Using the ''Triple Play' 'to Win, Create, and Sequence Infrastructure Projects.

PAUL C. KIRKENDALL: So welcome everybody to my class. Thanks for coming-- appreciate you staying this long on Wednesday. This class is going to be using the Triple Play to Win sequence to win, create and sequence infrastructure projects. So we're going to go through Civil 3D-- Infraworks Civil 3D and Navisworks and how you get through that workflow.

So my name is Paul Kirkendall, I'm from MasterGraphics. I'm a civil infrastructure technical consultant. I've been there for five years, previous to that I went-- I was at a consulting firm mainly doing underground piping for a private design and municipality reconstruct. And now at MasterGraphics I do implementation training, anything to help people with software when it breaks or train them how to use it. So that's me. Autodesk certified instructor, Civil 3D and AutoCAD professional.

Class expectations. We're going to go through general workflow from Infraworks to Civil 3D and Civil 3D to Navisworks. I don't know if we'll get the return one or-- if we'll run out of time or not, but it's a beginner/intermediate level class. Yeah, it's in between there, there's some beginner stuff in the handout. We're not going to get through the entire hand out, number one. Number two, the handout that you might have is going to be an older version. I don't know why the newer one didn't get kicked out, but same principles they're just in a little bit different order. So. I'll show you what I'm talking about when we get there.

Lab assistants. So I have three lab assistants. Josh Clawson, he's with MasterGraphics as well. Michelle Rasmussen, she's with Ascent. And then Todd Rogers. So if you guys have any questions or you need help on something-- falling behind. You can ask to them or raise your hand and they'll come and help.

So my agenda is going to be creating winning proposals with Infraworks. We're going to go through Infraworks works-- show you how to create a winning proposal. Why do you need a winning proposal? Once you win that, you bring that into Civil 3D and then design. And what you actually get into Civil 3D from Infraworks-- what does that bring? And then-- I'm not really going to go through a lot in Civil 3D,

I'm hoping that most people in here know how to use Civil 3D. So we'll create a corridor, but we're going to bring that design corridor and some piping into Navisworks and run a sequence of that design. So you bring the approved design from Civil 3D to Navisworks and then that can go back to Civil 3D, change it and bring it back.

So I'm pretty much going to go live the whole time, so we'll see what happens. I have the newer dataset on there, so my first one broke pretty good. So it might be interesting to see how well this works, but-- so in Infraworks-- I'm just going to go over the basics of Infraworks-- how many people in here I've used Infraworks? Good. How about Civil 3D? All right. Navisworks? A few. How many have used all three as a workflow together? Nice.

So just for people that don't know Infraworks, this is your start page. You have your thumbnails on the screen. When you get a project from what's called the model builder, it's going to aggregate that data and it's going to bring it to the cloud. Once it's in the cloud, then you have to download it locally. And you can tell here-- some of these-- what, doesn't work. Some of these I have little clouds on them, that means it's still in the cloud. It isn't local on the machine. If it has a home, that means that it's local on my machine. All right.

So in the model builder, if you want to start a drawing that you don't have any data on yet, you can go to the model builder and aggregate that data. That's going to bring in buildings. It's going to bring in waterways, buildings, terrain, the imagery. It-- what else am I thinking of? Yes, so it will aggregate data from open source and then you can essentially pick an area and get that down. Once you do that you just give it a name and then give it a group and that group-- you can create new groups that have different-- assign different privileges to people and assign different people inside of that group. So they have access to that model as well.

So if you push it somewhere you can say, I want so-and-so at my office on this group and the other person on my group. So you guys can collaborate on that same exact project. I wasn't sure how the internet was going to work here today, so I created a dataset already. But the dataset, If we wanted to create it-- actually we're going to go to a little town in Randolph, Wisconsin.

So once I get the area I can select it or use the whole window of my model builder. So if I do a little selection here, I can select an area up to 200 square kilometers. It's going to grab all the data in that area and that's what I was talking about-- bringing the roads and the buildings and the imagery and the elevation all down. You can go ahead and do that if you want to, I do already have the model. So we're going to go ahead and open that model.

So I'm going to go through the process and then I'm going to have you go through the task after that, so just pay attention. I'm going to go ahead and open the model, that model is going to be in the datasets-- had it open in here too, but just to show you how the-- go to the datasets and open up T1. And this is what you get from the model builder. This is a really small town, so there isn't-- there are not-- I don't think there are any buildings in this one. More populated or more urban it is, the more buildings you're probably going to get.

