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Navigating Drainage Design: A Flood of Solutions with InfraWorks, Civil 3D, and InfoDrainage

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Join us for an in-depth technical instruction session as we guide you through the entire process of a drainage design project, from preproject planning to detailed design. Harnessing the power of legacy architecture, engineering, and construction tools (InfraWorks and Civil 3D software) as well as the newer tools and InfoDrainage, we'll demonstrate seamless interoperability and connectivity to streamline your workflow. We'll focus on the catchment automation aspects of InfraWorks and Civil 3D. Then, we'll shift to how Civil 3D and InfoDrainage can be used to complete the drainage design even as these subcatchments change as the project progresses. You'll learn practical techniques and best practices for using this interoperability to its fullest potential. By connecting the design-and-make process from end to end, we're advancing practices in the field of drainage design. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your skills and revolutionize your approach to drainage projects with InfraWorks, Civil 3D, and InfoDrainage.

Key Learnings

  • Learn how to perform preliminary drainage studies using the tools within InfraWorks.
  • Learn how to use the automatic catchment delineation tools within Civil 3D for the creation of subcatchments.
  • Learn how to use the integration of Civil 3D and InfoDrainage to complete a detailed drainage design.

Speakers

  • Midori Skold
    Midori is a product specialist for Autodesk Water Infrastructure (FKA Innovyze), where she harnesses her previous experience working as a water resource engineer for consultants and utilities to empower Autodesk customers to make informed and transformational technology investments. Her technical expertise is primarily in stormwater modeling, ranging from large-scale FEMA mapping projects to site-specific drainage and GI/LID design. However, her role at Autodesk has introduced her to all facets of the water lifecycle and she well-versed in the world of hydraulic modeling including collection systems, water distribution systems, asset management, and operational analytics. Outside of the technical realm of hydraulic modeling, she is passionate about the EIT experience and believes that talent retention in the water industry is a solvable problem.
  • Hunter Sparks
    Hunter is a Sales Engineer at Autodesk with a specialty in the Autodesk water solutions. He is skilled in leading projects in geotechnical, land development, utility design and stormwater design, with more than 9 years of Civil Engineering industry experience. He earned his BS in Civil Engineering and minor in Green Engineering from Virginia Tech. He holds a Professional Engineer license in North Carolina and Colorado. He enjoys working with engineers to ensure they get the most out of the Autodesk software!
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    Louisa Holland
    Ask me anything about Civil 3D, Infraworks 360, AutoCAD, BIM 360
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MIDORI SKOLD: Hello, everybody, and welcome to this Autodesk University presentation titled "Navigating Drainage Design-- a Flood of Solutions with InfraWorks Civil 3D, and InfoDrainage." My name is Midori Skold. And I'm an Autodesk Water Products Specialist.

And joining me today are Hunter Sparks, a Technical Subject Matter Expert, also on the Autodesk Water team, and Louisa Holland, a Technical Sales Specialist on the Autodesk Technical Sales team.

And before we begin, I do have to share this safe harbor statement. This presentation might contain forward-looking statements. And please do not make any purchasing decisions based on any of those forward-looking statements as product roadmaps are always subject to change.

And before we begin, I just want to review the learning objectives. So ultimately, what you should walk away from this presentation is a knowledge of learning how to perform preliminary drainage design studies with using the tools within InfraWorks, learning how to use the automatic catchment delineation tools within Civil 3D for the creation of subcatchments, and learning how to use the integration of Civil 3D and InfoDrainage to complete a detailed drainage design.

So three main learning objectives and three main products that we'll be focusing on today. I'll start by just giving a rundown of those three tools. And then Hunter Sparks is going to talk about InfoDrainage. Louisa Holland is going to take us into Civil 3D. And then I'll come back to wrap us up and talk us through InfoDrainage.

So it's important to note that Autodesk has a wide variety of software solutions. And there are feature and functionality overlaps between some of those solutions. However, each solution does have its own specific and dedicated best-use case. So let's understand that before diving further down into those. InfraWorks is going to be the best for early stages of a drainage design project and take us through conceptual site layout.

And, again, that early stage of drainage design, this might be involving urban planners or developers who are looking to get a quick and high-level visualization of what drainage patterns might be on a site. Then Civil 3D might be the next step where a civil designer or a civil site engineer is going to do the bulk of the design work for a civil site project.

