In April, Autodesk announced the latest releases of Autodesk Infra- Works and Autodesk Civil 3D 2019. These software releases provide enhancements for closer collaboration, improved design, more effi- cient drawing production, tighter interoperability, and smoother data exchange, the company said. Following are the key enhancements for Enterprise cloud collaboration with BIM 360 — Teams can now collaborate on InfraWorks models using the Autodesk BIM 360 plat- form. This enterprise-based platform allows companies to better man- age project data, controlling access to project-specific libraries with roles and permission settings. With this cloud-based solution, users can select a BIM 360 project in which to store new InfraWorks models created with Model Builder. Team members can also take advantage of the BIM 360 document management functionality to view and markup valuable project data. both products. InfraWorks Shared views — Shared views are a quick and simple way to share InfraWorks models online without having to invest in an enterprise- level solution like BIM 360. An Autodesk account is all that is needed. Once models are shared online, others can view and comment on that shared view. Terrain contours — The display of terrain contours has been en- hanced with view-based settings to control the presentation and vis- ibility of contour lines and elevation text labels. For example, contours and elevation labels can be set to fade in and out based on camera distance. Or specific major and minor contour intervals can be set to display when zooming in past a certain point. In addition, display per- formance has been improved, Autodesk said, regardless of the number of contours displayed. Parametric tunnels — InfraWorks now supports parametric tunnel component parts and assemblies, allowing users to design tunnels in the context of an overall infrastructure project. For further customiza- tion, parametric tunnel sections can be designed in Autodesk Inventor Autodesk releases InfraWorks and Civil 3D 2019 Enhancements focus on collaboration, drawing production, interoperability, and data exchange.
and imported into InfraWorks. The parametric InfraWorks tunnels can also be sent to Autodesk Revit for more detailed design. Detailed bridge design — InfraWorks road alignments and span end lines can be transferred to an Autodesk Structural Bridge Design model, allowing a bridge designer or engineer to create a more detailed bridge model and perform refined analysis. Consolidated road modeling — All the road modeling tools have been consolidated in this release of InfraWorks. Planning roads are for visualization of large networks and component roads are for pre- liminary engineering. When opening an InfraWorks model in this new release, all existing design roads will be automatically converted to component roads Dynamic integration with Revit — Changes to InfraWorks bridges can be dynamically updated in Revit. When users modify a bridge in InfraWorks (that was previously sent to Revit), they have the option of automatically updating the bridge in Revit to match the InfraWorks bridge. This avoids losing all the detailed design work that has been done on the bridge in Revit. Import InfraWorks roads as Civil 3D corridors — When com- ponent roads are imported from InfraWorks to Civil 3D, they will automatically become corridors with surfaces and subassemblies. In fact, all InfraWorks design roads will be automatically converted to component roads, giving users the enhanced design capabilities that component roads offer while supporting more robust interoperability Fixed vertical curves with low/high points — Civil 3D users can define a new type of fixed vertical curve in an alignment profile by specifying a high or low point, enabling them to start the profile design from a specific point. For example, if a road has a low point (such as for a box culvert) and that low point will control the design of the whole road, that point can be used to define a vertical curve. This feature with Civil 3D. Civil 3D 2019
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