Using Advanced Functions - Autodesk Roadway Design for Infraworks 360 Essentials - page 91

Chapter 3
Using Advanced Functions
Now that you have completed the initial design,
you are ready to take steps to make it even
better. Autodesk ® Roadway Design for
InfraWorks 360™ provides tools for optimizing
and analyzing your design as well as a tool for
pushing it into the detailed design stages that
are taken care of by Autodesk ® AutoCAD ®
Civil 3D ® . By using these tools, you are moving
your design from an early conceptual version
toward a well-engineered version that is poised
for detailed design.
In this chapter, you'll learn to
• Balance earthwork and minimize cost using
Profile Optimization
• Analyze roadways and intersections for sight
distance issues
• Generate Civil 3D drawings of your road
design
Using Profile Optimization
When you first draw a road in InfraWorks using
the Roadway Design for InfraWorks 360 tools,
the software makes its best guess at balancing
“smooth” road geometry with a close match to