So here we'll refine our catchment areas. We'll do initial pipe layouts in here, as well. This is, again, where the bulk of the grading is going to be done, as well as adding roadways, creating alignments, and most of that plan production work.

Now, InfoDrainage is the best tool for detailed hydraulic analysis and design. While Civil 3D does have some drainage design tools in it, again, InfoDrainage is going to have the most robust and most extensive tool set when it comes to doing the drainage design.

So who might use this part? There might be a water resource product specialist or a drainage design specialist who's going to be actually doing the hydraulic modeling, sizing those pipes, sizing the detention ponds, and, again, doing just a little more of that detailed design. So that's an overview of the tools. And with that, we'll start with InfraWorks.

HUNTER SPARKS: Thanks, Midori. As Midori mentioned, I'm going to cover the InfraWorks portion of this presentation. So we'll start by talking about, what is infraworks? Infraworks really is a tool that is best utilized in the early stages, preliminary site layout and drainage design. It does a really good job of aggregating multidisciplinary data sets because you can bring in not only your Civil 3D and your Revit data, but also open source data.

It's good at modeling, analyzing, and visualizing infrastructure design concepts. When it comes to the H and H capabilities, what we're going to focus on today is really that watershed analysis, which can be pivotal during the preliminary drainage design. But it also has tools like the water flow analysis, culvert analysis, and storm drain network analysis.

The workflow we're going to be talking about today is really concentrating on creating and exporting the watersheds. The steps we're going to walk through-- and I will give a caveat that step one, using the model build to leverage that open source data and build the model, was done previously to this presentation. But in the handout that comes with the presentation, you can see the steps that you would use to create that.

We're then going to apply a terrain theme, run a watershed analysis, both on the surface and the component road. Use the runoff method to generate 100-year flow export to Civil 3D and then turn that watershed into a catchment.

So the first tool we're going to talk about is terrain themes. And what terrain themes really allow you to do is get a good visualization of what is going on in your surface. You can do this based on elevation aspect or slope. In this example, we're going to concentrate on elevation because we want to find the low points in our site.

So if you're working in InfraWorks on the Manage tab, under display you'll want to go to Terrain Themes. Once you do that, you can click the Add button, give it a name. For this one, we're going to call it Elevation. Choose the analysis type once again, sticking with elevation. And then you can choose the color from for the low point and color too for the high point. We're going to change this to green, just so you can see how it automatically updates the preview in this panel.

You can mess with the transparency, which we'll do later in this video. Once you press OK, it overlays your surface and your site with that theme. So now we can see in the middle of our site where the green-- we have a high point. And up to the northwest in red, we have a low point. So this might be a good place to concentrate on for our drainage design.

And you can turn back that transparency. So you can keep the theme. But it's not going to be too in-your-face. It's not going to jump off the page. You can keep it more as a background layer, but still use it in your drainage design.

The next step that we're going to move to is actually delineating a watershed, which can be a very, very pivotal and very early point of your drainage design. This allows you to generate the flow, either over your entire site or within portions of your site that you need to convey across your site.

So what we're going to show today is how to do just a point on the surface. But then we're also going to do a point along the road and seeing how much flow we might need to convey across that road. So now we move from the Manage to the Analyze tab. And under the Analyze tab, we'll go to the Watershed tool. The first example we're going to look at is choosing a low point on our site. This is, of course, where that terrain theme can really come in handy because we can see where the low points on our site are.

And we can see where the water is going to flow, and see and generate that watershed. So by clicking on a low point on our site, we can then change the grid spacing or the stream threshold, if we would like to concentrate on running a faster analysis or we want a little bit more detailed analysis. So once we've chosen that, we can close and press Enter. And it's going to go ahead and generate that watershed for us to that point.

So by clicking on the low point from our site, we can now see a large area that is flowing to that portion of our site. And by looking at the terrain theme, we can see that makes sense because we chose a low point with higher points around it. And that's where the watershed is going.

We can now turn off the terrain theme so that we can really concentrate on the area. And it can jump off the screen a little bit more. Now we're going to move over and look at the watershed for the road, as opposed to the actual surface.

