Get Moving with Autodesk Infrastructure Solutions for Transportation Projects

MATHEWS MATHAI: I think we're ready to go. Thank you everyone for making your time today to come to this session. Hopefully it will be valuable and you'll have a lot of takeaways. My name is Matthews Mathai. I've been with Autodesk for about 16 years. I have been in the industry, in the civil and infrastructure industry, for about 26.

My background is really software development but, for the last six years, in consulting and, before that, about 10 years in product management of tools like Civil 3D and InfraWorks and, currently, a senior business consultant involved with strategy planning, implementations, and deployments, and doing business transformations for E&R customers across North America.

So today we're going to give you a really good overview. We're going to cover a lot of information. So it's really about using the various tools in our software suite to do a transportation project. We're going to be looking at three different projects. So we're going to be moving from one project to another, just depending on the type of task we're doing. But ideally, it would be a one project.

And we're going to be using various tools-- InfraWorks, Civil 3D. We'll be using Inventor to do parts creation. And we'll also be looking at Revit for bridge structures and things like that. So we're going to be looking at the whole gamut here. And we'll be looking at tools that will help you to do greenfield as well as brownfield type projects, how do you create bridge structures. We'll look at watershed and drainage analysis.

So we'll be covering a lot of information here. We've only got 90 minutes to do it. But really the key learning objectives here are, how many of you have used InfraWorks or are users of InfraWorks here? Good. So we'll be looking at InfraWorks from a conceptual, preliminary design aspect. And then we'll be looking at how you take that information into Civil 3D to go further with detailed design. We're looking at how to take bridge structures into Revit and so on.

We'll also look at how to move data between InfraWorks and AutoCAD Civil 3D. We'll look at the automated process there. So really, the message here is that you can do a lot of your detailed design-- you can actually start a lot of your detailed design in InfraWorks. And then we'll look at some tools and analysis tools to do roadway drainage design. And then we'll be looking at how to visualize your projects in the context of the existing environment effectively, especially when you're doing stakeholder engagements and public presentations.

I do have to put this up here. So today I'm going to be working with what we call a sandbox version. So 2019.2 on the InfraWorks side is what's released out there. I'm going to be working with a beta. A lot of that capability ideally would come out in the next release. But I do have to put this up here saying that, whatever you see here, may not make it in the next release. So don't base your purchasing decisions on some of these capabilities. But I will point out to you what is new and what is actually inside this beta.

So this is a demonstration type class. So we'll be looking at various aspects. Let's look at this-- how do I do that? So we're going to start off with InfraWorks. So InfraWorks 2019-- and like I said, I'm working in a sandbox version. And that's why I've got some of my projects here labeled with sandbox. So I know, for example, the Pinto Creek Bridge-- this is the project that would open up in 2019 release. And then I've got a separate version that will open up in the sandbox-- so the beta version.

So this is the new look. Not much has changed. The major changes here are that, in the past whenever you're working in an InfraWorks project, you would then publish it to the cloud for collaboration. And that used to be an InfraWorks specific type cloud sharing cloud network. Right now in 2019, for those of you that have moved to 2019, we've integrated with BIM 360. So when you say, Create a Local Project and you publish it to the cloud, it actually gets published in the BIM 360 environment.

Now during the course of this class, I'll be showing you a lot of some of the cloud based tools. Now I did try this about an hour ago. The bandwidth isn't so good. I do have some videos just in case things slow down here. So let's take a look at-- I'm going to talk a little bit about Model Builder. So Model Builder-- how you typically would start a project, especially when you don't have any GIS data or can leverage GIS data from your GIS department, is to use publicly available data.

And Model Builder is an excellent tool to go anywhere on the Earth's surface and specify-- for example, if I want to go to Fayetteville, Alabama. And I say, Fayetteville, Alabama-- sorry, Arkansas. And then I can specify the area in question. I can zoom in. And then I specify a project names. So I call this Fayetteville.

And then I can actually specify on my BIM 360 folder structure where I want to put it. So I would have predefined in BIM 360 project folders and say, look, I want to put it under a project folder called InfraWorks Projects and Project Files. And then when I say, Create Model, what's going to happen here, for those of you that are not aware, is it goes out and looks for publicly available data. So it will go out and get all road network information from an open street maps database. So this is publicly available information about your transportation networks and building information.

