How to Model an InfraWorks Site Plan from Aggregated Data

welcome my name is Jeff bartels I'm an infrastructure technical specialist at Autodesk and in today's session we're gonna look at how we can aggregate data from multiple sources to produce an info works model will specifically be looking at some of the ESRI integration but we're also gonna look at some other data sources that we can aggregate into in for works just a quick heads-up I am working out of my office today and I've got my dogs in here with me just took this picture a second ago that's Walter there at the top and Margaret down below I only bring this up in the event you hear some ambient noise in the background that could be them milling about I have loaded them up with treats though so I don't anticipate any any issues with that a little bit about myself I have been working in the civil infrastructure industry for more than 20 years I've been teaching Autodesk applications for a long time I also contribute to a blog called civil immersion and I've got the URL there on screen that blog was put together by some of the technical specialists tonight the sole purpose to create how-to content for autodesk customers to get acclimated to the many tools that are in the AC collection over the past couple years we have created hundreds of recordings six to eight minute recordings to help people start using and take advantage of the many tools that they have access to agenda for today I'm gonna do a little introduction to infraworks we've got a lot of people on the call which is fantastic and I'm not sure what everybody's usage of infraworks is currently so I'd like to lay a little foundation first if you don't mind we'll also look at how we can incorporate data into info works of both existing and proposed from several different sources we'll look at you know once we have that data and infraworks a couple different ways we can visualize it and then we'll look at the the data that we do bring into infraworks I'll show you how we can take advantage of the rich attribution to do some analysis of that data we'll wrap up with a summary and we'll also address any questions I have the questions listed at the end there but you can ask those at any point along the way the goals for today's session I've got review relevant workflow so basically aggregating data is what we're talking about I say that because info works does a lot of different things and we could spend more than a day talking about all the things that it can do so today we're just gonna be exploring a subset of what's possible during the presentation we'll be stressing the business benefits and as always we want to make sure that you get answers to your questions this is going to be a PowerPoint free zone so rather than showing bullet points and screen shots I've found that it's more impactful to show the software live and after saying that whenever you work live in the software it can be both an exciting and a frightening time so no two presentations are the exact same so it'll be fascinating to see how this one goes with that we're gonna jump right into the live demonstration let me drop out of this and I'm gonna bring up in four works so in four works is included in the AC collection it's a tool that basically we can aggregate data from multiple sources to produce 3d models in the interface I've got several tiles each of these tiles represents a model that I could open let's say that I'd like to create a brand new model maybe I'm creating a model that I'd like to visualize a proposed retail facility for a retail site plan I'm gonna start by going to model builder model builder is a lot like Google Earth I can take and type in a community name or I could type in in an address I'm gonna type in a street name here that's close to my project and there we go Littleton Colorado let's drag this over so this is my site right here this is where I'm going to be doing the retail and the apartment complexes it'll be a large site plan once I've selected my area I can use this to build a 3d model all I have to do is select the area of interest you can see I've I've grabbed about 5.7 square kilometers we can create models up to 200 square kilometers at this point I could just come down and give this a name we'll call it sample retail for now and then I would choose create model when I do that in Forks is gonna go out and it's gonna grab any freely available online data it'll grab geospatial data for the road center lines building footprints you can see those are gonna be coming from the OpenStreetMap data set it will grab aerial photography for me from the Bing data set and it will also get me some typography from USGS data back in the old days we had to go out and find that stuff ourselves but now using model builder in just a couple clicks I can create this model automatically so I'll click create it's now preparing the model let's close this up depending on the size of the model that you create could be anywhere from five to fifteen minutes before it wraps up when it does you'll get an email letting you know the models available and when the models available it will show up here in the interface now rather than waiting for that one to finish I'm gonna open one here this shows us what that model would look like right from model builder if i zoom in on this kind of orbit it up we can see the aerial photography we can see that it grabs some street information fact if I hover over these you can see the street names are there let's pan this back and if I tip it up we can see some of the relief on the site from that usgs data it also found a water area here so in just a matter of a couple clicks i have a nice foundation that i can use to start building out my