Release Notes for Autodesk InfraWorks 2020
Fixed Issues
Autodesk Infrastructure Parts Editor 2020.0.4 (November 2022 release)
| Security |
| This hotfix contains security updates for Autodesk Infrastructure Parts Editor. Learn more. |
Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.2 Hotfix 8 (September 2022 release)
This hotfix is a complete InfraWorks installation that requires earlier versions of InfraWorks 2020 to be uninstalled.
| Security |
| This hotfix contains security updates for Autodesk InfraWorks. Learn more here and here. |
Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.2 Hotfix 6 (March 2022 release)
This hotfix is a complete InfraWorks installation that requires earlier versions of InfraWorks 2020 to be uninstalled.
| Security |
| This hotfix contains security updates for Minimal Git for Windows. Learn More |
Autodesk Infrastructure Parts Editor 2020.0.3 (August 2022 release)
| Security |
| This hotfix contains security updates for Autodesk Infrastructure Parts Editor. Learn more. |
Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.2 Hotfix 7 (June 2022 release)
This hotfix is a complete InfraWorks installation that requires earlier versions of InfraWorks 2020 to be uninstalled.
Please note that when you run this version of InfraWorks for the first time, you may be prompted for GIT credentials. Close this dialog and continue. This prompt will only display on the first launch of the 2020.2 Hotfix 6 release.
| Cloud Services |
| Implemented job limitations for optimization. |
| The legacy interface for cloud credits was deprecated. |
| Implemented token translation. |
| Security |
| This hotfix contains security updates for Minimal Git for Windows. Learn More |
Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.2 Hotfix 6 (March 2022 release)
This hotfix is a complete InfraWorks installation that requires earlier versions of InfraWorks 2020 to be uninstalled.
| Security |
| This hotfix contains security updates for Minimal Git for Windows. Learn More |
Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.2 Hotfix 5 (January 2022 release)
This hotfix requires InfraWorks 2020.2 to be installed in order to apply the update. Be sure your installation has all of its previous updates before installing this hotfix. Refer to manage.autodesk.com to view what previous updates are available.
2020.2 Hotfix 5 contains an essential security update. It is highly recommended for customers using InfraWorks 2020.2 in a version below 20.2.163.0.
| Security |
| This hotfix contains security updates for Traffic Simulation. Learn More. |
Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.2 Hotfix 4 (January 2022 release)
This hotfix requires InfraWorks 2020.2 to be installed in order to apply the update. Be sure your installation has all of its previous updates before installing this hotfix. Refer to manage.autodesk.com to view what previous updates are available.
| Security |
| This hotfix contains security updates for Autodesk InfraWorks. Learn More. |
| Collaboration |
There are changes in 2020 that impact the way InfraWorks communicates with cloud services. This hotfix adds stability changes to ensure that InfraWorks 2020.2 continues to work with the following:- Import and Update of Bing Raster Datasources
- Bridge Analysis
- Watershed Analysis
- Optimization
- Shared Views
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| General |
| Updated the Commons IO Java package to 2.11.0. As a minimum requirement, InfraWorks now needs Java 8 installed. |
Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.2 Hotfix 3 (October 2021 release)
This hotfix requires InfraWorks 2020.2.2 Hotfix to be installed in order to apply the update. Be sure your installation has all of its previous updates before installing this hotfix. Refer to manage.autodesk.com to view what previous updates are available.
