Transcript
00:01
SHAWN HERRING: InfraWorks provides a great way
00:03
to see the building and the site in context
00:05
with all of its surroundings.
00:06
In this unit, you'll learn the secrets of pulling together
00:09
multiple models and multiple file types inside of InfraWorks
00:13
so you can see how it all fits together.
00:16
And in this session, we're going to look
00:18
at the DWG overlay and the Civil 3D import options
00:22
within InfraWorks.
00:24
So you can take a 2D, DWG, and a 3D file from maybe Civil 3D
00:29
and bring that into InfraWorks very simply.
00:32
The 2D option allows you to bring it in, import it
00:34
and overlay it, and scale it to fit your size.
00:37
So maybe you have some boundary lines and you have a site
00:40
within that you can scale and easily fit
00:42
the site in InfraWorks.
00:43
That's a great way to get some information in, and then
00:45
start drawing from there.
00:48
The other source of types that you can use in InfraWorks
00:51
is in AutoCAD DWG with 3D objects--
00:54
the DWG is a 2D overlay we just mentioned--
00:57
and a Civil 3D DWG that will read things
00:60
like your alignments and so forth.
01:03
That's all found in the data source option.
01:08
And you can see there what type of objects
01:10
we can bring in from outside sources.
01:14
And when you bring in Civil 3D data,
01:16
you can bring a lot more information in.
01:18
So you can bring in a TIN surface,
01:20
whether that's via XML.
01:22
Most likely you'll bring that in through Civil 3D
01:24
and read the file that way.
01:27
You can bring in alignments and profiles.
01:29
Those alignments and profiles convert to component roads.
01:32
So you have your horizontal and your vertical geometry.
01:35
And you also have the road created and modeled
01:38
within InfraWorks.
01:41
Corridors and corridor surfaces--
01:42
so as you bring that information in,
01:44
it's going to convert those to corridors and surfaces.
01:48
Pipe networks, so your pipe networks in Civil 3D
01:51
will come in as inlets and manholes or pipe connections.
01:57
And then one thing I use a lot-- and I
01:58
think this is a really good use of both Civil 3D
02:01
and InfraWorks-- is you can easily export out
02:04
shape files from Civil
02:07
in as coverage areas and different uses
02:09
within InfraWorks.
02:12
So to do so in Civil 3D, you simply just type in map export.
02:15
You can see there that you can export these out
02:18
to a bunch of different objects.
02:19
We've got SDF and SAP, which would be your shape file.
02:23
Those are the two most common I would use.
02:26
You can choose to select a point, a line, a polygon, which
02:30
is great for a coverage area and to do some initial grading
02:33
within InfraWorks.
02:36
You can set attributes to it.
02:38
So if your files in Civil 3D have attributes,
02:41
you can bring those along with the data into InfraWorks.
02:46
And then once you treat those as a closed polygon--
02:49
so if you have a polygon of maybe a parking lot area,
02:51
you'll select the treat closed polylines as polygon area.
02:55
Then you'll select OK.
02:56
And that will export out shape files.
02:58
So that's a very simple process in Civil 3D,
03:01
but can be very valuable downstream in InfraWorks.
03:06
If you already have information brought in with the Civil 3D
03:09
file into InfraWorks, you can easily
03:11
modify that so there's a link between the two.
03:14
So what you have to do is first open up Civil 3D.
03:17
You'll make your changes.
03:18
So maybe you change an alignment or profile or something
03:21
in your Civil 3D file.
03:23
Then you'll close down Civil.
03:25
Once you open InfraWorks, there's a Reimport command.
03:28
And that will update your Civil 3D drawing in InfraWorks
03:31
and reflect the design that you made back in Civil 3D--
03:33
so a very simple step there to perform the updates
03:36
based on your Civil 3D file.
03:38
So let's move this over to InfraWorks.
03:40
Let's take a look at how easy it is to bring information
03:42
from your CAD, from your DWGs, into InfraWorks
03:45
to create your model.