site plan but at this point I can start aggregating my own data if I want to let's say that I have some geospatial data representing parcel boundaries I'd like to get an idea where the lot lines are I'm going to come up and open the data sources panel and here you can see all the connections from the data that we got from the model builder tool if I open the menu here we can see all of the different data types that infraworks can consume everything from 3d models to it's a civil 3d files to Revit files MicroStation land XML point clouds geospatial even Sketchup data so we connect to many of the industry standard formats those can be aggregated and then for works we can also connect to several different database sources and we can now with the ESRI integration we connect to we can connect to ArcGIS data and we'll touch on that in just a little bit I'd like to start by bringing in that parcel data so I'm going to open the menu and I'll choose shape file and then I am going to navigate to my folder containing my data and I've got this shape file called parses I'll select that and click open and here we can see that it's made a connection to that shape although in folks don't know what it is yet to configure that I'm gonna simply double click on it and then in the data source configuration panel here I just have to tell infer twerks what this data represents and you can see the many feature classes that are available here by picking a feature class we're then telling in for works you know what schema that we'd like to use for it and and we can use this to stylize the objects I'm gonna say that these are coverage areas because I'd like these parcels draped along the surface I can then come down and pick a style and you can see there's a few styles here you can also make your own I'll choose this one called parcels I'll click OK and I'll click close and refresh so the the style that I'm choosing here is basically going to outline the lots using a white line alright let's take this one step further so now I can I can very easily see where the property lines are I'd like to take it one step further maybe I would like that if you know if I hover over a lot I'd like to see who owns it to do that we can create tooltips I'm gonna come back over to that connection let's double click to configure it again and this is these these tabs represent the infraworks schema I can use this to leverage some of that attribution in the connection so for the name let me expand this and you can see the attributes that are in that parcels file don't have a ton of them here but I do have one for owner I'd like to map the owner to the name I will then come over to tooltip we can create HTML tooltips and then for works and we can build these automatically or we can take and write these ourselves I'm going to come down and say I'd like to generate a tooltip it's gonna show the name all that let's do that one more time there we go I'll choose clothes and refresh and when it refreshes the data all I have to do is hover over a lot now with my cursor and it will show me who owns it now I'm doing it with I'm doing this with names but I could you know any attribution that's on there we could have as part of a hover tooltip I'm also doing this with parcels but you can do this with any data connection that has attribution okay let's back this up so this is my area of interest here if I'm going to be doing a proposed retail site plan I'd like to you know kind of empty this area out or at least kind of create a clean slate if you will I have another shapefile that represents this property boundary and I'd like to use that to kind of simplify this area just make it look like a large grassy area let's look at another way we can attach data if I bring up Windows Explorer I can navigate into my shapes directory and I have a shapefile called grass lot another way we can attach data to infraworks is simply drag and drop let me drag and drop this in so you know this this speaks to the learning curve I can use as much or as little the interface as I want I don't need need to know what the the connections are I can just drag them into the application I'm gonna add this as a coverage area and then I will choose a material for this there are a ton of materials that come out of the box you can also create your own so once it makes this connection you can see that coverages are stacking up under that feature class over here and the material that I put on that is adaptive so the closer I get to this the better it looks it'll it'll start all the way down where it's you know start seeing the the blades of grass let's back up so the next thing I'd like to add is maybe I'm working with an engineer and they gave me the proposed grading for this project a standard way of exchanging you know engineering data is land XML let's open the menu here and I'd like to attach to a land XML file so I'll select that I will then go to my dataset and I'll grab this proposed ground land XML file and I'll click open to attach that basically the the info works model is essentially a sequel Lite database so what it's doing is it's taking that data and it's inserting it into the into the database and we'll see that show up as another connection here another data source now it needs to be configured let's double click and it automatically knows that that's terrain data the coordinate system for that is already there so let me choose close and refresh that will process it such that it can display as a surface and in the old days with infraworks at imports only supported one surface now it supports multiple so you'll find that when this pops in you know many times when you drop in a surface you're like you know hey where is it as i zoom in I