If you couldn’t attend Autodesk University (AU) 2018, not to worry, hundreds of the sessions are now available to view on-demand, for free. For govies on tight budgets, this is great news. Even better, many of them sessions, particularly those focused on infrastructure and transportation projects, are hosted by state DoT officials and are worth exploring for their insights and experiences.
You can browse the sessions by topic, industry, and product here or check out our round up of 10 “not to be missed” infrastructure sessions:
1 – The Evolution of 3D Design Practices on Roadway Projects
When Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) implemented Civil 3D software for roadway design in 2010, a primary goal was to develop construction-ready 3D roadway models as part of the design process. In 2014, WisDOT established standard design model deliverables for all projects with earthwork components.
Brad Hollister, PE, works for WisDOT’s Methods Development Unit (MDU) where he focuses in improving integrations between roadway design and construction, including 3D design. In this session, Brad explores the evolution of the WisDOT design model concept such as how feedback from design and construction project stakeholders has changed WisDOT’s understanding of the purpose of 3D design practices on highway and roadway projects. Brad also reviews past changes to WisDOT’s design model concept and the reasons for making those changes as well as the latest proposed concepts for restructuring WisDOT’s 3D design delivery standards, and how these changes are intended to improve highway and roadway project delivery.
View the video and download session-related content here.
2 – Using Drones, Laser Scanning, and InfraWorks to Get Design Buy-In
Gaining community buy-in for any infrastructure or construction project is challenging. In this session, Brendan Walsh and Kevin Foster of Truescan3D share how they combined the use of drones, laser scanning, and InfraWorks to assist in gaining community support for a one-mile trail project – the Mill Creek Trail in Cincinnati, Ohio. With the local community lacking the funding for a full project survey and engineering drawings needed, the company performed a combination of drone imagery and laser scanning on the proposed project site. This gave the design team a detailed map of the site in a fraction of the time required when using traditional methods.
This information was given to the civil engineer to create a preliminary trail design. Once complete, InfraWorks was used to develop a model and fly-through to gain design support.
Brendan and Kevin are not InfraWorks experts, before this project they didn’t know the program that well. View the session from Autodesk University here.
3 – Get Moving with Autodesk Infrastructure Solutions for Transportation Projects
This instructional demo walks through a typical highway/road design transportation project workflow using the full suite of infrastructure solutions using InfraWorks software, Civil 3D, Navisworks, Revit, and Structural Bridge Design.
You’ll learn how to use InfraWorks in the context of real-world transportation projects and how to move data from InfraWorks into Civil 3D and Revit for detailed design and documentation. You’ll also learn how to accelerate roadway drainage design and analysis to help better understand the drainage impacts of your design. Finally, see how easy it is to explore preliminary design options more effectively by creating data-rich models and visualizing realistic civil structures in the context of the surrounding proposed site.
Watch the session here.
4 – Road Work Ahead: New Techniques for Road Reconstruction Using Civil 3D 2019
With 80% of road construction budgets going toward road rehabilitation, is “mill 2/overlay 2” the best that can be done? In this class, Peter Funk explores the new road rehab tools in Civil 3D and shows how you can use them to reduce milling, reduce material costs, and produce a smoother final road surface. He also explains how you can incorporate LiDAR into the design process to identify potential problems in design, instead of in the field. He also looks specifically at how the techniques in these new tools are being used at the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Watch the session from Autodesk University here.
5 – BIM/CAD/GIS Integration for Large-Scale Civil/Transportation Project Delivery
BIM for infrastructure has rapidly emerged to transform the way transportation and civil infrastructure agencies, organizations, consultants, and contractors plan, design, and construct their projects, and maintain, operate, and manage their assets. BIM and CAD are effective tools for project delivery and they’re even more valuable when integrated with geographic information system (GIS) to provide asset management. This class provides value-based deployment strategies, best practices, challenges, and case studies of successful BIM-CAD-GIS projects.
Presented by Lance Parve, MSEng, P.G., Senior Project Engineer/CIM Coodinator for the WisDOT in SE Freeways. Watch the session from Autodesk University here.
6 – Using GIS Data for Your Civil 3D and InfraWorks Projects from Esri Data Sources
This session is a demo of two actual infrastructure projects used as a backdrop to show the synergy between Civil 3D and InfraWorks while emphasizing using data from native Esri data sources that are needed from the early stages of a project through the construction phase. The class hones in on the new tools available in InfraWorks and Civil 3D as a result of the new partnership between Esri and Autodesk. Presenter, Chuck Pietra, shows how the new technology will be applied to real-life project situations, including predesign changes and challenges, with changing data during the project lifecycle.
Watch the session from Autodesk University here.
7 – Advanced Roadway Modeling with Civil 3D
This class presents advanced Civil 3D corridor modeling techniques used to accomplish various roadway design objectives. Most of the workflows were developed while working on highway overlay and widening projects for California Department of Transportation. Discover modeling solutions that were created using corridor targeting, conditional subassemblies, and subassembly output properties.
Watch the session from Autodesk University here.
8 – The Secret to Landscape Modeling in InfraWorks
In 2050, 66% of the world’s population will reside in urban areas. Landscape and Urban designers will be required to design more and better cities, with less impact on the environment. This class explores how to model landscape elements in InfraWorks and how to import information in your model from different data sources (GIS, Revit, 3D Models, Civil 3D) and collaborate in BIM 360. You’ll also learn how to present and visualize your project using InfraWorks tools.
Watch the session from Autodesk University here.
9 – Design, Share, and Collaborate: Bridge Design with InfraWorks and BIM 360
InfraWorks 2019 software saw the introduction of enterprise cloud work sharing. This session looks at how BIM 360 software is changing the way engineering teams are collaborating on infrastructure projects. It explores workflows and tools that enable engineering teams to design, share, and collaborate with a particular focus on InfraWorks bridge design workflows, how to integrate applications that are not cloud-ready, and how to understand the added value of cloud technologies.
Watch the session from Autodesk University here.
10 – Road Rehabilitation Made Easy
This session covers the entire process of a road rehabilitation project. Starting with defining the construction regions to minimize the impact of road closure. Presenter, Tomas Lendvorsky, also explains how to prepare survey data from different sources for road rehab projects, how to conduct the project, and how to analyze results to meet design criteria.
Watch the session from Autodesk University here.