03:48
So we're here in InfraWorks.
03:49
And let's look at ways of sharing data
03:51
from Civil 3D or other sources.
03:54
I'm going to turn on my Data Sources panel.
03:58
I'm going to create a new proposal just
04:02
to save this into, DWG Overlay.
04:08
And let's first start with connecting to a 2D AutoCAD
04:12
drawing.
04:13
Let's see if we have a site plan laid out in 2D,
04:15
we want to connect to it, and then
04:17
maybe start our 3D sketches.
04:19
We have a couple of options here.
04:21
We can import an AutoCAD DWG that has 3D objects.
04:27
DWG has 2D overlay and Civil 3D DWG.
04:31
We'll first do the 2D overlay.
04:34
So
04:35
This could have come from just plain vanilla CAD.
04:37
This could come from Civil.
04:38
It could come from any exported design authoring software.
04:42
So I'm going to come here to my Civil drawings.
04:44
I'm just going to do this redtail 2D DWG.
04:49
What it's going to do, it's going to push it to the cloud.
04:52
It's going to convert it.
04:53
And so it's going to send it to the cloud real quick.
04:55
It just takes a moment.
04:57
You can see there along the right side
04:59
under Terrain Overlays that it is in progress.
05:04
Once that's completed, we'll configure the 2D DWG.
05:08
So I just need to double-click here
05:10
where it sasys Not Configured.
05:14
And here, again, let's say this was
05:16
a 2D drawing out of AutoCAD.
05:18
It's not georeferenced.
05:21
We can do interactive placing.
05:24
If it was georeferenced, as you'll
05:25
see when I do the Civil file, the stuff will all be fine.
05:28
But I'm going to go to Interactive Placing.
05:31
And I'm going to come up here to the top,
05:33
and I'm going to place this somewhere.
05:37
So I got a place it here, anywhere.
05:39
I'm going to select here.
05:41
I'm going to close and refresh that.
05:44
And I want to select it again because I'm going to place this
05:47
by reference point.
05:48
So when I select an object like this, this 2D
05:51
DWG, and right-click, we're going to say place
05:54
by reference point.
05:57
And it's kind of like rubber-sheeting in AutoCAD.
05:59
I'm going to say, spot 1 is here.
06:05
Double-click that.
06:06
And spot 1 equals this point.
06:10
Let's do this a few more times.
06:11
I'm going to come over here, spot 2, double-click.
06:16
I'll zoom way out here.
06:19
I'm going to come over here and double-click, a couple more
06:25
to kind of get this rotation set.
06:29
I'm going to choose this angle point here.
06:32
Double-click and double-click.
06:39
So now I've got that 2D DWG laid out
06:42
where I can start sketching in some items
06:45
if I want to, so just a quick way to bring in a 2D AutoCAD
06:49
drawing.
06:50
You can adjust things in here, the opacity, placement.
06:54
We can rubber-sheet it again at any point by placing
06:56
by reference points--
06:58
so quick and easy to get 2D DWG or even an image in there.
07:05
So I'm going to go ahead and let's--
07:06
I'm going to remove that for the time being.
07:10
And now I'm going to connect to the Civil 3D.
07:13
So I'm going to come in here, Autodesk Civil 3D DWG.
07:18
In this case, I'm going to choose the Redtail
07:20
site Civil 3D.
07:23
Give it just a moment.
07:27
Once those items are imported, we just
07:28
need to do a little bit of configuration.
07:30
I'm going to configure just a couple of things here.
07:34
I'm going to come here to the road.
07:35
I'm just going to set a style to it.
07:37
So I'm going to come here to the Assembly Style
07:41
and just going to choose a four lane road here.
07:43
Close and refresh.
07:49
You will, at times, get some miscellaneous alignments
07:52
come in here.
07:53
So this one is meant to be kind of an offsite utility drainage
07:57
alignment for some pipes.
07:59
These could be alignments for cross-sections or anything
08:02
that could just be miscellaneous alignments.
