exists, that might exist, that never will exist, that existed a long time ago, whatever it feels that it's important to communicate, and at whatever scale. So in the upper left-hand corner, we'll start with something small. That's basically just a home, and the property of that home is what's modeled in InfraWorks 360.

And as we go up in scale, this is a small university. How many of you from the Detroit area, anybody? Lawrence Technology University-- Technological University right here. Boulder, Colorado, this is Boulder-- university of Colorado at Boulder.

Obviously we see a golf course. This is a dam area. It's a little difficult to see there. The iconic New York skyline with the Statue of Liberty, all of Southern California, the Palos Verdes peninsula there, the island of Oahu-- and whether we're talking about projects that may be for above ground utilities like [INAUDIBLE] transmission below ground utilities--

AUDIENCE: Can I help you?

ANGEL ESPINOZA: Yeah, my screen went black.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

ANGEL ESPINOZA: Certainly.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] try again.

ANGEL ESPINOZA: Yeah, I didn't know if I did that, that it would lose the recording back there. I'm great, thank you.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

ANGEL ESPINOZA: OK, thank you very much, Travis. Substation design, new energies, there's windmills in the background, this being near Palm Springs where they have solar and wind farms. Light rail transportation, this is LAX in an actual model.

So we're seeing bigger scales, the port of Long Beach. And even for potential disaster situations, this using one of the plug-ins we'll talk about, we happen to have the creator of the technology in the room, and we'll talk a little bit about this. This being a flooding simulation, we'll talk about the very simplest way I could potentially do something along those lines, and then the much more sophisticated way that we can do that.

The class description was to get a complete view of InfraWorks 360 software. To get a complete view in 90 minutes, I'm probably going to have to speak a little bit more rapidly, and I will only pause for questions just at certain points. So if you can just hold the questions until I pause, probably when the software is going to be churning and it'll take about a minute or two, we'll stop the questions and maybe do other things along those lines.

And see, not only does it deal with conceptual design, but preliminary planning detailed design for roads, bridges, and drainage. The creation of images and videos could not be simpler for anyone that's ever outsourced those sorts of efforts we'll see, and then collaboration with others in other industries. We'll talk a little bit of tips and tricks for those of you that have used the product already and maybe a little bit comfortable and familiar. I hope that this time will still be well spent for you. I hope to be able to offer a couple of tips and tricks of why-- make that a little bit easier, more efficient for you.

And this feature-- this session features InfraWorks 360. There is another product called InfraWorks 360 LT. We'll talk a little bit about the differences there. And a little bit of AutoCAD Civil 3D, just a touch, not really very much at all. OK, this goes down. Here we go.

OK, so at the end of the session, the four things that we really wanted to get across with the session-- or that I did when I put the session together-- was not only discover how easy it is to use-- excuse me easy to learn-- also how easy it is to use, and how powerful, ultimately, it is. It is incredibly powerful at what it's capable of doing. And then how it's capable of integrating with other applications. And that relationship is everything, because both with the suites that have existed in the past and the collections that exists now, the point was never to get more software into people's hands.

That's not the point of why they exist. They exist so that people that create something like a Civil 3D drawing can get more value from that Civil 3D drawing when they utilize it, that same information, in other applications. Whether I take it the Navisworks for construction, simulation, or clash detection with other data, or move it into 3ds Max for a detailed visualization, or whatever the case is, there is lots of value that's inherent inside of a model. And when models get together with other models, like magnets, you get more power, more capability. And that's what the collections are there for, to be able to extract more value out of what you've already done, right?

And I certainly understand the idea that, well, this is what we get paid for, and this is what we do. But there is still potential there, and you can offer your customers, your owners, or your constituents a lot more from the data that you already have with a little bit of just different workflows. We'll leave it at that.

OK, so very quickly, my name's Angel Espinoza. I've been with Autodesk nine years. Prior to that, I was with an Autodesk reseller partner for nine years. If you Google Civil Angel, you'll probably find the Facebook, the Twitter, the YouTube account.

I am the original author of Angel Civility 3D Thoughts. The interesting point about that, I've been a little bit hands off on Civil 3D in the last year or so. Whenever I've needed to find something-- right, quick thing Google-- and interestingly enough, sometimes I've answered myself from the past because it comes up on my thoughts that I started in 2004 talking about Civil 3D, and the answers come back from then.

