{"id":173,"date":"2015-04-15T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/2015\/04\/15\/infraworks-360-model-builder-new-polygon-import-functionality\/"},"modified":"2015-04-15T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T08:10:00","slug":"infraworks-360-model-builder-new-polygon-import-functionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/2015\/04\/15\/infraworks-360-model-builder-new-polygon-import-functionality\/","title":{"rendered":"InfraWorks 360 Model Builder &#8211; New Polygon Import Functionality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the new InfraWorks 360 2016.1 release you are now able to download a specified area from Model Builder defined by a polygon in .shp format. Here the process how to create the polygon to use in MB;<\/p>\n<p>1- Using AutoCAD MAP3D or C3D create a new dwg and define a coordinate system<\/p>\n<p>2- Turn on OnlineMaps and define the area of interests using a rectangle or closed polyline (Make sure the area is less than 200sq.km)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fromthegroundup.typepad.com\/.a\/6a01127918d1ef28a401b7c778342f970b-popup\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"13-04-2015 12-29-42\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01127918d1ef28a401b7c778342f970b img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/fromthegroundup.typepad.com\/.a\/6a01127918d1ef28a401b7c778342f970b-500wi\" style=\"width: 480px\" title=\"13-04-2015 12-29-42\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3-Use MAPPOLYLINETOPOLYGON to convert the rectangle\/closed polyline into a polygon<\/p>\n<p>4-Use MAPEXPORT to export the polygon into a .shp file. Do not forget to convert the coordinate system to LL84<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fromthegroundup.typepad.com\/.a\/6a01127918d1ef28a401b8d101c34c970c-popup\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"13-04-2015 12-22-02\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01127918d1ef28a401b8d101c34c970c img-responsive\" height=\"414\" src=\"http:\/\/fromthegroundup.typepad.com\/.a\/6a01127918d1ef28a401b8d101c34c970c-500wi\" style=\"width: 326px\" title=\"13-04-2015 12-22-02\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>6-you can now use the create .shp file into MB<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fromthegroundup.typepad.com\/.a\/6a01127918d1ef28a401b8d101c467970c-popup\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"13-04-2015 12-31-35\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01127918d1ef28a401b8d101c467970c img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/fromthegroundup.typepad.com\/.a\/6a01127918d1ef28a401b8d101c467970c-500wi\" style=\"width: 480px\" title=\"13-04-2015 12-31-35\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the improved Model Builder<\/p>\n<p>Cristina Savian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the new InfraWorks 360 2016.1 release you are now able to download a specified area from Model Builder defined by a polygon in .shp format. Here the process how to create the polygon to use in MB;<\/p>\n<p>1- Using AutoCAD MAP3D or C3D create a new dwg and define a coordinate system<\/p>\n<p>2- Turn on OnlineMaps and define the area of interests using a rectangle or closed polyline (Make sure the area is less than 200sq.km)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fromthegroundup.typepad.com\/.a\/6a01127918d1ef28a401b7c778342f970b-popup\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3-Use MAPPOLYLINETOPOLYGON to convert the rectangle\/closed polyline into a polygon<\/p>\n<p>4-Use MAPEXPORT to export the polygon into a .shp file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,32],"tags":[53,38],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infraworks","category-tips-and-tricks","tag-akn_include","tag-infraworks-360"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}