08:03
You could just easily remove those.
08:06
I'll configure the pipe now.
08:08
Let's come in here to the pipes.
08:12
And just choose from the rule style.
08:14
I'm just going to go with an orange pipe for now.
08:16
Close and refresh that.
08:20
It must be a drainage pipe coming in.
08:22
It looks like we've got a drainage pattern here
08:25
and we're piping that around.
08:26
So it's very easy to, A, bring in a 2D model
08:30
if we wanted to just bring in a 2D site plan, and then B,
08:33
bring in that Civil 3D file and attach roads, surfaces, pipes,
08:39
whatever is in that Civl file.
08:42
The other thing I want to show real quick
08:44
is going back to coverage areas.
08:46
I'm going to bring in our parking lot.
08:48
So I'm just going to drag and drop that parking lot in there,
08:51
configure it as we're now used to.
08:53
So I'm going to configure it, give it that asphalt style.
08:59
Throw our buildings in there.
09:00
We'll just do a couple.
09:01
And I want to show you something when it comes to parking lots.
09:07
Buildings, bring those in once again.
09:11
Give it a style.
09:12
I'm just going to choose a random facade.
09:18
So sometimes, you want to show the parking stalls.
09:23
What do you bring those parking stalls as?
09:24
Do you bring them in as lines?
09:25
Do you bring as polylines?
09:27
Do you draw them all here in InfraWorks?
09:29
There's a way in InfraWorks here to grab the shape file.
09:33
So you export out your parking spaces or your parking lot
09:36
lines.
09:38
And we've got our parking spaces here as a shape file.
09:41
I'm just going to drag and drop those in.
09:44
I'm going to configure it.
09:45
I'm going to tell it it's a coverage area.
09:47
I'm going to give it a style.
09:49
Let's just use this yellow.
09:51
Source, let's go ahead and drape it.
09:53
Close and refresh.
09:57
You'll notice here nothing has appeared.
09:60
What did we do wrong?
10:01
There's one thing to look at and as far
10:03
as the coverage area goes when bringing in parking spaces.
10:06
So I'm going to double-click here, parking spaces.
10:09
And I'm going to come here to the table,
10:12
and there's going to be a buffer down here under the coverage.
10:16
We're going to give this a width.
10:18
So I'm going to say 0.54, just being a 6-inch line.
10:22
So I'm going to say 0.5 there.
10:24
I'm just going to simply close and refresh again.
10:32
And now at this point, you can see all of our parking spaces.
10:35
We can choose different style.
10:36
They could be white.
10:37
They could be yellow.
10:38
I chose red.
10:40
But quick and easy, coming from Civil 3D, coming from AutoCAD,
10:43
just 2D line work that can be exported out,
10:46
you can just drag, drop, give it a style,
10:48
adjust a couple settings.
10:51
And you can really start to see your projects
10:53
in InfraWorks come to life.
10:55
Now, coming up next, we're going to take
10:57
a look at how to bring a Revit model into InfraWorks.
00:01
SHAWN HERRING: InfraWorks provides a great way
00:03
to see the building and the site in context
00:05
with all of its surroundings.
00:06
In this unit, you'll learn the secrets of pulling together
00:09
multiple models and multiple file types inside of InfraWorks
00:13
so you can see how it all fits together.
00:16
And in this session, we're going to look
00:18
at the DWG overlay and the Civil 3D import options
00:22
within InfraWorks.
00:24
So you can take a 2D, DWG, and a 3D file from maybe Civil 3D
00:29
and bring that into InfraWorks very simply.
00:32
The 2D option allows you to bring it in, import it
00:34
and overlay it, and scale it to fit your size.
00:37
So maybe you have some boundary lines and you have a site
00:40
within that you can scale and easily fit
00:42
the site in InfraWorks.
00:43
That's a great way to get some information in, and then
00:45
start drawing from there.