| Security |
| This hotfix contains security updates for Autodesk InfraWorks. |
| Added a confirmation dialog that warns when importing data with configurations based on custom javascript. |
| Coordinate Systems |
| Fixed an issue in which a coordinate system boundary check would return errors at import or export. During the coordinate system boundary check, its extent is buffered to allow cross coordinate system boundary models to be exported. |
Autodesk Infrastructure Parts Editor 2020.0.2 (October 2021 release)
| Security |
| This hotfix contains security updates for Autodesk Infrastructure Parts Editor. Learn more. |
Autodesk Infrastructure Parts Editor 2020.0.1 (August 2021 release)
| Security |
| This hotfix contains security updates for Autodesk Infrastructure Parts Editor. Learn more. |
Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.2 Hotfix 2 (June 2021 release)
| Security |
| This hotfix contains security updates for Autodesk InfraWorks. Learn more. |
| General |
| Fixed an issue that would require you to log in again when using the model builder. |
| Updated the Spatial Reference Library to correct a coordinate system issue. |
Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.2 Hotfix 1 (June 2020 release)
| Security |
| This hotfix contains security updates for Autodesk InfraWorks (2020.2 - January 2020 release). Learn more. |
Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.2 (January 2020 release)
| General |
| Fixed an issue where some tools in the select draw style catalog were not working properly. |
| Civil Structures |
| Fixed an issue where the size and location of bridge piers displayed incorrectly in Autodesk Civil 3D when imported into C3D in IMX format. |
| Drainage Design |
| Fixed an issue where the select component dialog was not showing the correct catalog location for custom parts that were published to InfraWorks using the Parts Editor. |
| Roadway Design |
| Fixed an issue where converting multiple planning roads to component roads resulted in the converted component roads all being given the name of the road that was converted last. |
| Fixed an issue where the Select Bridge Style dialog was blank after selecting the 'bridge' style option in the Profile Optimization panel. |
Country Kits for Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.1.1 Hotfix (October 2019 release)
This hotfix corrects issues that affect the German and UK Country Kits for Autodesk InfraWorks (2019.3, 2020.0, and 2020.1). Please uninstall previous versions of the UK and/or German country kits for Autodesk InfraWorks prior to installing these country kit hotfixes. Note: Uninstalling earlier release versions of these country kits must be done manually using the Windows Add or Remove Programs tool.
| Country Kits for the UK and Germany |
| Fixed an issue where intersections were not supported when using component road components or assemblies from the UK or German Country Kit (2019.3 and 2020.0 country kit versions). |
| Fixed an issue where the Stack panel would not display for a selected road component within a component road assembly from the UK or German Country Kit (2019.3 and 2020.0 country kit versions). |
| Removed all component road assembly and component content from the German Country Kit. |
Note: If you created component roads using components or assemblies from the UK or German country kit (2020.0 - April 2019 release or earlier versions) prior to installing these country kit hotfixes (2020.1.1 - October 2019 release), those existing component roads will need to be replaced or manually repaired. See
Repair Component Roads from Country Kits for more information.
Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.1 (September 2019 release)
| General |
| Fixed a crash that occurred on some occasions when switching between models or closing InfraWorks after having edited a model. |
| Fixed an issue that prevented selected features from being deleted due to a density slider displayed in the user interface. |
| Fixed an issue where Barrier model objects were not updating correctly after their Spacing attribute was modified. |
| Improved terrain generation performance for raster data sources. |
| Improved application stability and performance for upgrading legacy models that contain intersections. |
| Civil Structures |
We've improved the behavior, for Inventor parts or assemblies, of parameters that depend on other parameters containing an equation set. A parameter's value will now be determined by the equation defined for it in Autodesk Inventor, and the user-determined value will now be ignored. This also affects contract parameters (parameters sets internally by InfraWorks and passed to the part when rendered), which allow parts to automatically conform to bridges, such as sizing a pier to fit between bridge girders and a terrain surface. In most cases, a contract parameter should not contain an equation, but if one does, it will now be calculated by the equation and the the value determined by InfraWorks will be ignored. To revert these new behaviors back to legacy behaviors, remove all equations from the part or assembly in Autodesk Inventor, then re-export the part or assembly from Inventor. The following is a list of contract parameters set by InfraWorks: Decks:- * LeftDeckSlopeInPercentage
- * RightDeckSlopeInPercentage
- * LeftWidth
- * RightWidth
- * NumberOfLeftGirders
- * NumberOfRightGirders
- * LeftmostGirderOffset
- * RightmostGirderOffset
- * OuterHaunchWidth
- * InnerHaunchWidth
