Beschreibung
Wichtige Erkenntnisse
- Model most common soft and hard landscape elements in InfraWorks
- Connect to other file formats and data sources (Revit, GIS, 3D Models, Civil 3D, etc)
- Create illustrative materials for your presentation
- Use BIM360 to collaborate and share InfraWorks models with consultants and clients
Referent
- Raquel Bascones RecioRaquel studied for her Masters in Architecture at the Technical University of Madrid. She then worked as an Architect in a small practice in Madrid. In 2011 she won a runner-up award in the ‘Europan 11’ competition for young European architects. Her interest in sustainable urban design, accessibility and public realm design led her to study a Master’s in Landscape Architecture. In 2013 Raquel moved to London and worked on several sports, public realm, resort and masterplanning projects including the Al Wakrah Stadium in Qatar and Four Seasons Montenegro. Raquel joined Populous in 2015 to lead the transition to BIM in the Landscape Team. She developed best practices and protocols for Landscape, as well as managed the BIM models. Raquel also participated in AU 2016 as a speaker on 'The secret to landscape modeling with Revit'. In 2017, Raquel moved to Barcelona to join Autodesk as an Implementation Consultant.
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RAQUEL BASCONES RECIO: OK, good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here this afternoon. I really appreciate it. It's the last day of AU after the party, so thank you very much for making the effort to be here. I hope you enjoy the class. Today we are going to talk about the secret to landscape modeling with InfraWorks. Two years ago I was here to talk about the secret of landscape modeling with Revit. So this is a continuation of that class focusing on InfraWorks. So my name is Raquel Bascones Recio. I'm Designated Support Specialist at Autodesk and that means that I help our enterprise customers announce their BIM workflows. But by studies I'm an architect and a landscape architect, and I'm now based in Barcelona.
So today I'm really excited about InfraWorks and I really want you to be as fascinated with it as I am. And when you walk out that door today, I want you to learn this but I want you to realize how InfraWorks can help you improve your landscape workflows and to create more design in less time with a better context. We have a really packed agenda so we will keep all the questions till the end. So please note them and I will try to answer all of them at the end. OK, so we are going to do a short introduction and then we are going to build a model.
We are going to see how to offer the most common elements in the landscape, so hard landscape, soft landscape. And then the best collaboration tools with InfraWorks, some communication features, and finally, just a note on advanced tools if you want to know more. The first questions if you are new-- so how many of you already work with InfraWorks? OK, well, good! Half of it. OK, so this maybe is a question you already know. So what is InfraWorks? Of course it's a software from Autodesk. It's included in our AEC collection. It's a cloud and desktop product. You need to be subscribed to use it. It's a visual communication tool and-- really important-- it allows BIM processes.
We can define it as a combination of GIS, 3D visualization similar to 3ds Max, and civil engineering design. So you see no landscape there, but we are going to make the workarounds to make it work for your landscape design. InfraWorks has two different sets of tools. They are both included in the InfraWorks out of the box. So we have the core tools where you can author main elements, you can analyze your designs, you can bring data files. And then we have the design tools that are specific for certain features like bridges, drainage networks, and roads.
For today's workflow we are going to use the core tools plus the road component model. Yes, we are going to use roads to design landscape. I want to talk a little bit about the file type, because InfraWorks is different from other softwares. It's really a database. So it's a data aggregator, so we don't have a single file for our model but we have two elements. First, we have resource folders which has the name of your model, dot files. And then we have an SQLite file, which is a database also with the same name. Both of them needs to be in the same location and to have the same name for your model to work with InfraWorks.
And talking about file types and saying that it's a data aggregator, this is the list of all the files that you can bring into InfraWorks. As you see, it's really extensive. We have not only Autodesk file types like Revit or Civil 3D, but also third party. We have IFC connection, we have GIS, ESRI files, even SketchUp files can be brought into InfraWorks. And now the question is why InfraWorks is the right tool for landscape master planning? Let's have a look at the landscape and master planning workflow. So as you know, rarely landscapers and master planners work in isolation.
