Shared View needs an update

[m_kingdon]

I have a love hate relationship with Infraworks.  I have found it extremely useful for generating holistic views of proposed sites I work on.  I wish I could share these views with others so they to can have a reality check on our projects, this would be especially useful for engineers / directors / stakeholders who don’t use Civil 3D.

Infraworks does have the ability to upload models via the ShareView workflow.  The problem is I think this platform is extremely dated now and very basic.  Comparing how my model looks in Infraworks is very different from the uploaded view.  I also find navigating the share view very difficult.  The panning/orbit seems very janky (especially on larger models) and I often resort to the 1^st person view (very useful) for navigating the model.

Other platforms do this so much better.  Speckle, Twinmotion.  I have even started using QGIS and a plugin called QGIStoThreeJs to produce better models.  The models are not better than the models I make in Infraworks, but they are better than the models I can upload from Infraworks, which is super frustrating!

Please give this feature the attention it deserves.  There are many extremely useful applications.  Twinmotion is overkill for a lot of what I do.  I don’t need realistic renders, but I do need a shareable model on a platform that is good enough for sharing with non-CAD / ACC people.

[Todd_Rogers]

You should look into exporting it out to to FBX and importing it into Twinmotion. I totally agree with you, as I have the same relationship with it as you do. I have been using it since it was Project Galileo. If you have the AEC Collection, you get a license of Twinmotion. I highly recommend it.

[Todd_Rogers]

Sorry, I just noticed your blurb at the end. 

[cwitzel5NL5H]

Ditto.  One of my coverage areas doesn't come in correctly so it is difficult to see the grading being done as the air photo dominates. Multiple tries at Shared views.

Looks like I may have to resort to videos for the client, rather than interactive.

I may try export to ArcGIS and se if that is any better.

[m_kingdon]

I am currently researching into CesiumJS.  Looks promising but I have no knowledge of javascript so leaning quite heavily on Claude to hold my hand during the coding.  

I wish AutoDesk would provide a solution.  Having the ability to generate and upload a navigable 3D model that could be shared with stakeholders (both technical and non-technical users) would be extremely useful for pretty much all my projects.  I consider it a massive hole in the AutoDesk ecosystem.