ACALA

Geological Expertise, Mining Excellence

Discipline · Urban Planning

A virtual twin of the city, built from every dataset the territory has, shared with everyone who plans it.

GEOVIA Urban Planning gives city designers, planners and architects the tools to create a virtual twin, a 3D copy of an existing urban landscape, from all available data: geological, topographical, demographic and transport. From there they simulate how urban projects could evolve over time and in various circumstances. Because the tools are united on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, all stakeholders in city departments and the wider urban environment can, subject to access rules, see and share views of the twin, and understand the reasons behind, and the implications of, planning decisions. Four roles carry the discipline, and ACALA brings them to Indonesian cities and mining regions.

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See the roles
Selector of the four 3DEXPERIENCE Urban Planning roles, with a one-line purpose for the chosen role City Contributor (CCNIC) 1 of 4 · 3DEXPERIENCE role Explore, discover and share insights over the virtual twin of the city.
Urban Planning is four platform roles around one virtual twin of the city: prepare the data, build the referential, contribute experiences, view them. Drag the handle across the 4 items.
Virtual twinA 3D copy of the territory: terrain, buildings, vegetation, infrastructure, geology.
ReferentialThe common, qualified dataset every stakeholder works from.
Data qualificationPreview, check and transform source files before they enter the referential.
3D dashboardWhere experiences are played and shared, from territory scale to street view.
Access rulesSensitive datasets controlled while general ones stay open.
IFC and GISConstruction models and geospatial features side by side.

Four roles

Prepare, build, contribute, view.

Each role has Benefits and Highlights from its role definition, and the newest capabilities from recent releases.

1Prepare

City Data Engineer

Preview, qualify and adjust the source files needed to create datasets for the referential, with a library of processors for GIS and 3D city assets.

Benefits

  • Effortless data assessment directly in a web application; built-in qualification with a library of processors.
  • Easy preview at every step; seamless upload of source files to the platform.

Highlights

  • Preview, qualify and transform geospatial data for a high-quality referential.
  • Manipulate data sources to support insightful visualisation for all stakeholders; from raster analysis to simple feature processing.
2Build

City Referential Manager

Build and manage the virtual twin of the city from all georeferenced content, each asset a distinct object with its own semantic and graphic representations.

Benefits

  • Built-in geospatial editing and transformation; a common data referential for all city stakeholders.
  • Manage the city’s 3D content from symbolic to realistic; facilitate sharing and break organisational silos.

Highlights

  • Preview, qualify and transform geospatial data; build the twin with cross-discipline content; run experiences on 3D dashboards.
  • New: multi-dataset import from web services (WMTS, WMS, WFS); cross-scale consistency from construction datasets to territory with the Query Builder.
3Contribute

City Contributor

Create 3D experiences of the city from the referential: curate content, set visualisation preferences, save viewpoints, and navigate from territory scale to pedestrian immersion.

Benefits

  • Holistic awareness of the location through its semantic-rich twin; review proposals in context and reconcile constraints upstream.
  • Collaborate across scales and domains with all stakeholders, socially and formally.

Highlights

  • Navigate seamlessly from large to immersive views; visualise city data in compelling ways in context; analyse georeferenced information through innovative visualisations.
  • Construction models, geology models and point clouds. New: IFC-based representations, smoother terrain boundaries, point-cloud classification colours, synchronised colour-washing and filtering.
4View

City Viewer

Play the navigation experiences prepared by the referential manager: the gateway to the city’s virtual twin for every stakeholder, with sensitive datasets still controlled.

Benefits

  • Connect the whole city ecosystem to the referential; easy navigation for all collaborators.
  • Spatial context for inter-widget interaction via APIs.

Highlights

  • Play experiences in a 3D dashboard; navigate an immersive environment for contextual understanding; share experiences for effective collaboration.
  • Prerequisite: at least one City Referential Manager user publishes the experiences the viewers play.

Watch

The four roles in motion.

Short videos from Dassault Systèmes for each role. They play here; nothing loads until you press play.

City Contributor

Role video from Dassault Systèmes GEOVIA.

City Data Engineer

Role video from Dassault Systèmes GEOVIA.

City Referential Manager

Role video from Dassault Systèmes GEOVIA.

City Viewer

Role video from Dassault Systèmes GEOVIA.

In the software

The virtual twin of a city, as it looks on screen.

Polygons draped on terrain in City Data Engineer
City Data Engineer: polygons draped on the terrain.
City referential in City Referential Manager
City Referential Manager: the common referential.
City experience in City Viewer
City Viewer: an experience played in the 3D dashboard.
Immersive city navigation
From territory scale to street level.

Brochures and where to go next

The role card, and where urban planning meets mining.

The role ID card is the official description from Dassault Systèmes. The other links show where the same platform serves mining regions: mine closure, infrastructure and the communities around an operation.

Reading

Articles on the platform

Other disciplines

Three more disciplines, and the topics that explain them.

Questions people ask

Urban Planning FAQ

What are examples of urban planning?
Zoning and land use plans, transport and transit networks, housing and public space design, utility and drainage networks, and the master plans of new districts or mining towns. A virtual twin lets each of them be tested in context before it is built.
What is sustainable urban planning?
Planning that meets the needs of today’s residents without compromising the territory for tomorrow’s: compact and connected land use, resilient infrastructure, protected watersheds and green space, and decisions made with the community that can see the same model.
Why is GIS important in urban planning, and do planners use it?
Yes, GIS is the everyday tool of planners: it holds the georeferenced data that describes the city. The Urban Planning roles take that GIS data, together with 3D construction models, geology and point clouds, into one virtual twin that everyone can navigate.
What technology do urban planners use?
GIS, CAD and BIM, remote sensing and point clouds, demographic and transport models, and increasingly a platform that federates them. GEOVIA Urban Planning on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is that federation layer.
Urban planning versus urban design: what is the difference?
Planning decides what may happen where and when, at the scale of a city or region; design decides what a place will look and feel like, at the scale of a street or a block. The virtual twin serves both, from territory view to pedestrian immersion.

Next step

Bring the city’s GIS layers and one 3D model. We will show you the twin, and who in the city could use it.

A working session with an ACALA specialist on your own data, then a proposal for roles, configuration and training.

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