Once you have that, you want to usually create a proposal because the master you want to keep as your main piece. You don't want to draw everything on your master and then if you wanted to create another proposal, it's going to bring over everything you wanted-- or everything that you already drew. So if I create another proposal of this one-- call it DriveThough, click OK-- so now it essentially copies that as a mirror, brings it to another proposal and now I can start drawing on it.

So I'm going to go in, I'm-- we're-- I'm going to create a road in here. I'm going to click on the little road icon and then the sketch and then I'm going to go to a local road. Once I click on that local road, I get an [? Asset ?] card that opens. On that Asset card it has all the different styles of roads. So I can pick any road I would like, I can customize those roads as well. I'm going to go ahead and pick the sidewalk and green space and I'm going to pick up somewhere around here. And if I double click or if I right click, I end the draw. So that essentially ends that sketch and now I have a road in here. So far, so good?

I also want to bring in some external source data. So you can bring in GIS data, I have GIS data of some parcels that were created in here. This is essentially a five-- a five phase development. So I'm going to bring in some parcels of the first phase that were drawn in Civil 3D already. You can draw parcels in here now, you have been for a little while. But I'm going to bring in the GIS data just to show you that you can bring it in.

So I'm going to go to the same dataset folder under the C drive, datasets and then-- there's a phase 1 development parcels. I'm going to drag and drop that right into the drawing. Once I do that, it's going to open up this dialogue box. It's going to ask me, what type of entity this is? So I can assign it to parcels.

Once it does that, a style is going to open up and I can click on the little pencil to assign it whatever style I want. Again you can create custom styles too. If I click on one of them, hit OK-- that's going to assign that. I also want to go to the geolocation tab to make sure that it's geolocated. I already had this model geolocated and the GIS parcels were located in Civil 3D with the coordinate system. So that is that.

Sometimes it won't automatically see those, so you'll have to put that in yourself. So you can do that. If you click this little globe here and then you can navigate to whatever coordinate system you need. Once I do that I want to hit close and refresh. If you hit OK, it's not going to do anything. It's not going to process it, you have to hit close and refresh. And then it's going to bring those parcels in here and we'll see how I-- how close I guessed to where that road has to go. I was way off.

So these now are parcels with parcel information. All right. And now I can move my road over or draw a new road. And you get these little-- they're not vertexes-- gizmo's that's the word. I don't know why I was spacing that word. So you get these little gizmos that show up on your road once you d-- once you draft it. This one's a little different because it's a design road, so it's going to have curve information. If you scroll to look at horizontal, you're going to see that that goes away because there's no-- there are no PDIs currently.

From that I can go ahead and create a DriveThrough, so that's part of that winning proposal that you want to do. You can put a road in here, I can create a DriveThrough and then I can set trees and a pond. And now that I have my parcels in here, I can go ahead and go to city furniture.

On city furniture, if I scroll down here to vegetation, I can throw in some trees-- and let's see where's a good one. So I'm going to click on a tree-- Draw around the front edge here. And now I have those trees.

You could also go to the Infraworks icon and on the sketch tab you could do a row of trees or a stand of the trees or you can just grab city furniture and start going to town with the city furniture. You can't do a stand with the city furniture, but you can do the row of trees. Then if you click on one of them it's going to give you just one if you click-- a little pause-- the second click, it's going to give you all of your trees that you selected. Then you have the density-- make them bigger, et cetera. So after that I want to do one more thing.

I want to make a pond in here. So I'm going to go down to the waterways and that's going to be on this Infraworks icon. I'm going to click water areas and then I'm going to click on the spline water. I can left click to put a pond in here and then double click to end that draw, and now I have a pond.

So if you open up the Triple Play to-- let's go back home. The T2 I believe has-- where is it at? T2. So the T2 should have the GIS in it and it should have the road drawn already. Let's make sure I have that.

So if you guys can go ahead and open that and now I'll go through that same process again with you guys. So mine has a little bit more on it. Yep. Let me-- so and when you open up the T2 is that's showing you that it-- does it have the road and the GIS on it? Just that-- just the road and the GIS.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

PAUL C. KIRKENDALL: It does have all that stuff on it.

AUDIENCE: Yeah. [INAUDIBLE].