So in this example, we will go back to the Analyze tab, click the watershed. But this time we're going to click the component road. At this point, it's going to tell us that we can select a certain section of our road. Or we can skip that step, press Enter. And it'll analyze the entire component road.

Once that's done, we can zoom in. And we can see that this watershed area seems to be converging on this point, which makes sense because there's also a stream crossing our road. This could be a good place to have a pipe or a culvert. And how would we go about sizing this culvert? Well, if we click on the watershed, we look at the area, but then really focus on the hydrology data, this is where you can change the hydrology method from user-defined regression or what we're going to choose today, rational, in order to size the flow from this watershed.

Within the rational method, in order to get the 100-year flow, you'll want to give it a runoff coefficient, which we'll use 0.5 in this case, and then a rainfall intensity, which we'll use four inches per hour to really generate that 100-year flow. Now by generating the watershed, giving it a hydrology method and the coefficient and intensity, we've now generated the flow that would need to be conveyed under this road, if that is how we were going to bring our drainage design and how we were going to leverage the flows and different components.

So now that we've generated the flow, we've delineated the watershed. How do we move this from a place where we're doing more of that preliminary design and move it to a place where maybe we want to do a little bit more detailed design? And this last step, we're going to export the data to Civil 3D, leveraging the IMX data format, and convert the watershed to a catchment.

So now we'll move from the Analyze to the Present and Share because there's a couple of different options for passing data back and forth between InfraWorks and Civil 3D. In this example, as mentioned, we're going to export to IMX and bring this into Civil 3D.

You have a couple of different options here. You can use your entire model. You can choose a box around the area you want to use. Or you can use extents from a file. You can change your target coordinates. But in this one, we're just going to save it on everyone's favorite, especially my colleague Lou, who's on here.

Got to do a shameless plug for Docs, always the best way to pass data back and forth between our different tools, but especially InfraWorks to Civil 3D. And I would say from Civil 3D to InfoDrainage, as well. Docs can be leveraged in many different ways. And this is just a great way to pass data back and forth.

And so now that we've exported that IMX, or we're in the process of exporting that IMX, we can go ahead and switch over to Civil 3D and bring that data in. So now that we're back in InfraWorks, we're going to move from the Analyze to the Present and Share so that we can pass the data from InfraWorks to Civil 3D.

There are a couple of different options. But in this example, we're going to export to IMX. With this option, you can choose the entire model. You can choose a box around the section you want to bring forward. You can use an extension from a map. But we're just going to do the whole model to see what data follows through.

We're going to go ahead and save this on Autodesk Docs, which, of course, is a great way to pass data back and forth between many of the Autodesk products, but especially from InfraWorks to Civil 3D, and I would say even from Civil 3D to InfoDrainage. So as this is going through and exporting, the next thing we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and switch over to Civil 3D and see what data is going to be pulled in from the IMX data.

So now, in Civil 3D, we're going to want to switch over-- we're going to want to find the InfraWorks tab. Within the InfraWorks tab, you'll have a couple of different options for importing the data. We're going to import the IMX and choose that watershed export that we created from InfraWorks.

So now we can see that a lot of different pieces of that open source data actually follow through from InfraWorks to Civil 3D. And that's really where InfraWorks can be a great preliminary design tool. You don't necessarily have to wait for a survey to be completed. You can get that open source data, push it to Civil 3D, and then start with your design.

You can see the existing surface was pulled through-- the road was pulled through as a corridor, as well as some alignments where you had different trails. Now what we want to concentrate on is the polyline that is in the area of our watershed. If we click on it, as we can see, it has the same layout. And it looks like it's in the same position.

But how can we really check to make sure it is in fact, our watershed? Well, one way we can go through a check is actually checking the area. So if you type area and the command, press object, and Select on our watershed, we can see here that it is 30702020. And if we come back to InfraWorks, we have the exact same area. So that's a pretty good check that it is the watershed that we wanted to bring over.

So as you can see, it not only followed through in the proper location but also brought the proper size through. Now we can take this one step further by converting the watershed to a catchment. This can be a really important portion of the drainage design, just so that it can follow through and add additional detail with it.

