Answer Day - Corridor Civil 3D

[ksorsby]

Hi,

Can road corridors be exported back to Civil 3D from Infraworks? I know IW can import corridors and I know Alignments/Profiles can be exported from IW to C3D, but what about corridors?

If not, then when?

Thanks,

Kevin

[elliott.rosenfeld]

In InfraWorks 360, there is no 'corridor' object. Instead, your road alignment and profile, along with surfaces, are brought into Civil 3D when you connect your models or bring in an IMX from InfraWorks 360. Civil 3D performs a conversion on InfraWorks 360 objects, which are mapped to a table in this help topic: http://help.autodesk.com/view/INFMDR/ENU/?guid=GUID-CA5B78BB-9D36-4F52-A840-41D4BBA09C87 Please let me know if this answers your question. Thanks!

[ksorsby]

Thanks Elliot, that's useful.

From this perspective, this means that every time you bring your IW design back in to Civils, you will have to rebuild the whole corridor system again. I'm assuming the surfaces returned to C3D from IW are not dynamic.

Is this correct?

We're trying to establish whether IW is useful to us before deciding on a purchase.

[nzeeben · Accepted solution]

Hello Ksorsby,

You are correct there is not currently a full dynamic, bi-directional corridor/road exchange between InfraWorks and Civil 3D.  Currently you could begin your design inside InfraWorks, move the alignment and profile details to Civil 3D and do more detailed modeling there.  From then on you could continue to visualize the design in InfraWorks, but edits to anything outside the alignment/profile would need to done in Civil 3D. 

The Civil 3D and InfraWorks are discussing ways to improve the interoperability and we would love to hear the workflow you are hoping to achieve.

[fcernst]

Yes, we need to have roads come into Civil 3D as Corridors....ready to go to work.

The lanes, curb and gutter, sidewalk, shoulders, median Components in Infraworks will be automatically be converted to their corresponding subassemblies in Civil 3D.

Such as:

Infraworks                                     Civil 3D

Lanes  >>                      Subassembly.LaneSuperelevationAOR

Curb and gutter >>       Subassembly.UrbanCurbGutterGeneral

Shoulder >>                  Subassembly.ShoulderExtendAll

Roadside Grading >>     Subassembly.DaylightMultiIntercept

Median >>                     Subassembly.MedianRaisedWithCrown