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RUSS NICLOY: Welcome to this webinar
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on Getting your team up and running with InfraWorks.
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My name is Russ Nicloy, Civil Solutions Specialist
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with MACER Technologies.
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Before we get started, I do want to share the Safe Harbor
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Some things that are said during the session or in the answers
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to questions may end up being forward
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looking at versions of software that are not yet complete.
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We do want to make sure that you know not to make purchasing
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decisions based on statements of possible future functionality.
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As I said, my name is Russ Nicloy.
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I'm a Civil Solutions specialist at MACER Technologies.
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I've been in the industry for
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Survey, Site and Utility Design, and over a decade
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with a reseller part of Autodesk.
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I now run my own design solutions company
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aiding organizations in the Civil industry.
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Just a little bit about the accelerators, autodesk
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accelerators are designed to help your team stay ahead
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of the curve with the latest workflows.
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You will have access to on-demand courses,
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pre-recorded coaching, and live coaching
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like what we're doing today.
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See a full list of the topics at the Customer Success Hub.
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What will you learn today?
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We'll first look at can my computer run InfraWorks?
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We'll be looking at System Requirements, Hotfixes
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and Service Packs, Add-ins for InfraWorks,
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and Country Kits for InfraWorks.
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Then we'll look at key concepts; more
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about Models & Data, Coordinate Systems, Model Extents,
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and Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks.
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Then we'll look at Model Management;
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looking at Model Compatibility, Cashing Locations, Sharing
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Models, and Model Recovery.
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Then we'll look at Optimizing Model Performance.
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You're looking at the tips and tricks and tweaks,
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checking models, and identifying bottlenecks.
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But first, let's look at can my computer run InfraWorks?
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When selecting a workstation, it's
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important to aim at providing good performance
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and reliability with an element of future proofing.
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The first link that we provide there are system requirements
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for Autodesk InfraWorks.
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Now this is going to be a list of minimum requirements,
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but it does recommend different graphics cards.
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And that's an important part of the process.
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The second link is for Autodesk Infrastructure Product Hardware
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Specs and Recommendations.
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And the last is the Certified Hardware Page
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for certified graphics hardware.
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Here's a quick suggested decision matrix.
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If you're expecting modest workflow and smaller models,
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use the yellow specs chart.
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If you're expecting an average workload usually dealing
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with a medium sized model, use the green specs chart.
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And if you're expecting work with a larger model
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and more demanding workload, use the blue spec chart.
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Now these charts are just a guide and results may vary.
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Just a couple of things to be aware of for Installation
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and deployment, first of all, side
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by side installs of InfraWorks are not supported.
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Civil 3D and Navisworks are unaffected by this,
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but InfraWorks will not allow an earlier version
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to exist with a newer version.
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By default, the Autodesk material library
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is not installed when you install Autodesk InfraWorks.
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This can occasionally cause issues
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with the display of textures and materials for 3D objects
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that you import or that you export from InfraWorks.
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As of February 2019, users will need to install and maintain
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a supported Java Runtime Environment
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on their workstations.
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Other things to be aware of, prior to running the installer,
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you want to make sure that the user does
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have the correct permissions to install software.
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You do also want to clean out the temp folder location,
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make sure that that's empty.
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Also, disable the anti-virus and then all the related processes
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running in the background.
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Also, disable the User Account Control settings,
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and there's a link here on how to do that.
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And then make sure that the folder redirection is not
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enabled for app data and documents folders.
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And there's a link for that here as well.
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Finally, there's useful information
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in the Perform a Clean uninstall of InfraWorks,
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and that's a link here as well.
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Now, a word about the sequence of installation.
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Inventor server components are released specific
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and will not read content from newer releases.
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So if you're unsure of the installation order of Civil 3D,
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InfraWorks, and Inventor, uninstall any prior releases
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of infrastructure parts editor and the infrastructure--
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Inventor infrastructure model plug-ins, then you
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can install the version that matches your current product
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If you're unsure of what version and InfraWorks model was
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created with, you can follow this link
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to find instructions on how to determine that version
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Here's a list of the latest versions and hotfix releases
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and some of the issues that they addressed.
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Notice that the release is ending .0
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while the update release is ending in a .1 or .2.
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Hotfixes are the HF1 or HF2 for each of these releases.
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What happens if you can't log into InfraWorks?
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Well, there's three links here of things
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that could be going on.
