Work with Models

Create, open, and delete models, and change their properties.

Create or Open a Model	Import Data	Style Features	Set Options	Interact with the Model

Models are collections of information, styles, and data. You interact with models on the Start page.

1. Sign in.
2. Use links to open or create a model, or to see information about Autodesk InfraWorks.
3. Click a local model to open it.
4. Connect to the InfraWorks data catalog on WeoGeo.com.
5. Change your current group to see associated online models.
6. Use links to see all online models, manage online scenarios, or to see information about Autodesk InfraWorks 360.
7. Click an online model to download and open it.

The Start page appears when you start InfraWorks. To redisplay it after opening or creating a model, close the current model.

InfraWorks comes with a sample model of the city of San Francisco. Use the sample model to experiment with InfraWorks before creating a your own models.

Advanced Tips

Once you open or create a model in this release of InfraWorks, that model will fully support the new feature set. For example, it will support the new database schema and style definitions. However, you will no longer be able to open that model in previous versions. You can make a copy of a model before opening it. The copy will preserve the original model so it can be opened in previous versions.

A single model can span all UTM zones, while maintaining accuracy in measurement and representation. The tile cache is actually a globe. If you create a very large model, parts of the globe will be covered. If you do not bring in data for the entire globe (for example, the publicly available SRTM terrain data), there will be large gaps in the model, making it difficult to navigate.

Two elements make up a model; the database (*.sqlite) and a data folder. Both elements have the same name.

You can change some of the properties of a model later, but you cannot change the model location or the schema on which it is based.