And I started as a young man in the civil engineering community in Southern California where I'm based. Did that for about 14 years. I was talking with someone here earlier, Bob sitting in the back, and I told him, Yeah, I live very near Disneyland. So Disneyland, for me, is a touchstone, a touch point, and so that's in the area and the community around which I've worked a great deal.

OK, so an overview of InfraWorks 360-- oops, back up one. When we start talking about InfraWorks 360, the first thing we're going to learn is that it is possible to create models yourself. So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to open a model that I've already just begun. All I did was basically just give it a name. You can go up to the top and choose the new and just give it a name.

And what you'll find is that you will be in an environment that, if I were to roll the mouse wheel back-- and that's one of the things about how we maneuver that we'll find out about-- if I roll the mouse wheel back, I'm zooming out. If I roll it forward, I'm zooming in. And then if I left pick and orbit, what we'll find is that we're basically looking at the entire globe in the environment, right? So the data that you create and the project that you will build will ultimately sit on this geoid somewhere, OK?

So I'm going to come back over here. We'll talk a little bit about this particular project. The first model actually that I ever built was near the city of San Luis Obispo. So I'm going to talk, then, about the icons here. These are called the intelligent tools, under the I.

The intelligent tools are what exists also in InfraWorks 360 LT, so if you have that as a part of your suits, you have everything that's under the I, and that is still a great deal of information or great deal capabilities. Above and beyond that there is the icon for road design, the icon for bridge design, the icon for drainage design, and again we all share the display capabilities and so forth. We'll see those in some of the configurations and setting tools.

So underneath the I, the very first option is basically managing your model. And the very first icon is the data sources. That brings up the data sources panel.

And I just wanted to quickly point out that there are lots of different data sources that I can ultimately bring into this environment. Now some of those are kind of abbreviated, because it says very simply raster. But if I were to make that choice for raster, what we will find is that there are literally dozens of file formats for raster files-- they should be visible down there in the bottom-- raster file formats that are possible.

So some of them are just, what does it say, SketchUp, right? There's only one SKP file format. But some of them are wildcards for many other file formats. So what we'll find then is InfraWorks is very capable of aggregating data. Not as capable perhaps as Navisworks, which can bring in approximately 60 different file formats, but this gets into the-- I'm guessing, into the high 40s, probably, when all is said and done.

OK, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to just browse to a set of data that I've had here. And my resolution is a little bit less than what I'm seeing up here, so I may have to look over my shoulder. For this demonstration, I have some sample data, and that sample data is GIS data. And that GIS data is for California for San Luis Obispo. There we are.

OK, so a while back, I had-- when I was creating this very first model, I had some information that was in Civil 3D. And in Civil 3D, you can export out a LAN XML file. So this file right here, although I can barely read the gibberish on my screen, that looks to read XML.

Yep, that is the LAN XML file of the surface. So I'm very simply just going to drag and drop that into this environment, and everything about InfraWorks, ultimately at its heart, it is a GIS application, so it does translation and rotation of the information on the fly. As long as there is an intelligible coordinate system assigned, to the data it can then place that data exactly on the [INAUDIBLE] of the globe exactly where it needs to be.

So what it's already determined from the LAN XML file-- you may be able to make it out-- is that it is a terrain. It's using the California NAT 83 zone 5 US foot coordinate system. And if I very simply just choose Close and Refresh on that data, it will then brought bring in that surface, right? So it was just a drag and drop from the File Explorer.

Now you can certainly go up to the data source, just pick the specific file format. But I think what you're going to find, depending upon how your data is organized, it's very often just simple just to drag it into the window, and it knows what to do with that data. It's very intelligent in that sense.

So next I'm going to go into that same data source, and then there's a JPEG here, and that JPEG does have its associated world file, which tells it again what-- at least, the world file what-- it contains the insertion point, the rotational value, and the scale for that image. What it does not contain and does not know is what coordinate system that world file is associated with. So I'm just going to very simply tell it the exact same coordinate system that the other data was coming from and choose Close and Refresh. And that image will then automatically be draped on the surface.