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The log into Autodesk InfraWorks does not
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work when using a proxy server, follow that first link.
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Loginstates.xml errors, you want to see the, after program
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The program cannot connect to the internet anymore,
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And then if you cannot sign in to InfraWorks 360,
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then follow that link.
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A word about Managing Users on Trial Versions.
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If the user hasn't been added to your Autodesk account,
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signing up using a corporate email
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creates an orphaned account disconnected
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from your enterprise account.
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Once a trial has expired, a user will
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need to be assigned to an entitlement in your Autodesk
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And if they were signed up to a BIM 360 docs trial,
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models created during that trial need
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to be downloaded and uploaded to your enterprise account
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before the trial grace period expires.
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Now that timing is important.
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Some analysis and optimization functions
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are completed using Autodesk Cloud Services.
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Now that may require cloud credits be used.
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Several things that you need to know about cloud credits
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are; projects require units of measure
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to perform tasks in Autodesk cloud services.
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You can check your cloud credit balance
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in your Autodesk account.
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The cloud credit calculations include;
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profile optimization requires, 100 cloud credits
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per 5 kilometers of roadway or about three miles of roadway.
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Watershed analysis along roadways
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require 50 cloud credits for every five kilometers.
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And also notice that the traffic simulation being
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run after the 2020.1 release will no longer
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require cloud credits.
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You may need to make changes to a proxy server
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to unlock Autodesk services.
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When a failure occurs, make sure the following settings are
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set correctly to allow traffic through the proxy servers
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If log in to InfraWorks does not work when using a proxy server,
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follow the first link here.
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The second link addresses proxy server setting changes
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that are required to unblock Autodesk A360 services.
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You want to be aware of add-ins for InfraWorks,
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There are country kits that include
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content packs for specific countries and regions.
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The Autodesk Inventor Infrastructure Modeler Plugin
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allows you to customize parametric parts that
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can be used for drainage, pipes, Civil structures, and road
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Infrastructure Parts Editor creates and manages
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parametric parts that work in both InfraWorks and Civil 3D.
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Autodesk Revit InfraWorks Updater
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allows you to connect bridge and tunnel design to Revit.
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If there's a change to a bridge or tunnel in InfraWorks,
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this will push those changes up to your existing
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Country kits are available for Austria, Germany, Norway,
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Sweden, France, and the UK.
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These contain the content kits,
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and parametric components.
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Use the style palette to manage and review
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the catalogs that were added through the country kit.
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You can enable or disable country kits.
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Once enabled, the country kit will be used for your models
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by default going forward.
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You can enable or disable a country kit
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from the model properties.
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Disabling a country kit does not uninstall it,
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it just makes it unavailable to the models.
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If content was used in a model then
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becomes disabled, that content will disappear from that model
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and textures may not appear correctly.
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Let's look at some key concepts.
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First of all, a single model can contain
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significant amounts of spatial data in analysis and designs.
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Models are associated with a coordinate system
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that can reference your digital project to real world
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A model represents a project often
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in a specific geographic area, which
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can have numerous proposals and design alternatives.
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Two ways to create a model; Model Builder or manually.
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And collaborating with others, you
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can use conventional file sharing methods
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or you can use cloud sharing with BIM 360 document
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management or you can share interactive browser-based
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presentations of your model with shared views.
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The data sources panel is used to add and configure
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features such as terrain, roads, point clouds
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water bodies, points of interest, buildings
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and Civil structures for your model.
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You can add 3D model objects, materials
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watermarks parametric parts and assemblies as styles.
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Importing data, you can import the file
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or you can connect to a database data source.
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You can add data from ESRI ArcGIS using the Autodesk
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Connector for ArcGIS.
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You can also import 3D models into the style palette
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And you can import parametric component parts and assemblies
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from Autodesk Inventor for drainage, piping,
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and Civil structure design.
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Model data works in data layers.
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An important part of the layer structure
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is the terrain or elevation data.
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This represents the land which the model is built.
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Surface layers are then draped on the terrain.
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When you're adding data, you can specify
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not to drape for features that you don't want
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to get draped over the surface.
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Usually, those objects have elevation of their own.
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And you don't want to take the terrain surface
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elevation as the new location.
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There are three different coordinate systems
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that you need to be aware of and InfraWorks.
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First of all, there's the geographic coordinate system.
