Tips from Experts

Roadway Striping from Civil 3D to Infraworks

3/22/2018

Autodesk's Jeff Bartels explains the neat trick of how to employ a buffer on a SHP coverage import to display unclosed linear objects in Infraworks.
He uses roadway striping in this example.
From the Jeff Bartels YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.

Comments

Jeff continues his series on getting Civil 3D Corridor coverages into Infraworks for presentations.

All the posts in this series:

• Code Set Style Materials for Infraworks
• Roadway Striping from Civil 3D to Infraworks
• Update Infraworks from a Civil 3D Corridor

Code Set Style Materials for Infraworks

3/15/2018

Autodesk's Jeff Bartels explains how to assign render materials in a Code Set Style. This allows you to visualize a Civil 3D corridor model within InfraWorks.
From the Jeff Bartels YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.

Comments

The basic mechanics of how to publish from Civil 3D to Infraworks are explained well.

You should recognize you probably want a specific publish drawing that: probably DREFs the design corridor; includes the imported materials; and contains a Code Set Style built for this expressed purpose.
Jeff mentions the mission critical issue of the Code Set Style Link Style assignment. This Style name is what Infraworks reads and assigns to the rule. In Civil 3D the material assignment is separate from the Link Style assignment in a Code Set Style.
But Infraworks reads the entire current state of the Code Set Style on import. Yes. Jeff says this, but it is easy to get confused by the differences in Style meanings.

See the next post in the series Roadway Striping from Civil 3D to Infraworks

All the posts in this series:

• Code Set Style Materials for Infraworks
• Roadway Striping from Civil 3D to Infraworks
• Update Infraworks from a Civil 3D Corridor

Personalize Civil 3D ToolTips

2/20/2018

Jerry Bartels of Autodesk shows how to customize the rollover ToolTips in the Civil 3D CUI (and any ACAD-based application) to include additional property information.
From the Jerry's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.

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Technically, I'd call this personalization not customization unless you're going to share the CUI tweaks.
Because of WTMI in Civil 3D for some Features, folks also ask how to turn off the ToolTips.
You can change this for individual named Features in the Info tab or via the Feature Settings for all Features of a Feature type.