Vehicle Animation within Infraworks

CADmonkey77 · ‎02-14-2017

What would be great is to have some vehicle animation tools within Infraworks. Basically a simplified version of civil view from 3DS Max.

Have a dialog box with options to choose a path (road or design road) or be able to draw a (transparent?) path. Be able to select vehicle(s) and then offset and rotatioon along with frequency (single, multiple intervals, speed, loop). Also have a timer so that the animation can be set to pause for a short period of time and then carries on.

Cheers,

James

Eduardo.Soethe · ‎02-16-2017

Hi @CADmonkey77

look this idea https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/infraworks-360-ideas/animation-like-civil-view/idi-p/6058295 we have now 25 votes!

scunningham · ‎02-23-2017

Thanks for the suggestion. Eduardo links to an idea about being able to render a video of the traffic simulation animation, but it sounds like your idea could potentially be different. The Traffic Simulation functionality does animate traffic flow, and I'm curious what it's lacking to make it a good substitute?

Eduardo.Soethe · ‎02-24-2017

I make a note to do by simulation and paths!

CADmonkey77 · ‎03-13-2017

What I was more focusing on was animation used for stakeholder feedback and consultations rather than traffic simulations. Such as bringing in a centre line from vehicle tracking and using that to animate a car/truck/bus and being able to highlight areas where the vehicle clashes with a kerb or encroaches onto the other side of the road. Also for animation that is outside of the road parameters for example a tank performing a training exercise in a field.