From the course: InfraWorks 2019 Essential Training

History and purpose - InfraWorks Tutorial

From the course: InfraWorks 2019 Essential Training

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History and purpose

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- [Instructor] As we begin to look at InfraWorks 360, the first question we have to answer is, what is Autodesk InfraWorks? Well, InfraWorks started off within Autodesk labs from the ground up, as a tool for urban planning. And as it was developing in beta test, more and more individuals saw the benefits that InfraWorks could bring, well beyond urban planning. So as development proceeded, this tool now became an infrastructure design software. And the means to accomplish the infrastructure design, all of the design is accomplished visually. So we have the different tools available to us, whether it's road design, bridge design, whether we do water and hydrology, and work with this type of drainage design, or we're simply creating our model in a very conceptual form, all of this is available to us. Plus, it gives a very easy means to visually display this to our clients, or to the public, at different presentations or hearings. So we're able to put together a design, and almost now, at this point, take the design to a 30% level, accomplish all our schematic work, right within InfraWorks, and accomplish this in such a way, that we can get buy-in by our client or the public as needed before we complete the design with plan production tools within Civil 3D. Now as the software progresses, could the future be that we don't ever have to print anything? That in the future, everything will be accomplished within a visual software, and we'll be able to share that visual design with our client, and even the construction, and the contractor, so that they can build using that virtual design to construct. We look forward to seeing how the future progresses with the software, but for now, it is an amazing software to help us accomplish not only good schematics, but accomplishing a design that we can get estimates and run proper calculations for, so that, again, we've done not only a pretty sketch, but something that is realistic to build.

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