A landscape design needs to communicate with other designs like architects. The buildings needs to sit down on the ground and people need to be able to get in and out. Civil engineers, we have roads, drainage design that we need to coordinate. Structures, sometimes our projects are on podiums or they include some elements like canopies that we need to coordinate with the structural engineers. MEP engineers for utilities and other set of consultants really varies from the projects fire, sustainability, environmental, et cetera. Each of these disciplines is working in a different tool.
So if you will look at the Autodesk portfolio, some of them will be working on Revit, Civil 3D or even plain AutoCAD 2D. And also we need a common data environment to bring all of this together and InfraWorks works with BIM 360 as this CDE. What do we see InfraWorks being for landscape workflow? It's a tool for the first two stages. So if we see the whole lifecycle of a project in four stages, I know in different regions do not name them differently, but the survey, the concept design of planning design, detail design and construction, InfraWorks sits on the first two stages.
It's really accurate for quickly create design options that then are going to be developed using Civil 3D and Revit. And I really recommend to a complete portfolio of skills with ReCap for survey to capture the system conditions and Navisworks to document and to review your construction. And as I said on top of that, we have BIM 360 as our common data environment. So one question that must be in your minds or may be in your minds is, why do we need InfraWorks if in the end I need to complete my design in Civil 3D and Revit? So this is my answer, if I go to the right direction.
So InfraWorks is really easy to learn. I mean, after this class, you are going to be able to build a design in landscape-- sorry, a design in InfraWorks. It's full 3D, it's really interactive, and it has really cool tools to communicate and collaborate with your design. Civil 3D and Revit, as you know, they are not so easy to learn, but they have the ability to full user control of the design, 3D and 2D capabilities, plan production tools, and adherence to graphical standards. So what I really recommend is to have skills in your team for these three tools. Maybe not everyone needs to know all of them, but you have to have a team that knows these three products.
So for the example today, we are going to use InfraWorks 2019 dot two. That's the latest version. And we are going to use a data set, a competition that took place last summer. It's a small town near Madrid, my hometown. It's called Collado Villalba. It's an urban square and the only documentation that was given to the participants was to the DWG geolocator with existing conditions. How many times have you seen this? Competitions, feasibility studies, clients that come to you, "OK, I want free options for my project." We don't have a survey yet.
So InfraWorks allows you to start with a context even without a survey. So how we start our model when we don't have anything? This tool in InfraWorks called Model Builder that utilize the power of the cloud to create the context for you. So it is included in this edition of InfraWorks and what it does, it brings BIM maps and you can navigate to the desired location, either graphically or by inputting an address. It will flew there. There you can select the area. Zoom in, zoom out. By default, if you have a BIM 360 account it will be saved to BIM 360, although then you can save locally if you want to work locally.
If you don't have a BIM 360 account, you will still be on the cloud but you can download and work locally. So you select from the BIM 360 tree file where you want to do save it and information that we get it's roads and buildings for open street maps, imagery from BIM maps, and elevation from different sources, mainly governments. You hit create and we get out of this. In our cloud, we prepared the model and few minutes later, you get an email congratulations. You have a model. And if you go to InfraWorks you will see the title of your new model.
But of course, as I said, it's based on open source data that it's OK to start building things, but it won't be as accurate as a survey. So we will need to start bringing more information. But you don't need to start over. You can put your survey on top of your model created with Model Builder. There are three basic steps to bring data sources into InfraWorks and the first one-- key one-- is to prepare the data source. Open it in the native software, get rid of that all the information that you don't need in InfraWorks, and make it clean before importing. Second step is the import is self.
InfraWorks has two methods to import. You can use the cloud method as the default one, and you can use Navisworks. Navisworks needs to be installed for the local import in the same version as InfraWorks. So in this case that we are using InfraWorks 2019, we need to use Navisworks 2019. As I said, if you don't have it available, you can always use the cloud but you need to be connected to internet. Third part, we need to configure. We need to tell InfraWorks what data type we are bringing. Is it roads, is it trees, is it a building? We need to check the geolocation. You will be amazed how is smart InfraWorks is.
