To Manage InfraWorks Bridge Datasets in the Current Drawing

Use the InfraWorks Dataset Manager to reload bridges into a drawing from an updated IMX dataset, to view the dataset properties and to remove the bridges from the drawing.

You can use the Open InfraWorks Model command to bring an InfraWorks IMX dataset into Civil 3D and then use the InfraWorks Dataset Manager dialog box to reload the bridges into the drawing if the IMX dataset is changed.

Note: The InfraWorks Dataset Manager dialog box lists only IMX datasets that contain bridges which have been brought into the drawing. It does not list SQLITE InfraWorks datasets.

To open the InfraWorks Dataset Manager

• Click Insert tab InfraWorks panel InfraWorks Manage InfraWorks Datasets Find.

  The InfraWorks Dataset Manager dialogue box is displayed.

  Note: If no bridges have been brought into the drawing from an IMX dataset, no datasets will be listed in the dialog box. You can use the Open InfraWorks Model command to bring an InfraWorks IMX dataset that contains bridges into Civil 3D.

To review the status and properties of a bridge dataset

1. In the InfraWorks Dataset Manager dialog box, review the Status column for the dataset.
   • Loaded is displayed if the dataset in the saved path has not been changed since it was brought into the drawing (the drawing is up to date).
   • Out of Date is displayed if the dataset in the saved path has changed since it was brought into the drawing. You can view the status of the IMX dataset by clicking the link in the Properties cell. To reload the dataset and update the drawing, select the tick box and click Reload.
   • Not Found is displayed if the dataset cannot be found in the path shown in the Saved Path column.
   • Unknown is displayed if the IMX dataset does not have a corresponding JSON file that contains the dataset property information. This may occur if the associated JSON file is missing, if the dataset was output from an earlier version of InfraWorks or if the dataset was output using the Export to IMX command rather than the commands on the Publish Civil Structures context menu in InfraWorks. Neither status nor properties can be displayed for such a dataset.
     Note: An associated JSON file is created when an IMX dataset is published from InfraWorks using the commands on the Publish Civil Structures context menu.
2. In the Properties column for a dataset, click the Properties link.

   The InfraWorks Dataset Properties dialog box is displayed.

3. Review the properties and click OK.

To reload a bridge dataset into a drawing

If an IMX dataset that is used in the current drawing is republished from InfraWorks using the Publish Civil Structures Update Existing command, a notification message is displayed at the status bar in Civil 3D that referenced data has changed.

Click the Manage InfraWorks datasets link in the message to display the InfraWorks Dataset Manager dialog box.

1. In the InfraWorks Dataset Manager dialogue box, select the tick box for the dataset.
2. Click Reload.
   • The Reload option updates the bridge objects in the drawing with the data in the IMX dataset and updates the bridge projections in profile views.
   • The Reload option only reloads bridges in the dataset and does not reload other InfraWorks object types that may exist in the selected IMX dataset.
   • If another feature such as a component road was updated in InfraWorks due to changes in a bridge, it will not be updated in the drawing when you reload the dataset. For best results, delete both the bridge and the road in the drawing and then bring them in together again using the Open InfraWorks Model command. This will ensure that the related objects are up to date and will also ensure that a corridor region for the bridge is created correctly (for example, so daylighting does not occur in the bridge area).

Tip: You can also reload a bridge into a drawing by right-clicking the bridge in the Prospector tree and clicking Reload on the context menu.

To remove bridges from a drawing

To remove the bridges from the drawing, you can delete the associated dataset.

1. In the InfraWorks Dataset Manager dialog box, select the tick box for the dataset.
2. Click Delete.

   Using the Delete option will completely remove the bridges in the dataset from the drawing.

   Only the bridges that were created in the drawing from the selected IMX dataset are removed from the drawing. Other object types that may have been created in the drawing from the IMX dataset are not deleted.

You can also delete a bridge from a drawing using the following methods. If you delete a bridge or a bridge component using the following methods, the bridge source is not deleted in the InfraWorks Dataset Manager dialogue box and you can restore the bridge by reloading the dataset into your drawing.

• Right-click the bridge in the Prospector tree and click Delete on the context menu.
• Select an individual bridge component such as a girder in a drawing and press the Delete key.
  Note: Selecting and deleting a bridge component that is projected to profile view will delete the object from the drawing.