- * MidHaunchOffsetsFromCrown
- InteriorLeftGirder
- InteriorRightGirder
- GirderOffset
Girders:- * LeftDeckSlopeInPercentage
- * RightDeckSlopeInPercentage
- * LeftBotFlangeSlopeInPercentage
- * RightBotFlangeSlopeInPercentage
Abutments- * Skew
- * LeftWidth
- * RightWidth
- * BallastWallHeight
- * BallastWallLeftHeight
- * BallastWallRightHeight
- * LongitudinalSlope
- * SeatLongiSlope
- * SeatOffset
- * SeatOffsetLeft
- * SeatOffsetRight
Piers- * PierHeight
- * PiercapLeftWidth
- * PiercapRightWidth
- * PiercapTopSlope
- * StepHeight
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| Data Import |
| Improved performance when importing parcels/easements/right of ways via SDF or SHP format. |
| Drainage Design |
| Fixed an issue where on some occasions the Flood Snapshot command was inaccurately being disabled. |
| Keyboard Shortcuts |
| We fixed a few toolbar shortcuts that were not working correctly: Press L then Press S to Launch Screenshot. Press Shift+S to open Suitability Maps Panel. |
| Road Design |
| Fixed an issue where culverts did not display at the correct elevation in the profile view when using a projected coordinate system and long roads. |
| Fixed a problem where InfraWorks was not supporting a specific spiral-curve combination imported from Civil 3D. |
| Users can now enter negative station values in the Design Speed mini toolbar when a road has a starting point with a negative station value. |
| Fixed an issue where PVI elevations at intersections at the end of long roads were not being calculated correctly. |
| Fixed an issue that occasionally caused the profile view's station tracker and the cross section viewer to display intersection objects with erroneous elevations. |
| Removed the lifecycle panel from the Road stack as component roads do not support Lifecycle dates at this time. |
| Improved delayed road regeneration performance by disabling the Show Design Speed checkbox during delayed road regeneration editing sessions. |
| Fixed an issue where the annotation input for an editable annotation would reset if the user zoomed or panned immediately after completing an annotation edit. |
| Fixed an issue where pressing the ESC key within the Road Profile View could cause InfraWorks to close unexpectedly. |
| Fixed an issues where incorrect vertical curve lengths could occur after performing the recreate profile action. |
| Fixed an issue where right of ways that had been created from road(s) that intersected a road with a non-zero start station caused the right of way creation to ignore the intersection. |
| Disabled by default rail turnout leveling that was forcing the turnout region of a track to be horizontal, which was causing bumps at the end of a turnout when a track was sloped. For all new models, turnout leveling will be disabled by default. This change does not affect existing models. |
Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.0 (April 2019 release)
| General |
| Improved terrain interpolation of multiple raster data sources by filling holes of the top raster terrain layer in the combination area. |
| Fixed an issue where InfraWorks would unexpectedly close in some cases after opening a model. |
| Autodesk Connector for ArcGIS |
| Fixed an issue where newly-added portals did not appear in the list of available portals. |
| Fixed an issue where layer selection was not working as expected. |
| Fixed an issue where InfraWorks would unexpectedly close after launching, signing-in, and then closing the Autodesk Connector for ArcGIS. |
| Fixed an issue where the portal manager would not open after a user deleted an enterprise portal. |
| Civil Structures |
| Fixed an issue where tunnel segments were not rendering correctly. |
| Fixed an issue where girder spacing on a bridge was incorrect if the road had a taper. |
| Fixed an issue where a girder was too deep when the catalog dimension for the ACItem was null. To resolve this, if the ACItem has a null value, then 0.0/0/false/"" will now be used. |
| Girders with plinths now fit with the deck for various lateral offsets |
| Collaboration |
| Fixed an issue where creating a Shared View resulted in InfraWorks closing, if the InfraWorks model contained a 3D model style without associated textures. |
| Data Import |
| Fixed an issue in which terrain surfaces with certain custom coordinate systems were not supported. |
| Fixed an issue in which IMX-based terrain surfaces could not be pasted into a model as a data source and would not display in canvas. |
| Measurement Tools |
| Improved the performance of the Terrain Statistics Tool when adding, removing, or clearing measurements. |
| Road Design |
| Fixed an issue in which InfraWorks did not warn users that dragging a road style onto a component road is not supported. With this fix, dragging a road style onto a component road will now display a "Do Not" symbol and the component road components will display in red when the cursor is over them. |
| Fixed an issue where the component road sketch tool did not display the most recently-selected assembly style, if it was a user-defined component road assembly. |
| Improved a performance issue that occurred when performing Sight Distance Analysis on a long road. |
| Theming |
| Fixed an issue in which the feature theme up and down buttons were not working as expected. |
| Visualization |
| Fixed an issue in which textures could not be added to a new material style from your local system. |