PAUL C. KIRKENDALL: Bonus. Yeah, so if you want to go ahead and draw a road-- we're going to draw a road over here, so the same deal. If I go to the road icon, go to the local road, select a local road and then-- if I click on the centerline to match the other centerline, it is automatically going to create-- it's going to blend the two together. If they're both design roads, it's going to give you an intersection. We'll click here and then I'm going to click here, and now I have that road.

Now again, I'm going to grab some more trees here. So if I go to the city furniture, I'll grab some orange trees for this side over here. And then I'm going to make these trees just a little bit-- whoa, not that big. [INAUDIBLE]. So I'm going to make these trees just a little bit bigger here.

And then we need another pond over on this area right here. So I'm going to go ahead and go to my Infraworks icon and then the sketch and you'll have the water areas at the bottom of that. If I click on that, again, I can get this spline water and then I'm going to throw a pond in here, and I have that pond. What's that?

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

PAUL C. KIRKENDALL: How do you make this roundabout? You don't.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

PAUL C. KIRKENDALL: You can do-- well, it depends where you live. If you live in Wisconsin cul-de-sacs don't have grass in the middle. So-- but you can do those in here, these will come together pretty nice if you wrap them around and have a little grass in the middle. It looks OK. But, yeah, you can't.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

PAUL C. KIRKENDALL: Do it, ideas station.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] take a [? line of ?] work from that cul-de-sac there and turn it into a [INAUDIBLE].

PAUL C. KIRKENDALL: You can do that too. You could--

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

PAUL C. KIRKENDALL: Yeah, so you can do that. So what we're going to do now if everybody has the road, has pond and some trees, we're going to go ahead and create the DriveThrough. We have a design road here, so we can create-- we can create a des-- DriveThrough of that design road in merely seconds really.

So to do that I'm going to go to this little TV icon up here and on the top of that is a storyboard creator. If I click on the storyboard creator it's going to open up my storyboard. In here there's a little-- I don't even know what to call that little icon-- the little four dot icon, looks like a curve. But if I clicked the little drop down next to it, there is create from design road.

What I want to do first, though, is I want to create a camera path. I want to add a camera path animation. In that camera path animation I can add from anywhere I want, but whatever my screen is looking at is what it's going to put in as that animation. So if I'm somewhere up here, I can get this to look at my model from here.

So I'll click on that add camera path animation and it'll add that view from here. And then if I zoom in a little bit to the start of the road, I can go ahead and click on this little plus next to it and that will add a new one. So now I have these two.

Right away now, if I just hit play, it's going to swoop into the next one. It automatically creates that smooth one from the next. And then after that I can click on the drop down and go create from design road because then it's going to hit that-- hit the start of that design road and drive right through it.

So I'll go create from design road, select that road and it's going to give me the camera position offset dialog box where I can do the horizontal offset, vertical offset, where it's going to look. So the horizontal offset, I'm going to put in five. The vertical offset, we'll do 3 and 1/2. What did I put down for that one? That should be in the handle once we get there. I think I put five, we'll put five in there and 3.5 there.

And then on the keyframe density I'm going to throw that 30. And if I want to check it out and see if it's the right spot, I can go ahead and hit preview. Move my little box over and it's going to show me that preview of where it's looking and where it's sitting in position. Go ahead and create, if I like it. Now, if I hit the stop button and then hit play again, I can get a DriveThough pretty quick. Now it's your turn. So--

If you started from anywhere and clicked on the create design road-- or add camera paths, sorry-- it's going to add that thumbnail of where I'm sitting right now. And then if I zoom in here, I can click that again or I can click the little plus next to it and that'll add that new one as well.

And just as a side topic, these cars that I got from the 3D warehouse-- so these are sketch up models. You can get butter stuff from other places too, but to get free somewhat decent looking stuff from a number of different places online-- I had to get a lowrider just because.

So after that I can hit that dropdown again. Go ahead and do create from design road, select that design road, go through the parameters in here, hit create, hit play. Maybe-- you can also export that storyboard.

So the storyboard can export. If I had other users in my company that I wanted to export that to, I could. You can also export it as a WMV or a DV video or an MJPEG, pick your resolution and all that, and export that as a video. It's a lot nicer to look at as a video compared to in here because it really depends on your graphics card. If you've got a bad graphics card it's going to jerk. Or if you have other things running it's going to-- not really time out, but it's going to slow way down.

