{"id":192351,"date":"2018-05-22T19:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T19:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=192351"},"modified":"2018-06-08T18:34:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T18:34:34","slug":"whats-new-in-cityengine-2018-0","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/3d-gis\/whats-new-in-cityengine-2018-0","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New in CityEngine 2018.0"},"author":6991,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23771,37101,37151],"tags":[25781,38171,67181,42631,26171],"industry":[],"product":[36781],"class_list":["post-192351","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-gis","category-announcements","category-design-planning","tag-3d","tag-3d-gis","tag-cities","tag-cityengine","tag-urban-planning","product-city-engine"],"acf":{"short_description":"CityEngine 2018.0 was released last week, and we want to highlight some of the newest features. 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