don't does look like anything changed well the surface is here but since we support multiple surfaces now if I go to surface layers I can see that I my finished grade surface is showing up as an uncatalyzed I'm gonna drag that down into the ground surface area and since it sits on top of those other data sources it will take precedent let's turn it on - and when I click OK we will now start to see the relief created by that proposed service might be able to see a little of that we'll see more of it here in a second but you can kind of see where the islands in the roadway and some of the parking lot is there let's do this I'm gonna bring in another shape file I'm going to drag and drop the pavement asphalt into the model I will then set this as a coverage area we'll put a material on this we'll go with maybe the roadway category we'll go with surface dark asphalt and I'll choose close and refresh so it's important to note that the connections that I'm making here it is maintaining a link to that shape data so in the event that shape data were to change in the future all I have to do is come up and click the refresh button to update my info works model I'm gonna bring in one more I've got some pavement stripes here I'll drag and drop these into the application and then we'll put these in as a coverage since this is striping I'm just gonna drop this in as a color I'll make that white and this is considered linear the the other shape files that I've brought in have been closed shapes so in this case I want these to be linear so I'm gonna say don't convert closed polylines to polygons and if I go to the table tab you can see that we have a ton of control over the items that we bring in for works I'm gonna add a buffer to this of 0.25 feet and what that will do is it'll take the linear objects and it will essentially offset them to the left and right 1/4 foot so it's giving me a six-inch wide stripe it's what it's doing but using this technique we can we can easily drape you know like these parking stripes we can easily drape can't geometry it's another way we can bring stuff like that in and drape it over the top of a surface so we can see it in our in for works model so as this populates we can start to see some of the striping there another thing we'll do we're gonna touch on the concept of proposals here rather than having you know having you watch me bringing a whole bunch more data I'm gonna use this proposal feature to switch to a different version of this model I'll grab this one called all coverages this proposal represents the model after all of the coverages have been added by using this proposal feature we don't have to save multiple versions of a model by creating a proposal we can have those different versions or variations within one in four works model one proposal may be existing conditions another one may represent phase one another one may be phase two and then you can flip through the various phases just by selecting a different proposal so in my case I'm kind of using the proposals like a baking show I'm gonna jump to this one just to show you a finished example here after all of the coverages have been added if I tip this up you can see some of the relief there for the roadway and the parking so now that we have you know kind of the layouts of where things are gonna go with this site plan I may wish to start adding some other items like maybe a building for instance maybe I'd like to sketch out a building info works includes several drawing tools or you know sketching tools I can create roadways and and barriers and bridges and tunnels I'm gonna click the building option I'd like to sketch a building here quickly and when I launch that you can see it brings up the library that has all of the facades that I can choose from there's a ton of them I'm just gonna keep the default there and to draw the building I am going to pick points here on screen you can see there's a dimension little toolbar there I can fill that out as well in this case I'm just kind of free picking points I double click when I'm done and infraworks will apply a generic height to that building notice that it's properties show up over here the building also includes a series of grips I can use this one to adjust its height and you can see I can also punch in a high down there if I want to the nice thing about these facades is as you change the height of the building you'll see the facade update we also have grips that I can rotate the bill I can use this gizmo to move it around or up or down it so I can you know more precisely position it if I want to so quick tools for doing sketches of many different types of objects I'm gonna press escape let's get rid of this building I'll delete that maybe you've gotten a building from an architect if you remember we support several 3d model formats we also support rabbits we support Sketchup I'm going to import a model over the building that's going to go on this lot let me go back to my directory and I'm gonna bring in this FBX model this was actually exported from Revit so it has all the materials on it it also has an included position file that retains the coordinate system so if I drag and drop this in it will drop in exactly where it's supposed to all I have to do is tell infor works what this is this is a building in fact if I click the 3d model if I click that tab I can see the building there I'll choose close and refresh and then we'll see that pop up on screen when this comes up it will have the same materials that were assigned in Revit we could connect to the actual Revit building as well FBX is just another option so as I get down here we can see through the windows let's get down here a little bit closer up till this point