Similarly, all buildings in that area of interest would come from this open street network. Imagery would come down from Bing Maps, and your elevation data would come from your USGS DM information. So within a few minutes, you would have an initial model to start working with. And I'm not going to do this live here just because it might take a while as it goes to the cloud.

So what I'll do here is, before I close out here, I do want to specify that, in your release versions, you have an area up to a maximum of 200 square kilometers. The sandbox version actually opens it up to 1,000 square kilometers. But your release version will only have 200 square kilometers. And it will bring down this data. And within a few minutes, you're ready to go. Now you can always replace this information with better GIS information or survey information that comes in.

So within a few minutes, after you click on that project, you end up with this representation of the project. You're looking at publicly available data of Fayetteville, Bing map information. That's your [INAUDIBLE] imagery. You've got buildings on there, anything that's publicly available. You can see all the buildings are out there. You've got street networks. If you hover over a street, it will tell you what the name of the street is. And this is publicly available data.

And notice also, as I hover over my surface, you can actually see on the bottom left hand corner it's actually giving me elevation data-- so a lot of intelligence data just brought in. And you create this contextual model, and you're ready to go. Now before I move forward with this, I just want to show you the BIM 360 piece. I'll just play this video here.

So just to show you that what's happening behind the scenes is that a IWM file is created. So when you publish an InfraWorks model, it goes ahead and publishes this onto your BIM 360 folder. And if you've got multiple proposals, for those of you that are familiar with proposals, it will actually list them for you. It will keep versions for you. So you can have version 1 and version 2. And you can go back to a version 2.

And inside your BIM 360 environment, you've got tools to determine what type of performance levels you want. You can zoom in, zoom out. You can do measurements. You have the ability also to turn on and off things. So for example, just like you can do inside of the InfraWorks environment, you can turn off your buildings or you can turn off your roads. So very interactive environment-- this is a major change between the 2018 releases and the 2019. Now you can have local models. But when you publish it, it goes and puts your model inside the BIM 360 environment.

So here's Fayetteville. So what I now want to do is show you how you can use the Esri GIS Connector. How many of you have used the Esri GIS Connector? This is a relatively new tool, again, in 2019. Last year there was a partnership that was brought up or was actually mentioned here at AU between Autodesk and Esri. So right now you actually have the ability, if you have an ArcGIS account, you have the ability to bring information down from ArcGIS Online.

But let me show you how that's done. And again, this is in the context of a transportation project. Before you lay out your roads, you may want to see what your zoning information looks like. You may want to see what type of traffic accidents are happening at the various intersections. Because maybe then you can make a decision whether you want to add an additional lane or put a roundabout, et cetera.

So the ArcGIS extension-- now this is available in the release version, even though I'm using the beta version right now. So you go up to Data Sources, and inside the Data Sources, there's this little globe. This is a new capability. So when I click on here, what it's going to do here, is it's now going to open up the Autodesk connector for ArcGIS.

So you're now inside ArcGIS Online. And now I can come up here, and I can look at what is publicly available to me. So I can go and look for publicly available GIS data that's posted up on ArcGIS Online. I can go to my groups. And what that section means is that inside ArcGIS Online, if I've got an account, I can go in there and create groups and add members to my groups. And we can share information amongst those members.

So I can come up here and I can say, OK, under My Groups-- or rather, let's go under Organizations. So I can do either under My Groups-- so groups that I create. Or there might be an administrator at your organization that says, OK, we've got all these files and I want to make them available to every team member in this organization. So you can see up here, under Organization, I've got information on Denver crime. I've got Denver demo traffic or traffic accidents.

So let me go look for Fayetteville. What do I have here on Fayetteville? I've got a ton of information. And this could be information that's coming from the Esri online database or could have been added by my administrator or even yourselves. So I'm going to come up here and I'm going to go to the zoning. Where's Fayetteville? Here it is. Zoning Fayetteville-- so I'm actually selecting an ArcGIS data from ArcGIS Online.

Traffic accidents came up. Let's work with traffic accidents for right now. So what I've done here is I've said, OK, traffic accidents. And it's saying, OK, assign a traffic accident type in InfraWorks. And I'm going to say, well, traffic accidents, I'm going to make them points of interest. And then I'm going to say Add This to my Design Project. So it adds this as just another data source. It will add it to your data sources as another piece of information.

