New Features in 2020 releases of Autodesk InfraWorks
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| Add-ins for Autodesk InfraWorks |
- Added the ability to install both the previous release version and current release version of the Autodesk Revit Infraworks Updater and Autodesk Inventor Infrastructure Modeler Plugin. See About Add-Ins for InfraWorks
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| Autodesk Connector for ArcGIS |
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| Civil Structures |
- We've added the ability to use parametric bridge bearings from Autodesk Inventor in your InfraWorks civil structure projects. This allows users to control the geometry of bridge girder and pier interface with greater precision.
- We've added the ability to review bearing top elevation values in the Stack when a bearing is selected.
- We've improved the Send to Revit workflow to allow for improved Revit project template set-up, as well as the ability to map InfraWorks feature types to Revit categories once your data is opened in Revit, provided that you create a new Revit model in your Send to Revit operation. See Send to Revit.
- Added the ability to add a bridge abutment or foundation back to the bridge after it has been removed.
- Improved the Send to Revit functionality so that volume information for each direct shape is passed to Revit as a shared parameter.
- Removed the Create Steel Bridge icon from the Bridge Design toolset. We removed this tool because it only applied to legacy, non parametric bridges and did not allow for the use of mixed girder types on the same bridge. Steel bridges can now be created with much more detail and more realistic steel girders by simply applying either the Steel Plate or Steel Box girders to any parametric bridge using the Create Parametric Bridge tool.
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| Collaboration |
- We've enabled bookmarks from your InfraWorks models to be available in the Autodesk Viewer when models are published to BIM 360 Document Management.
- We've added support for the "View and Download" BIM 360 permission level, which allows InfraWorks users to view models on their desktop in read-only mode without being able to sync changes back to the cloud.
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| Data Exchange with Civil 3D |
- You can now use the Reimport command to update alignments and profiles that you have brought into InfraWorks from Autodesk Civil 3D. This improvement allows bridge designers to fetch road alignment updates from Civil 3D.
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| Extended Schema |
- We've improved the Extend Schema tool to enforce naming length limitations that could arise when InfraWorks data is published to ArcGIS as feature layers.
- We've added import/export capabilities to the Extend Schema tool so that users can easily move or add schema extensions.
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| General |
- We've made it easier for you to geo-reference your InfraWorks model data by improving the ways that you define coordinate systems for new models. With this release onward, new models will no longer have LL84 defined as the database coordinate system by default. Instead, choose the best coordinate system for your design project whenever you create a new model.
- InfraWorks has a brand new user interface featuring a new toolbar, new visual styles, tighter organization of tools, and the removal of the in-canvas Intelligent Tool icons.
- We have improved our keyboard shortcuts by removing the ones that were not frequently used and adding keyboard shortcuts for the most frequently used actions in InfraWorks. In addition, any action in the new InfraWorks toolbar that has a keyboard shortcut will display the shortcut in the user interface.
Note: the following keyboard shortcuts were removed and/or replaced as of the latest release of InfraWorks (2020.1) as they were not being frequently used. - Point Cloud Terrain (previously Alt + P)
- Suitability Maps (previously Shift + S)
- Profile Optimization (previously V)
- Corridor Optimization (previously H)
- Job Monitor (previously M)
- Web Console (previously Shift + W)
- Watermark (previously Alt + W)
- Launch Screencast (previously L, S)
- Oculus Rift (previously Ctrl + Shift + R)
- Publish to ArcGIS (previously P,A)
- Frame Rate (previously Ctrl + Alt + Shift)
- Launch Dynamo (previously Ctrl + 9)
- Performance Check (previously Ctrl + Alt + Shift)
- The Application Options panel now provides a new User Interface tab with a button to restore original quick access settings in the Toolbar if they were changed.
- InfraWorks as part of the AEC collection now supports standard Autodesk Network Licenses, which allows for multi-user licensing. At install time you will now be able to select a network license server location or a single user license from the new license manager. See To Install InfraWorks for more information.
- We've added a new terrain generation option in the Model Properties dialog for choosing whether to generate the model terrain for speed or for precision.
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| Model Builder |
- We've enhanced the look and feel of the Model Builder user interface to match the entire InfraWorks application interface.
- We've updated the Model Builder model creation workflow to allow all users to choose whether to store their models locally or in BIM 360. Model builder previously only allowed users to save to BIM 360 if they had any type of BIM 360 account. Now users will be prompted with every new Model Builder model to select either saving the model to their local system, or storing the model in a BIM 360 Document Management project. See To create a model with Model Builder.
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| Roadway Design |
- We've added a new option for linear feature vertex prediction when reviewing linear features in the cross section view. By default, Vertex Prediction is now ON. When you modify a cross section vertex with Vertex Prediction ON, InfraWorks will automatically place the next vertex by estimating the best-fit for the next vertex, using the previous two vertices to make the prediction. Modifying a vertex with Vertex Prediction turned OFF will simply cause the next vertex to be created with duplicate values from the previous vertex.
- We've added new context menu options for reviewing or modifying component roads in-canvas or via the profile view graph.
- We've added the ability to input design speed for a selected component road using an editable annotation.
- When editing road curve annotations, design standard violations and invalid input errors are displayed in a new tooltip near the editing box. The new warning messages include guidance on minimum radius for the design speed of the road and a range of valid input values.
- The station range of a selected road will now be displayed in the Road stack.
- The "Runoff on Tangent" and "Runoff on Spiral" values are now editable in the Stack when a curve is selected and Superelevation is on.
- In the profile view the station tracker now displays the station and elevation of the road according to its location along the road.
- The active tracker toggle allows the station tracker location to be controlled by moving the cursor in the profile view window.
- We've added the ability to control the color of individual cut and fill grading zones in a road design. A new material entry is now shown in the user interface, one for cut and one for fill.
- We've improved the Profile View panel so that the cross section viewer updates its display dynamically based on the location of the station tracker in the profile view.
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| Surface Layers |
- We've added the ability to toggle the display of surface layers on or off from within the cross section view.
- We've improved the process of importing surface data to notify you when surface data is uncategorized and not visible, providing an option to open the Surface Layers dialog to categorize the data.
- We've enhanced support for terrain surfaces by adding an opacity field in the Stack panel so that each terrain layer can be rendered as transparent according to opacity. See To add or modify surface layers.
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| Traffic Simulation |
- We've made enhancements for roundabouts, left and right turn widening lanes, and u-turns when using Traffic Simulation.
- We are turning off the cloud based simulation service and will instead be hosting this service locally. From a user perspective, the Traffic Simulation capabilities will not change.
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| Visualization |
- We've added the Performance Check and Framerate tools to the toolbar.
- We've improved the functionality of the frame per second (FPS) rate counter in InfraWorks. Previously, when toggling on the FPS rate counter using its keyboard shortcut (
CRTL + SHIFT + ALT + F), the current rate of frames per second were displayed. We've improved this functionality to instead calculate and report the current average frame rate. This improvement can help users to optimize model performance, especially when creating custom content libraries for use in InfraWorks. See Keyboard Shortcuts.
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