I've been kind of orbiting and moving with my cursor you can also move using the keys on your keyboard so I can hit the forward key and walk forward I can use the left and right keys to turn if you ever play do them back in the day same keys so I get strafe left and right walk forward only thing I'm missing is the fire button so for those of us who are in our 50s now I guess doom is probably part of your history it'll be just like going home again navigating let's back this up I'm gonna flip to another proposal now that I have one building in here let's change this to a proposal where all the buildings have been added and here we'll see an example of a further iteration of this model there we go so I can see I've got some retail I've got maybe an office building here I've got the apartment complex at this point I'd like to add some additional accoutrements to this maybe some landscaping or something like that here on the create tab I'm gonna open up environments and maybe I'd like to add a tree I'm gonna choose stand of trees here for a second and it brings up my library let me set that to vegetation and you can see that it comes with a significant number of trees and vegetation out of the box you can also download content from online I'm going to select just this green tree and then to place that in the model all we have to do is double click to drop that in when the models are when the tree is inserted we can see the properties there and if i zoom in here you can see the same grips that we had with the building so the nice thing about infraworks is is its consistency I have the same tools for everything that's another thing speaks to the learning curve very easy to learn this application so I dropped in one tree there let's put in a row of trees I'll choose row of trees there we go let me flip that back to vegetation and I'm gonna go with the brown tree this time if you wanted to put a row of trees in or a row of anything barrels or barricades or vehicles or something like that all you have to do a single click and each time you pick you'll be creating a linear shape and you double click at the end and then when you do that you'll see that infraworks inserts the objects along that linear shape the only real difference between a linear insertion and a single is this density slider if I drag this to the right I get more trees if I drag it to the left I get fewer there we go let's orbit this around you can see how with the trees that kind of randomizes them so that they don't all look the same if I wanted to edit a tree I could simply click on it once if I wanted to edit the whole group I could click it a second time and then I can edit the entire group so when it comes to inserting objects into infraworks all the insertions work the exact same way let's do one more I'm gonna go to city furniture here and maybe we'll drop in a car I'll select a vehicle we'll take a drop that here into the parking stall there we go and we'll just use the little rotational grip here to kind of straighten that out so very easy to make connections to data we can also further augment that using the library and infor works or even data that we've acquired online let's jump one more proposal here we're gonna go to the end this one shows us our proposed site plan with everything inserted all the vehicles all of the landscaping and buildings in fact if I double-click here you can see that they inserted some lighting in the parking lot these could have easily been inserted using a geospatial connection if you had a geospatial file that was set to points you could import those points and simply select the model as your symbol to have those go in at the appropriate location let me do this too we talked for a second about the tooltips those tooltips are HTML and the sky's the limit with those just as an example here I've got this urgent care facility if I hover over this facility I just want to show you that I've got a tool tip that allows me to open files so I could click here and go right into the Revit model for this building likewise if I have any documentation I'll click this this will take an open Adobe Acrobat take me right into a PDF file so using this workflow you could leverage an info works model almost like a kiosk you could use the items in the model to drill down and access further data you know everything from you know an employee list to a installation schedule to a maintenance schedule all of that can be incorporated parts numbers things like that all of that can be incorporated into any of the objects and you're in for works model currently I'm viewing this as the default conceptual view there are other views I'm going to flip this to engineering for a second and when I do you can see in the engineering view we can see through the terrain this shows us the utility information so I heard somebody was affiliated with an airport just imagine if you had the the full airport here and infraworks in your head all the buildings with hyperlinks where you could leverage data you had all of the underground utilities or any of the other assets associated with the airport as an example I can click on this and I can come down and see its attribution that's a 10-inch ductile iron pipe let's tip this up and I'm gonna flip this back to a conceptual view and let me close this up for a second let me talk for just a second about visualization options if I go to manage here under display if I choose Sun and sky we have the ability to adjust the time and date if we wanted to do a shadow study Sun and shadow study I can also adjust some of the other environment settings like wind directions speed and cloud cover we can create still images from this to present here if I choose create snapshot I