{"id":1384372,"date":"2021-10-28T07:46:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T14:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=1384372"},"modified":"2022-08-23T07:35:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:35:25","slug":"arcgis-cityengine-2021-1-release-highlights","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/3d-gis\/arcgis-cityengine-2021-1-release-highlights","title":{"rendered":"ArcGIS CityEngine 2021.1 Release Highlights"},"author":9292,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23771],"tags":[25781,42631,549072,34221],"industry":[],"product":[36781],"class_list":["post-1384372","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-gis","tag-3d","tag-cityengine","tag-esrirdzurich","tag-vr","product-city-engine"],"acf":{"short_description":"Check out the new release of CityEngine 2021.1","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"youtube","start_time":"0","end_time":"","youtube_video_url":"<iframe title=\"What&#039;s New in ArcGIS CityEngine 2021.1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jKRD1NT5uKo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Well, we did it! We&#8217;ve sent another CityEngine baby out into the big wide world and we might be slightly biased, but we think our baby is pretty great!<\/p>\n<p>Once again the team has come together to create a really fantastic release full of awesome features! &#8230;and on a personal note, this is my first release as the CityEngine Product Manager, so I am especially proud of this one.<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead and try CityEngine out for yourself for free from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/arcgis\/products\/arcgis-cityengine\/overview\">here<\/a> and as usual, we&#8217;re looking forward to hearing your feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my top highlights from the ArcGIS CityEngine 2021.1 release&#8230;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>360 VR: Overhauled and web based<\/h2>\n<p>The 360 VR application was completely overhauled for the last CityEngine 2021.0 release. 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For this release we added features to simplify the creation of dashboards: You can now duplicate cards and pages, as well as move cards from one page to another.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1384412,"id":1384412,"title":"Dashboards","filename":"dashboard.png","filesize":708177,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dashboard.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/3d-gis\/arcgis-cityengine-2021-1-release-highlights\/dashboard-10","alt":"Dashboards","author":"9292","description":"","caption":"","name":"dashboard-10","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1384372,"date":"2021-10-28 11:43:18","modified":"2021-10-28 11:43:30","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1436,"height":773,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dashboard-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dashboard.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":250,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dashboard.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":413,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dashboard.png","large-width":1436,"large-height":773,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dashboard.png","1536x1536-width":1436,"1536x1536-height":773,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dashboard.png","2048x2048-width":1436,"2048x2048-height":773,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dashboard-826x445.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":445,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dashboard.png","wide_image-width":1436,"wide_image-height":773}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>New Importer and Exporter for IFC<\/h2>\n<p>In last release we introduced import and export functionality for DWG which improved operability with the CAD world. For this release we went a step further and connected you to the world of BIM by adding a new IFC importer and exporter.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1384422,"id":1384422,"title":"IFC Import","filename":"ifc.png","filesize":807746,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ifc.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/3d-gis\/arcgis-cityengine-2021-1-release-highlights\/ifc","alt":"IFC Import","author":"9292","description":"","caption":"","name":"ifc","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1384372,"date":"2021-10-28 11:44:12","modified":"2021-10-28 11:44:27","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1631,"height":1090,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ifc-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ifc.png","medium-width":391,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ifc.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":513,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ifc.png","large-width":1616,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ifc-1536x1027.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1027,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ifc.png","2048x2048-width":1631,"2048x2048-height":1090,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ifc-696x465.png","card_image-width":696,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ifc-1616x1080.png","wide_image-width":1616,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>More accurate buildings in Get Map Data<\/h2>\n<p>The OSM importer and the OSM rule have been enhanced so that you get even more detailed buildings using Get Map Data. 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