00:48
The other source of types that you can use in InfraWorks
00:51
is in AutoCAD DWG with 3D objects--
00:54
the DWG is a 2D overlay we just mentioned--
00:57
and a Civil 3D DWG that will read things
00:60
like your alignments and so forth.
01:03
That's all found in the data source option.
01:08
And you can see there what type of objects
01:10
we can bring in from outside sources.
01:14
And when you bring in Civil 3D data,
01:16
you can bring a lot more information in.
01:18
So you can bring in a TIN surface,
01:20
whether that's via XML.
01:22
Most likely you'll bring that in through Civil 3D
01:24
and read the file that way.
01:27
You can bring in alignments and profiles.
01:29
Those alignments and profiles convert to component roads.
01:32
So you have your horizontal and your vertical geometry.
01:35
And you also have the road created and modeled
01:38
within InfraWorks.
01:41
Corridors and corridor surfaces--
01:42
so as you bring that information in,
01:44
it's going to convert those to corridors and surfaces.
01:48
Pipe networks, so your pipe networks in Civil 3D
01:51
will come in as inlets and manholes or pipe connections.
01:57
And then one thing I use a lot-- and I
01:58
think this is a really good use of both Civil 3D
02:01
and InfraWorks-- is you can easily export out
02:04
shape files from Civil
02:07
in as coverage areas and different uses
02:09
within InfraWorks.
02:12
So to do so in Civil 3D, you simply just type in map export.
02:15
You can see there that you can export these out
02:18
to a bunch of different objects.
02:19
We've got SDF and SAP, which would be your shape file.
02:23
Those are the two most common I would use.
02:26
You can choose to select a point, a line, a polygon, which
02:30
is great for a coverage area and to do some initial grading
02:33
within InfraWorks.
02:36
You can set attributes to it.
02:38
So if your files in Civil 3D have attributes,
02:41
you can bring those along with the data into InfraWorks.
02:46
And then once you treat those as a closed polygon--
02:49
so if you have a polygon of maybe a parking lot area,
02:51
you'll select the treat closed polylines as polygon area.
02:55
Then you'll select OK.
02:56
And that will export out shape files.
02:58
So that's a very simple process in Civil 3D,
03:01
but can be very valuable downstream in InfraWorks.
03:06
If you already have information brought in with the Civil 3D
03:09
file into InfraWorks, you can easily
03:11
modify that so there's a link between the two.
03:14
So what you have to do is first open up Civil 3D.
03:17
You'll make your changes.
03:18
So maybe you change an alignment or profile or something
03:21
in your Civil 3D file.
03:23
Then you'll close down Civil.
03:25
Once you open InfraWorks, there's a Reimport command.
03:28
And that will update your Civil 3D drawing in InfraWorks
03:31
and reflect the design that you made back in Civil 3D--
03:33
so a very simple step there to perform the updates
03:36
based on your Civil 3D file.
03:38
So let's move this over to InfraWorks.
03:40
Let's take a look at how easy it is to bring information
03:42
from your CAD, from your DWGs, into InfraWorks
03:45
to create your model.
03:48
So we're here in InfraWorks.
03:49
And let's look at ways of sharing data
03:51
from Civil 3D or other sources.
03:54
I'm going to turn on my Data Sources panel.
03:58
I'm going to create a new proposal just
04:02
to save this into, DWG Overlay.
04:08
And let's first start with connecting to a 2D AutoCAD
04:12
drawing.
04:13
Let's see if we have a site plan laid out in 2D,
04:15
we want to connect to it, and then
04:17
maybe start our 3D sketches.
04:19
We have a couple of options here.
04:21
We can import an AutoCAD DWG that has 3D objects.
04:27
DWG has 2D overlay and Civil 3D DWG.
04:31
We'll first do the 2D overlay.
04:34
So
04:35
This could have come from just plain vanilla CAD.
04:37
This could come from Civil.
04:38
It could come from any exported design authoring software.
04:42
So I'm going to come here to my Civil drawings.
04:44
I'm just going to do this redtail 2D DWG.
04:49
What it's going to do, it's going to push it to the cloud.