can take you know rather than the screen shot where I'm just extracting an image from my monitor I can go through and extract a screen shot where I set the pixel resolution I could type this too I could set this to thirty thousand by thirty thousand pixels if I wanted to that would create an image that is so detailed I could zoom in and read the license plates on these cars so using this tool we can create imagery that's suitable for web or for print and you know we don't have to wait for a rendering because infraworks is a lot like a gaming engine it's always in a rendered state let's touch on you know what I wanted to do an animation like a fly through animation I'm gonna bring up the storyboard creator here if you've ever created an animation before you know that it could take hours sometimes it could take days because a lot of applications will render each individual frame separately as an image here I don't have to worry about that because infraworks is always in a rendered state so I just opened the menu here and said I wanted to create a camera path which basically saved a camera location in space I can then pick another location you know where do I want to be next maybe I'd like to be here nope unless I backup maybe I'd like to be here I'll come down and click Add and that will save the camera location there let's go down to the corner here a little bits maybe will go here and then I'll do one more maybe will will fly down to the end here and we'll wrap up our fly through with a view of the overall site there we go I'll come down and click Add so in this case I've only created one item there are a ton of pre-made crane animations and orbits and and you can record a walkthrough if you want to there's a there's a bunch of ways that we can take and string these things together so in this case I've just made one I'm gonna come over here and select my keyframe and you could see by default it sets the speed a little bit fast about 300 miles an hour I'm gonna click in here and I'm gonna change this to a speed that's a little better maybe 25 miles an hour and when I hit enter you can see how that affects my my storyboard at this point I can click the play button and it gives me an animation that is is as smooth as glass now you may see a little bit of jitter on your end because of internet connection we will be sharing the video here after the session and you'll see that creates a nice animation I can export this and I could create titles that fade in and out I can have captions that fade in and out during the animation we can create point of interest objects that have a radius around them that you know if you get within a certain radius of this point it'll display almost like a tooltip so we can have it as you're moving through the video it can take and you know give you the names of the buildings you know the name of the apartment complex or if this was an airport you know the name of the terminals or if it was a college the names of the dormitories you can see we're coming up here on the Appleby's so over here on the right but you don't have to be Martin Scorsese to generate a compelling visualization using in Forks it's very easy to use the application okay I'm gonna pause this so just that's some some foundation we've connected to a few things here let's take a look at the ESRI piece I'm going to back to my infraworks homescreen and i'm gonna open another model this model represents a street in washington state it's it's hundred 96th Street I'm using this model because I was able to capture some data for this online here we can see the model that was created essentially from model builder I've got the aerial photo I've got the topography I've got some of the buildings here in fact if I hovered we can see some of the names still so this is a major highway maybe we'd like to add a bike path to this to do the bike path it may require some widening may require adjusting some of the lanes you know at this point we'll say I'm an engineer and I'm producing my existing conditions model so I can start working on my design maybe one of the things I'd like to show is where the storm structures are some of the underground utilities and will say that my GIS department has that data it's available as feature layers and ArcGIS online rather than having them you know go the old-fashioned route and give me shape files I'd rather connect to that data directly so I'm gonna go back to data sources and to make that connection I'll come up and click the ArcGIS data source button when I do this will log me right into ArcGIS online and as a courtesy it will show me the limits of my model so it's it's kind of like model builder in this case over to the left I can select the data that I'd like to bring into the model by default it reverts to public so this is the the data that's curated by the folks at ESRI so you may be able to use the filter option here and you know look for you know other data sources that you may want to incorporate in your model in my case I've stored my stuff under my content but you may have yours under you know groups or organization if I choose my content here what it's showing is data that is adjacent or or in the area of this model I've got other data that I've uploaded ArcGIS online but as a courtesy it will actually limit what you see to what's actually in this vicinity and what I have here is a pair of feature layers one for the storm structures and one for the pipes I also have a web map the nice thing about the web map is a web map can actually reference multiple feature layers so rather than making attachments to these individually I can grab a web map where they're already attached and it allows me to bring in everything at one time if I click