ArcGIS CityEngine
CityEngine is advanced 3D modeling software for creating huge, interactive and immersive urban environments in less time than traditional modeling techniques. The cities you create using CityEngine can be based on real-world GIS data or showcase a fictional city of the past, present, or future. Create a massive city all at once instead of modeling each building individually. CityEngine powers rapid adjustments to the architectural style or other features of your city so you can easily create multiple design scenarios. Make 3D models to show planned changes and alternate designs. Inform your designs with 3D representations of regulatory and land use conditions. Share multiple design alternatives with your team or stakeholders to gather feedback. CityEngine integrates smoothly with your current creation pipeline. Bring in your hero buildings or other assets to build 3D context around them. Export work back into your high-end visualization software or game engines.
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ContextCapture
Create 3D models from simple photographs and/or point clouds. Reality modeling is the process of capturing the physical reality of an infrastructure asset, creating a representation of it, and maintaining it through continuous surveys. Bentley's reality modeling software, ContextCapture, provides you with real-world digital context in the form of a 3D reality mesh. A reality mesh is a 3D model of real-world conditions that contains large amounts of triangles and image data. Each digital component can be automatically recognized and/or geospatially referenced, providing you with an intuitive and immersive way to navigate, find, view, and query your asset information. You can use reality meshes in many engineering, maintenance, or GIS workflows to provide precise real-world digital context for design, construction, and operations decisions. Overlapping photos from drones and ground-level imagery, supplemented by laser scans where needed.
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Simplex 3D
Simplex 3D is a high-resolution 3D reality-planning platform designed to help professionals visualize, plan, and build within accurate urban and infrastructural contexts. It provides seamless 360° navigation through cityscapes at up to 3 cm-per-pixel resolution, layering integrated data (zoning, transportation, financial, infrastructure) for comprehensive situational awareness. Users can import detailed architectural CAD or BIM models (such as from Revit or SketchUp), draft new structures, run “what-if” scenarios for height, shadows, and visibility, and evaluate designs within real-world surroundings. A complete collaboration workspace enables project stakeholders to share views, bookmarks, comments, and presentations in one unified environment, streamlining approval workflows and reducing misalignment. With engineering-grade measurement tools, split-screen past-vs-future views, and real-time data layers, Simplex 3D eliminates guesswork and supports data-driven decisions.
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Visionary Render
The low-code desktop application to create enterprise scale visualizations. Essential metadata and deep assembly tree structures found within high end CAD solutions are preserved allowing for complex assets and systems to be thoroughly reviewed without loss of performance. Complex CAD models can be imported in three minutes, the scene fully detailed and animated, in a contextual environment, in three hours, and a full visual digital twin available within three days. Fail early, but virtually, to routinely deliver more ambitious projects with reduced cost and risk. Safely investigate more innovative concepts while involving a broader range of experts. Many structured and unstructured data formats, such as CAD, BIM, point clouds, and IoT and MES outputs can be imported into a scene. This results in rich virtual models of real world scenarios, and provides a platform for contextual digital twins.
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