Now what I've not done yet is shown you the surface itself, so we do see some hills just south of the downtown San Luis Obispo area. This image did have, interestingly enough, a little bit of red. I don't remember why there was red in that image.

But we see things like a lake over here. We see the highway system, or the highway that runs through the city. There's a park. There's ultimately some railroads that come off on this side. And we're going to interact with this a little bit.

Now, if you do not have any imagery whatsoever that you have access to, but you have terrain-- so what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn off the image for just a moment, is we also have the ability to add it says data sources. Add database data source, and one of the options is to use Microsoft and Bing maps. So we can then choose, and I'm going to choose the level of resolution for the imagery that I want to come in.

Now by default, what we're going to be doing in a little bit, we can build the model for you, and by default that process will always bring in a level 17, which is approximately a meter per pixel, right? That's OK for large models, but if you need a small model, that could look a little pixilated, may not be the best thing. But you can ask for as small as a third of a meter, which is approximately a foot per pixel.

Which when we start downloading the data, we have to understand it's a third less this way and a third less this way. That means I have nine times more imagery that I'm ultimately downloading to represent that, right? So when we start talking about image and image size, that certainly brings up the question about computers, and we'll talk a little bit about computers and capabilities over the course of the session, but just wanted to mention that very quickly.

Now for this class, for the sake of speed, what I'm going to do is I'm going to bring in a level 15 and choose OK there, OK there. It's basically adding it to the data over here. And I'm going to double click-- nope, that's the same one I just had, sorry, wrong one. I'm going to double click on this. And I could name it. I could just say this is Bing imagery, Bing, and choose Close and Refresh.

When you close and refresh, that's when it's actually going to do the calculation, and now this is bringing in, from Microsoft Bing, at least the version of the imagery there. Now of course we often get asked, are there any other sources that are available through the system and through the process, and the answer is-- free and directly accessible, the answer is no. But any imagery that you have access to, just like the one that I dragged and dropped in, can be applied as long as it has a georeference location. If it doesn't, placing it is a little bit more cumbersome perhaps, but being able to do this certainly allows me a certain amount of speed.

Now you so I came in relatively quickly, but like I mentioned before, if I were to zoom in relatively close, it's a little bit pixilated at that resolution and level, right? I just did it for the sake of speed, but we saw that I had four other levels significantly higher detail that would have taken longer to download but would have given me a higher resolution imagery. Now the other thing I'm going to do, now the rest of this I'm going to do a little bit faster, is that I'm going to bring in, from a shape file, streets.

So looking at the shape found the collection, I'm going to just drag and drop the SHP file in here. And it says, well, that SHP can be one of three things, right? Could be point data. Could be rectilinear data. Or it could be polygonal shapes.

This happens to be the center lines of streets, so it's rectilinear. And the question is, what do I want to represent? Right there it says empty for type. What do I want to represent that data as?

And it could be-- technically anything the software can build, I can use it as that type of object, so that means roads. It could be rivers. It could be pipes as in pipelines for underground utilities. It can be lots of things, so we have that decision. Very simple in this case, because it was streets I'm going to choose roads right there.

And then one other thing related to roads, it says, OK, you want it to be a road, but what type of road? What do you want it to look like? And I have the choice immediately to just pick a be a default style for all of the roads.

Now some of the roads may have curb and gutter. Some of the roads may have sidewalk. Some of the roads may just have edge of pavement. At the moment, I'm just assigning them all to be one style, right?

So I can-- I'll pick a style here. That one doesn't look bad. And there are lots of other data that I can import, so I can interrogate the data and find from the shape file itself, the class, the street name. I think that says street name right there.

Again, my resolution here is-- street name, I'm good there, right? For the class, maybe I use that as the description. So there's lots of information that I can utilize as a part of that.

And lastly I'll just go to choose Close and Refresh. And what it's going to do is, from that shape file, it has built all of the roads that were possible from the shape file itself. Now, if we zoom in, we can start to see how accurate was the shape file, perhaps, to some of the Microsoft Bing imagery.