It can recognize the geolocation-- the coordinate system of the data that I am bringing in-- and transform it to the coordinate system of my file, of my InfraWorks model. But sometimes I need to do some checking at least. I can also decide which style. So if I'm bringing trees that are really points in a GIS file, I can decide that they are pine trees or they are palm trees. And also I can add tooltips. So let's see quickly an example. So this is the data set that I had and what I'm doing here is I'm selecting the trees, the existing trees that I want to keep in my model. This is Civil 3D. I'm utilizing Civil 3D and I'm doing a export to SDF.
If you are not familiar with a SDF file, it's similar to the safe file in ESRI. It's a GIS format so it will prompt you, of course, for a name and a location. Make sure to click on select manually so it will keep this selection that you have done, the feature class and then the options. So check that it is the right coordinate system that you want to import and click OK. Now we jump to InfraWorks and we have a data source window from our core tools. We are going to add the new proposals. Proposals are like design options so we can keep track and go back to another design option if we want to reverse.
So we're going to select SDF, bring our file. So we have the import but we need to do the first step, the configuration. So we are going to tell, OK, these are trees. We are going to select this style from the built-in library. Where we're going to go to beech tree, check that this geolocation is fine, it was recognized from the file. We decide to drape the elements onto the terrain. We can add two types, there are more advanced tools. We close and refresh and my trees are in place. And I have my existing conditions already. So I have my context from Model Builder and I have the trees that I wanted from my data set.
But we know that nowadays not only conventional surveys in a CAD file are used. We also have reality capture to get the existing conditions. So we use scans and drones to scan our site and get more information. We can bring that information into InfraWorks via ReCap. ReCap will compute and create a point cloud that then we can import and extract information into InfraWorks. I'm not going to expand on this because it will be a whole class in itself, but you can find more information on how to extract features from a point cloud in InfraWorks.
So now we have our model, our context, our existing conditions. So let's start with our elements. Hard landscape. And as I said, we are going to use roads for making our landscape elements, in this case the hard landscape. Component rows are under the design model. It's the second model and these are the reasons why we are using component rows for hardscape. First of all, they are fully parametric. We can change all the parameters that are embedded in the design so we can change the shape, we can change the depth, we can change the slope of each element. Also many elements in landscape that are really linear features. We have footpaths, cycle lanes-- we have to design streets that are really similar to roads.
Third reason is flexibility. Each element in a component road is individually editable. I can change the size, the shape, the material. And finally, it's customizable because not only I have materials in my library, I can create my own materials, I can create my own assemblies for roads that are specific to landscape. And I'm going to explain how to create a component road from zero because that's in any fundamentals. But let's look at a couple examples on how to edit for landscape. After creating my model with existing conditions, I have created the roads around my square and I have changed it to certain materials.
And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to insert a component. I just need to select my road, go to my right click, insert road component. I can insert any component from the style palette. In this case it's going to be a lane. It could be a drop off area, it could be a parking bay, a bus lane. By default we have this 30-meter orange line that will show you where it's going to be placed. And again, by default, is 10 meters transition in, 10 meters length, 10 meters transition out. We can change graphically using the grips or we can type in the dimensions that we want. And you see that automatically all the elements of the road will adapt to my new component.
So I will place 25 meters-- I'm OK with two meters-- in transition to make this out transition. I can even align to stations, I can align to the side or the end of the road. And you see that everything immediately adjust in the 3D view. I can also change parameters in the Properties window. So the width, depth, the slope of my component, and also the material. Each component can have each different material, but I want to match the lane. So this is my material library. This is the built-in one, but as I said, you can bring your own material textures. And now we set the dates. I escape the creation mode and you see that my footpath adapt, my curb adapt to this new component.
Another example on how to use roads for landscape, we are going to create-- we have this side square that is not connected to my main square. So we are going to change the material so it gets more connected visually. And what we are going to do is to first select the road and then I can select each of the individual elements. So I select the lane and I'm going to split it. I can split it graphically or I can type in a station. In this case, I type in a station, 75. I repeat the same, station 100. And now I have a different element that can have a different width and have a different depth or different material.
I am going to do exactly the same with my second lane. So again, I select individual element, I go to my right button, split element, and I type in. As I said, I can then visually use the grips to adjust or type in the station that I want. And now I change to the same material to my footpath, so I visually create this connection between the main square and the side square. And escape the creation mode and automatically you have your design.