You can see now here I've got traffic accidents. And I'm going to go up here and configure my traffic accidents. And let's go up here and say, all right, I'm going to say Object ID, Description. I'm going to say, Pull Up the Attribute Count Information. Again, this is coming from your Esri information. And I'm going to assign a point of interest. Let's put a push pin there and Close and Refresh.

So what it's actually done now is it's this randomly available data set that was up there on ArcGIS Online. I've tapped into it. I've configured it. I've brought it into InfraWorks. I've configured it. And now I have information. I have all the intersections where there's traffic accident information. Now notice that I'll actually have to go inside here and look at the description field.

So if I go to the description field, you can see this intersection had 20 accidents. But what I can do here is, let me go back to Configure. And I'm going to create what we call a Tooltip. So I'll go back and reconfigure this. So I'll go over to the Tooltip, and I'll create a little Tooltip here, saying let's go in and-- in fact, let me just go up here and say, traffic accident number. And then I'll put a percent, and I'll put Description, because I'm capturing the information in the description field. And now when I say Close and Refresh, it doesn't seem anything changed.

But now if I hover over these push pins, [INAUDIBLE] I didn't spell accident correctly. But you now can hover over these push pins and you can see what the traffic accident information is. So similarly, if I go back and I say-- let me see. Why didn't the zoning work? Let's go Organization, Fayetteville, Zoning.

Oh, there it is. So as soon as I turn on the little checkbox, there's a little preview for you inside the interface to show you all the zones. And I'm going to assign these zones to what we call coverage areas inside of InfraWorks. So you can see there's a wealth of information out there, publicly available information, information that somebody in your organization shared with you. And you can bring all this information in.

So I'm going to say, Add This to my Design Project. It adds a new feature type called zoning. And let's go and configure this. And notice that, from the ArcGIS, you can see all the additional information that came in. I've got something called action code. I have area. I have length.

So let's create a little Tooltip that says, all right, let's do action code. How many of you have used to Tooltips before? It's really good. I mean, it's really convenient because you don't actually have to open up the-- so let's go Action. Let's go Action Code. And then I'll say Area. Let's go User. And let's pull out the acres. Again, these attributes are coming from that ArcGIS Online data. And say Close, Refresh.

So I'm just showing you, before you start your transportation projects, you now have another data source that you can tap into. So it's brought in all that coverage information. You don't see anything in there. But notice that, as I hover over-- as soon as this finishes redrawing-- notice that I've got all these different areas. And as I hover over it, it's going to tell me, OK, my action code or my zoning code is FB something. And the area is 21.20 acres.

So I've given you two examples here where we brought in zoning information and configured it as a coverage area. And then we got traffic accident information. And you saw over there, there is a wealth of crime data, rainfall information. I mean, you just go search for what's available publicly. And then you can bring it into your InfraWorks projects.

One more thing here, before we actually look at laying out roadways, is this concept of a feature theme. So now that I've got all these areas in here, I'm going to create a feature theme. So I can actually see for example, or color code, all my zones. So I can say, OK, let's create a team called zoning. And let's go ahead and pick up my action codes. Or where is it? Yeah, zoning Fayetteville. And I want to pull up my action codes. CD. Notice that it's got all these-- let's do Individual.

So what I've actually done is just created a feature theme, because I've got all these different zoning codes. And within a few minutes, I'm able to just color code the entire data in a visual way so I can see where my different zones are. So this is the Feature Theming option inside of InfraWorks. Has anybody used the Feature Theming? It's a great tool. I mean, you can turn it on and off. And you can create themes based on a variety of different types of information.

So just wanted to give you an idea of the Model Builder. So you can start anywhere in the world where there is publicly available data and create a project within a few minutes. You're able to leverage a lot of the information that's available on InfraWorks Online. And there's a ton of information out there. And you're ready to go. And like I said, I mean, this is publicly available data. If you have lidar information that is more accurate information of the terrain, you can replace this elevation data with more accurate data. But you have something to start with.

So let's move on to another project. And I wanted to show you some of the road design, the road design capabilities. So I'm going to move over to a project in-- this is in Alabama. So just type it. And notice this little home button here means that this project is local. I haven't published this to BIM 360. Whenever you see that little cloud icon, it means it's published on BIM 360 and you can look at different revisions and query it in different ways.