I would say, generally, this is pretty decent. If I were to turn off the Microsoft Bing imagery and go back to the image that I had originally, you will find that original image and how it was placed. Now however I got it, I don't even recall, was not perfect. It's good in some areas, but in some of the other areas it's short, so it probably needed to be enlarged a touch.

OK, so I'm going to come back, just add in other data. So just to finish off the process here, we understand now how simple it is to drag and drop information. So just showing some of the other objects that I can build from scratch, I'm going to bring in the lake. And we tell it once again what is it.

This is polygonal data. I want it to be a water. What type of water? We can see the rule style down here for the style. Basically, what is its appearance, and I want it to be the default water.

And I could extract the name, if it's there. I don't know that it is, so I'll just hit Close and Refresh. And then right there, the water has been dropped into the environment, and we see that the water is in fact kind of rippling and it reflects things in the background. If there's buildings or trees or the sky or the moon or the stars, it will actually reflect in that situation at night.

Now the other thing, just to finish this, we will go back. We'll drop in some schools perhaps, and-- shape-- we'll stylize that. What do we want that? That's going to be, in this case, a coverage object, coverage area. And I want them to be a particular color, so I'll use colors, and use perhaps transparent orange. That will be visible, Close and Refresh.

And coverage objects basically drape on the ground until I don't want them to. So at the moment, they will conform themselves to the ground at whatever-- if it's hilly or whatever, it's just going to, like cellophane, just sit right on the ground. Now if I don't want it to, we'll see how I can actually interact with the ground and raise it and lower it and create some rudimentary grading with that type of an object. That's going to be possible.

Now, so here you can clearly see, one, I had have the data, except for the Bing imagery. Two, it had to be georeferenced. Three, I had to organize it somewhere, and then I dragged and dropped it individually, and it took a little bit of time. And usually, when I would do this before the next capability was available, it would take me about an hour to go out and find open source information of terrain and georeference ground imagery and shape files for the roads and rivers and streams, et cetera, to put it all together.

But now what's possible with InfraWorks 360, and this is not possible in the LT version, probably the single biggest capability that's-- would not be a part of InfraWorks 360 LT that comes with the suites is this capability right here called model builder. So if I were to choose model builder, basically what we can do is, anywhere-- interesting, I would think my internet access is a little quicker than this. Anywhere that will come up on the map-- wow, the gremlins are really out today-- I can then just either search for a city, an address, a street address, a particular street, and that-- let's close that down and try that one more time. Hopefully I haven't-- there we go. So if we were to, say-- what came up earlier? Bob, in the back, what was the name of your city again?

AUDIENCE: Phoenix, Maryland.

ANGEL ESPINOZA: There we go, Phoenix-- I should have remembered that-- Maryland. So we can very simply type in Phoenix, Maryland, and it will zoom right to that area. And notice over here, I have a square-- in square kilometers, how big of an area I'm currently looking at it in that window. So if we were to move here towards this north coat area, and towards the river and it's tributary here, it is updated how much space I'm asking for, right? I can also verify what I'm looking at by choosing the bird's eye view, and I've chosen to turn off the angle view because it does tilt at it if it can.

So here, what I'm going to do is ask for this particular area, which contains a river, a road, appears to be an iconic bridge, a lake, and some streets. So we're going to call this Phoenix, MD. I'm going to apply this to a group. And group is basically my way to coordinate my data, to stage my data, or perhaps protect my data. And I'm just going to ask it to create the model.

Now, I get a message that tells me I will be notified via email once that model is ready. I'm going to talk very briefly about what it's going to do. Up in the cloud, it's going to put together road data from-- you maybe we will make that out, it says from open street maps. It's going to bring-- which not only road-- road, rail, water features from open street maps.

It's going to bring in building footprints if they're available in that area, again from open street maps. It's going to bring in that Microsoft Bing imagery. And for the terrain, it's going to use the USGS inside of the United States. Outside of the United States, it's going to use one of the space shuttle radar topography missions that-- the data that was captured there back in, I think, around 2002. Or it's says ASTER GDEM for, again, portions outside of the United States.

So it's that simple. I'll go ahead and choose Close, and already you see it just appeared. It says Phoenix, MD, created today by me. I put it in a group called customer models. It has a certain size.

