You can use workflows between Civil 3D and InfraWorks to add bridges to your corridor designs.
A roadway designer can design an alignment or a corridor in Civil 3D and then a bridge designer can bring the alignment or corridor into InfraWorks and make use of the designed road geometry while adding the bridge in InfraWorks. After the bridge is created, the bridge designer can publish the bridge to an IMX dataset which the road designer can bring into Civil 3D.
Bridge design workflows can start in either Civil 3D or InfraWorks. The following table lists the steps for workflows that start in Civil 3D by creating an alignment or corridor, bringing it into InfraWorks, adding a bridge in InfraWorks, and then bringing the bridge into Civil 3D. You can also start by creating a component road and bridge in InfraWorks that you bring into Civil 3D.
Collaborator | Workflow | Notes |
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A roadway designer using Civil 3D. |
The roadway designer:
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Linking to a Civil 3D drawing from InfraWorks requires that both InfraWorks and Civil 3D are installed on the same computer. |
A bridge designer using InfraWorks. |
The bridge designer:
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A bridge created in InfraWorks: To publish a bridge to an IMX dataset, select the bridge in InfraWorks, right-click to display the Publish Civil Structures context menu, and select Create New. |
A roadway designer using Civil 3D. |
The roadway designer:
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The bridge created when the InfraWorks bridge and component road is brought into Civil 3D: The bridge projected to a profile view in Civil 3D: Note: To view projected objects on sheets created with the Plan Production tools, you must project the bridge after using the
Create sheets command.
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A bridge designer using InfraWorks. |
The bridge designer:
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To republish the bridge to an IMX dataset, select the bridge in InfraWorks, right-click to display the Publish Civil Structures context menu, and select Update Existing. |
A roadway designer using Civil 3D. |
The roadway designer:
Tip: See the
InfraWorks Help for more information about bridge workflows.
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If an IMX dataset that is used in the current drawing is republished from InfraWorks using the Publish Civil Structures Update Existing command, the following notification message is displayed at the status bar in Civil 3D:
Referenced data has changed Referenced InfraWorks data has changed and may need to be reloaded. |
In InfraWorks, IMX datasets for bridges can be exported using the Publish Civil Structures context menu. IMX datasets containing multiple object types including bridges can be exported using the Export to IMX command.