Planning and Design

The Benefits of 3D Visualization

The role and importance of 3D visualization in planning and design has steadily increased in recent years and continues to be the most effective of communication mediums. Until recently, the lack of capable hardware, expertise in production, and overall high cost has been prohibitive for most wanting to use this 3D technology. This has now changed with Geoweb3d.

Ease of use

It has never been easier to assemble a scenery. Drag and drop GIS data, load 3D models right from the web, and edit directly within the 3D scene to create rich visualizations without prior knowledge of 3D graphics.

Low cost

The Geoweb3d Desktop product is less than $4K for a single license. The software will pay for itself in weeks with the savings in labor when compared to similar products that are more difficult to learn and use.

Commodity hardware

Geoweb3d has exceptional performance on today’s low cost video cards. The economy of scale from the gaming industry has transferred million dollar technology to the laptop within the last decade.

Urban Planning – The Digital City

3D Visualization plays an increasingly important role in urban planning . Geoweb3d can effectively fuse together city wide GIS datasets for accurate rendering and impact analysis. Participants from government, business, planners, developers, and the public have increasing access to the digital city – a convergence of municipal and commercial GIS, CAD, 3D content, and visualization.

City planners have had access to municipal drawings and GIS datasets for years but have been limited its potential to exploit it for communication, growth, and design.

2D maps with complex legends have been the means to visualize this data for decades. Planners and developers no longer have to rely on the consumer painting this 3D picture in their head and using their imagination based upon extensive description, maps, and charts.

They now can have a clear, accurate, and useful picture with little left up to interpretation or assumption.

Transition from “I think I understand” to ”I see”.

Landscape Visualization

3D Landscape Visualization is an interactive and collaborative process that can be modernized with regards to analysis, evaluation, visual design, and planning. Geoweb3d is at the forefront of this transition and provides the means to quickly and effectively assemble rich scenery from commodity geographic and design elements.

Whether your project is a garden, a home, a factory, a shopping center, a city block, or regional development – Geoweb3d is the most cost effective means to communicate your vision effectively and accurately to others.

Edit directly within the 3D scene
Integrate seamlessly with GIS data and infrastructure
Game quality visualization that is enjoyable to use
Immediate turnaround on conceptual designs
Thematic, realistic, and everywhere in between
Flexibility for change
Elements of the scene can be changed on the fly
Interactive navigation and exploration
Place the project in its geographic setting
Quicker, more informed decisions

The 3D engine was designed to ingest massive amounts of content. Large urban datasets and those with high resolution and detail will plug and play. Imagery and elevation data are becoming increasingly abundant, higher quality, and higher resolution. Vector and 3D model content is becoming better quality and easier to obtain and/ or create.

For site selection and urban development, mature 3D visualization can intuitively communicate a site or building, existing or proposed, within its real-life context. Stakeholders can freely move around a design and understand how it fits into the surrounding landscape with regards to appearance and analysis.

Landscape visualization in interactive 3D is here to stay and aids in quicker, more informed decisions. Complimentary and collaborative datasets are becoming more abundant and can be loaded directly into Geoweb3d for reuse. Whether it is the trees, utility poles, schools, parks, roads, school districts, traffic flow, or anything else, the data can be dropped in and used to construct a real-time, informative, rich, and accurate 3D visualization.

[intlink id="107" type="page"]Download it[/intlink] and try it now to see just how quickly you can assemble a modern 3D landscape visualization with the data you already have and the data that we can help you find.

Virtual Design to Construction and Building Information Modeling

Geoweb3d provides a superior visualization tool for Virtual Design to Construction (VDC) Building Information Models (BIM), most commonly for Architectual, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) firms. Autodesk FBX is a platform independent interchange format that is natively supported in Geoweb3d, most commonly integrated as an export from AutoDesk Revit.

The video clip below is an example of a Revit model within Geoweb3d.