04:52
It's going to convert it.
04:53
And so it's going to send it to the cloud real quick.
04:55
It just takes a moment.
04:57
You can see there along the right side
04:59
under Terrain Overlays that it is in progress.
05:04
Once that's completed, we'll configure the 2D DWG.
05:08
So I just need to double-click here
05:10
where it sasys Not Configured.
05:14
And here, again, let's say this was
05:16
a 2D drawing out of AutoCAD.
05:18
It's not georeferenced.
05:21
We can do interactive placing.
05:24
If it was georeferenced, as you'll
05:25
see when I do the Civil file, the stuff will all be fine.
05:28
But I'm going to go to Interactive Placing.
05:31
And I'm going to come up here to the top,
05:33
and I'm going to place this somewhere.
05:37
So I got a place it here, anywhere.
05:39
I'm going to select here.
05:41
I'm going to close and refresh that.
05:44
And I want to select it again because I'm going to place this
05:47
by reference point.
05:48
So when I select an object like this, this 2D
05:51
DWG, and right-click, we're going to say place
05:54
by reference point.
05:57
And it's kind of like rubber-sheeting in AutoCAD.
05:59
I'm going to say, spot 1 is here.
06:05
Double-click that.
06:06
And spot 1 equals this point.
06:10
Let's do this a few more times.
06:11
I'm going to come over here, spot 2, double-click.
06:16
I'll zoom way out here.
06:19
I'm going to come over here and double-click, a couple more
06:25
to kind of get this rotation set.
06:29
I'm going to choose this angle point here.
06:32
Double-click and double-click.
06:39
So now I've got that 2D DWG laid out
06:42
where I can start sketching in some items
06:45
if I want to, so just a quick way to bring in a 2D AutoCAD
06:49
drawing.
06:50
You can adjust things in here, the opacity, placement.
06:54
We can rubber-sheet it again at any point by placing
06:56
by reference points--
06:58
so quick and easy to get 2D DWG or even an image in there.
07:05
So I'm going to go ahead and let's--
07:06
I'm going to remove that for the time being.
07:10
And now I'm going to connect to the Civil 3D.
07:13
So I'm going to come in here, Autodesk Civil 3D DWG.
07:18
In this case, I'm going to choose the Redtail
07:20
site Civil 3D.
07:23
Give it just a moment.
07:27
Once those items are imported, we just
07:28
need to do a little bit of configuration.
07:30
I'm going to configure just a couple of things here.
07:34
I'm going to come here to the road.
07:35
I'm just going to set a style to it.
07:37
So I'm going to come here to the Assembly Style
07:41
and just going to choose a four lane road here.
07:43
Close and refresh.
07:49
You will, at times, get some miscellaneous alignments
07:52
come in here.
07:53
So this one is meant to be kind of an offsite utility drainage
07:57
alignment for some pipes.
07:59
These could be alignments for cross-sections or anything
08:02
that could just be miscellaneous alignments.
08:03
You could just easily remove those.
08:06
I'll configure the pipe now.
08:08
Let's come in here to the pipes.
08:12
And just choose from the rule style.
08:14
I'm just going to go with an orange pipe for now.
08:16
Close and refresh that.
08:20
It must be a drainage pipe coming in.
08:22
It looks like we've got a drainage pattern here
08:25
and we're piping that around.
08:26
So it's very easy to, A, bring in a 2D model
08:30
if we wanted to just bring in a 2D site plan, and then B,
08:33
bring in that Civil 3D file and attach roads, surfaces, pipes,
08:39
whatever is in that Civl file.
08:42
The other thing I want to show real quick
08:44
is going back to coverage areas.
08:46
I'm going to bring in our parking lot.
08:48
So I'm just going to drag and drop that parking lot in there,
08:51
configure it as we're now used to.
08:53
So I'm going to configure it, give it that asphalt style.
08:59
Throw our buildings in there.
09:00
We'll just do a couple.
09:01
And I want to show you something when it comes to parking lots.
