Introduction to bridge design

Course overview

Design firms now have a way to work more collaboratively on bridge designs to meet the urgent need for bridge design and maintenance. Bringing together five of our design tools – Autodesk InfraWorks, Autodesk Civil 3D, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Structural Bridge Design and Autodesk Inventor – the bridge design workflow connects the road design, bridge design, fabrication and documentations team into one project model.

Using this solution, your teams learn model authoring for concept design and detailed design to determine the best route and location for a bridge using InfraWorks and Civil 3D. During the detailed design phase, the bridge designer and CAD technician take advantage of Inventor to build custom bridge parts. Next the team learns how to do quantification and scheduling in Revit and Civil 3D to ensure the bridge stays within the project budget. The structural engineers learn how to analyze the bridge and document both the bridge and road designs.