Autodesk LANDXPLORER SERVER User manual

Autodesk®
LandXplorer™ Studio Professional
LandXplorer™ Server
Model your city.

Leverage existing investments in software and data by
aggregating geospatial, civil engineering, computer-aided
design (CAD), building information modeling (BIM), and utility
network detail in a single city model. Use the Autodesk®
LandXplorer™software family to help improve decision making,
lower costs, view and share changes, and avoid the expense of
creating physical models and animations of your city.
Better Design. Better Planning. Better Results.
Publish and share city models more easily
Autodesk®LandXplorer™ Xpress Viewer
Share your Digital City using Autodesk
LandXplorer Xpress Viewer, and distribute
your city model more rapidly to stakeholders
across the web. With LandXplorer Xpress
Viewer, users can navigate and explore the
model and search points of interest. They
can also measure straight-line distances and
create snapshots, panoramic snapshots, or
movies of the model. Autodesk LandXplorer
Xpress Viewer is available as a free*
download from www.autodesk.com/
landxplorer.
Autodesk®LandXplorer™ CityGML Viewer
View CityGML data sets to more eciently
process and represent CityGML models for
applications that require better real-time 3D
rendering. Available as a free* download from
www.citygml.org.
Autodesk®LandXplorer™ Publisher
Disseminate visualizations to key
stakeholders more rapidly by publishing
digital city models to KML format for use in
Google Earth™ or Microsoft®Virtual Earth™
applications. Autodesk LandXplorer Publisher
is available as a free* download from
www.autodesk.com/landxplorer.
Imagine being able to experience more real-world
city scenarios and share them with citizens and
stakeholders before construction. Whether you
need to create models of small- or large-scale
city and infrastructure projects, the Autodesk®
LandXplorer™ software family provides you with
the visualization tools you need to make better
design decisions throughout the urban design
lifecycle.
The Autodesk LandXplorer software family helps
you to:
• More easily realize additional ROI on existing
data and software by leveraging your existing
investments in Autodesk design software and
data; Aggregate dierent levels of mapping (GIS),
civil engineering (CAD), building (BIM), and
utilities (network) detail in a single model.
• Reduce the cost of the urban design process by
minimizing the need for costly physical models.
• Help urban design stakeholders explore and
interact with 3D city models by creating a
common environment for sharing information to
foster collaboration.
View published city models
on the web using the
Autodesk LandXplorer
Server Client.

Autodesk LandXplorer Studio Professional
Autodesk LandXplorer Studio Professional software
makes it easier to create, manage, and distribute
digital city models, landscape models, and virtual
3D environments. Use Autodesk LandXplorer Studio
Professional to help create and manage city models
and to create presentation-quality video and
imagery of the city to share with stakeholders.
Autodesk LandXplorer Server
Autodesk LandXplorer Server provides powerful,
server-side hosting and rendering of large-scale, 3D
city models and urban designs created with
Autodesk LandXplorer Studio Professional. City
data is processed and published to a server where it
can then be more securely shared with internal and
external audiences via the web, helping to provide
project reviewers, stakeholders, and citizens with
the ability to view and gather information about
proposed city and urban plans.
Display, Explore, and Share City Models
Autodesk LandXplorer Server and Autodesk
LandXplorer Studio Professional can help provide
several advantages for city planning and urban
change. By using these solutions to construct a city
model, you can enhance the benefits from your
existing investment in expensive data sets. You can
minimize the need to duplicate data or the expense
of building physical models to view and highlight
changes. You’ll be able to more eectively share
ideas and scenarios with stakeholders by creating
movies, high-resolution scene renderings, and
panoramas of the city. And the ability to incorporate
numerous sources of data helps make it easier to
illustrate the impact that urban planning, tourism or
economic development projects have on a city and
its environment.
View of the Brandenburg
Gate in the Berlin 3D city
model visualized in Google
Earth.
Visualization of the
Dresden Theatre Square
showing highly detailed
3D building models and
multiple terrain textures.
Thematically represent
buildings with high
occupancy levels within
areas zoned as residential
using data held within the
city model.
Aerial view of a digital city
model of Berlin.
Incorporate data prepared
in AutoCAD®Map 3D
software into your city
model to better illustrate
residential or mixed-use
buildings within 100 meters
of a proposed development.
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Leverage your Autodesk investment with the Autodesk
LandXplorer software family. These powerful urban design
products help give you the power to create, manage, and
distribute digital city models—promoting the sharing of
information about urban change with project stakeholders.
By combining CAD, BIM, geospatial, civil engineering, and
infrastructure data into a digital city model built with Autodesk
LandXplorer Studio Professional, you can more easily explore a
digital city model to better visualize and simulate design projects
before they are built.
Learn More
To learn more about the Autodesk®LandXplorer™ software family, visit
www.autodesk.com/landxplorer.
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download of this software.
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