{"id":2245912,"date":"2024-02-18T17:57:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T01:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=2245912"},"modified":"2024-02-21T23:43:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T07:43:00","slug":"urban-design-viz-with-cityengine-and-twinmotion","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/design-planning\/urban-design-viz-with-cityengine-and-twinmotion","title":{"rendered":"Urban Design Visualization with ArcGIS CityEngine and Twinmotion"},"author":8142,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23771,615021,37151],"tags":[773712,42631,773692,757181,773702],"industry":[],"product":[36781],"class_list":["post-2245912","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-gis","category-aec","category-design-planning","tag-architectural-visualization","tag-cityengine","tag-twinmotion","tag-unreal-engine","tag-urban-design-visualization","product-city-engine"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":8142,"user_firstname":"Stefan","user_lastname":"Arisona","nickname":"Stefan Arisona","user_nicename":"sarisona","display_name":"Stefan Arisona","user_email":"SArisona@esri.com","user_url":"https:\/\/robotized.arisona.ch","user_registered":"2018-07-02 07:31:48","user_description":"Dr Stefan Arisona is a senior principal software engineer and team lead at the Esri R&amp;D Center Zurich. His main interests are in GIS, AEC, computer graphics, game design and digital art, and he oversees the development of extended reality applications such as 360 VR and XR Viewer. He received a MSc in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich and a PhD in Computer Science from University of Zurich. Stefan is a founding principal investigator of ETH's Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore, where he developed new visualization and simulation methods for architecture, urban planning and design.","user_avatar":"<img data-del=\"avatar\" src='https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/04\/stefan_arisona_2025_0-465x465.jpeg' class='avatar pp-user-avatar avatar-96 photo ' height='96' width='96'\/>"},{"ID":9292,"user_firstname":"Taisha","user_lastname":"Fabricius","nickname":"Taisha Fabricius","user_nicename":"tfabricius","display_name":"Taisha Fabricius","user_email":"TFabricius@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2019-03-26 08:42:10","user_description":"Taisha Fabricius is a technology leader at the Esri R&amp;D Center in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland. With over a decade of hands-on experience spanning product management, innovation strategy, and tech evangelism, Taisha specializes in Extended Reality (XR) and Web 3D, driving Esri\u2019s strategy for immersive geospatial technologies. With a focus on transforming spatial data into interactive experiences, Taisha is helping redefine how people explore and understand complex environments through XR and web-native 3D.","user_avatar":"<img data-del=\"avatar\" src='https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2025\/06\/headshot-213x200.jpg' class='avatar pp-user-avatar avatar-96 photo ' height='96' width='96'\/>"},{"ID":320592,"user_firstname":"Benjamin","user_lastname":"Neukom","nickname":"BNeukom","user_nicename":"bneukom","display_name":"Benjamin Neukom","user_email":"BNeukom@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2022-10-20 07:33:55","user_description":"Benjamin Neukom holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from FHNW. He works as a Software Engineer in the XR and CityEngine team at the Esri R&amp;D Center Zurich with an interest in extended reality, procedural content generation and game engines.","user_avatar":"<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ee2ee5e96468074adf6c486429399cb3535df0474968c35503a601e23ed85366?s=96&#038;d=blank&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ee2ee5e96468074adf6c486429399cb3535df0474968c35503a601e23ed85366?s=192&#038;d=blank&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' loading='lazy' decoding='async'\/>"}],"short_description":"Urban design visualization with ArcGIS CityEngine and Twinmotion: A technical article highlighting the export \/ import workflow.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Introduction<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">To convey intended changes in a city, it is vital to visualize urban designs in a realistic and dynamic way. This technical article demonstrates how to export ArcGIS CityEngine urban designs to Twinmotion, and how to improve their visual quality by using Twinmotion\u2019s high-quality asset library and its animation tools. With this workflow, you can produce high-quality image renderings and videos, and present them to customers or the public.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">New to ArcGIS CityEngine or Twinmotion? We recommend checking out the product pages for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/arcgis\/products\/arcgis-cityengine\/overview\">CityEngine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twinmotion.com\/\">Twinmotion<\/a> first.<\/p>\n","image_reference":false,"layout":"standard","image_reference_figure":"","snippet":"","spotlight_name":"","section_title":"","position":"Center","spotlight_image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article is organized as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exporting a CityEngine scene in the Datasmith file format<\/li>\n<li>Importing the scene into Twinmotion<\/li>\n<li>Exporting\/importing CityEngine terrains (special case)<\/li>\n<li>Replacing 3D assets and materials in Twinmotion<\/li>\n<li>Populating Twinmotion scenes with vehicles and pedestrians<\/li>\n<li>Exporting final renderings as images or video<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The following video summarizes the techniques presented in this article.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"kaltura","video_id":"1_a4lovncg","time":false,"start":0,"stop":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Exporting a CityEngine scene in the Datasmith file format<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Datasmith is a file format that preserves the structure, geometry, materials, and metadata of your 3D models, and allows you to import them into Unreal Engine and Twinmotion with minimal loss of quality and fidelity. Datasmith is especially useful for complex and large-scale CityEngine scenes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article assumes that at this point you have completed your modeling in CityEngine, resulting in an urban design of multiple layers, containing buildings, context, streets, outdoor space, vegetation, and terrain. In figure 1, we show an example design that will be used throughout this article.