2017 Updates: Videos and Tutorials

• Adjust Roadside Grading
• Add and Modify Bridge Deck and Girder Cross Sections
• Updated Tutorials for Roadway Design
• User Interface Tour
• Generate Terrain and Model Features from Point Clouds
• Working with Views
• Run Flood Simulation Animations
• Apply and Inspect Superelevation in Component Roads

Enhancements and Changes

Component roads

• View station and component annotations.
• Configure road component assemblies.
• Apply and inspect superelevation.
• Create linear road transitions.
• Quickly turn pavement markings on/off.

Parametric bridges with superelevation

• Speed up your workflow by applying your girder, pier, or foundation modifications to the next component you select.
• Save your custom bridge assemblies and re-use them as templates from the Style Palette.
• Send your bridge to Revit: bridge components can be converted to Direct Shape or Revit families.
• New parametric component bridge decks.
• Inspect and modify girder and bridge deck cross-sections.
• Modify cross-sections in superelevated areas.

Roadside grading

• Split roadside grading and modify the material and slope.
• Modify start/end stations for grading areas and add a grading transition.
• Specify different fixed slopes for each grading zone.
• Choose different grading materials for each side of the road.

Earthwork quantities

• View cut and fill volumes for intersections, roundabouts, and bridges.
• Specify a station range to show earthwork quantities for part of a road.
• View cut and fill volumes.
• Export cut and fill data for reporting and analysis.

Drainage design

• Perform flood simulations on rivers and water areas for multiple inflow locations.
• Specify Elevation vs. Time inflows for coastal storm surge simulations.
• Inlet placement and analysis accounts for road transitions on component roads.

Point cloud data

• Enhanced engineering-grade terrain generation for large point cloud projects.
• Enhanced feature modeling for Assigning vertical features as city furniture.
• Apply point cloud themes to compare point cloud distributions by elevation, classification, intensity, and so on.

Edit mode

Edit mode/Select mode is now set by view in the Interaction View Settings. By default, Edit mode is enabled in the Conceptual and Engineering views. When you open a model and select one of these views, you are in Edit mode by default.

Area of Interest feature types: Parcels, Easements, Right of Ways

Right of way enhancements:

• The distance between the road centerline and the right of way is displayed in-canvas when a right of way is selected or edited.
• View the right of way limits in the Cut/Fill view of the Cross Section Viewer.

For area of interest features, convert a line segment or boundary vertex to an arc. Import SHP or SDF files containing data for these new data source types; or draw new ones.

Flood Simulation

Use Flood Simulation to simulate, visualize, and analyze 2D flood simulations in your model, as well as create flood snapshots. Flood simulation can be used for inland and coastal flooding projects depending on the parameters you define. Start by defining a boundary for your flood simulation study area, then InfraWorks will re-mesh the terrain surface for the specified area, assign the inflow and outflow boundaries, and pass this information to Hydronia RiverFlow2D for computation. The shallow water equation model can accurately predict and simulate inland or coastal flooding, combined with hydraulic routing of the flooding, given rainfall and/or tidal shift parameters that you define. Note: InfraWorks only supports flood simulation capabilities for users who have purchased a license to the third-party RiverFlow2D plugin offered by Hydronia, LLC. New for flood simulation:

• Define inflow boundary condition with water surface elevation versus time.
• Define multiple inflow boundary conditions.

2D Distance & Slope tool

Use this tool to easily measure the distance (horizontal and vertical) and slope between two points in a model.

Oculus Rift support

A new Oculus Rift mode tool allows you to use Oculus (CV1) with InfraWorks.

Adaptive trees

The new Beech tree style in the 3D ModelsVegetationAdaptive Trees category of the Style Palette, provides 5 levels of detail (LOD). With the increased LOD, the geometry automatically adapts to the camera distance, improving model visualization and performance. Give the Beech tree a try - it's beautiful! See To add or modify trees or vegetation.

Stand of trees

The visualization for large stands of trees is improved. Trees are rendered consistently across a large area and distributed more equally until the maximum number of trees is visible for the density and display detail of the view.

Visual Effects

Options to control visualization of and interaction with your model can be set in a single View Settings panel. From the new Views menu, click to configure view settings for the active view. See About visualization view settings and To set interaction view settings. Specific changes include:

• The Visual Effects, Surface Opacity, and Wireframe intelligent tools are removed and all options are now available on the Visualization tab of the View Settings panel.
• The Application OptionsView tab settings (Status Bar, Tooltips, Links, View Cube, Proximity, Automatic Zoom to Selection) are now available on the Interaction tab of the View Settings panel. The View tab is removed from Application Options.
• Several of the Application OptionsNavigation tab settings (Lock Mouse Above Ground, Show Statistics, Highlight Sketched Features) have been moved to the Interaction tab of the View Settings panel.

Unit Configuration

You can now specify model units by category (Basic, Transportation, and Structure). Set default units for a category, such as Basic, and override that setting for a specific value, such as Length/Distance. To support precision in units display, specify the number of decimal places for each unit. See To set unit configuration options.

Snapshot

You can use the Snapshot tool to produce a high-quality image of a view of the model. The Render tool is no longer needed and has been removed.

Pure white buildings

Display all buildings, whether imported or sketched, in a single color and uniform appearance. See To display buildings in a single color.