Once you have set up all of the grading parameters for Level AI, you can validate the model and/or send it directly to the Allsite.ai servers to run. After the AI models run you can process the results and bring them back into Civil 3D.
It is advisable to first validate your Level AI model by running "Level AI Prepare". This extracts Civil 3D and Allsite.ai objects from your model and ensures they are compliant. Level AI run also runs validation prior to sending to the server, as long as there are no fatal review items (priority 9 review comments) it will send your model to Allsite.ai for processing.
Level AI Prepare
A pop-up shows the progress as well as a Civil 3D status pane that you can dock to one side.
Any validation failures will be displayed in the model. There are different review comments that come out of a Prepare run, they can be viewed in the AS-REVIEW-ITEMS layer.
Click on a Validation cogo point to see more information on the validation error.
All review points have a priority from 1 (lowest) to 9 (highest). Higher priority review items can cause issues with your Level AI model run. All level 9 review comments will block the run and need to be addressed as they will cause major issues with the Level AI run. Lower priority comments could affect the model run so should be reviewed and corrected if necessary.
Review comments are also logged in the Civil 3D Panorama Event viewer
Level AI Settings
When the run is triggered, a pane with Level AI settings pops out. Here you can configure various settings related to the tool run.
Setting | Description |
Run What-If scenarios if not viable | If the design is not viable, will run scenarios to try and get a viable design (add walls, change lot grades, increase wall heights). If disabled, non-viable designs return a viability overlay and there will not be an iteration fee. |
Include services | Include sanitary and storm services in the Level AI analysis. If disabled any existing storm / sanitary connections are ignored in the Level AI run. If enabled, then existing and proposed services will be factored in (using pipe minimum grade settings in the web and minimum cover settings) - propagating the minimum grade up road corridors to ensure every site can be serviced. A "Services grade contingency" is added to factor for pipes following non-optimal paths up road corridors. |
Existing services only | When Level AI runs, ignores proposed pipes/structures in the model that have invert levels set, and only factors in existing services. |
Add potential walls | This specifies where potential walls will be placed around lots. Potential walls are used in what-if scenarios and can be automatically added to a model to ensure future runs are viable. |
Level AI Run
Once you are happy with your model you can send it to Allsite.ai for AI model run, this can take 30min for smaller jobs and over 2 hours for large (100 acre+) projects.