OK. This is really good for linear features, as I said, but what if I have a vast pavement area? Then we can use two tools from the core tools in InfraWorks, called coverages, and land areas. Please remind the land areas is a preview tool, so it's not supported, but it's available for you. They're quite similar, but the main difference is that coverage will drape on your terrain and place material on top of it, g while land areas will grade your terrain and flatten the area. You can edit the grip and once you place the coverage, every time you change the elevation of one of the grips, will change the elevation of your terrain.
So it is a way to grade manually your terrain. We are going to see an example in the next video. So you see that I completed the design with two footpaths that cross the square. They are also made with component roads with only one component-- a lane-- that I put the material to footpath. So to make a coverage, I can just sketch. I can type in the distance if I want, or just place graphically my points. And as you see that I get information on the area that I am covering, double click to end. And it immediately creates this draping surface on top of my terrain.
You see on the left I have my-- sorry, on the right-- I have the Properties cut and I can change properties from there. I can change the material, but I wanted also to show you that if you go to the style palette, you can navigate to the materials palette and just drag and drop the material that you select, and it will update your coverage. And I selected the gravel so now I have a gravel area for my coverage. OK.
A third option to bring hardscape, as I said, InfraWorks is a data aggregator. We can bring any of the file types that I said and set up to almost any of the data types. So we can bring a file from Civil 3D as we did with trees and put it as a coverage in InfraWorks. So in Civil 3D I have created this pattern of lines because I want this pattern hardscape in my model. And what I'm doing now, I'm selecting all the lines and the same as we did with trees, I'm going to export to SDF using the Map Export to SDF.
Again, it prompts me for a name and a location. As I said, I'm using Civil 3D but it can be any other file type that is supported. If you want to create-- because I'm using lines-- but if you want to create a coverage that are polygons, make sure to check treat closed point lines as polygons so InfraWorks reads it as closed polygons. So I have imported and I'm going to use another method to import. I can track directly my file into InfraWorks. So I bring it from the Explorer and it automatically opens the configuration dialog. And I'm going to tell them I want this to be coverage areas.
And I want this style to be a material. I'm going to select another color of gravel. And you can think, oh, let's check the new location because in you're bringing lines and you're going to do areas, but what we're going to do is to put a buffer to my line. So I'm going to put a thickness to my line of three meters. So I make sure that I have these stripes that are three meters thick. So I close and refresh, and you see now that I have my beige gray coverages and I have my beige bands on top. And even though that there are coming from the same file, I can individually edit each of the elements.
So you see that that one is coming to the other side that I want to be green, so I can select individually, I can input the XY coordinates or graphically change the size. Good, it's taking shape. And how long does it take? Not much, no? OK, we have our hard landscape almost ready. Let's start placing our soft landscape. And we are going to start with tree and understory because they're really treated the same way in InfraWorks. InfraWorks recognize them as 3D elements. So they are in the style library. We have quite decent library already with shrubs and trees, but you can bring your own as well.
So we have seen already that you can bring a file and put it as a tree or a different style. But there are other four methods to introduce 3D models into your program. The first one is a unique element. This tool is called city furniture. It's from the core tools and it will place an element of your desired style at the click of a mouse. So it is fully editable to fit and you can choose any style, and can be editable later on to another style if you want. You can change height, size, rotation et cetera. Second tool to place trees is rows.
You can sketch a line with two points and InfraWorks with automatically place trees randomly in that line, so with random locations and random height, but with all the same style. Afterwards you can control the density, the scale-- so in other words, height-- and also you can select each of the individual trees and change it to a different style, or maybe you wanted a bit bigger because you don't like the randomness. A stand of trees is a similar concept as rows of trees, but instead of using a line you're using an area. But same, you control density, scale, and they are individually editable.
And the final option is, again, to utilize component roads and place what is called road decoration. So this is really useful if you are designing the street and you have an alignment of trees. The difference is that all the trees as a broad decoration will be the same, same scale, same type of tree. You can control, though, the spacing, the scale of all of them, the offset from the seam of the road that you decided, the rotation, and the tilting. But again, no individual edits are available in this option.
