Incorporate Custom Bridge Parts in InfraWorks

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We are in InfraWorks looking at our bridge.

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We have just received the data regarding the new piers and the new girders for our design.

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To add in parametric parts, custom made parametric parts I'm going to go to the manage tab of the ribbon content, these also.

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The style pallet.

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And in the style palette, I'll, come down to parametric models.

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I'm going to open up the bridge Parametric Model Area.

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And under there, there's girders and piers.

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I'm going to start with the piers. I'll select on that.

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And these are the piers that are currently available.

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These are ones that I could add in or swap out in our bridge design currently.

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What I'm going to do to add in the custom part is come down to the plus sign.

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Now, this is going to add in a new style.

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If you click on the plus sign at the top, it will add in a new folder for managing styles.

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And I don't need to do that. I'm just going to click on the green plus sign to add a new style.

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Up at the top, I'm going to go to the Model URI.

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I'll select on the Ellipsis Button and then browse to our project area.

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I'll go into the pier and girder definitions that they've given me and find the Hammerhead Pier.ipt.

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There are two types of files, IPTs and IAMs that you can use for this.

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And I've received the IPT files. I'll click "Open" for that.

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Now, in the construction of this part, certain things were check marked and turned on.

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So, the data is set for this.

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It knows it's a bridge. It knows it's a pier, and it understands the settings here.

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For this, I was to come down and say "OK" and add that in.

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It's called the hammerhead pier when we get in to use it.

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There is another hammerhead, so I need to make sure I keep track of that name.

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The other one that I want to do is I'm going to click on the parent folder to go up a level, so I can go over to girders.

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And in the girders here, come down to add a part.

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And again, in the Model URI, Ellipsis Button, choose Girder.ipt and open that.

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Now, this one doesn't know what it is, so I'm going to select on the "Domain" and set it to "Bridge".

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In the component types, select the girder for that.

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Down below, everything else is there, so you can see a preview of it down here.

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I'll click "OK" and add that in.

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That one is simply called girder.

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And again, there's no other names like that, so I'll be able to find that fairly easily when I need it.

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I'm going to close the Style Pallet.

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That has added those two parts to this file only and so will not be available in other projects unless you import those as well.

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Now with that, I'm going to select one of the piers that we have.

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Again, the second select to get the actual pier itself.

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I'll come over here to the type of pier and choose the enhanced standard pier.

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I'm going to scroll down until I see the hammerhead pier.

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I remember it had, hammerhead pier is the name.

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I'll select on that, and that places that in.

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You can see that is located there.

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Now, it was built in a fairly generalized way.

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You can see if I scroll down here, there is a lot of detail to this that was provided to me.

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I need to go down into the column's area here.

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And the left width should actually be 10 feet for this.

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And it's actually changing it as I do this.

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Ten feet to the right and a thickness of 8.

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And then I'm going to scroll down a little bit further into the cap area and find the thickness there and make sure that matches.

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That is.

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There we are.

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And now, there is that pier per the dimensions that the parametric model allowed us to change.

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With that in place and that pier still selected, and again, checking the cart to make sure that I have the pier selected. That's something else.

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I'll right-click and say "Apply" to all piers.

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Very similar to what we did when we place the piers in the first place.

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And now that pier is available to each of those piers.

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I'm going to Left-Click on one of the girders.

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And for this, go into the Internal Style, the style that's assigned to it.

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I'll scroll down to girder.

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Make sure I don't go past it here.

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See, there are a lot of options here that are available.

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And there we are. It's towards the bottom, unassigned girder.

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I'll select on that.

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And it is replacing--

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oh, I set it to the internal.

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I'm just going to slide down here to the bottom again and choose that again to place that for the external.

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And you can see it's computing out.

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And now we've got that in place.

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We do have two of those in place.

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With that still selected, and again, checking the girder group, I'll right-click, "Apply To All Girder Groups".

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And there that is.

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I'll left-click off to the side.

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There is the roadway is added back to the top.

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Roadway and deck has added back to the top.

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And those custom-made parametric cards have been added to our bridge.