Now, I can look at this and say, my client is going to like having this versus some 2D sketch of their development. They're going to be able to sell some lots from this, show some people where their house is going to be, what it's going to look like, so you can win that proposal. Once we do that and we get this project, we can bring this in Civil 3D.

A couple of things you have to keep in mind when you're doing that is you're going to want it geolocated, so you got to make sure that you change that coordinate system. This one's already changed, but in the little tool icon here under model properties you have your UCS that you need to change and that needs to be changed before you export anything or bring anything into Civil 3D. And that UCS also has to match whatever coordinate system you put in Civil 3D when you bring that forward too.

Once you change that coordinate system to whatever it is-- different than the lat-long that it normally comes in-- and obviously it's going to change your x and y for your model here, so you'll know. The other thing you have to change right away, and that is a global setting really, is your imperial. So when you first launch Infraworks for the first time on your machine it's going to come in as metric. So if you change that in the application options, under unit configuration, you can change this to imperial and that'll stick with your machine. So that's not a project thing, that's-- if you're in metric or imperial all the time just switch it.

And then one that I always forget to do when I bring in a model is-- you got to close Infraworks works. You got to shut it down in order to bring in-- bring it in-- open it Civil 3D. So you can open it in Civil 3D if it's a newer version. If you're in 2017 Infraworks from the suite, you have to export it as an IMX, then it's essentially the same data, it's just a different way of moving it.

So we're in 2018, so we can open up the model versus this export to IMX or an FBX. You can bring it straight to Navisworks too, but there's a big reason why we're going to bring it into Civil 3D and that's to get the solids out of there. So you could bring this into Navisworks, but the solids wouldn't come for the sequencing at the end in Navisworks. You can't sequence it very good in Navisworks without it. All right.

So I'm going to go ahead and click on my little home button, you can follow along with this part, and then I'm going to shut Infraworks down, and I'm going to open up Civil 3D. Since everybody raised their hand and said they knew Civil 3D, I'm just going to walk through this one without explaining-- while explaining what I'm doing, but we're going to walk through it as a group.

So what I need to do is-- I'm going to open up a drawing that has the drawing settings already changed for the coordinate system. It has a-- it has the area defined, which isn't a big deal, but it also has a custom assembly in it. I didn't think that you guys wanted me to teach you how to do an assembly. So I put in an assembly in this drawing, so we didn't have to take the time to do it.

There's nothing really special about it other than it has one custom part in it and that's just for materials because I wanted the sidewalk and then the boulevards to have material thickness to them and out of the box sidewalk doesn't have that. It just has the targets and it doesn't actually come with a material thickness, so we created one that has it. The naming of the actual assembly is all default. So if you just slapped together one you can have that come the same way that this one is going to come into.

So we go up to the application menu and just open the model. That model is going to be under that dataset folder, which is in the C drive on that computer. So you got C drive, datasets, my name, AU2017 datasets, Civil 3D, and then you'll have the first one-- 01 base triple play. Open that.

And like I said, in there you can see that I have this area defined and then there's an assembly over here, and that's just to save time. So what we need to do is-- we need to open up the Infraworks model. I'm going to go up to the insert tab. On the insert tab there's this Infraworks icon. I can click on it and it has open Infraworks model, it has configure Infraworks settings also.

So those exchange settings are how things are going to get brought in. So pipe networks can be brought in if you have it set correctly-- your alignments and profiles. So if I click on this-- we'll see it again in a minute too, but your-- all your data that comes in can be set to different styles and layers to be brought in on, and that can be configured in here. You can also save that out or import one in. So if it's something you do often, you don't have to redo these settings all the time. I knew I'd get caught up and wouldn't plug my machine. At least that didn't die yet.

So anyway, I'm going to keep all these default. I'm going to hit cancel. I'm going to go back to that Infraworks dropdown. I'm going to go open Infraworks model. Once I click on that, you can see that it sa-- it shows that the drawing has the coordinate system already in it. So the drawing coordinate system is sitting there.

What we need to go do is go find the model, that's a SQLite. If I click on the little file folder and then navigate to that C drive, same place in the Infraworks folder, you can open up that T2. Click open. So whatever you closed Infraworks as that's what's going to be brought in. So that proposal that you closed Infraworks on, that comes in. So if you closed it on your regular master that doesn't have anything in it, you're just going to get your surface and your terrain-- or your surface and your image, not even know that, just a surface, sorry.

