{"id":2249862,"date":"2024-02-28T00:25:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T08:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2249862"},"modified":"2024-05-01T05:38:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:38:23","slug":"simplify-urban-model-management-with-arcgis-urbans-copy-functionality","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/urban\/data-management\/simplify-urban-model-management-with-arcgis-urbans-copy-functionality","title":{"rendered":"Simplify Urban Model Management with ArcGIS Urban’s Copy Functionality"},"author":7671,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23851],"tags":[25781,406712,549072,26171],"industry":[],"product":[409602],"class_list":["post-2249862","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-management","tag-3d","tag-arcgis-urban","tag-esrirdzurich","tag-urban-planning","product-urban"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":7671,"user_firstname":"Lisa","user_lastname":"Staehli","nickname":"Lisa Staehli","user_nicename":"lisa8584","display_name":"Lisa Staehli","user_email":"LStaehli@esri.com","user_url":"https:\/\/www.lisastaehli.ch\/","user_registered":"2018-03-26 19:39:56","user_description":"I am a product-minded software engineer & UX designer - combining skills in engineering, design, and leadership. I currently help develop ArcGIS Urban, a web application for urban planners to visualize and plan the future of their cities. I am also an advocate for more diversity in tech & I teach yoga in my free time.","user_avatar":""},{"ID":8122,"user_firstname":"Katelyn","user_lastname":"Thompson","nickname":"Katelyn Thompson","user_nicename":"kthompson","display_name":"Katie Thompson","user_email":"KThompson@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-06-26 17:47:19","user_description":"Katie Thompson is a Product Marketing Manager at Esri who got her start with GIS during her undergraduate studies and holds a master's degree in urban and regional planning. Today, she focuses on creating content and messaging to help planners make the most of their GIS, especially through 3D tools like ArcGIS Urban and ArcGIS CityEngine.","user_avatar":""}],"short_description":"With the new urban model copy, you can create copies of your urban model, carrying over all the settings, plans and projects.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

As the owner of an urban model, you have responsibilities and permissions that go beyond those of other members in your organization. And we know that the proper management of items associated with your Urban model can take up a lot of time and effort. In October 2023, we released a new Urban model copy functionality in ArcGIS Urban that aims at making it easier for you to deal with urban models. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This feature was the result of user requests around data management. With the new urban model copy<\/a>, you can create copies of your urban database, and you can also carry over all the settings of your urban model, and additionally copy plans and projects into the new urban model \u2013 all in one step.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why with the February release of ArcGIS Urban, we are deprecating the more generic and less intuitive functionalities<\/span>:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n