So we'll go to the Analyze Catchment, Create Catchment from Object. And then we're going to go ahead and select our watershed. Now we can give it a name, a description, change the runoff coefficient, which we're going to keep with 0.5 because that's what we're using for our analysis. And once we go through and press, OK, it's going to convert our polyline to a catchment.

And if we select our catchment and go to the properties, we can see additional information that were tied to it. So now you can see how you can use InfraWorks to lay out a preliminary watershed that is going to a certain area for your road, for your site. And this can be a good way to do that preliminary design.

But if you want to go to a more detailed design, it would be a good time to switch over or continue to stay in Civil 3D. So once you export it, you could continue to design, or in my case, I'm lucky enough to have someone that's smarter than me in Civil 3D to continue the design. So at that point, I'm going to go ahead and pass it off to Lou Holland to handle the more detailed drainage design.

LOUISA HOLLAND: In this portion of the presentation, I'll review the creation of pipe networks and show the steps needed to create and export a pipe network to InfoDrainage with catchment and flow data attached. Let's get started.

The biggest favor you can do yourself before attempting to digitally delineate drainage areas is to have a high quality surface model. That means a regularly triangulated, continuous surface with properly defined break lines. Surfaces that have been created from contours or DEM tend to work poorly because that surface creation will create little steps. And that creates the delineation, creates a poor spot in the delineation, makes it impossible for the software.

So in this example, I'll create the pipe network, first by laying it out in plan view of Civil 3D. Then I'll use my high quality host-developed surface model to delineate several catchments from the surface model. Then I'll review what Hunter did by converting a polyline to a catchment.

But then I'll take it one step further by adding some flow information to that catchment. And last, I will export the catchments and all that related data into InfoDrainage.

So let's first get started by talking about some things that you can set up to make the transition between Civil 3D and InfoDrainage much smoother. So first, let's talk about pipes. So many of you know that pipe networks in Civil 3D consist of parts. And that parts list is part of the template drawing that you start with.

So in the exchange, the setup of your parts list and the corresponding pipe library in InfoDrainage is key. The network parts lists contain families in Civil 3D and the sizes in that family. It's the rule associated with the part where Civil 3D gets the initial design constraints like slope, and maximum lengths, and some connection behavior.

Civil 3D pipes can be of several different shapes, each being its own part family. And then, inside those families, we have the sizes. On the InfoDrainage side, we see non-circular pipes. But there's other places where we can set up some other conveyance.

On the InfoDrainage side, the pipe-size library is the acceptable pipe list that the software is going to use in its auto sizing. So we want those two lists to correspond between the two programs.

On a similar note, we have the exchange set up for structures. Structures in Civil 3D are also part of the network parts list. Those structures can be different shapes. But on the Civil 3D side, there's really no intelligence behind them. The intelligence comes from those rules, again, that in this case will set rim elevation, invert depths, and other connection options.

On the InfoDrainage side, we have the manhole-sized library. And that contains our acceptable junction sizes that the software will use in design. And all of these libraries, the pipe library, the manhole library, can be stored in external files. So in this case, IDMHSIX, but those can be stored. Think of those like templates, but for InfoDrainage.

The last thing I'll talk about before I get into some videos is the part mapping. And in my opinion, this is the most important piece of getting that exchange between Civil 3D and InfoDrainage to go nice and smoothly. There's only three buttons on the toolbar in Civil 3D. And one of those is Part Mapping Manager. And this is what holds on to what structures on the Civil 3D side correspond to which object types on the InfoDrainage side.

The reason that this is different on the different products is because they define things like connections slightly differently. Info drainage can connect between structures with open channels or with no delay between structures, where Civil 3D wants a physical 3D object. So this is that translation between the two.

Something that I'd like to point out is that when you create this mapping file under the proverbial hood, it's hanging on to the part catalog that was active when you created your parts list. So if you've got multiple part catalogs, you will need multiple part map lists. So let's put this in action. And once you've got all the parts in place, it's just a few clicks to get this going.

So we'll do our initial pipe layout in Civil 3D. And what I placed the parts in plan view, the surface is going to set my elevation. And the rules are going to set up the initial slopes on those pipes. I'm picking my initial structure from the list of parts. And I'm choosing a 12-inch pipe because I'm not concerned about the sizing here. Info drainage is going to take care of it, so 12-inch pipes across the board. I'm snapping to some predetermined locations in the plan view.