And now you can see if I have Civil 3D-- or have Infraworks off, this coordinate system's going to come in. Sometimes you're going to forget to turn it off and it's not going to show this coordinate system, it's going to give you a little error saying that it can't find it. I'm not really sure why that's all tied together, but-- so then the next thing we can do is you can do an area of interest. This is a small enough model, we don't have to worry about an area of interest. Bigger models you could move it in a little bit, but we don't really have to in this one.

The object settings you can set to only bring in design roads, design objects or planning objects. We're going to do all. And then the refine selection set is going to go through and that's where we can weed out the junk we don't need. So that whole area had probably 100 alignments in it and we don't want 100 alignments in our drawing.

So once that opens up you get this refine selection set and you can see there's tons and tons of alignments in here. And this is just a small little town of-- so if you're in a urban setting, you're going to have probably a thousand of them. So if I click uncheck at the top here, that's going on check everything because I have a lot less to check than unchecked, if that makes sense?

I want the surfaces and then I want to bring in the road 100, 101 and 102. And just to show you what it can do, If you do create a design road intersection, instead of a planned road intersection where they blend together-- if it's a legit intersection from a design road, it'll bring in the curb return alignments and profiles, which is pretty nice. So you don't have to even worry about creating an intersection in Civil 3D, which mostly sucks anyways. But-- so it'll bring in the curb returns that you want.

But I can click intersections, I'm going to bring those in to show and then there's these coverages, those are from the ponds-- no, actually these are. Coverage I created-- that was from a driveway, so I don't need that one. I was wrong. But the waterways are going to come in as a polyline, they'll also come in with terrain. So it'll be a graded water area, which is pretty beneficial.

Once I get all that stuff that I need checked, I can go ahead and click OK and say, open model. Now, if you had all 180-something entities in there, it'll probably take about five minutes to turn through. But since I paired it down to only a few, then I get this and I get it pretty fast. So far so good? All right.

So now what we need to do is create the corridor quick. We have this alignment. We have profiles. So if I go up to my prospector and if I go under alignments, I'm going to see that the centerline alignments I have for 101 and 102, and then under that I'm going to have the profiles. So I have everything I need to create a corridor.

I want to create a corridor of this row that's going west to east. That's the one that we're going to sequence on. So I'm going to go up to the home tab of the ribbon, I'm going to click on corridor. I'm going to create corridor. Have you guys seen this new rehab corridor? That's pretty sweet, just as a side note. But-- click corridor. I'm going to name this whatever name you want to.

Corridor style doesn't matter. The alignment needs to be 101 and then the profile will be 101 also. You can in Infraworks actually go up into the properties of your alignment and change that name before you bring it in here. So if I wanted it to be called [? Tubbman ?] Way, I could've named that before I brought it in here. Otherwise, it's [? an ?] always do 101, 102, et cetera.

The assembly is going to be that one that's in here. So it's a 12 foot lane, each side, with eight foot bike lane and then a sidewalk. And it has materials for those boulevards. And then the target surface is going to be the existing ground, and I'm going to uncheck set baseline. And I'm going to hit OK.

AUDIENCE: We're not going to have the macros for that [INAUDIBLE].

PAUL C. KIRKENDALL: What's that?

AUDIENCE: I don't think we'll have the macros for that [INAUDIBLE].

PAUL C. KIRKENDALL: You should. It should automatically read-- target back to that C drive. You might get the error, but it'll still run. At least it did on every machine I did it on. So-- I didn't do it in frame, but-- so it doesn't create it at all?

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

AUDIENCE: I get the error message, but I said, yes. And that's just churning through.

PAUL C. KIRKENDALL: And it's-- so it should go. It does go?

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

PAUL C. KIRKENDALL: Yeah, it might take a little bit, trying to find all the macros, but once it does you'll get this little goofiness at the end. I'm going to bring that back, so I'm going to drag this little diamond back to the next little frequency and that should be good. So the next task that we need to do is-- we need to export that data as a-- as solids.

So-- the corridor solids don't come out naturally. If you did what we're going to do at the end with the [? NWC ?] out, which is a Navisworks cache out, it will bring other entities, but it won't bring the corridor as broken up as what we want to do. So we want to sequence it in a way that makes sense during construction because we want to see it as it's constructed. So if you're-- in whatever area you're in and your asphalt guys can do 400 feet a day or 600 feet a day, that's what we're going to break it out on.