So this is Aliceville in Alabama. So we're not going to look at everything. But we're going to look at some of the tools to help you with brownfield, or laying out new roads, doing optimization, using cloud services. So I'm going to show you a tool here where you can use a cloud service to say, look, I've got this greenfield road, this brand new road, that needs to start here and end there-- so point A to point B.

But between point A and point B, I've got various constraints. There might be a wildlife reserve, a historic district that I should avoid at all costs. There might be a river that I need to avoid or maybe cross at the least expensive spot where the width is the least, because it's going to cost you a lot to put a bridge in there. So it's going to try and look at what's the best way to get from point A to point B using the cloud services.

So what I'm going to do here is-- you can see over here is that I've got this dirt road, or this gravel road. And what I'm going to do is use the InfraWorks tools to lay out what we call a component road. So in InfraWorks 2019 onwards, there are only two types of roads. There's what we call a planning road and a component road. Now for those of you that have worked in InfraWorks in past versions, there was another road called a design road and we kind of consolidated from three to two.

So planning roads are when you're looking at a wide area. And when you start getting more specific, especially when you have honed down on one or two roads that you want to take further into design, it's what we call component road. So if you're familiar with Civil 3D, a component roads has different components which are equivalent to assemblies or sub assemblies inside of Civil 3D-- very intelligent, parametric components.

So what I'm going to do here is the first thing I want to do is I want to lay down a two lane local road with a shoulder in it. So what I can do here is, if I go in and say, I want to lay down this road. First of all, if I go to my style palette and I look at my component roads and I go to my Assemblies-- so we have assemblies in InfraWorks as well.

I don't see any two lane with shoulder assemblies that I can use. I mean, I've got four lane divided. So these assemblies are equivalent to the assemblies in Civil 3D. So how do I go about creating a new assembly? Let's say I wanted a two lane local road with a shoulder on it and then of course my cut fields. So how I go about it is, what I'm going to do here is I'm going to start off with my undivided. So I'm going to come up here. And I've got this road bridge drainage little options here.

So if I go to road and say Edit, I'm going to go Component Road. So what I'm going to do is, let me just go ahead and, just somewhere in my project, I'm going to-- Component Road. Now let's go here. I've got something called two lanes. But let me say I wanted to start from a full lane undivided. I can search for it. Where's my undivided? No, that's not it. There's my full lane undivided.

So, I've selected my assembly. And I'm just going to put it down somewhere. I'm just going to say, all right, I want from here to here. I'm going to create just a temporary assembly. I want to create a new assembly that's two lane with shoulder. So notice over here what it did for me-- it went ahead and put a full lane, no shoulders. It's got four lanes. And then it's got my cut fields. Totally forgot about that. All that preparation.

Thanks for the warning. So what I can do here-- now that I've got a four lane, how do I create a two lane with a shoulder on it? So this is very intuitive. It's a very intuitive process. What I can do here is I can come up here and I can actually select individual components on this road. And I can say, well, you know what I want to do. I want to delete that outside lane over there. I want to delete this outside lane over there. So now I've got two lanes.

Now how do I go ahead and put in a shoulder? Well, let's say I wanted to put a barrier. So I'm going to do this. I'm going to click on this roadway. And if I right click, you have an option here to say Insert Road Component. So I can come here and say Insert Road Component. And now I've got these different components.

So I can come up here. And if I've got a sidewalk, I've got a shoulder. I've got a barrier. I can add these components to one or both sides of that component road. So if I come up here and I say I want to put his shoulder, notice that I've got these little grips. So if I say, I want to put a shoulder-- let's just put his shoulder from here-- and I want to do the same thing on the other side.

There isn't a mirror just yet, but hopefully very soon. So if I say, I want to put the shoulder on this side-- so what I've now got is I have an assembly. I'm making this new assembly. And it's got two lanes and a shoulder. Now, again, I can control for example-- at this point, I don't care about my transitions. So if I want to I can say, right click on this, and say, just remove that transition out.

Now let's say that I wanted a another assembly to be used on this road that has kind of the same structure but it has a median, a grass median in the middle. So if I come up here and I say, all right, let's select this roadway and I want to insert a road component and I want a sloped grass median. And I want to put it in the middle from here.