And at the end here, I'll go in and add a head wall that will exit to my pond. I'm just going to swap structures and then select structures only. You'll see that glyph when you're ready to click. And that's all there is to it. When the pipe network layout is complete, the next step is to examine the proposed surface model and determine what areas would drain to our catch basins.

I'm showing the Esri aerial photo just to highlight that this is a real project that we're working with near the outskirts of Nashua, New Hampshire. The surface was collected from a mix of traditional survey and some laser scans. So this is an ideal surface for automatic delineation. I created a surface group. And now I'm clicking where I want, basically, that same low spot like Hunter showed, except we're doing that on the Civil 3D side with our proposed surface.

I'm selecting the catch basin to associate to the drainage area. And when I hit OK, you'll see Civil 3D process. And we'll zoom out a little bit. And we can see the properties of our new catchment object. So let's do that one more time. We'll go create catchment, associate the reference structure. That means that we're draining to that structure. And that's all there is to it.

Now, when I create the catchment from the surface, it's automatically adding a flow path. But what I'll do next is create a catchment from a polyline, just like Hunter did. But then I'm going to supplement it by adding a flow path. And that'll give me the time. and concentration to that catch basin, adds a little more data.

So this first step is I'm just defining that catchment. This is review from maybe 10 minutes ago when Hunter did it, associating it to that catch basin, and nothing new here.

But next, what I'm going to do is use those similar tools to add a flow path, so using that water drop command. And water drop simply creates a polyline. So I'm going to leverage that polyline to tell Civil 3D my longest flow path. And that's what's going to give me my time and concentration.

It did a little bit of CAD cleanup in here just so it's easier to see what's going on because it didn't automatically remove that initial flow path. So when I zoom in, we'll be able to see what it's done here. Now we can add more data to these flow paths. A lot of people don't realize that you can add sheet flow, shallow concentrated flow, and different other flow types to your Civil 3D catchments. And that's what I'll be showing here.

You can add the flow path through the ribbon, or through panorama is where you can see the different flow paths. We can add those or edit these from here.

And let's see, some other things I want to highlight that's new as of 2025.2, that you're seeing in front of you, is that there is a new there's new properties inside of catchment objects. For example, we can now use SCS soil methods. So we can associate a composite curve number to a catchment, which is brand new as of the last Civil 3D update.

So what we're seeing there is more drainage capabilities getting built right into Civil 3D. So it's a little bit of a spoiler for later. I also want to point out that catchments can be manipulated in the Civil 3D project browser or-- sorry, Project Explorer. And the reason that Project Explorer is handy is it's the best way to bulk edit any number of objects.

So if I wanted to go through and maybe change some of the runoff coefficients in here or change what catchment is associated to what catch basin, I could easily do that there.

Now the last stop before I hand it over to Midori is I'll export to InfoDrainage, I'll save it to this location in My Docs folder. And just like Hunter was saying before, this is a really easy way for Midori and I to share files.

Even though we're across town from each other, she can pick up this InfoDrainage file that I just exported and do the analysis. Since I already set up pipe sizing in my part mapping ahead of time, the export to InfoDrainage is just a few clicks. It's picking up that 12-inch pipe. And that's all there is to it. And with that, I think I'm ready to pass the torch over to Midori to take the workflow to the next step.

MIDORI SKOLD: Thanks so much, Lou. And as promised, we are wrapping up in InfoDrainage. So just to review, InfoDrainage is Autodesk's next generation design and analysis tool for stormwater infrastructure. While Civil 3D can get us a great start to those initial catchment layouts and that initial pipe layouts, of course, all those pipe networks need to be sized. The hydraulics need to be run. The runoff needs to be analyzed.

And we need to size our stormwater control structures that we might be building into this site, as well. And InfoDrainage is the most capable place to do that. InfoDrainage is powered by a modified SWMM engine. And, again, it can handle those detailed runoff calculations and has a wide variety of methodologies just depending on the jurisdiction that you're in, in order to calculate that runoff.

Now, we're not going to do a fully fledged drainage design. That would be a whole other hour of InfoDrainage design work, including doing detailed pond layouts or designing LIDs, or looking at some of the design calculators and wizards that are in there to help reduce the number of iterations you might need to do in that drainage design process to make sure that you're hitting those compliance standards for stormwater permitting purposes.