We're going to do 400 feet and I'm going to show you an example. We'll do probably two or three of them and then we'll just open up the model because it's redundant. But if you select on the corridors-- does everybody have a corridor now built? Did it work on yours? Is there anybody that doesn't? Good.

So if you select on that corridor, up on the ribbon there is extract corridor solids here. If we select that it's going to ask us in the command line for a station range or polyline or all the regions. Well I only have one region in here. You're going to have probably 50 or so regions if you have a big project, so you can select the whole thing. And-- so if I select that and then I'm going to type "ask for station range," and I'm going to hit enter.

One good thing-- or one thing you want to do, I might back up a little bit, is for whatever weird reason, in Civil 3D, whenever you do this command-- if you don't have your command line docked it disappears, and it doesn't tell you what you have to do next. I don't have any idea why it does it, but-- at least it always does on my machine. So if you dock it before you do this, then you'll see your commands.

So now if I hit S, hit enter, it's going to ask me to define a station range. I'm going to click-- I'm going to just click any part of that corridor because it's all one region. And then it gives me this little rubber band line that tells me where do I want to start. So I can either pick the start at 0 plus 00 or type it in, 0 plus 00, hit enter, and then what's the end station going to be.

So that same thing, I can go ahead and pick 4 plus 00 or just type it in, 4 plus 00, hit enter. Once I hit enter, it's going to open up the extract corridor solids dialog box. On that, it's going to show me that I have the baseline and I have the region 0 to 400. And I can keep doing that all the way to 29 plus 00, but I'll just make you guys go through one more.

So to get multiple regions cut out of this I want to go ahead and hit add regions up here at the top, and that's going to shoot me back out. I can type an S for station and hit enter again, and that's going to ask me what region. Just select any of it. Now, if you have one that's broken up into 20 to 30 regions, you're going to have to select on those regions that you want in it.

But-- and now I can pick or enter 4 plus 00, enter, and then 8 plus 00 0 and enter. Again, it's going to open this dialogue box up and it's going to show me that I have zero to four and four to eight. So you want to do this all the way through to the end, so every-- however many feet that you want that to sequence. And then at the end of it-- what we want to do is-- we to cre-- we want to put a layer name to it. So when we're sequencing it, Navisworks will understand where we're at and what it's actually grabbing to sequence.

So I'm not going to make you go through doing the entire corridor, but once you-- once that is done in any model, I can go up to this layer name. And in that layer name I want to start with the subassembly name. Insert that-- I going to put a little hash after that, and then I want to do the assembly side. Another dash and then the start station, so you get this construction region start station. Insert that. And lastly, after another dash, we're going to do end station. And I'll insert that.

So the four parameters in there that we can assign to-- essentially a CSV-- once we bring the CSV file or even a Microsoft Project or Primavera. If I go ahead and click OK, then it's going to assign that to all of the regions. So I don't have to do them individually. So if I'll-- if I did it before I got all of them done, then I'd have to do it multiple times, obviously. So that-- it's a lot faster to do it right at the end.

Once you have that you can go ahead and hit next. We're going to leave these all default and hit next. On here we're going to pick Civil 3D solids-- swap solids. I'm going to insert it into the current drawing.

So the benefit to putting in the current drawing, especially in 2017 and '18, is you can data shortcut your corridor. So you can take that corridor, bring it into another drawing just for the solids purpose, and put it in there instead of having it in your design file. And then leave dynamic link to corridor and I'm going to hit extract solids. If I hit escape, you're going to see that we have all these solids in here for the en-- well, we didn't do the entire corridor, but if we did the entire corridor we'd have that for the whole corridor.

So the next step is to tell Civil 3D that it can work with Navisworks and then after that we can bring [? an ?] [? end ?] to Navisworks and run that sequencing. So what we need to do first is type in NW load. NW load is going to make Civil 3D Navisworks ready. I'm not really sure what it does in the back end to be honest with you. But it opens a line of communication somehow between Civil 3D and Navisworks, so they'll understand each other. So then we can do NWC out, if I click on that it's going to ask me, where do you want this NWC to go and NWC is a Navisworks cache file.

So if you navigate to the C drive, datasets, my name, Navisworks folder-- I'm going to make it-- we'll just go 03 base corridor solids. This one already has all the solids in it, so you don't want to override that one.

