Designing Roads - Autodesk Roadway Design for Infraworks 360 Essentials - page 27

Creating Roads
Of all the tasks that you'll perform with
Roadway Design for InfraWorks 360, creating
roads is probably the easiest. You will create
roads using the Intelligent Tools on the Design
toolbar. On the Design toolbar, you will find
four Intelligent Tools for creating roads, each
intended for a different function. They are
Highway, Arterial, Collector, and Local (see
Figure 2-1 ).
Spline Roads vs. Design
Roads
As discussed in Chapter 1, the roads you
create with basic InfraWorks are different
from those created with Roadway Design for
InfraWorks 360. Spline roads are those
originally created using basic InfraWorks and
the sketch tools in the InfraWorks menu.
Spline roads use geometry that looks good
and is simple to work with when in planning
and preliminary design stages. Design roads
have more “bells and whistles” and take a bit
more effort to construct—but for good
reason. The geometry of design roads follows
sound engineering principles and is more
suited for engineering and eventually
construction.