InfraWorks: Bridge Design

Use InfraWorks to visualize your preliminary designs in 3D. Learn how to design bridges using real-world data and components in the context of a larger infrastructure project.

Introduction

• Design and model bridges with InfraWorks
• What you need to know
• Working with the exercise files

1. An Introduction to Bridges in InfraWorks

• Model Builder and road ReCap
• Prepare a road for parametric bridge design
• Convert a component road into a bridge

2. Modify a Bridge in InfraWorks

• Overview: Working with bridges
• Work with bridge components
• Explore bridge components
• Draw a bridge on a component road
• Work with bridge substructures
• Work with girders
• Work with bridge decks

3. Change Road Assemblies on Bridges

• Add bridge decorations
• Create an assembly for reuse
• Apply an assembly to a bridge
• Save a bridge as a custom component

4. Bridge Analysis

• Work with clearance envelopes
• Bridge quantities
• Overview of prestressed girders
• Line girder analysis: Part 1
• Line girder analysis: Part 2
• Line girder analysis: Good to know
• Make spreadsheet-based edits to bridge structures

5. Parametric Wizardy

• Copy a parametric component in InfraWorks
• Parametric components in InfraWorks and Inventor
• Change a bridge component in Inventor
• Use an edited bridge component in InfraWorks
• Share a bridge with Revit
• InfraWorks-to-Revit workflow

Conclusion

• Next steps