the eyes I can see the content that I'm going to bring in and right here I can designate the items that I'd like to bring into my infraworks model and I can then designate the feature class I'd like to use so for the storm structures I'm going to choose pipeline connectors and for the pipes I'm going to choose pipelines and then I'll come down and choose add to my design project and what infraworks is going to do is it will create a new feature class for each of those items it does that because it's actually going to bring the schema along from the feature layer so we'll have access to all of the attribution as well so now that we have the connection you can see I have two new feature classes here if i zoom in on the roadway and tip this up I don't see any utilities just yet they're here but they're down at elevations zero it's it's gonna be the attribution that's associated with these files that I'll use to get them up and stylize them in 3d for example we're going to start with the structures I'll double click so we're gonna configure this just like we've seen I'll keep the current feature class I can select my style since these are structures I'm gonna choose the manhole round style and then I can start mapping the attribution to the schema here and then for works elevation offset this represents the rim where's the rim elevation if I open up the menu I happen to have an attribute for the rim I'll choose that for the size of the structures we're gonna set that in the X and y direction I have an attribute called manhole diameter that I will use for both of those and then the height this is the distance from the rim for the bottom of the structure let's open this up I'm gonna I've got a attribute called sump distance that takes care of that at this point I'll choose clothes and refresh hit them o issue you can see that it's closed if it was above ground let me show you this let me go back in under the configure the one thing I didn't do this sump distance needs to be negative let me set that to negative because I want them to go down that's why they came up noticed that there's also a button here I could do an expression editor we don't have to take these attributes as they are we can apply math to them if we want to so this is very simple math I'm just saying make it negative let me choose close and refresh and it will reprocess those again that's a little better okay there's my there's my structures now appearing underground let's take care of the pipes now I'll go ahead and double click for the pipes and I will choose a style I'm gonna go with the concrete pipe you can make your own styles we'll do that and then for the elevation of these pipes we can base pipes we can set them as an elevation you know as an offset to a surface or in this case I have attribution representing the inverts elevation from I've got a attribute for called invert up or the high side of the pipe elevation to this ones invert down or the low side of the pipe I can then use the size to set the diameter I have an attribute here called pipe size let's come down and select those and then I'll let me let's do this does you want to show you I have an attribute in here called su this is one that's used heavily for underground utilities sood designates the quality of the location a su value of a means it's based on survey grade location a su value of d means it's word of mouth really we kind of think that there's a utility in that area or it's right about in this area we're actually gonna use some of this attribution here in a second but I just wanted to show you that su values there let's choose close and refresh and if I tip this up we can see there's my pipe connections if I click on one of these pipes we can come over to the properties and here we can see the attribution coming along from ArcGIS note that these are editable values if I want to I can change these and if I want to I can pass these changes back to the original source the way that happens is if that feature layer in ArcGIS online is it needs to be set to be editable and I need to have the appropriate rights so the geospatial Department still controls that we can't just send stuff back willy-nilly it's going to be controlled on that end but I just want to show you that these can be changed and it is possible to send them back and we'll touch on that here in a second so now that I have those objects here in the model let's flip this to engineering view so now I can see through the ground and let's take a look at the su values for these now I could do it as a tooltip I'm gonna do it as a feature theme using feature themes we can change the display of our objects based on attribution I'll create a new feature theme and I'll call this storm sewer su I will then choose the feature class that I want to theme I'm gonna do the pipes property I want to theme these based on the su value there's only four values a through D so I'm going to use the individual values for distribution and you can see it's gonna create four colors when I click OK it then displays that on screen so if I'm the engineer working on this and you know maybe the project I'm working on is gonna be introducing a new utility in this area if it crosses here I know that I'm probably going to have a conflict but if it crosses here at a C or maybe if it crosses one of these at a D the the conflicts not necessarily certain these are gonna be items where we've got the utility but we'll definitely need some survey crew out to find out if there'll be a conflict there or not so I did this theming with the Soo value but you could do it with any of your attribution okay let's take this out and I am going to you know what let's leave it on for a second let's make a change I'll