Notice how it puts it on the left side of that particular roadway. But notice, as I click on these options, it gives me a little panel out here. And one of the options here is centerline attachment. So I can control, for example, what's the slope of this median, what is the depth, what's the width. And one of the things I can do here is say, put this right in the center. So it's put that slope medium right in the center.

Now how do I create an assembly out of this? So I've got two different assemblies that I've created. I want to add this to my library. Now obviously, if you've created these in another project, there's a way to export it from that project and bring it into this project. So you're not having to do this time in and time again. But if you're creating a new assembly, you're doing it in a visual way. I mean, how many of you have created assemblies in Civil 3D? It's snap, change your parameters, left side, right side, mirror, cetera.

This is more a visual assembly creation. But it's even easier to add this to your library. So how do I put this in my library so I can start using this from this point onwards? Well, if I go up here and I right click, one of the options here is to Add to Library. So if I say Add to Library and I just select this part here-- it's going to look at all the components that I just selected, and it's going to say, OK, I want to add this. It's going to be two lane with shoulder. And I'm going to add this to the library.

So what happens now? Let's create another component over here. So I'm going to do the same. I'm going to say add, road assembly, add to library. And I'm going to put it over here. So this is just going to be two lanes with a grass median in the middle. So I say two lanes, grass median.

Now if I go to my component section, you will see a custom folder. So any new assemblies that you add goes into that custom folder. So if I go to my custom folder, I've got those extra two assemblies. So think of it this way. I mean, you can come in and you can start creating these assemblies. You want four lanes. You want a sidewalk. You want curb and gutter. You know just start building these out. Then you just section them out and add them to the library.

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MATHEWS MATHAI: For other people to use. Right. So now, at this point, I don't need this road. I can just delete it, because it's purpose is done. So now what I'm going to do is-- and when I tried this last time this is where it crashed. So I'm just warning you. It's beta. So what I'm going to now do is I'm going to use my component road. And I'm going to say, all right, I want to select my two lane-- so I can go to my custom folder. And I've got two lane grass median. I don't want that one.

Let's go two lane with shoulder. I've selected that. I'm going to create this using element based. So I want to go PI, put a curve in, another PI, put another curve in, or even a spiral in, and so on. And a change that has happened with 2019 is that, when you're bringing information from Civil 3D back into InfraWorks, InfraWorks could only support clothoid spirals. So if you had a bloss spiral or a sinusoidal spiral in Civil 3D and you brought it into InfraWorks, it would dumb it down or it would convert it to a clothoid.

With 2019-- well the sandbox version-- so hopefully this will show up in an upcoming release-- it will maintain those different types of spirals. But you won't be able to change those spirals once you're in InfraWorks. It will retain whatever spirals they were.

So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to say, OK, I'm going to do element based. It's a local road, 65 miles per hour. What I'm going to do here is-- oops, and I'm still in that mode. I'm going to lay it out. I'm going to stay up here, Assembly, Start. Oh, I knew it. I knew it. I warned you. Get out of jail card, right?

Now nice thing is there's no Save button required. So whatever you have done until that point is saved and it's ready to go. So let's see. So I'm going to open up Aliceville, and I'm going to lay out my road. And then I'm going to show you how some of the new grading capabilities inside of InfraWorks.

Now, again, the idea here is that you want to do as much as you want or as much as you can inside of InfraWorks before you take it into Civil 3D. And you'll be amazed how much you can get done inside of InfraWorks. So I'm going to come up here and I'm going to say, all right, I want this new component road. And I'm now going to say, all right, I want to go from here, to here, put a curve in, out here, put another curve in, the small curve. And I can modify that as I go. I want to come up here. And then I want to curve it in and come in and intersect that roadway.

So what it's done here now-- it's laid out my road. It's actually coming here. And it's created an intersection for me. So I've got an intersection here. Let me convert this road-- OK, wait. I moved that a moment. Let's bring it to the middle. So it creates an intersection. I went a little too far. So I'm going to move that back. Come on.

Yeah, if you hold down the Control key, it gives you more flexibility. Otherwise, it kind of tries to snap to some end point. So if you hold down the Control key, you have more control on that snap. So you can see over here, for example, it gives me all my stationing. I can change the radius of this curve. I can look at this model inside a profile view. I've got a profile view in there. So you know if I want to, I can modify very similar to Civil 3D. And I can go up here and modify this PI, and my 3D model automatically updates.

