Autodesk LandXplorer Server User manual

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LandXplorer®Products
Model infrastructure change.

Autodesk LandXplorer Studio Professional
Autodesk®LandXplorer®Studio Professional
software helps make it easier to create, manage,
and distribute digital city models; infrastructure
models; landscape models; and virtual D
environments. With help from Autodesk
LandXplorer Studio Professional, build more
accurate and visually compelling models and
create presentation-quality video and imagery
to share with stakeholders.
Cities, utilities, property developers, and the
public are all seeking a better way to experience,
understand, and collaborate on infrastructure
projects and urban design. Imagine being able to
experience more real-world project scenarios and
share them with stakeholders before construction.
Whether you need to create models of small- or
large-scale city and infrastructure projects,
Autodesk®LandXplorer®products provide you
with visualization tools to help you make better
decisions throughout the design lifecycle.
The Autodesk LandXplorer products help 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 geospatial
(GIS), civil engineering (CAD), building (BIM),
and utilities detail in a single model.
• Reduce the cost of the design process by
minimizing the need for costly physical models.
• Enable design stakeholders to explore and
interact with 3D city and infrastructure
models by sharing visualizations and creating
a common environment that helps foster
collaboration.
Leverage existing investments in software and data by
aggregating geospatial, civil engineering, computer-aided
design (CAD), building information modeling (BIM), and
utility network data in a single digital model. Use Autodesk
LandXplorer products to help improve decision making,
lower costs, view and share changes, and avoid the expense
of creating physical models.
Better Planning. Better Design. Better Results.
Figure 1: Incorporate detailed 3D building models along with data prepared in AutoCAD®Map3D software into your city
model to better illustrate aected residential buildings within 100 meters of a proposed development.
Figure 2: Create more informative city models by
combining scanned maps with detailed building models.
Figure 3: Aerial view of a digital city model of Berlin.

Discover. Comprehend. Decide.
With help from Autodesk LandXplorer products, you can
more easily create and explore digital city and infrastructure
models to better conceptualize and visualize design projects
before they are built.
Autodesk LandXplorer Server
Autodesk®LandXplorer®Server software provides
more dynamic visualizations of large-scale, D city
and infrastructure models over the web. Model
data is processed with Autodesk LandXplorer
Studio Professional and published to the web using
LandXplorer Server where it can then be shared
with internal and external audiences, helping
to provide project reviewers, stakeholders, and
team members with the ability to view and gather
information about proposed infrastructure and
urban development and renovation plans using a
standard web browser.
Display, Explore, and Share City Models
Autodesk LandXplorer Server and Autodesk
LandXplorer Studio Professional can help provide
several advantages for planning changes to
the built and natural environment. Using these
products to construct a D model of a project can
help you to better conceptualize and visualize
design projects before they are built. LandXplorer
products can minimize the need for costly physical
models of projects and enable you to view and
highlight changes on screen. You will be better
able to eectively share ideas and scenarios with
stakeholders by creating videos, high-resolution
scene renderings, and panoramas of your
project. And the ability to incorporate numerous
sources of data helps to more accurately visualize
infrastructure and illustrate the impact that
infrastructure change, urban planning, tourism,
or economic development projects have on a city
and the surrounding environment.
Publish and share city models
more easily
Autodesk LandXplorer Xpress Viewer
With help from Autodesk®LandXplorer®
Xpress Viewer software, you can more
securely and rapidly share your city and
infrastructure models, with customizable
functionality, in packaged LandXplorer
Xpress Viewer project files. Navigate and
explore the model and search points of
interest. Measure straight-line distances
and create snapshots, panoramas, and
videos of the model. Autodesk LandXplorer
Xpress Viewer is available as a free*
download from www.autodesk.com/
landxplorer.
Autodesk LandXplorer CityGML Viewer
With help from Autodesk®LandXplorer®
CityGML Viewer software, view CityGML
data sets without licensing additional
software. Autodesk LandXplorer CityGML
Viewer is available as a free* download
from www.citygml.org.
Autodesk LandXplorer Publisher
With help from Autodesk®LandXplorer®
Publisher software, share visualizations
with 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 part of Autodesk
LandXplorer Studio Professional.
Figure 5: Thematically represent buildings with high
occupancy levels within areas zoned as residential using
data held within the model.
Figure 4: Combine GIS data prepared in AutoCAD Map
3D software and roads designed in AutoCAD®Civil
3D®software to better visualize a proposed highway
interchange.

Cities, utilities, property developers, and the public are all
seeking a better way to experience, understand, and collaborate
on infrastructure projects and urban design. With help from
Autodesk LandXplorer products, stakeholders from the public,
city government, construction, and business communities can
work together to visualize infrastructure projects before they
are built.
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understanding of your industry, and value that extends beyond your software.
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at www.autodesk.com/reseller.
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download of this software.
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