But we will just take a look at that exchange between Civil 3D and InfoDrainage and show how, as the design progresses, some different methodologies for making sure that changes are being reflected, both in your drainage design model in InfoDrainage, as well as in your Civil 3D design file as the design progresses and information changes.

So one of the first things that we'll look at is just catchment refinement. Catchments are not static, very, very-- I don't think ever can you design catchment delineations and then have them not change throughout the project, whether it's changing based on grading, or changing because of a new pipe layout, or changing because of just a different design configuration. Those catchments do end up changing throughout the design process.

Now, one of the ways that you can refine those catchments that you preliminarily created first in InfraWorks and then in Civil 3D, is using the deluge tool as a visual aid. So this deluge tool just needs a surface file in a InfoDrainage file. And then you can actually run a full 2D analysis and use these flow path's arrows to again refine those catchment areas and just progress that design along even further.

So let's take a look at the InfoDrainage file that Lou created. This here, you can see the initial pipe layout. We have those catchment areas, the surface data. If I go in and click on one of these catchment areas, I can also see that the hydrologic parameters associated with that catchment have been transferred over, as well.

And so the next step I'm doing here is just adding some rainfall data to the file and just highlighting how quickly you can get from just an export to Civil 3D to running a full SWMM analysis. So, again, I've just added that rainfall data, did a quick validation on the model, making sure that it's all hydraulically set up.

To run, I had to just set that rainfall criteria to the rainfall file that I brought in. But now I can run a hydraulic analysis. It's running through all of the different design storms that I loaded in that rainfall template. And those templates can be built out for the different jurisdictions that you work in.

After running that simulation, I get a quick preview of which pipes in this network are surcharging. And I can also quickly look at a hydrograph generated for that catchment area that we're going to be focusing on. And now I'm just running that deluge tool. Again, all I need for this deluge tool is that surface file in here.

And then I actually designate the precipitation depth that I want to apply to that surface and let it drain out for a designated amount of time. And the result, again, is a heat map that highlights any natural drainage [INAUDIBLE] corridors, natural low points in that site design, and gives us a flow area in each of those grid cells.

So now that I have this sort of visual aid, I can actually right click on that catchment and select Replace Outline. And using these flow arrows, I can refine these catchment areas, make them a little closer to what those patterns are doing and just, again, quickly change the shape of those if needed. And these are dynamic. So that area does actually get updated in InfoDrainage.

And some of the time of concentration calculators are dynamic, as well. So I'm using this friend's equation here to quickly calculate a time of concentration. It's giving me a rather high number. So I might want to review that method. But just to highlight that these catchments do read that surface data and are dynamic, doing essentially that water drop step that Lou was showing, but just behind the scenes.

So now I'm just going to replace that outline again. And we're going to instead focus on this upstream area. And you can see that area has been updated. And just a quick tip, the way to refresh that slope and flow path length is actually just to toggle the method and then go back, re-enter that catchment roughness.

And you can see my time of concentration bumped up from about 89 to 93. Again, a little high, but something that we can review later. Now, after having made those changes to the InfoDrainage file, let's say. I want to now update my Civil 3D file.

The import process from InfoDrainage is very, very similar. In fact, it's basically identical to the export to InfoDrainage process that Lou described. So basically, you just select on the InfoDrainage file that you want to bring in and step through that part's mapping process that can be sped up by that those configuration files that Lou also discussed.

Now, not only will the catchment area be updated, a couple other things that are important to note is that the network and catchments in your Civil 3D file will be updated and not duplicated. Or they'll be actually replaced and updated instead of just duplicated.

The hydraulic results associated to that pipe network do carry over into those pipe properties. So you have velocity, you have HGL, EGL elevations in there for quickly creating your profiles to your designed standards. And, of course, the hydrologic information associated with that catchment area has also been sent over. And this catchment has been updated.

Now, like I mentioned earlier, catchments do change throughout the design process. Not only do catchments change but, of course, those pipe layouts might change. It's always a dynamic process and an iterative process, as well.