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2245962,"id":2245962,"title":"ud_01_ce_urban_design","filename":"ud_01_ce_urban_design.jpg","filesize":520940,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_01_ce_urban_design.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/design-planning\/urban-design-viz-with-cityengine-and-twinmotion\/ud_01_ce_urban_design","alt":"","author":"8142","description":"","caption":"Figure 1: Example urban design, completed in CityEngine and ready for export.","name":"ud_01_ce_urban_design","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2245912,"date":"2024-02-16 03:45:56","modified":"2024-02-16 03:46:18","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_01_ce_urban_design-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_01_ce_urban_design.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_01_ce_urban_design.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_01_ce_urban_design.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_01_ce_urban_design-1536x864.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_01_ce_urban_design.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_01_ce_urban_design-826x465.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_01_ce_urban_design.jpg","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">To export a scene as Datasmith from CityEngine, first select the content you want to export. Do this by selecting layers in the scene editor or by selecting objects in the viewport. Then chose \u201cFile &gt; Export Models &gt; Unreal Engine Datasmith\u201d, which will bring up the export dialog shown in figure 2.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2246062,"id":2246062,"title":"ud_02_ce_export_unreal","filename":"ud_02_ce_export_unreal.jpg","filesize":218094,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_02_ce_export_unreal.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/design-planning\/urban-design-viz-with-cityengine-and-twinmotion\/ud_02_ce_export_unreal","alt":"","author":"8142","description":"","caption":"Figure 2: Recommended CityEngine export settings for Twinmotion.","name":"ud_02_ce_export_unreal","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2245912,"date":"2024-02-16 04:00:27","modified":"2024-02-16 04:01:23","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1280,"height":1316,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_02_ce_export_unreal-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_02_ce_export_unreal.jpg","medium-width":254,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_02_ce_export_unreal.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":790,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_02_ce_export_unreal.jpg","large-width":1050,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_02_ce_export_unreal.jpg","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":1316,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_02_ce_export_unreal.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1316,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_02_ce_export_unreal-452x465.jpg","card_image-width":452,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_02_ce_export_unreal-1050x1080.jpg","wide_image-width":1050,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Set the \u201cOutput Path\u201d, and make sure to select the \u201cExport Twinmotion Compatible\u201d option. Also make sure to select \u201cDo not export any terrain layers\u201d: Twinmotion does (currently) not support importing Datasmith landscapes, and we will highlight a workaround in the section below. Leave all other options as defaults. If your CityEngine scene is geo-located, select the \u201cGeometry Options\u201d tab, and press \u201cCenter\u201d, as shown in figure 3. This will make sure that the export does center the scene around the origin and coordinate values are reasonable for Twinmotion to deal with. Then press \u201cFinish\u201d to start the export.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2246072,"id":2246072,"title":"ud_03_ce_export_geometry_settings","filename":"ud_03_ce_export_geometry_settings.jpg","filesize":10837,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_03_ce_export_geometry_settings.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/design-planning\/urban-design-viz-with-cityengine-and-twinmotion\/ud_03_ce_export_geometry_settings","alt":"","author":"8142","description":"","caption":"Figure 3: Geolocated CityEngine scenes must be centered around the origin before exporting.","name":"ud_03_ce_export_geometry_settings","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2245912,"date":"2024-02-16 04:00:55","modified":"2024-02-16 04:01:12","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":441,"height":73,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_03_ce_export_geometry_settings-213x73.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":73,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_03_ce_export_geometry_settings.jpg","medium-width":441,"medium-height":73,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_03_ce_export_geometry_settings.jpg","medium_large-width":441,"medium_large-height":73,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_03_ce_export_geometry_settings.jpg","large-width":441,"large-height":73,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_03_ce_export_geometry_settings.jpg","1536x1536-width":441,"1536x1536-height":73,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_03_ce_export_geometry_settings.jpg","2048x2048-width":441,"2048x2048-height":73,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_03_ce_export_geometry_settings.jpg","card_image-width":441,"card_image-height":73,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_03_ce_export_geometry_settings.jpg","wide_image-width":441,"wide_image-height":73}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">As your CityEngine scene gets bigger and more complex, you will likely repeat the export \/ import workflow multiple times. To speed up this process, consider splitting up exporting to multiple Datasmith files, for example organized thematically, such as context buildings, vegetation, streets, detail buildings, and so on. Also, please refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/cityengine\/latest\/help\/help-export-unreal.htm\">CityEngine manual on Datasmith export<\/a> for details on the various export options.