So we can actually see the entire sequencing without having to go through all 10 regions. Go ahead and hit save. Now, if you had pipes in here those pipes would go out. Any 3D object would go out with that NWC out. So far so good-- soon as I get mine back here. Does anybody use Primavera or Microsoft Project in here? Not many, some. I don't have access to either one of those, so I did a CSV. You can do project obviously in CSV too and outline it. I'll show you that in a second.

So now we have that-- we have the NWC out, we have everything we need for Navisworks. We don't have to really close Civil 3D, unless you want it to go faster. But I'm going to minimize Civil 3D and I'm going to go ahead and open up Navisworks. It should be open on most of your machine.

Once you have Navisworks open, there's a couple of gotchas that I've run into often. But you have to have a model in first before you do one of them. So we're going to go ahead and append the NWC in here. And append just means that it's going to bring it in and it's going to create-- or it's going to start a NWF file. So the Navisworks file NWF is essentially an [? XREF ?] in a way where the NWC is appended in it, if that NWC updates it can update in the NWF.

So I'm going to go ahead and click append and then navigate to that Navisworks file. I'm going to select on down this 04 base corridor solids, that's going to have the whole corridor in it. Click open for that. Hit ignore all if it makes you. And then from here, because infrastructure projects are really big and if you zoom in and out before I tell you what you have to do-- you're going to lose the entire model.

So a couple of little things in Infra-- in Navisworks that you need to do when you're zooming in and out, you want to select an object or just-- that's what you want to do, it makes it a lot easier to zoom in and out. The other one is if I zoom out on my machine you see how that model disappeared. It's gone.

So there is a setting in here that we can do to essentially fix that, so that we don't have to worry about it. I can zoom all the way in on this thing and that is going to be under either the home tab of the ribbon under file options up here, or I can right click and go file options under my right click menu. If I click file options on the [? culling ?] tab, there is a clipping plane and I found that if I set that clipping plane at a certain huge number, it works every time.

So if I go constrained-- and I'm going to take that distance and I'm going to hit one. I'm going to do constrained as far and I'm going to make that 1 million. So you got constrained, that one for the near and constrained at one million for the far. There might be some other ways to do this too, but in my eyes this was a super easy way to fix it. So go ahead and click OK. And now I can select on that model again, zoom in and it won't disappear. That clipping plane essentially doesn't make my model disappear.

When you're navigating it's a little bit different in here. So if you hold the shift key and the mouse wheel down you can order it. You can also use your little cube up here too, but I've never used it. So it's not really handy for me.

And there's some clean up work we have to do in here because it brought in a bunch of stuff. So if I'm looking at the model here-- whenever I select on something by default, it's going to turn blue. If I hit escape it's going to unselected it or de-selected-- whatever. But if I go up to my selection and search, there's a selection tree, I can go ahead and hit selection tree and that's going to open up this selection tree over here. And you can pin that to hold it open similar to the prospector.

If I click on and expand that you're going to see that it shows the name of that-- the name of each entity that we brought out from the NWC out and the solid. So the name of that daylight general left zero to four, that is important because that's what the CSV is going to tell it. When we attach these things that's what's going to get built first or second or whatever order we put it in.

If we weren't-- if we didn't do that it would just come in as a road centerline and it wouldn't know which-- what's the difference between this one and this other one. But because we did the naming in the dialogue it will understand that. And it just makes it a lot easier when you're trying to do [? sequencing. ?] You could come in here and you can make selection sets and you can pick everything individually if you wanted to, but it'll take forever. So this is a whole lot easier.

Back to cleaning up the drawing. If I select on an object and I right click there is this option for hide. So I can hide stuff. I don't need that entire surface for this particular sequence, so I can hide the surface. I can zoom in here. I can grab this pond surface and hide that. There is a corridor object in here as well, that I don't want. I can right click on that and say, hide. This surface I don't necessarily need, so I can pick that, right click, hide that. Give me this one. Oh, it did select it. Hide that. So I got everything out of the way. I'll be able to see that sequence a lot better.

All right. So the next thing that we can do is go to the timeliner. And the timeliner is going to help us with the sequencing. [INAUDIBLE] it's going to give us a timeline. So if I go up to my tools, there's a timeliner here and that will open up at the bottom. Same deal, I can pin it or I can move these things wherever I want them. We could add tasks in here manually, but I'm not about manual ever. I want it as most automatic as I can get-- the most automatic I can get. And that is just to bring in my CSV file with everything attached.