There is a special type of tree in the library. It's called adaptive tree. What it does is that it adapts the level of detail of your element to the assumed scale. So if we are a Scale 1, you see that small pine tree, not really detail. We increase the zoom, we see more detail, and when we are close we see each of the leaves of the tree. Unfortunately, there are only three styles in the library for adaptive trees, but you can bring your own. You can build your own if you're a bit handy with the 3DS Max.
But I strongly recommend to use adaptive trees if you have really massive master plans where the forest areas are really big, because they really improve the regeneration and the speed of your model. Let's see now an example on how to create trees with the row of trees, too. We have created a new proposal for the trees. The first thing we have to do is to select the style. We are going to place it in this side square. And you can input the length if you like, or just graphically determine. I am put at 15 meters so I have that set, and you see that it placed two trees.
But now if I escape out of the creation mode, I have a slider and I can change the density from this one or two trees to really, really dense. And then if I click again, I have the ability to individually move individually, change the style, change the height of each of the trees. Really important-- please first make all the density and scale changes to the overall line and then do the individual edits. Because if you change afterwards the density, it will override all your changes. So have that in mind. So again, change to anything to keep this randomness and a bit more different with more styles.
And let's do now a stand of trees. So we have this triangular shape that we have kept for green area. So a stand of trees under the core tools, again, really similar. We select style and, similar to coverages, we start placing points. Again, we can type in a distance or just graphically decide on the area automatically sized. Again, only two trees but we can scale up the density and select individual trees to be edit.
Again, make sure to make all these density first and then change individually to size or style. The final option for trees is as a road decoration so what we are going to do is to select the row next to my side square, right click, go to place decorations, and first again select the style. And you see the orange line will indicate where I'm putting my line of trees. I don't really like the term decoration, but that's what is this. So it automatically place them, by default spacing is 10 meters. You can change that afterwards on the right Properties window.
You can change, as I said, the offset from the seam line. You can change the spacing, the vertical offset if you want your trees to fly. You can rotate, change the scale if you want them to tilt with the grading. Sometimes, as you see in this video, the negative side is a bit difficult to get because it depends on how you build your component road. So you need a bit of trial and error. So in this case now the trees on the footpath, but I want my tree to be outside the footpath so I put it -1 meter and now it's out. But you see that each tree is exactly the same, exactly the same size, exactly the same rotation, but there are nicely spaced along my road.
What about ground cover? We can use the same two tools that we use for hardscape large pavements, so again, coverage area and land areas. The only thing is you change the material to soft material, grass, lawn, et cetera. But exactly the same concept. You don't need to learn more tools. As I said, InfraWorks is really, really easy to learn. What about other elements? We have benches, bins, but also we can bring into InfraWorks Model other elements that are not design like people, cars, that will animate your design and your views.
And they are basically 3D elements and they can be placed as we have place trees. So again, no more tools to learn. We know already. We can place them as unique element with the city furniture using the rows of rows/stand. Don't get confused because it says row of trees. You can place anything and it will work the same. Maybe it doesn't work so well with people that are random heights. Maybe you have people with 1, 2 meters high. They're a bit tiny, but it can't work well with different elements. Same with a stand of trees, you can create an area and put vehicles randomly or people randomly or benches randomly along that area.
Again, the third, we can create road decoration. That works really well for benches if we want to place benches along the road or bins, and they're equally spaced along that road. And finally, as we have done with trees, we can bring our file to our data source and select the desired style. Important to configure to city furniture and select the desired style. Again, it's individually editable when you bring it from a file. Collaboration. So as I said in the beginning, in the workflow landscape you need to collaborate with many consultants. Sometimes it's really difficult, but with InfraWorks it is made a little bit easier.
So we have seen this a little bit already, the collaboration between InfraWorks and Civil 3D. As I said, InfraWorks is really suitable for your first stages of the design, but then you need to bring that information either to Civil 3D or to Revit to continue the planned production and the detailed documentation. So one way from InfraWorks to Civil 3D, we can open directly my InfraWorks model in Civil 3D. If you go to Civil 3D there is a specific tab for Autodesk InfraWorks and you can click on Open. You can customize how you want your object to translate into Civil 3D objects, but there's not only that option.