A new feature inside of the beta version is, if I want to zoom in here, it now gives me a lot more information. For example, I can change the key value. I can have asymmetrical versus symmetrical parabolic curves. I can hold down-- for example, notice I've got these grades. If I hold the Control key, I can hold the grade ahead and vary the grade back. And if I hold down the Alt key, it'll hold the other. So you can actually do your grading in that particular way.

So this is just very basic, just laying out of a roadway. We created some assemblies and we laid it out for you. So let's now look at some of the grading capabilities. So let me switch over to a proposal that I had, which is separate road layout. So it's a cleaned up version of this road. And you can see over here how, instead of just a straight T intersection, I've got a roundabout.

Now you might think, for those of you that have not seen InfraWorks, now how difficult was that? And you can see over here, there is an object called a roundabout intersection. When I click on it, it basically will tell me, look, do I want a roundabout or just an intersection. So you can actually change this by switching between junction types.

And this is all per AASHTO Green Book. So it's not just a pretty picture. There's a lot of geometry behind it. And how many of also use the Autodesk vehicle turning or vehicle tracking tool? So that's also being built into InfraWorks. I can actually come in this roundabout. And let's say, I want to go about this intersection. And I can change the vehicle type and say, OK, I want a semi a semi truck. And it will automatically modify your intersection in that particular way.

So let's now take a look at how do to do grading. So notice that, based on the profile, we had some PIs at various intersections that just creates straight lines between it. But what you can do here is, for example, I can control-- if I click on this fill slope or this cut slope here, notice I can change-- for example, a three to one slope, I can say, well, I want this to be a five to one. I want my fill slopes to be five to one. And I want my grading limit to go out 50 feet. And it automatically updates for you.

You can assign different material types to it. So you can see I actually assigned a stone type of material. I can actually create what we call grading regions. So for example-- and I'm not sure if this is available in 2019 release version. But I can come to this section here, and I can say, I want to split the grading. So let's say, for some reason, the grading from this point to this point, I wanted it at a different grade. So notice now I've got two sections. I can control this grading section separately and say, you know what, I want this to be a three to one.

Now what does that cause? That causes a transition problem. So we've got a tool for that. So you can come up here and you can say, look, I want to transition from my five to one to a three to one in a smooth fashion. So if I click on this button here, there is an Add Transition.

So there is a minimum transition of five meters, and you can transition up to 100 meters. So if I say I want to transition from there to here-- did I do that right? Bad transition. So I want to do from there to there. That's transition, right? If your grading limit doesn't go far enough, you have a tool now to add a retaining wall. So you can say Add a Retaining Wall. So if it's going out 25 feet and then it suddenly drops out there, you can create a retaining wall. So there's a lot of grading tools available to you over here before you take it out into something like Civil 3D.

So let's look at the tool here to-- before we move on there, I do want to show you how you can actually-- if you right click, you can look at your super elevations. So again, this is going the whole gamut here. So you can see where your super elevation transition stations are. I can look at my cross-section view.

So I've got three different types of views. So this one here is my super elevation view. So I can go up here. I have another view that is just my cut fill areas. I think I'm way out there. Hold on. So it's actually going in and figuring out what your cuts and your fills are at those various stations. You have the ability to put extra sample lines, as we call them, in Civil 3D at critical points. In a way, you're changing super elevation. It's becoming more and more just a visual Civil 3D.

And at the end of the day, you can even go in here and you can actually do your cut fills. You can say, look, I want to calculate-- this is material quantities. So how much asphalt do I have on my shoulders? How much dark gray asphalt do I need to lay down? How much volume? I can generate reports or I can even go in here and I can do my cut fill analysis and say, generate my cut fills. So there's a lot you can do inside of the InfraWorks environment.

So let's now take a look at doing something like optimization. How many of you use the cloud service optimization?

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MATHEWS MATHAI: They transfer over as corridor surfaces.

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MATHEWS MATHAI: Yeah, right. How many have used the optimization service inside of InfraWorks? So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to turn on what I call some push pins. I'm going to show you what my intent is. So what I want to do is I want to connect-- I've come up with a new road that goes from here and connects to this road here. And we want to call this the East West connector.

So what I'm going to do here is, first of all, let me show you where the points are. So let's go up here. Wait a minute. Hold on. Turn on POIs. Where are my POIs? Yeah, there's my POIs. So I've turned on my POIs. And what I'm trying to say is I want to create a new road from this point. And there's another point out here.