09:07
Buildings, bring those in once again.
09:11
Give it a style.
09:12
I'm just going to choose a random facade.
09:18
So sometimes, you want to show the parking stalls.
09:23
What do you bring those parking stalls as?
09:24
Do you bring them in as lines?
09:25
Do you bring as polylines?
09:27
Do you draw them all here in InfraWorks?
09:29
There's a way in InfraWorks here to grab the shape file.
09:33
So you export out your parking spaces or your parking lot
09:36
lines.
09:38
And we've got our parking spaces here as a shape file.
09:41
I'm just going to drag and drop those in.
09:44
I'm going to configure it.
09:45
I'm going to tell it it's a coverage area.
09:47
I'm going to give it a style.
09:49
Let's just use this yellow.
09:51
Source, let's go ahead and drape it.
09:53
Close and refresh.
09:57
You'll notice here nothing has appeared.
09:60
What did we do wrong?
10:01
There's one thing to look at and as far
10:03
as the coverage area goes when bringing in parking spaces.
10:06
So I'm going to double-click here, parking spaces.
10:09
And I'm going to come here to the table,
10:12
and there's going to be a buffer down here under the coverage.
10:16
We're going to give this a width.
10:18
So I'm going to say 0.54, just being a 6-inch line.
10:22
So I'm going to say 0.5 there.
10:24
I'm just going to simply close and refresh again.
10:32
And now at this point, you can see all of our parking spaces.
10:35
We can choose different style.
10:36
They could be white.
10:37
They could be yellow.
10:38
I chose red.
10:40
But quick and easy, coming from Civil 3D, coming from AutoCAD,
10:43
just 2D line work that can be exported out,
10:46
you can just drag, drop, give it a style,
10:48
adjust a couple settings.
10:51
And you can really start to see your projects
10:53
in InfraWorks come to life.
10:55
Now, coming up next, we're going to take
10:57
a look at how to bring a Revit model into InfraWorks.
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InfraWorks provides a great way to see a building in context within its surroundings. In this session, we’ll look at the DWG overlay and the Civil 3D import options in InfraWorks.
There are several importing options:
Civil 3D Data that can be brought into InfraWorks:
o Each surface will be listed in the Data Sources panel in InfraWorks. If a surface that you bring into InfraWorks obscures other surfaces, you can adjust the order of the terrain surface layers by using the Surface Layers dialog box, which you can access from the Data Sources panel.
o Only Centerline type alignments can be brought into InfraWorks as component roads.
o A single profile is used in InfraWorks for each component road. The first finished ground profile that was created in the Civil 3D drawing is used. You can use the Profile View tool in InfraWorks to review the profile geometry.
o In InfraWorks, you can specify the component road assembly style to use in the Data Source Configuration dialog box.
o To visualize corridors properly in InfraWorks, it is recommended that you create one of more corridor surfaces in Civil 3D to bring into InfraWorks (for example, a surface that represents the top of the corridor). The corridor surface is what models the ground in InfraWorks.
o If a structure in the Civil 3D drawing has a Utility Type of drainage specified, and it uses a part from the Generic Drainage Catalog – Imperial or the Generic Drainage Catalog – Metric part catalog, then it will be assigned a part from the part catalog when it is brought back into InfraWorks.
Using MAPEXPORT:
Type in “MAPEXPORT” in Civil 3D.
You can choose to select a point, a line, a polygon or a text. Polygons are useful for coverage areas and initial grading.
You can select attributes and bring those along with the data.
Once you treat those as a closed polygon, check the box for “Treat closed polylines as polygons” and click “OK”.
This will export out Shapefiles.
Modifying a Autodesk Civil 3D data previously brought into a model:
Bringing in a 2D Overlay:
You can drag and drop the overlay or bring it in from InfraWorks.
To bring it in from InfraWorks, turn on the "Date Sources" panel.
Turn on the “Data Sources” panel.
Click on the 
icon and select “AutoCAD DWG as 2D Overlay”.