You can still export to an IMX, and then from InfraWorks and open export into Civil 3D. So you have two options. The other way around-- so we have already seen that you can bring your Civil 3D information directly into InfraWorks either as a Civil 3D archive or file or any GIS export that you do from Civil 3D. If you bring your Civil 3D file-- DWG-- you can select which information you are bringing to InfraWorks. So imagine you have several roads, several corridors, or several surfaces, you can check which ones you want to bring into InfraWorks. What about Revit when you work with your architects or structural engineers?
So we have two options. So the first one is to export to an FBX and then via Navisworks to bring it into InfraWorks. And the second one-- and unfortunately it's only for two features that are not really landscape-- we have the option a button called "Send to Revit." This for now is only available for bridges and tunnels. What about the other way around? So as we said at the beginning, both RVT and RFA files are supported in InfraWorks to be imported. And we can also export to Navisworks and then export an FBX, but of course is more work around rather than bring directly your Revit file.
Revit import has some custom things that you need to have in mind because, if you know Revit, Revit works with relative coordinates, not world coordinates. So you have to have in mind that your geolocation doesn't work as the other file types. So when you go to your configuration dialog for the coordinate system always, always place on XY fit, even if you're working on metric. And this is why-- this is because, sorry-- Revit API is coded in imperial. OK, so don't change that. Always put it to feet.
Then you know that the location in Revit, as I said, is relative to the project base point. And the project base point has four inputs-- so the north-south coordinates, the east-west coordinates, the elevation, and the angle to the true north. So we have to check this information in our Revit file and bring it to our configuration window. So in the offset I have to fill in my XY and Z plus-- but be mindful that they are reversed because north-south is my Y while east-west is my X. So be careful when you're inputting the data. If you happen to have an angle to true north that needs to be input on rotation on the set value.
BIM360. As we comment earlier, we need a common data environment to work with all these different file types or these different consultants and BIM360 since released 2019 is available for InfraWorks files. It allows you to collaborate in the cloud so you can work with others at the same time in the same model in InfraWorks. You need both InfraWorks and BIM360 entitlements that are different to work collaboratively in the cloud. This browser viewer, you can review your models so the same view you're getting in the InfraWorks desktop you get it in the browser in BIM360.
So this is really helpful if you have some managers that they are not drafting but they are just reviewing and making markups and comments. They don't need to know InfraWorks, they don't need to have it installed in their computer. They just need a browser. They just need an entitlement to BIM360 and they will be able to review and comment on your model. Control rights. You can decide who sees your model. This can be done at the global level for the project and also individually for each folder. There are three levels-- so viewer uploader and editor. To be able to open the file in InfraWorks, you need to have at least editor role.
There is no way to open in InfraWorks without editing so that's the only way. If you have only viewer and uploader, you can see BIM 360 but you won't see it in your main InfraWorks. Finally, as I said, you have the ability to create markups and comments and also issues in BIM360, assign to people, add attachments, check as solved. So this is all included in BIM360. We have a second option to collaborate in the cloud. Sorry, it's not collaboration in the cloud-- to communicate with others our design, let's say-- it's called shared views. It's also introduced in the 2019 version and you don't need a BIM360 account and your viewing doesn't need neither InfraWorks, neither BIM360 to see it.
But on the other hand, is not editable, it's just a visual representation and it will only show the current proposal where you create your shared view. It leverages Autodesk viewer to show your design in a browser and people can see exactly what you see in your proposal in InfraWorks in a browser, and they can spin around and walk around, zoom in, zoom out. It's managed from InfraWorks and it generates a link. So it's just a link that you send to someone else and they can review and check. From InfraWorks you can delete directly the shared views and you can extend the expiration date.
So by default they will be online for 30 days and you can extend in periods of 30 days if needed. And finally, you can create comments and others can comment your model online in the browser, but there is no issues in this case. Communication tools. As I said at the beginning, InfraWorks has a set of really powerful communication tools to better explain your design to others. The main communication tools are first the storyboard, which is another thing that a video editor inside InfraWorks. It allows you to create videos in between different views, control the transitions, control the speed of the video.