Now it's important to try to keep your Civil 3D and InfoDrainage files as up to date as possible. And for example, you might have a drainage designer making changes and laying out things in your InfoDrainage file. But you might have a site civil designer making changes in your Civil 3D file. So it's important to be able to exchange those changes back and forth relatively quickly.

And there's a couple of ways to do that. So the first way that I'll just talk about briefly, if you're in the early stages of an InfoDrainage design and you only have one phase or one scenario in that InfoDrainage file, what you can do is simply re-export your pipe network from Civil 3D and essentially just overwrite that file that you already created.

And while the warning message here says this file test already exists, do you want to replace it? Even though it's phrased as do you want to replace it? Some of that data does actually get maintained. So rainfall data, stormwater control objects, any sort of reference background information like CAD data, or imagery, or surface file that does actually get maintained.

Now what doesn't get maintained is if you had, again, multiple phases in this test file, Civil 3D doesn't have phases. Civil 3D is just going to send one phase. and send the most recent version of the pipe network, or pipe networks, to that InfoDrainage file. And it's going to delete the other phases that are in that InfoDrainage file.

So there's another way if you have already progressed further in that InfoDrainage design file, you have multiple phases built out already, whether that's representing existing site conditions or different design alternatives. You can use this import phase tool to get that Civil 3D data back into your original and master InfoDrainage file. So let's look at those steps in action.

So let's say again, I have a site designer in here looking at this. And while there's somebody refining the catchment areas and InfoDrainage, something has changed. And we've decided to update this catchment area in Civil 3D, so just sort of changing the outline. Let's say this area is going to get developed differently, as well. And we're going to change the runoff coefficient in here.

And now we need to get this to our drainage designer and get that back into the original InfoDrainage file. So we'll step through that export to InfoDrainage process again. And instead of overwriting that file, I'm actually just going to create a new file.

Now, a best practice tip might be to give this a name like temp, something just to indicate that this is just a one-time export and that it shouldn't be used to further develop that drainage design process. And this process here could be speeded up with a part template or a mapping configuration file that Lou mentioned. But in this case, we just did it manually.

So now in that new file we created, we can see that catchment area. We can see the updated outline, as well as the updated runoff coefficient. We'll press OK. And then we will go to our original InfoDrainage file. And what we'll do here is just right click on Phase Management and go to Import Phase. And what this is going to do is now we'll just point to that file we just created. And we can just import one phase from that file.

And this phase, of course, contains that updated catchment area. They have the same name. So it just kind of gave it that suffix of one. And now I can duplicate this, duplicate this catchment area to my original phase. And in that original phase I had already deleted out the catchment area that I wanted to update. I can get rid of this duplicate phase.

Now I have that catchment area here. And I just need to re-associate this and reconnect that inflow. So reconnecting inflows and InfoDrainage is simple. You just right click on the catchment area, press reconnect, and then direct it to the catch basin, or junction, or node that you want that runoff area to be routed to. So that concludes the InfoDrainage portion of this.

Let's go ahead and review the different workflows. So, again, starting on the preliminary stages of a drainage design, we used InfraWorks to look at open source data, apply a terrain theme, and get a general idea of what the larger scale watershed patterns are doing on that site.

And then, of course, we sent those preliminary watersheds to Civil 3D. As that design progressed, we looked at the automated catchment delineation tools in Civil 3D. We looked at and shared some best practices for surface information, and then created those catchments and the initial pipe layouts and then exported to InfoDrainage.

Then, of course, once in InfoDrainage, this is where we would do our detailed drainage design. And while we didn't spend the time to actually look into those design calculators and wizards again, that would be a whole other hour of discussion. We did update those catchment areas and do that round tripping process a couple times, just to show how you can keep these files up to date and work through those different phases of the project and through the different iterations that those projects might go to.

And it's important to note that the interoperability between Civil 3D and InfoDrainage is a huge focus for our product teams. Even since last year, it's been really exciting to see some of those changes that have been made and some of the other InfoDrainage presentations that are being shared at this Autodesk University. And that interoperability will just continue to progress.

And hopefully we will start to move away from-- and we already are of moving away from that import-export process and moving towards something that's more dynamic and just easier to work with.

Thank you so much for attending this presentation. Our contact information is here. If you have any questions about anything that you saw today, please don't hesitate to reach out. And, again, thank you for your time. And that concludes this presentation.

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