I'm going to click on it, and that data will be downloaded. So I can start with absolutely nothing, and in a matter of minutes, have something-- terrain, georeferenced ground imagery, roads, water features, et cetera. Question, yes sir, while that's opening.

AUDIENCE: You have a predefined set of sources for that sort of thing, can you add other sources?

ANGEL ESPINOZA: Absolutely, you can always go back to the data source window that we were at, or you can drag and drop if that information is co-located or in the same environment. Doesn't have to be. It could be technically somewhere else, have models that span areas.

AUDIENCE: So if there was a, for example, county government in Maryland that had information--

ANGEL ESPINOZA: Absolutely

AUDIENCE: --all that matters is we can [INAUDIBLE]

ANGEL ESPINOZA: Absolutely, I can come back over here to the data sources and continue to add to it. And one of the things that we'll do a little bit later is we'll see the relationship between Civil 3D. And Civil 3D will be able to reach right into this InfraWorks model and pull from it surface, road alignments, et cetera. And InfraWorks can reach right into a Civil 3D drawing and pull from it surfaces, road alignments, pipe networks, et cetera.

So this bi-directional handshake make these two tools together what some people are referring to as the dynamic duo. They work very well together, and they're intended to work well together. And it doesn't matter where the information starts, you can always get it from one into the other. And then you can always supplement, right?

So the possibilities are almost endless. But here, we will see that-- we see that the ground is not flat. We do see the water feature. If I were to remove-- that's a shape file, right, it came from open street maps. If I were to remove it, we can see the imagery down below. I could have the undo capability.

I also want to point out that there is no save. Everything you do is instantaneously-- it is a SQL database, ultimately. It's a database, it's not a single file. Everything you do is recorded into the history of the model. So irrespective of if the power were to go out or if my laptop were to crash, I never lose any work. The moment I do something, it is done, so that can be a good thing.

Now this model does happen to include some buildings. These buildings are the footprint of the building extruded up to the height. If I were to just hover over one of these buildings, we will see the original source. It says-- let it come back-- OpenStreetMaps, and I can click on that link, and then it will launch to the OpenStreetMaps site.

And again, my internet connection is a touch slow, slower than I expected, but there is the data that pertains to that footprint, right, that is freely available. Now again, if you have other information that's more current or more detail, you can always utilize that, but this is a fantastic starting point that you can get to in a matter of a couple of minutes for free, right? The cost of the software of course, but without any other significant effort.

So what I'm going to then do-- so we talked about building something manually. We talked about using a model builder, and again that's the most significant difference between LT and the full blown product. The other difference again being these road design, bridge design, drain design which we will cover a little bit later today.

OK, so I'm going to close this particular model, just go back to the PowerPoint for just a moment. And by the way, I apologize. I didn't get my hand out up there until rather recently. I don't know when it filters through the system. So I do have it here.

And so we talked about InfraWorks of the entire globe, the types of drawings-- excuse me, models that it's capable of doing. You can build it yourself. You can use model builder to do that. That window was what I chose to utilize, but there were other options where I can draw my own polygonal shape, rectangular shape, my own irregular polygon shape. Or I can use a shapefile that would define the actual extent of the model so maybe like the city boundary or a particular parcel of land.

If we have any shape, we can utilize that to define what type of model we're requesting. As long as it was less than 200 square kilometers today, which translates to about 77 plus square miles-- and that's a tremendous amount of land, that we'll see in just a moment-- but that is expected to go up and be able to increase. Now, we do receive an email that usually indicates that that model is ready for download. Normally, what I do is, even before I make-- I'm cognisant of the email, it appears in that first slot, and you can just download and you're ready to go.

OK, so on the home screen, wanted to talk about the home screen for just a moment. Here is the fact that it tells me that I have InfraWorks 360, and I'm subscribed to Autodesk InfraWorks 360. There are some preview technologies that you can toggle on.

One has to do with corridor optimization, land areas, and grading behaviors. We'll talk a little bit about land areas and how they differ from coverage objects, which again helps us form the land. There's something about sustainability-- is that what that says-- maps, and over here.

So here are the tiles. I happen to be filtering to just the tiles and include my name, or angel perhaps in the title. Like cities like Los Angeles, they would appear on this list as well. But if I were to remove that, you would see all of the models that I have access to.