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This is based on the spherical, latitude-longitude-elevation
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It's a grid that's asymmetrical because of the taper
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Next is the projection coordinate system.
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And this is such as the UTM, the Universal Transverse Mercator
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or State Plane Systems.
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And they're based on a rectangular XYZ coordinate
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They use northing, easting, and elevation.
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These are restricted to the spatial extent of the specified
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grid zone much more localized.
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A custom coordinate system is an arbitrary XY system, XY-meters
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or XY-feet, and they're not referenced to world
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Custom coordinate systems are common when you're working
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with a non-georeferenced data.
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Each InfraWorks model uses coordinate
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systems to position your data.
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By default, InfraWorks models extends
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are set to the boundaries of the database coordinate system.
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InfraWorks models are reference to a database coordinate
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system, which is listed here.
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This is permanently written into the .sqlite file that
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represents the model and cannot be changed.
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The default of it is LL84, Lat long 84.
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The other system is the UCS coordinate system,
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the user coordinate system.
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This determines the coordinates that
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are displayed in the status bar and does not
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affect how the model data is stored or displayed.
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And again, that default is also LL84.
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When you create a model, depending
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on the method that you use, if you use a manual method,
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you will need to specify the extents during the model
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creation to define that precise geographic boundaries.
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If you're using Model Builder, the extents
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are defined by the area of interest
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that you use, and then brought in from there.
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You could also use an SHP file, which
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is basically just a closed line shape that you're
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importing as an SHP.
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You need less than 1,000 vertices on that shapefile.
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So depending on the size and the complexity,
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you may need to clean that up.
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You need to avoid self intersecting polygon lines.
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You have a limit of up to 200 square kilometers or lengths
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of 200 kilometers in the lat/long.
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You can modify the extent of your model boundary
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in the model properties dialog box.
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You can modify the extents in the model properties dialog
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You can choose to limit the geographic extent of imported
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data for most feature classes using
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the Source tab of the data source configuration dialog.
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You can double click on a data source in the data sources
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panel and choose to clip to model extent for the Sources
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This is going to limit the extent of the imported data,
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so it doesn't run beyond the expense of your actual model.
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When you import data that uses a different coordinate system
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than your model's database coordinate system,
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InfraWorks translates the imported data
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and re-projects it using your models database coordinate
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Data may not display properly if it
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was assigned the incorrect coordinate system
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during configuration.
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This can occur when you bring in 3D model
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data that uses a custom coordinate system
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During a 3D model import, InfraWorks
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doesn't perform any exact coordinate transformation.
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Instead, the rotation approximates the transformation
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and it's applied to the imported data.
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If the model is very large, this can produce slight positioning
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The workaround for this is, for the model
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to be close to the correct position inside of InfraWorks,
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the anchor point or the coordinate system
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based point of the data source needs
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to be close to the center of the actual model.
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This would work around applies to any data
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sources that use any
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DGN as 3D model, IFC or SketchUp.
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Now changing a new model's database coordinate system
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to a projected coordinate system will not
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increase speed or accuracy.
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It will also not allow you to import more data.
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It will limit the possible size of your model
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and may cause errors.
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A single model can span all UTM zones
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while maintaining accuracy and measurement and representation.
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If you do not explicitly define a model extent as your import
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data, the model extent will grow to include the extent of all
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the important data sources.
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This will impact performance if additional data sources
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have larger extent than the base model.
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Use new proposals to capture a design concept.
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Proposals can be created from other proposals
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to create branch versions of projects.
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Once created, they cannot be renamed.
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To rename, just create a new proposal with the correct name
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and delete the incorrect one.
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The master proposal cannot be renamed or deleted.
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For technical reasons, proposal names must be unique and cannot
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contain spaces, periods, or special characters.
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Exceptions are the underscore and hashtag
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and Unicode characters.
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There is a white paper looking at the working with proposals.
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Just follow that link here.
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Any changes to a parent proposal are not automatically reflected
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You must manually merge those changes into each proposal.
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Each proposal has its own tile cache,
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the generated map-like terrain tiles for displaying the model.
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The more proposals a model contains the more disk space
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When collaborating, chances of two people
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editing the same features increases significantly.
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When two people make edits to the same features,
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a conflict will occur.
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Some assets of the model are shared by all proposals,
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and they are not unique to each proposal.
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These are things like bookmarks, model properties, model
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explorer settings, watermarks, storyboards, themes, scenario
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definition, styles and style rules.