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Importing the scene into Twinmotion<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">To import the exported CityEngine scene into Twinmotion, open a new (or existing) project in Twinmotion, and chose \u201cImport &gt; Geometry\u201d and select your previously exported Datasmith file. Set all other options as shown in figure 4 and press \u201cImport.\u201d\u00a0Twinmotion will then import the Datasmith and create the project\u2019s scene graph accordingly.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2246082,"id":2246082,"title":"ud_04_tm_import_datasmith","filename":"ud_04_tm_import_datasmith.jpg","filesize":66903,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_04_tm_import_datasmith.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/design-planning\/urban-design-viz-with-cityengine-and-twinmotion\/ud_04_tm_import_datasmith","alt":"","author":"8142","description":"","caption":"Figure 4: Datasmith import in Twinmotion.","name":"ud_04_tm_import_datasmith","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2245912,"date":"2024-02-16 04:01:42","modified":"2024-02-16 04:01:54","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":918,"height":814,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_04_tm_import_datasmith-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_04_tm_import_datasmith.jpg","medium-width":294,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_04_tm_import_datasmith.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":681,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_04_tm_import_datasmith.jpg","large-width":918,"large-height":814,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_04_tm_import_datasmith.jpg","1536x1536-width":918,"1536x1536-height":814,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_04_tm_import_datasmith.jpg","2048x2048-width":918,"2048x2048-height":814,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_04_tm_import_datasmith-524x465.jpg","card_image-width":524,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_04_tm_import_datasmith.jpg","wide_image-width":918,"wide_image-height":814}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Exporting\/importing CityEngine terrains (special case)<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">CityEngine scenes can include large terrain layers. These layers can be edited using terrain edit brushes and other interactive tools (Figure 5). As such edits are usually an important part of an urban design, one also wants to export these terrains and import them into Twinmotion. CityEngine can export terrains to a Datasmith file. Unfortunately, at this point (Twinmotion 2023.2) does not support importing terrains (or landscapes, in Unreal Engine jargon) from Datasmith. To work around this limitation, it is possible to either export terrains from CityEngine as height map or as mesh and then import either one into Twinmotion in a separate import step. This workflow is described in detail in <a href=\"https:\/\/community.esri.com\/t5\/arcgis-cityengine-blog\/export-terrains-from-cityengine-to-twinmotion\/ba-p\/1233683\">this article on Esri Community<\/a>.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2246102,"id":2246102,"title":"ud_05_ce_terrain_edit_brush","filename":"ud_05_ce_terrain_edit_brush.jpg","filesize":709422,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_05_ce_terrain_edit_brush.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/design-planning\/urban-design-viz-with-cityengine-and-twinmotion\/ud_05_ce_terrain_edit_brush","alt":"","author":"8142","description":"","caption":"Figure 5: Sculpting terrain in CityEngine using the terrain edit brush.","name":"ud_05_ce_terrain_edit_brush","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2245912,"date":"2024-02-16 04:02:34","modified":"2024-02-16 04:02:52","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2444,"height":1432,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_05_ce_terrain_edit_brush-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_05_ce_terrain_edit_brush.jpg","medium-width":445,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_05_ce_terrain_edit_brush.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":450,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_05_ce_terrain_edit_brush.jpg","large-width":1843,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_05_ce_terrain_edit_brush-1536x900.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":900,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_05_ce_terrain_edit_brush-2048x1200.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1200,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_05_ce_terrain_edit_brush-794x465.jpg","card_image-width":794,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_05_ce_terrain_edit_brush-1843x1080.jpg","wide_image-width":1843,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Replacing 3D assets and materials in Twinmotion<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the advantages of using Twinmotion is that it offers a rich library of high-quality assets, materials, and effects that you can use to enhance your scenes. You can easily replace the imported materials and assets from your Datasmith file with the built-in ones from Twinmotion and create more realistic and immersive environments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, to replace tree models, select a tree in the viewport. Using right-click on the selected element in the \u201cScene\u201d panel, you can choose to \u201cSelect all instances\u201d of that tree. Now, in the \u201cLibrary\u201d panel, select \u201cVegetation &gt; Trees\u201d and choose a tree model, which you can drag and drop to the \u201cScene\u201d panel\u2019s \u201cReplace object\u201d widget (Figure 6).<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2246112,"id":2246112,"title":"ud_06_tm_replace_dnd","filename":"ud_06_tm_replace_dnd.jpg","filesize":286762,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ud_06_tm_replace_dnd.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/design-planning\/urban-design-viz-with-cityengine-and-twinmotion\/ud_06_tm_replace_dnd","alt":"","author":"8142","description":"","caption":"Figure 6: Drag and drop a library asset to replace imported preview assets.","name":"ud_06_tm_replace_dnd","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2245912,"date":"2024-02-16 04:03:05","modified":"2024-02-16 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