Adding Detail to Your Design - Autodesk Infraworks and Infraworks 360 Essentials - page 138

working with Barriers
A barrier is a series of objects inserted along a path, much like a row of trees,
which you learned about earlier in this chapter. Some examples of common uses
for barriers are fences, sound walls, and Jersey barriers. However, as you have
ideally learned by now, InfraWorks features can often be used for applications
quite different from their original intent. With that in mind, barriers could also
be used to create headstones in a cemetery, a row of parking meters, a wind
farm, or countless other model features.
For barriers, there are two objects that can be inserted along the path. The
first is a simple rectangular prism with a length, width, height, and thick-
ness—all defined by a barrier style. The style also specifies which materials are
mapped to the left, right, top, begin, and end faces (everything but the bottom).
Figure 4.21 is an example of this type of barrier.
fIgure 4.21 A barrier defined using a barrier style
The other object that can be inserted along a barrier's pathway is a 3D model—
any 3D model available in the Style palette. For example, Figure 4.22 shows a
barrier that utilizes the Distribution Pylon - Cross Country 3D model style to
represent the row of transmission towers stretching across the landscape.