| Fixed a reported issue from customers who were experiencing flickering and inconsistent point cloud display. |
| Added more supported options for point cloud terrain processing when using different window sizes and resolutions. |
| Fixed an issue where the status bar did not display correct coordinate information related to mouse position all the time. In addition, the status bar now displays feature-specific information when needed. |
| Fixed an issue where water areas and rivers did not disappear when surface opacity was set to 0. |
Country Kits for Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.0 (April 2019 release)
| General |
| We've fixed an issue where uninstalling and reinstalling country kits was not working as expected due to the default install location of country kits on your local system. The Autodesk Desktop App will now properly display all available country kit updates to install. |
| See About Country Kits for InfraWorks for more information. |
Autodesk Inventor Infrastructure Modeler Plugin 2020.0 (April 2019 release)
| General |
| There are no fixes specific to the Infrastructure Modeler Plugin at this time. |
Autodesk Infrastructure Parts Editor 2020.0 (April 2019 release)
| General |
| There are no fixes specific to the Infrastructure Parts Editor at this time. |
Autodesk Revit InfraWorks Updater 2020.0 (April 2019 release)
| General |
| There are no fixes specific to the Revit InfraWorks Updater at this time. |
Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.2 (January 2020 release)
| Civil Structures |
| Rotation and Pan navigation options are not available When the Send to Revit dialog is active in your InfraWorks model. |
| If warnings appear in Autodesk Revit after using the Send to Revit command to bring an InfraWorks bridge into Revit, the corresponding warning dialog boxes in InfraWorks do not display the Revit-based error messages. |
| InfraWorks will close unexpectedly if you select a Generic Object that is located on a terrain layer in your InfraWorks model, then also select a tunnel and use the Send to Revit command to send a tunnel to Autodesk Revit. |
| Some of the bearing assembly height rendered dimensions are not correct for parametric bearings in the Revit properties panel, when they have been brought into Revit from InfraWorks using the Send to Revit command. |
| The German language version of Autodesk Revit incorrectly displays the pier diaphragm width property in the Revit properties window in English(US) when the pier was sent to Revit from Autodesk InfraWorks. |
| Roadway Design |
| Creating a right of Way using the parallel drawing option (select the 'Parallel Drawing' option from the 'Create' dropdown list on the Create Right of Ways panel) will create invalid self-intersecting geometry. |
| When horizontal and vertical road alignments are different lengths, station annotations may rotate around an anchor point at zero elevation where there is no vertical alignment under part of the road, causing unexpected behavior. |
Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.1 (September 2019 release)
| General |
| There are no known issues at this time. |
Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.0 (April 2019 release)
| Civil Structures |
| Line girder analysis results are unavailable for multi-span bridges. Only results for single spans will be visible. As a workaround, sub-select a girder group or an individual girder on the bridge and re-run the analysis. This will limit the execution of the analysis to the selected item(s) and allow proper display of the results. |
| Model Builder |
If using Model Builder's new local model workflow for the first time, you may notice the returned model tile on InfraWorks Home displaying an incorrect existing cloud model icon  and a hover tooltip that reads "Service Group xxxxx trust service account". If this is the case, please refresh the model list by clicking Refresh on InfraWorks Home  . Once your models have refreshed, the correct Model Builder Cloud Model icon  will be displayed, and "Service Group xxxxx trust service account" will not appear on hover. This workaround only needs to be performed once to resolve this issue, as all additional models created after the first will behave correctly. If by chance you do click on the model that is displaying incorrect information before you refresh your models on InfraWorks Home, the model may not sync with BIM 360 Document Management, in which case you will need to create a new Model Builder model. |
| Point Clouds |
If you import multiple (.RCS) point cloud data sets with the Point Cloud Terrain processing tool  , the corresponding terrain layers will be generated but only one of the terrain surfaces will be visible in your model by default. You can resolve this with the Surface Layers dialog. Enable visibility for any Uncategorized terrain surface layers, and move them to the Ground Surface category. |
Country Kits for Autodesk InfraWorks 2020.0 (April 2019 release)
| General |
| There are no known issues at this time. |
Autodesk Inventor Infrastructure Modeler Plugin 2020.0 (April 2019 release)
| General |
| There are no known issues specific to the Infrastructure Modeler Plugin at this time. |
Autodesk Infrastructure Parts Editor 2020.0 (April 2019 release)
| General |
| There are no known issues specific to the Infrastructure Parts Editor at this time. |
Autodesk Revit InfraWorks Updater 2020.0 (April 2019 release)
| General |
| There are no known issues specific to the Revit InfraWorks Updater at this time. |