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This means that they can be defined once and used
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When collaborating the sync dialogue
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lists these assets as a single item
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known as a common resource.
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Let's take a look at Model Management.
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Opening an older of project, InfraWorks displays a message
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that the model needs to be upgraded, but which version?
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You can see a chart to the right there
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of all the previous versions and their version numbers.
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Model schema is upgraded when you open
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a model in a newer release.
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Once a model is upgraded, you cannot open that model
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in a previous version.
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Starting with 2019 and on wards, all existing and frameworks,
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models will be subject to a mandatory road and bridge
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upgrade when upgraded from the most recent release version.
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To see more about this, follow the link
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of about automatic upgrade to design roads
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When a model is first opened, the 3D tiles
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for the model surface are stored in the generated surface
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tiles cache location.
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It is not recommended to change the cache location to a network
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Cloud models and generated surface tiles
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are cached in separate locations.
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This means that you may need to cache models
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on a drive with more disk space.
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When creating a model from scratch,
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you can only choose a local-only model.
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When you're ready, you can publish a local model
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When publishing to the cloud or opening a cloud model,
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the corresponding local model will be
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moved into a cloud model cache.
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If your C drive is small or overloaded,
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you may want to change the model cache to another drive that
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You can do this using the application options.
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When you change the cloud model cache location,
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all local model files will be moved.
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They'll be moved from the old cache to the new one.
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The cloud model cache stores your edited changes
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to the model until you sync.
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So you're going to want to sync off
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and to make sure that your changes get
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into the cloud model for your team to work with.
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If you notice that the cloud model cash field is disabled,
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it means that the model is open so the cash can't be moved.
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Simply restart InfraWorks and go into the application options
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Do not move the cache files manually via Windows Explorer.
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InfraWorks does not know where they
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went and will continue to place models in the original cache
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A user may experience issues with sinking a project
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This can occur when the file path contains
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a longer username or the project location
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is stored too deep in the folders on the user's
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There are two links here to further reading
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on this particular issue.
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Sharing models on network drives or using services
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such as Google Drive, OneDrive, et cetera,
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can have unexpected results and can corrupt models.
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If you wish to share using these services,
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we recommend zipping model files and placing them in that way.
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Think of these locations as a way
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to retrieve project data from not actively
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When an InfraWorks model does get corrupted,
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it may become unresponsive or prevent you
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from making typical modifications.
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Sometimes a combination of workflow software and hardware
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can result in a corrupt file.
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Broken models can occur when, during your model upgrades,
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when you're merging proposals, if you force clothes
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and in for work session, or missing deleted folders when
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sharing a project model via the cloud drive.
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What is recommended as a backup strategy?
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Well, we recommend upgrade a copy when upgrading a model.
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That way, the original is still there unaffected.
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Sink often to make sure your changes are
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getting to your cloud model for your team to work with.
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And regularly create a backup of your model
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using the Create disconnected copy of model tool.
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If you need to repair models, we strongly
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advise that you create a backup first.
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If the corruption isn't too severe,
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you may be able to repair the model
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by deleting the contents of the tile cache folder.
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Log a support case detailing the issue
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and make sure that you include the InfraWorks log.
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For advanced users, there are three options
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that are available to try and recover your InfraWorks project
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But data loss increases with each option that's given.
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So follow this link to see those.
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Let's look at Optimizing Model Performance.
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To optimize model performance before the data import,
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check your system, review your data sources,
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customize application options, define your model extents,
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simplify features, review your level of detail
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and select ability settings in the model explorer,
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and check view settings.
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During data import, bring in terrain data,
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clip to the model extent, bring in your raster imagery,
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bringing water data, 3D models including vegetation,
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use simplify to clean those models up, use level of detail
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from the Model Explorer, use adaptive tree
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for high performance forests and large amounts of trees,
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and set up level of detail in content libraries.
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After data import, identify performance bottlenecks
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using the Performance tab in the Windows Task Manager.
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Check your rendering performance by using the built in real time
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The real time frame rate counter is
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something that you can turn on by using
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the key combination Control Shift Alt F.
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And that activates the frame rate
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counter in the rightmost bottom part of your screen.
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Start switching on and off the different feature classes
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in the model explore and see what happens to the frame rate
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Higher values are better.