tip this up and I'm gonna change this pipe I'll select it and will change its su value to a and as fast as I hit enter you can see that change let's push that change back to ArcGIS online so I'll go back to data sources here storm pipes I'll right-click on that and I'll choose save back and you can see success that went back let's login just so we can complete the circle here I'm gonna log into ArcGIS online and I'll go to content and then I will go to my hundred ninety-six street utilities folder and we'll go to the web map that contains both of those feature layers we'll open this in the map viewer and here I can see those utilities if I click that pipe now here online I can see that now has a su value of a so like I said if the feature layer is set to editable and I have appropriate rights I can actually make the changes here and then for works and push those changes back ok with that I'm gonna jump out of this let me come back over here just a couple of the things if you're interested for those of you that are using and for works you know the buildings that we create and in for works can seem a little shoebox ish because the building footprint is extruded straight up it's kind of like a level 1 detail if you wanted to have high detail buildings there are third-party vendors out there that can create the buildings for you this is a model that represents Hoboken New Jersey these buildings were created from a company called Pictometry but there are other companies out there I think cyber city might do it as well they basically flew this area and the created FBX models of the buildings and then used the photography to create the textures that they mapped to the outside so using you know that workflow I've got highly detailed buildings all the way down to we can see the air conditioners on the roof and this animation that we're seeing was created using the storyboard editor just like we saw earlier one more thing we kind of created that path that storyboard path that went through the site that path is independent of the proposals so I can create an animation like we did a fly through animation of a site and then I can take and flip to maybe the we did propose maybe I flip to the existing conditions them and I do the fly through again save both videos and then I can cut them together to create something like this so same path but I can fade back and forth between existing and proposed conditions so being that that path is independent of the proposal it allows you to do stuff like this okay one more thing if you're someone who has the collection we can create stereo panoramas just another way to visualize our models and in four works I can export that model that that model we just looked at I could export that to FBX which is kind of a universal format and I can open that up in Navisworks if you've never used Navisworks before you don't have to know the entire application all you have to do is open the model and then position yourself where you'd like to be standing and you can create what I like to call low-cost virtual reality you simply position yourself in the model where you'd like to be standing and then we can create a rendering I can use the render and cloud tool to create a stereo panorama now this is a cloud credit service if I do it at the lowest quality it doesn't cost anything so sometimes I'll do a few of them just till I get things exactly the way I want but if I do want it high quality it's like 13 cloud credits or 13 dollars it's done entirely on the cloud and when it's finished you'll get an email and if you click the hyperlink it'll take you to your render gallery where you can view the rendering when the rendering comes up it will open up and kind of like a 360-degree view you know in this case I'm standing in the parking lot here and I'm kind of dragging around and viewing my rendering the best thing about these is that QR code right there I can share these with others if they scan that QR code with their smartphone you know virtually any smartphone they can use this to view the stereo panorama they can take and look up down left right and the view will move with them in fact if you're interested if you have your smartphone out and you want to try and scan one of these you can scan that that'll open up the same model that we just saw I can all so share this if you want to experiment with this a little bit the nice thing about this is if you're wanting to convey a compelling visualization for stakeholders there's nothing like actually putting them in the model and as long as you have a low-cost device like the Google cardboard or these little homido lenses virtually any stakeholder can view your design we've shown this to larger deities and they love the concept because they could print that QR code in the newspaper if they wanted to to give people the opportunity to view a project so with that covered a lot of stuff we did a quick introduction of infraworks we looked at how we could bring in a bunch of data both ArcGIS online we looked at models we looked at land XML we looked at shape files we looked at how we could create visualizations both still images and animations and low-cost virtual reality we also saw that when we do make connections to data we have access to that rich attribution and we can use that to do analysis so with that I'm going to take a big drink of water and we can address any questions that you may have

Channel: Jeff Bartels

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Keywords: Bartels, akn_include, Autodesk, InfraWorks, 2020, how to, modeling, ESRI, ArcGIS, site plan

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Length: 40min 56sec (2456 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 24 2020