Profile from file (in civil3d) wrong display in Infraworks

[SilviuClaudiuTegzesiu9203]

Hello,

My problem is:

I have an alignment, and a surface in civil3d, I have also created a profile view for the alignment, and i have a profiel which was created from a txt file. The problem is that when i bring it into infraworks the surface and the alignment are displayed correctly but infraworks does not takes into account my created profile from file. How can i solve this?

As an workaround I have found that if i create a new profile and trace it over the profile created from file infraworks displays it correctly. For several files this method is ok, but the problem is that i have around 80 kilometers of new roads so this method is quite slow. Any suggestions?

[FrankHuang]

@SilviuClaudiuTegzesiu9203 , could you please share your Civil 3d drawing? suspect it is a bug, and I will take a look. 

[SilviuClaudiuTegzesiu9203]

Of course,

Here it is:

If you bring into infraworks Profile from file.dwg you will see that infraworks drapes the profile to the existing surface.

If you bring into infraworks Porfile created tracing profile from file.dwg you will see that infraworks takes into account my profile.

[angelohbwang]

My immediate guess is simply because this profile is created from file (instead of layout profile), so it won't be exported out in the IMX.

[FrankHuang]

Thanks @SilviuClaudiuTegzesiu9203  and @angelohbwang , I can reproduce it and I think the reason mentioned by @angelohbwang is right.

In current implementation, profile created from file is not exported to IMX file. 

will log it in and see if we can improve it in later release. 

Thanks,

Frank Huang

Autodesk Infrastructure Product Owner. 

[SilviuClaudiuTegzesiu9203]

Well you mentiond that imx file. If I connect directly from infraworks to the civil3d drawing is the same. My instinct is that we are doing something wrong. Why am I saying this? because if we are looking at Pofile created tracing profile from file.dwg on the profie proerties/profile data tab there we can see in the column Alignment the N01-R-2 which coresponds with the parent horizontal alignmnet and infraworks WORKS:)) But if we are looking at  Profile from file.dwg in the same alignment column the value is empty. so my guess is that civil somehow civil3d does not know that the profile created from file is associated with the selected alignment. 

So there is no other solution than trace it over with a new profile? That will be a huge time consuming considering the profile will suffer changes and I have 80 kilometers of roads to trace with new profiles.....

[FrankHuang · Accepted solution]

There will be a workaround for this. 

1. export the alignment and profile to a landxml file, delete the alignment and profile 

2. then reimport the alignment/profile to the drawing. 

I tried your model, and it works. 

There will be a new workaround in the upcoming release that will be much easier to do. Will keep you posted once we are there. 

Hope this helps

Frank Huang

Autodesk Infrastructure Product Owner

[Anonymous]

Definiately this work flow worked

1. export civil 3d alignment and profile to landxml

2. create a new file and import landxml into this

3. open infraworks now import new civil 3d file into this and configure

4. bingo profile is same as you have created in civil 3d