Ascent - Center for Technical Knowledge

Autodesk InfraWorks 2020 Ascent - Center for Technical Knowledge

Topics CoveredRoadway Design:

- Create property boundaries for parcels, easements, and right-of-ways

- Create and modify design roads with precise parameters

- Add components and decorations to roads

- Adjust roadside grading

- Apply and review superelevations in component roads

- Modify how design roads intersect using a standard intersection or roundabout

- Optimize the vertical design of a roadway

- Create gradient maps based on selected feature sets to identify areas with low impact for site or corridor optimization

- Find an optimal horizontal design of the roadway which yields a cost effective and environmentally-friendly solution

- Run traffic simulation to analyze and animate design traffic

Bridge Design:

- Add bridges to a design roadway

- Work with bridge deck and girder cross sections

- Perform analysis and design checks on all the pre-stressed girders of your bridge

Drainage Design:

- Run a watershed analysis

- Create or modify culverts

- Create a pavement drainage network

- Analyze the pavement drainage network

Point Cloud Modeling:

- Preparing the point cloud

- Create a terrain from a point cloud

- Create features from a point cloud



PrerequisitesAccess to the 2020.0 version of the software, to ensure compatibility with this guide. Future software updates that are released by Autodesk may include changes that are not reflected in this guide. The practices and files included with this guide might not be compatible with prior versions (i.e., 2019). A fundamental understanding of how to navigate the Autodesk InfraWorks software. This includes how to create new models and add/modify features to those models. It is recommended that you first study the Autodesk InfraWorks Fundamentals for Conceptual Design and Visualization learning guide.