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If you notice that the frame rate counter drops considerably
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when displaying certain model parts,
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then try further tips given that the following link
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to make them more efficient.
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If you InfraWorks model is reacting slowly,
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here is a link to some render performance guidelines.
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Here are the tools that are best for examining performance,
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the Task Manager, and the resource monitor.
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These are Windows tools that you can enter at any time
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and leave open while you're using InfraWorks.
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Now we're going to move to a show me
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how demonstration, which will include
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exploring the infamous home screen,
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walking through the application settings, a current version
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road regeneration speed versus quality,
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also looking at country kits, caching locations,
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and what version are you using.
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We're also going to explore an existing project, model's
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properties and thumbnails, importing data
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and assigning coordinate systems,
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using proposals and bookmarks, view settings,
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and model performance.
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You can see that we have InfraWorks open here.
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I'm going to go to the application options
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And in the generative area of the application options,
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there is the About button here that we can come in and see
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what version you're running.
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Lots of people will ask how they can find that information.
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It's in that About area there.
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And say, OK to close that.
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The other thing on the general tab
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here are the cache locations for cloud models
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and cache location for generated surface tiles.
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These are the default locations, but you can change them
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by clicking this button.
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Now, if you change the locations,
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then the caching will go to a different location obviously.
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If you were to go into Windows Explorer
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and move the files and the folders that
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are in the cache and location, InfraWorks doesn't know that.
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This is the only place that really
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knows where that is happening.
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Another thing that I'd like to show here
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is the model generation tab.
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In here, it's going to offer you the option
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to delay road regeneration.
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Now, that's actually important to the quality response
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Because as you're making changes to roadways,
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you're able to hold off on regenerating a roadway
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until you've got enough things changed about it
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There are also things like building facade detail.
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Right now, I've set that to high.
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But you can set things like that lower so
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that you get a better response working more for speed
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rather than quality.
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Another area is the 3D Graphics.
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Speaking of speed versus quality,
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there is an optimized for quality option here
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or optimize for speed.
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Those two settings control the overall
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of these other settings.
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Now you can set them individually.
27:12
Or right now, I have it set to quality,
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which means it's a little higher quality maybe
27:17
a little less on the responsiveness.
27:19
But I could click that and go to speed.
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While I'm working in a project, maybe I
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don't need the fancy graphic part of it,
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I can turn those settings down by changing to for speed.
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Then when it's time to do some presentations,
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I can go back to quality and get all of that high end quality
27:37
I'm going to cancel out or close out of the application options
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there and drop into a project for a second.
27:43
And in here, I want to show where
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the country kits are accessed.
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Now the country kits themselves are actually
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added through the Autodesk desktop app,
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and you'll install them just like you
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would any other update.
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Once they're installed, they will
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be default attached to any project that you work with,
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any model that you work with.
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If I come up to the model properties,
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if I scroll all the way to the bottom,
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there is where the country kits will be listed.
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Now, this is the country kit for this particular model.
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If I click this arrow, if I had any loaded,
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I could either load them up or I could unload them from here.
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I could just turn them back down to none
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so they're not attached to the project
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or to this particular model.
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Now, I do want to return to our front page for a second
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here and just talk about that as you're starting a project,
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the thumbnails here are supposed to give you
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a little bit of a graphic glimpse into what the project
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is as you're starting them.
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You can check where the model is stored here
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by hovering over that icon.
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In this case, I've got some cloud based also
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some local stored projects.
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I could also go to this button here to duplicate a model
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or to delete a local cache or if I come over to this one,
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I could delete the model from my local area.
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I'm going to go back into my project
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here and reopen my properties and just
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to talk about this a little bit, you'll
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see here's the coordinate system that is set.
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I can't change this.
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This is set for the model for the data set.
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But the display coordinates right now
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that I could change to something else I do have the matching,
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but they don't have to.
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That would control the numbers in the lower end.
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Let me zoom in a little bit here.
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You can see down here the XY and Z
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numbers that are listed there.
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That is being controlled or showing
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in terms of this display coordinates right here.
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Other things in the properties that we need to address
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are the model extents.
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Now currently, I'm just using the full model.
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I actually got this model from a Model Builder.
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So the area of interest defined the entire size of my extents.
30:06
I can go in and give it a bounding box or a polygon
30:09
if I needed a rougher shape, and then draw in a new blue border.
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This blue wall is the border of the extents.
