Infrastructure
Remapping China’s morning commute with digital twins51World’s digital twin of Wuyi Square Station, the busiest transit hub in Changsha, China, was built for both the present and future. While analysis of current traffic patterns can help officials optimize passenger flow right now, predictive scenarios can give insights into how to plan for the future.
Getting started with digital twinsOne of the most common questions we hear about digital twins is, “How do I get started?” While a digital twin is usually a large-scale project, there are many steps you can take right away to start producing a prototype.
Building cities of the future with digital twins on The PulseDigital twins are poised to usher in a new era for architecture, engineering, and construction, improving our buildings, our cities, and the quality of our lives. On this episode of The Pulse, guest host Fred Mills talks with industry experts about what we should expect from digital twins now, and in the years to come.
Visualizing the invisible: the sound of real and virtual worldsBeyond what we see, real-time technology can be used to enhance what we hear. Forward-thinking organizations are leveraging Unreal Engine to create real-time audio experiences and visualizations that can improve urban planning processes and help design buildings with acoustics in mind.
Twinmotion hotfix 2020.2.3 significantly improves stability and user experienceTwinmotion Senior Product Manager Raphael Pierrat and Lead Programmer Manuel Veit explain what’s in the latest Twinmotion hotfix—and why this one is about more than just fixing bugs.
Urban planning visualization with TwinmotionWhen new bus and tram infrastructure was proposed to transform the face of the French technology park of Sophia Antipolis, civil engineering firm Egis was brought in to communicate the design to residents. Find out how it used Twinmotion to create a real-time animation of the bus/tram route.
Twinmotion to Unreal Engine Importer: bridging architectural worldsThe new Twinmotion Importer enables you to start a project in Twinmotion and bring it into Unreal Engine. Find out how this real-time innovation can set architecture firms free from the frustration of dead-end workflows—and why it’s the latest milestone on the road to a fully open and flexible AEC pipeline.
Design and engineering firm Arup embraces an interactive 3D technology shiftFrom driving simulators for more accurate design review to high-fidelity visualizations that help clients better understand proposed works, real-time tools are transforming traditional workflows on infrastructure projects at Arup.
What is a digital twin?Digital twins are among the top AEC technology trends for 2021. But what are they, really? Here, we look at what a digital twin is, what it can do for the fields of architecture, engineering, and construction, and the technology at its core.
Jacobs embraces interactive visualization for infrastructure projectsDiscover how one of the largest engineering companies in the world created a photorealistic flythrough of a large-scale infrastructure project in the UK, leveraging Unreal Engine for faster iteration times and flexible workflows.
Twinmotion is now free for BricsCAD usersTake your CAD and BIM models from BricsCAD BIM into Twinmotion and transform them into compelling environments as high-quality images, panoramas, standard or 360-degree videos, and VR experiences—for free.
A virtual clone of Adelaide for digital twin and smart city applicationsAerometrex creates a 3D model of the entire city of Adelaide, using a combination of photogrammetry data captured via helicopters and real-time archviz tool Twinmotion.
PLAN34 delivers urban planning and infrastructure archviz with TwinmotionDesign visualization agency PLAN34 leverages Twinmotion to deliver archviz assets on tight timelines for everything from urban planning to landscape design.
Real-time simulation transforms maintenance planning for the UK’s railwaysNetwork Rail dramatically improves the efficiency, cost, and time to completion for track renewal programs, thanks to a UE4-powered virtual simulation environment developed at the University of Salford.
Visualizing Sweden’s first high-speed railway with real-time technologyEngineering consultancy AFRY is using real-time technology and big data to power interactive rail network design. The award-winning company is harnessing the power of geographic information system (GIS) data relating to the local landscape and archaeology to inform decisions.
EFLA supercharges its road and infrastructure visualization pipeline with TwinmotionThe largest civil engineering and consulting company in Iceland has been slashing turnaround times for their projects with real-time immersive 3D architectural visualization.
Tyréns helps move cities with urban design visualization in UE4When you need to do something as potentially traumatic as moving not just someone’s home, but large parts of their city, effective visual communication of the plans is key. Find out how Tyréns uses their custom build of UE4 on this and other large-scale urban and infrastructure projects.