{"id":321292,"date":"2018-09-18T03:46:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T10:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=321292"},"modified":"2019-04-01T15:42:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T22:42:49","slug":"cityengine-2018-1-release-highlights","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/city-engine\/3d-gis\/cityengine-2018-1-release-highlights","title":{"rendered":"CityEngine 2018.1 Release Highlights"},"author":9292,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23771,37101,22941],"tags":[25781,39371,42631,26161,26171],"industry":[],"product":[36781],"class_list":["post-321292","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-gis","category-announcements","category-mapping","tag-3d","tag-announcement","tag-cityengine","tag-new-release","tag-urban-planning","product-city-engine"],"acf":{"short_description":"Learn all about new features and improvements in the Esri CityEngine 2018.1 release.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Well it\u2019s been quite a busy last few months for the CityEngine team and honestly, it\u2019s just so exciting to see in which direction this is all heading! It feels like we only just introduced CityEngine 2018.0 to you, but just like that its suddenly September and we\u2019ve proudly released another new version of CityEngine to the world! CityEngine 2018.1 introduces a whole bunch of new features and exciting improvements that not only set a great precedent for things to come, but are sure to make you love CityEngine even more.<br \/>\nHave a look at some of our favorite release highlights below. You can learn more about all of our new features and fixes in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/desktop.arcgis.com\/en\/cityengine\/latest\/get-started\/cityengine-release-notes.htm\">2018.1 release notes<\/a>. Go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/my.esri.com\/welcome\">My Esri<\/a>\u00a0to upgrade to\u00a0CityEngine 2018.1. Or, if you are new to CityEngine, try it out now with a fully functional\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/software\/cityengine\/free-trial\">free trial version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Better drawing experience<\/h3>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p id=\"GUID-F7392160-D647-485E-869A-F177BE400402\">In this release, we introduce new easy-to-use tools for drawing shapes of any form. For example, you can now draw building footprints with arcs, circles, and round corners. Also, these curved 2D shapes are useful when designing parks and recreational areas with winding paths, vegetation areas, and ponds. 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This is useful if you have a large layer with hundreds of thousands of polygon features, such as building parcels or footprints, that are too big to load into\u00a0<span class=\"ph\">CityEngine<\/span>\u00a0all at once. Therefore, we added a graphical UI where you can work with only a subset of the large feature layer. You can set the extent on a 2D map to import or sync a portion of the large layer. For example, it is possible to select only a neighborhood of interest in a city to import into\u00a0<span class=\"ph\">CityEngine<\/span>\u00a0for further urban design and editing workflows.\u00a0<span class=\"ph\">CityEngine<\/span>\u00a0maintains a live data connection to the web layer. 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The procedural rules are available out of the box and can be applied on parcel polygons to create perimeter fences or street graph segments to create fences along curved and hilly freeform lines.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"youtube","start_time":"0","end_time":"","youtube_video_url":"<iframe title=\"CityEngine 2018.1 Release Highlight - New out of the box Content: Fences\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qreIcLSeBzc?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>\u2026and one more thing<\/h3>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Follow Esri CityEngine &amp; Geodesign on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CityEngine\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CityEngine\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/esri_cityengine\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"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. 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