Buying a 3D printer is exciting, but you'll need projects and models to make it all work. These free sites offer a huge range ...

No audio available for this content. Figure 1. Example of the GNSS signal propagation using ray-tracing and a 3D building map. A particle-filter-based positioning method using a 3D map to rectify the ...

The standard facilitates the representation of geometry, topology, semantics, and appearance attributes, so that urban objects can be interpreted meaningfully by different software systems. By ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — As the convoy commander for a route never before traversed by coalition forces, you are tasked to move an entire brigade combat team through both manmade structures and ...

In my job as BIM Manager for the Construction Piping Services department at Victaulic, I work with many contractors who know all there is to know about Building Information Modeling (BIM) … and I work ...

This is an overview of the 3D Buildings layer in Google Earth as it currently exists with Google Earth 5. The 3D Buildings layer has evolved a great deal since Google Earth was first released. In the ...

Scientists in Germany have, for the first time, created the most comprehensive digital representation of the world’s man-made environment by compiling a massive 3D, high-resolution dataset containing ...

Misa Steinmetz explains how she incorporates 3D techniques into her 2D workflow.

Multipath is a major source of positioning accuracy degradation in urban areas. Advances in 3D mapping and the availability of 3D city models have encouraged a set of new techniques for multipath ...

At ArchDaily, we've said before how sharing 3D models online has the potential to change architecture for the better, allowing viewers to explore a design for themselves rather than being presented ...

Cityweft adds 3D building data for England. Models can be brought into Rhino, via the Cityweft platform. Revit / SketchUp support coming soon ...