Some of them might be demo, and some of them are models by coworkers that have given me access to their models, right? So that's the whole purpose of groups. You have membership in groups, and everything that you're a member-- every group that you're a member of, you then have access to the model.

Now the administrator of the group does have control what type of access do you have to that model. Do you just-- can you just view it, or can you actually edit within it, or what can you do? Can you actually delete it? So there's different forms of collaboration, which in the handout, it's on the very last page of the role, but basically I'm able to see a great many models and I'm just going to isolate down to just the ones that say angel.

So there's that SLO one. We talked about the Phoenix, Maryland-- thank you very much Bob for the reference. Now downstairs, if you were able to make it to the booth that did InfraWorks 360, the theme for this particular Autodesk University was model your favorite place. What is your favorite place? And what if you had the ability to make a model of anywhere on the planet, what would you choose to make a model of, right?

Now I happen to absolutely love InfraWorks. I've been working on it since the very beginning. I will work on it in the evenings if my family's out. Sometimes even if they're in, I'm still playing, technically playing, in InfraWorks. I enjoy it that much.

And part of it has to do with, ever since I was a little kid, I always enjoyed miniatures. And I will buy any little miniature of anything that I see. I have a little White House and a little-- oh, I just drew a blank. In Rome, the Saint Peter's, and the Coliseum. I buy all these little things. And I like little people and I like little soldiers.

And I'm not going to lie, I like Star Wars, and little Star Wars figures. I'm wearing my Star Wars T-shirt underneath, because for me, Star Wars was a tremendous escape, right? And I would collect all the action figures and collect the vehicles and all of that. Everything's out of the packaging, so it's-- none of it's stored away. I had kids, they wanted to play with them. Yeah, sure, go to town.

So for me, one of my favorite places that unlocked my imagination was Skywalker Ranch, right, the original-- it didn't exist originally, but where, ultimately, George Lucas decided to build a complex to expand the universe of the Skywalker-- of the Star Wars. So I decided to build a model of Skywalker Ranch, so I'm going to go ahead and click on it. And that model, I tried make it and use the full extents of what model builder can automatically create for me. Which means it is approximately 200 square kilometers or approximately 77 square miles.

So within this entire region, within this entire area, there is-- and it's, the way you can find it, if you were to go to Google, and if you look for Lake Ewok, you will find Skywalker Ranch, and it's the one and only Lake Ewok in the entire country. And if I hover on that-- let's see, let's do that again. Click on that. It's a legitimate lake. It is in the databases of all mapping services, and there is Lake Ewok, right? So that helped me find Skywalker Ranch.

So as I started to look at it, ultimately I thought, wow, there are large buildings, and I'm sure there's a tremendous amount of technology within those buildings. But I thought, that's a somewhat rustic, humble environment for the vision that created galaxies long, long ago. So I thought, OK, well that's what it looks like, but what if I were to make it what I want it to look like, right? I want to see Star Wars vehicles maneuvering through there. I want to see Stormtroopers having target practice and trying to hit the side of a barn, or whatever.

That's the type of thing that's possible, so we're going to learn some of the tools within InfraWorks to make this environment different. Now what I'm going to do, and I have this on a different-- what's called a proposal. So a proposal, you can consider to be somewhat of an alternate dimension, or an alternate universe, a mirror universe.

So by default, when you start a model, there is always-- and it will there will always be there-- be a proposal called master. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to drop this down and choose Add, and I can change it. I'll say My View, My View. So that's all caps there. That fine.

And of what this can be, so as I start to grade, and as I start to design within this environment, what we will find is I will still always have the master which was the original state of how I received it just in case I want to go in a different direction. And I have this other universe, or alternative reality, called My View. So if in My View, Lake Ewok actually wants to be bigger, or needs to be somewhere else, I can absolutely put the lake on top of a mountain or on top of this field, and it would be different than where it was in the master. So as I go back to the master, right, the lake is still over there. But if I go back to the proposal that's called My View, the lake is over here.