You can also create a video from a component road that will follow the path. And then you can export to AVI or MP4 with the desired resolution. Secondly, you can render views with snapshots at a certain resolution and then export to JPEG, PNG, or TFF. Also you can add watermarks, so imagine you're creating the video or the snapshot, you can put the logo of your company or your client's company, or the logo of the projects to be sure that your IP is included in the project. And finally, sun and sky can be controlled under these communication tools. So you can set up the date and the time so that settings will be accurate because you have the location and the date and the time.
And also you can change the weather conditions, so not raining but you can change the cloud cover and the wind speed for the animation. And this is an example of a snapshot from our model. So this is an illustrative plan, so I just put my zoom to be on top completely and to be north, and I have a pretty nice illustrative plan. I added some people and cars, so no longer need to use photo editor, Photoshop or similar, to create your illustrative. You can bring your views directly from InfraWorks, from a design to your reports. And what about videos with storyboard?
So I can include titles and captions. I can fly around my design to better communicate to the public, to the stakeholders, so they understand better how it works and what are the main elements. So everything is editable, you have some captions, so you see that the shadows are adjusted to the correct date and time. You see that I added some benches along my footpath as road decoration. Advanced workflows. So you have seen this already. I know that you can walk out that door and create that model by yourself. As I said, InfraWorks is really easy to learn.
If you want to continue improving your skills in InfraWorks, what I'm suggesting is these advanced workflows. First, custom schema. You can customize the database schema. It's a JSON file included in your model, and you can control the categories. So you can include user categories with different attributes for new categories or existing categories, and also how to display these attributes in the Properties window. Scripting. This is really advanced, but with InfraWorks it is included a JavaScript console that you can create your JavaScript scripts to automate some processes.
Example of this, you can for example bring Google Maps information into tooltips. So you can have a tooltip that display the map from Google Maps into the right location. I had also a customer that created a script that took all the pictures from the site visit, got the metadata from the location, placed 3D elements in each of these locations, and displayed the images in the correct location as tooltips. Style rules. It's a bit more easier than scripting. You can use expressions to filter elements and apply certain styles so you can use this to randomize trees to a certain probability.
And we have also analysis tools that are inside InfraWorks and that are included in the subscription. So we have the mobility simulation to simulate pedestrian movement, cycle movement, vehicle movement, flight movement. Sight distance analysis is for road but it can also be leveraged for landscape when analyzing footpath on sites. And finally, flood analysis. That one needs a third party plugin but it's built into InfraWorks. It's called RiverFlow2D and it allows for both coastal and river flood analysis of your design. I've put more information about this into the handout that you have available in the app on the website.
This is the time where we can start with questions if you have some.
AUDIENCE: You said we can do custom 3Ds and stuff. What format would those need to be?
RAQUEL BASCONES RECIO: Yes. So the question is the format for custom 3D models. So you can bring in any 3D model format like OBJ or Collada files or FBX, anything. You can bring it from the 3DS Max. You can create there and then bring it. Or if you have already in your company library of 3DS Max materials, you can bring them into InfraWorks.
AUDIENCE: In your storyboard video, you said you can set the time of day. Can you also have the time change throughout your video, have times lapse?
RAQUEL BASCONES RECIO: That's not available in the storyboard. You set a date and a time and that doesn't change.
AUDIENCE: Earlier, [INAUDIBLE].
RAQUEL BASCONES RECIO: So the question is when you bring a SketchUp model, how to geolocate them because they don't have geolocation information in SketchUp. You can interactive place them or type in their coordinates. But yes, this is an option for click a point in the model and it will place there. Any other question?
AUDIENCE: Do you have any good source for landscaping and [INAUDIBLE]?
RAQUEL BASCONES RECIO: Not really. I mean, the question is if I know any good resource for the library for landscape. Not really, but as I said before, if you have some resources already for 3D Studio Max, 3D elements, you can bring those into InfraWorks. Before I forget, if you are kind and you like my class, please fill in the survey. It will be really good, it will be-- it would mean a lot. If you like it. If you don't like it, you don't need to fill in.
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OK, any other question? We have a few minutes.
AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]
RAQUEL BASCONES RECIO: It can bring the survey point as well. It's a bit different workflow but then I would recommend to export to Navisworks and bring it as a FBX because then it will recognize the origin, the survey point as the origin, and bring it to InfraWorks. No more questions? Good, thank you all for your time.
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