Is InfraWorks 360 Right For You? By Heidi Boutwell You’ve seen the product and demos. Now, after re-evaluating what you have in-house, how do you know if InfraWorks 360 is right for your company? The results are then shown in 3D using real-world imagery and topology. This is a huge selling point, as clients love to see their projects in a real-world scenario, more so than in just a sketch created and colored by a graphic artist, or a 2D plan set produced from AutoCAD or Civil 3D. Stunning graphics I get this all the time. By email or phone, the question is always the same: “Is InfraWorks 360 something we should purchase for our company?” That’s a really honest and good question, so let me help you make this decision by giving you some need-to-know information. What is it, anyway? 8 I cannot emphasize enough how the stunning graphics become your best selling points when you use InfraWorks 360 as your presentation tool in the boardroom or conference room. Imagine walking into the conference room, your client is seated and waiting to see what your firm has come up with for their design, you turn on the projector, and instantly their project is displayed in 3D with imagery in InfraWorks 360. Trust me. It’s impressive. From there, you smoothly and quickly transition between the various proposals or possible ideas for their project. And, once the client sees them, they want to see even more. Then, the client asks you to adjust this or change that, and in less than two minutes, you’ve made those changes. I mean, just… Wow! First of all, InfraWorks 360 is not a production tool. It cannot replace AutoCAD or AutoCAD Civil 3D. End of story. So, if it’s not a production tool, then what is it? Well, plainly put, InfraWorks 360 is a planning and analysis tool. What you can do is plan for different project scenarios and calculate varying cost differences based on those scenarios, That has been everything I have heard from my own clients and from others as they talk about all in half the time it would take to do in, say, Civil their own experiences. Honestly, for me, the 3D. www.cadlearning.com