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I could say use the entire model, which in this case,
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I am, but if you're trying to trim it down,
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some could use the entire model.
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Or you could say, that I want to load it
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from the extents from a file.
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That would be a shape file that would
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identify that location where that blue wall should occur.
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Now something else that we need to be
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mindful of at the beginning here is bringing in data sources.
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I'm going to go to the Data sources option
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to open that panel up.
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And in here, you can import data from this tool here.
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And you can see quite a few different options to bring data
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in, or you can click on this button
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here and connect to a database data source.
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I don't have anything like that for this particular project.
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But you could do that from here.
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Also next to that is the AutoCAD connector for ArcGIS
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button, which will take you over to that tool
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and allow you to import data from there.
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Now, as you're bringing data in, I've
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got a building here that as I'm bringing it in,
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you will need to configure it as a second step to the process.
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When I do that, one of the tabs, the geolocation tab
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gives me a chance to assign the coordinate system.
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Again, this is not changing the coordinate system
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for the model or even the display
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coordinate system that we had in the model properties.
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This is what coordinate system the data is in.
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And in this case, it doesn't match with what
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I have in my model properties.
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Because what's going to happen is,
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the coordinate system will transform this data in.
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Now as we may have talked earlier,
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this data won't be precisely dropped in.
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It's closer if the center of the data that you're bringing in
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is closer to the origin point, but it's
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going to be close enough that you
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will be able to see where data is dropping in
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and really use it to your best effect.
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After data is in here, let me close the data sources there.
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The proposals are an important part
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of working with InfraWorks.
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This is how you can create different options
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and different versions.
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Every project starts out with a master.
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You can't rename it and you can't delete it.
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But then you can build out other proposals
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from that or proposals from other proposals.
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If you start out with the master you're
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starting out with what data came in the first place, in our case
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Then I went in and created an existing
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which branched out from there.
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Then from existing I went to buildings,
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and added or change some other things
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in that particular branch.
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Then I created an option to location for a different branch
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So as long as you start with a start point
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or where the model should be and branch out from there,
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you can create different proposals in this area.
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And also I should mention, I've got a test one here
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so I could try something out.
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If and when I don't like it, I can just
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come over and hit the X and delete that proposal out
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The other part of this is the bookmark tool,
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and that's this tool right here.
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The bookmark tool is going to allow
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you to zoom into certain areas predetermined areas.
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If I know, well, I need to look at the new office building
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that we're putting in.
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I can click that, and it will zoom me right over to that.
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Maybe I want to look at the background buildings
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and see the data that was brought in with that data
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set, or maybe the utilities.
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I was working on some utilities earlier.
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And so that I could get back to it
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or so that I could share the information
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with a collaborator.
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I've got a bookmark that'll help you find that area there.
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And finally, with a zoomed in view,
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we'll be able to see this quite well.
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And that is the view settings.
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In the dropdown, you'll see there's a conceptual view
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in engineering view.
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Those are two default settings that come with every model.
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I've created a couple other view settings in here.
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For times I need a contour view, or I'm
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working with point clouds or I'm working with utilities.
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Let me switch over to engineering view,
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so you can see what that looks like.
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In this case, the background is a darker color,
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maybe it's easier to see things.
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I've got some yellow contour lines in here.
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Other things are turned on and off.
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I believe the buildings are a slightly different projection.
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And you could use this to do a certain function more
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appropriately, then maybe switch back to conceptual view
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so that you can do some storyboarding and presentation
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In either case, what you do is you click on the view
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that you want to see and it changes to that.
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If you need to edit it, you can click on the gear icon
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here and then make changes.
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In this case, we've got three areas, the visualization where
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you can control brightness, contrast, light intensity,
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whether the wire frame is turned on or high visual quality.
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If I go to the next button there, that is the interaction.
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And it's things like do you want tool tips on
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do you want the In-Canvas labels,
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do what the view cube on or off?
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And finally, there is the terrain view.
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This is what's controlling the contours, both the colors
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and the text, the labels and so forth for those contour labels.
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Now at the end of all this, once you have that done,
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you can switch back to whatever style
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that you need to continue working on the project.
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Now, let's look at some additional resources.
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The Customer Success Hub is a great place
35:55
to go for courses and learning paths,
35:58
also recorded coaching sessions, or more live coaching topics
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The link there is customersuccess.autodesk.com.
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Thank you all for joining us today, and have a great day.
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