And I also have various avoidance areas that I want to avoid. So this area here is-- you can see, it's habitat species management area. And this area here is some sort of natural habitat. And I want to avoid that. So if I go over to my Road Tools and go to Analysis, there's something here called Corridor Optimization.

So I'm going to say, all right, I want to lay out this road and I want to have the four lane divided with a grass median. That's the roadway that I want to lay out between point A and point B. I want to go up to my path, and I want to say, OK, my start point is here and my endpoint is down there.

I want to limit my solutions to within this boundary. So basically, I don't want any solution that goes outside of this boundary. And now with the cloud, what this is going to do is, in the real world, you may only have budget or time to look at a handful of options. But now, with the cloud processing, I mean, you can run this and it'll do millions of computations and come out with the least cost or the shortest path.

Now I can also come-- before I optimize it, I can go to my Advanced Settings and I can say, look, I want to make sure that it avoids these avoidance zones. I've got construction rules. So basically, if it does have to cross a river or a lake, only put in a bridge if the difference in height exceeds 25 feet.

Roadside grading-- cut slopes are three to one, fill slopes are three to one, alignment constraints. Well, let's say that I only want to have options that have a minimum radius of 1,500 feet. And I also want to have profile constraints where I don't want anything greater than a four degree grade. So basically you're putting all these constraints in.

And now when I say, go ahead and optimize it, it's going to send it to the cloud-- and it might take a few minutes, might take 10 minutes, depending on where you are in the queue-- and you'll get an email back with a report saying what the option is. And this is an example of what the-- so rather than sitting here and waiting for it to go and get processed, I want to show you what the resulting roadway looked like.

The resulting roadway went right here. And it found that it was cheaper to go around the lake versus crossing the lake and putting a bridge in. And the report that it gives you-- so it will actually give you a report. In fact, when you submit it to the server, you're actually going to get a status. You're saying, OK, it's basically being processed. And you can go back and keep checking to see whether the data comes back.

And at the end of the day, you will get a report back of this nature. And this will come up in an email as well. It will come back with a report saying, OK, this was the best solution that it came back with. And it's saying, OK, it optimized the profile as well as the horizontal. It will give you a detailed report saying, what was the total construction cost.

Oh, I did forget to show you that, when you go to the card optimization, there was one other section here, construction [INAUDIBLE] cost. So you can basically specify, for example, in this table-- if you had a bridge, what's the cost of a pier, what's the cost of concrete, what are your haul costs per cubic yard. And it will basically give you that report telling you what was the-- let's see. Where was that again? And it will also come back here and tell you how best to do the hauling, where are your burrow pits, where are your staging zones, the most optimal location.

And then, at the end of the day, then I can actually create a new proposal out of this. And you can see over here, it went ahead, connected it to the that intersection there, three to one slopes, median-- because that would be assembly I chose-- and we're ready to go. So that's optimization. You can do it both horizontally and vertically. You know how to lay out roads. You can do grading, the super elevation, these cross sections.

And when you take this and open this up inside of Civil 3D, right there's an option to open an InfraWorks model, which I hope to show you. It will convert all these assemblies into corridors inside of Civil 3D. And if you want, you can replace the corridors or the assemblies that came out of InfraWorks with more complex assemblies that you might have inside of Civil 3D.

So let me now move on to another option here. If I want to do drainage along a roadway-- how many of used InfraWorks for drainage, culvert placements, and things like that? So what this does for you here is-- let's say that I wanted to place culverts along this roadway that I just created. But I don't have any idea what the watershed information is.

So again, this is a cloud service. I would go to my drainage module. And there's an option here to say Create Watershed. And what Create Watershed does for me is it's going to take all this terrain data, send it up to the current cloud, and the cloud is going to come back and tell me what my watershed areas.

So I'm not going to run it live because it might take a few minutes. But when it's done, this is what you're going to see. Let's go to Drainage Watershed. So within a few minutes, you will see this kind of representation showing you all the drainage areas, or the watershed areas.

So what I now need to do, before I insert my culverts and before I even get to that, notice how it will actually go ahead and flag where streams will cross the road with these markers here. And you can actually see, they are streams out here. So what we're trying to do here is design culverts. So before I do that, I need to go to each watershed area and give it some rainfall information.