Grab and drop the retail file from the file explorer window that will appear to your screen.
A window titled “DWG File Import” will appear. Select “AutoCAD DWG as 2D Overlay”.
Hit “OK”.
A “Data Import” window will pop up reminding you you need an internet connection to import this information. Select “Send”.
The overlay will appear in the “Data Sources” panel list on the right. Double-click on the overlay to configure it.
In the “Data Source Configuration” window that will appear, select “Interactive Placing…”.
Place the overlay on the screen by double-clicking on the area you want to place it. It doesn’t have to be a perfect or to-scale placement.
a.From here you can manually scale it by dragging the corners.
Or you can right click on the overlay and select “Place by Reference Points”.
From there, pick a few points and drag them where you want to place the overlay and double-click to place each point and then click “Enter” to place the entire overlay.
Bringing in a Civil 3D file:
Turn on the “Data Sources” panel.
Click on the 
icon and select “AutoCAD Civil 3D DWG”.
Select your Civil 3D drawing from the File Explorer window that will appear.
A window titled “Choose Data Sources” will show you everything in that Civil 3D file. Select what you do and don’t want to bring in and click “OK”.
The Civil 3D file will import to the “Data Sources” panel list on the right. First, we’re going to configure the terrain. Double-click on one of the Civil 3D terrain list items.
A window titled “Data Source Configuration” will appear. Select “Close & Refresh”. This will add in the design process over the terrain.
You can see the surface layers of the terrain by selecting “Surface Layers” on the left of the screen. Under “Terrain Surfaces”, you can turn your layers off and on as well as drag layers to the surface.
To configure a road, double-click on a Civil 3D list item under “Roads” in the “Data Sources” panel.
A window titled “Data Source Configuration” will appear. Select an assembly style by clicking on the edit icon next to the drop-down menu. For this example, we’re going to choose a component road.
After selecting a style, click “Close & Refresh” in the “Data Source Configuration” window. This will import the Civil 3D roads into the InfraWorks drawing. Once it’s imported, you can delete the roads you do not want and make adjustments to the roads you want to keep.
From here, you can bring in Shapefiles.
Select a Shapefile from the File Explorer and drag and drop it into InfraWorks. For this example, we’re going to bring in a parking lot.
The “Data Source Configuration” window will appear. Under “Type”, select “Coverage Area” from the drop-down menu. It should drape it automatically.
Under the “Common” tab, add a style by clicking on the edit button next to the drop-down menu.
In the “Select Style/Color” window, select the “Material” tab and click on “Roadway”.
Select a roadway style and click “OK”.
Click “Close & Refresh” in the “Data Source Configuration” window. This will bring in the parking lot surfaces to the drawing.
Now we’re going to bring in some buildings. Drag and drop your building Shapefile from the File Explorer into InfraWorks.
In the “Data Source Configuration” window, select “Buildings” from the “Type” drop-down menu.
Under the “Source” tab in the same window, choose to drape the buildings.
Click “Close & Refresh”. This will bring in an outline of the buildings. From here, you can remove buildings you don’t want to use.
To add in coverage areas, select the Create tab of the ribbon and select the Environment panel.
Select a coverage style and draw it into the drawing.
To shape the terrain of this new coverage area, right-click on it and select “Shape Terrain” and roudtrip that back and forth between Civil 3D.
To add in parking stripes, drag and drop your parking spaces Shapefile into InfraWorks.
In the “Data Sources Configuration” window, select “Coverage Area” from the “Type” drop-down menu.
Add a “Rule Style”. For our example, we’ll use “Restricted Area”.
Choose to drape it by going to the “Source” tab.
Click “Close & Refresh”.
If the parking spaces did not show up, double-click on the parking spaces line under “Coverage Areas” in the “Data Sources” panel on the right.
Under the “Table” tab, select “Buffer” and change the width. In this example, we’ll change it to “0.5 ft”.
Click “Close & Refresh”. This should bring in the parking stalls.