So as you start planning designs, you have the ability to create different visions of what that parcel of land will be. Is it going to be a park? Is going to be a school? Is it going to be a hospital? Is it going to be-- the road designed this way, or is it going to be designed that way? That's all entirely possible so that whoever's in charge would making that decision, ultimately, can have the full perspective of the impacts of one design versus another in this environment, right?

And then you can see things in the context. So if I were to use the Autodesk ease, it says design what can be in the context of what is. Well there is what is, but what do we want it to be? So I won't go back to the My View.

I'm not certain if, once I go back and forth amongst the different things, if I can do the undo to put that back. That's OK, I'll just grab it and just position it more or less where it was. Close enough for government work here, with my apologies to governments, sorry.

OK, so as we start to learn about the tools that are possible, the first thing I want to talk about-- I'd already mentioned it-- the ability to create. So I'm going to create, and there's lots of things I could create. I'm going to jump down first and talk about coverages, because I did mention them earlier. So if, in this particular land, I wanted to subdivide or sell a portion of it, I can specify a boundary and say, this boundary right here-- and I'm picking, picking, picking, and I'm going to double pick right there when I'm done-- is being then defined by some color.

Now I have the complete ability to come back in here and fine tune this, and move these around if I so choose. You'll notice that I am receiving information about the perimeters, distances, and the overall area of that boundary. Now by default, it just used some sort of reddish color to denote something.

I also have what's called a style palette, and it manages lots of different type of data. And what we can do is manually drop in other colors or other styles or, depending upon what we want, if we want that to be completely-- I'll use a land cover. Where's my land? There we are. If I want that to be completely manicured grass, I can make that manicured grass.

Or I'll use the-- better yet, the terrain ones over here. These are a little nicer, because they do change with the resolution as I zoom in, and it will change its appearance ultimately. And there being the manicured grass, or another type of grass, or asphalt, or concrete, or tile, or whatever, dirt, or rock. Whatever you want it to look like, it can look that way.

Now the other thing that a coverage can do is I can-- within this coverage, I'll create another coverage, and maybe the intent is that this be a pad for a building. Now I very simply just created that shape, and I can add vertices to it. I can move the vertices around. Add vertices is Alt Pick-- Alt Pic, there we go.

That will add a vertex which allows me to move it. I can Shift Pick on that vertex to make it go away. That same capability applies to everything that we create, whether it be buildings, roads, water features, lots of things. Alt Pick, Shift Pick, and then also there's Control Pick which allows me to split things like roads into two different types of roads.

Now I mentioned earlier that it is possible, and I'll do this exaggerated for the sake of clarity. I can do some land forming. So I just lifted that up. I can grab one of the vertices and I push that down, and I am interacting with the terrain. And you can see what I've done there, and I've done some sort of grading, right?

Now the other thing that's possible is, every time you see two cubes-- two squares that overlap, that's basically the analysis. So there's analysis for all of the intelligent tools. Over here on the roads, there's analysis for the road design capabilities. Under the bridge, there there's an analysis for bridge, and then likewise for drainage.

So back over here on the analysis, it has the ability-- gives me the ability to do things like terrain themes. And what I had already done was I created a terrain theme. And we'll create another one on the fly here real quick, because they're super simple. If I wanted to know-- oops, I just moved something. I want to undo it put that back. I moved my parcel-- my grading object.

If I wanted to know, elevationally, how this all-- I can very simply say, let's create a new theme. It's going to be elevation theme. There's six colors from red to blue by default, and there's lots of already preconfigured colored ramps that I can utilize. And I'll just very simply say make that somewhat transparent, hit OK, and the entire surface then will be themed. All 200 square kilometers or 77 square miles will be themed elevationally per those six bands, right?

Now, the other thing that I already have on here is things like-- I have slope banding. So if I wanted to know where is it flat, that would be the things that are shaded in white. Where is it starting to get steeper, yellow, green, red, right. There's a blue in there somewhere, and it gets deeper. So if I wanted to know on my piece of land, where do flat area, I can make that determination from there.

I also have another model-- excuse me, another style, that as I come in here to Skywalker Ranch specifically-- escape, escape, escape-- I've asked for generally flat, and then I also asked that very flat. What is very flat? And then I can have that level of understanding. So the product does help me analyze lots of things, I'm just using one as an example.