Parametric Model Import

[TrevN]

With the new ability to import from Inventor, it seems you still need to have the Infrastructure Part Shape Utilities command under the Environments ribbon tab installed via Project Kameleon within Inventor, is this correct?

Is there another way to get Infraworks to read the Inventor file?

Thanks

[elliott.rosenfeld]

Hi Trevor, you are correct. in the 2018 release, you need to use the Part Shape Utilities plugin for Inventor to create your .IPT files, then import those into the Style Palette. If you are still using Project Kameleon, you also have the option to publish assemblies of parts families to InfraWorks or Civil 3D using the Parts Editor.

Thanks,
Elliott

[Nicola_Ianeselli]

Hey @elliott.rosenfeld,

do you think it will be possible to download the plugin separately?

Otherwise you are "forcing" everyone to download Kameleon to create the parts..

Thank you

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[elliott.rosenfeld]

Hi Nicola,

Thanks for reaching out. Sorry if my previous message was unclear. Hopefully I can clarify:

With the release of InfraWorks 2018.0 (released April 13th, 2017), we included a plugin in the InfraWorks installer. This way, anyone who already has Autodesk Inventor Pro or LT installed on their local system will see the Infrastructure Part Shape Utilities plugin (formerly "Shape Modeler" as part of Project Kameleon) added to their Autodesk Inventor 2017 Pro or LT instance as soon as they install InfraWorks 2018.0. Therefore, for parametric bridge shape modeling, you no longer need Project Kameleon (Shape Modeler + Parts Editor). Now, you only need to install InfraWorks 2018.0 so that the Infrastructure Part Shape Utilities plugin is added to their Inventor instance, and then create .IPT files to bring your bridge parts into the InfraWorks style palette.

Does that make sense?

Thanks,

E

[Anonymous]

I would say it makes a lot of sense. Though one problem remains; The Infrastructure Part Shape Utilities are not included in Inventor 2018, right? And why not?

[austin_jephson]

Hello,

We are working on creating a separate installer for the plugin, so that you don't have to first install Inventor (or already have it installed), then install InfraWorks.  We'll probably stick with the plug-in approach, rather than try to get it to ship/install with Inventor, though we can certainly keep looking into it.

As Elliott said, for creating parametric bridge components, you can completely forget about Project Kameleon.  We have rolled all the functionality directly into InfraWorks - so you create the model in Inventor, then customize the catalog in InfraWorks.

Thanks,

Austin Jephson

[Carrillof]

In export in .ipt, but perhaps all parametrism work must be in Inventor, in Infraworks only load it into the library

[austin_jephson · Accepted solution]

Hello,

It is true that you have to set up all of the parametric in Inventor, when you create the part.  But once you bring it into InfraWorks, you can change ANY of the parametric attributes on that part.  You can set it up to have a variety of different part sizes when you bring it in to InfraWorks, and each of those sizes will be listed  in the Content picker.  But you can also directly select a pier in InfraWorks, and change any of its parametric attributes like column thickness, cap depth, etc.

Here is a video showing the complete workflow (You might have to Right click and download the video if the player isnt working properly).  

The only thing it is missing is Right Click > Send to Revit.  Try it out and let us know what you think!

Thanks,

Austin Jephson

[qui_pth]

Thank you so much !

This video is very useful. Greate !