The following updates have been made to ArcGIS Urban.
General
The following new features and general improvements are available in Urban:
- A new header throughout the application provides cleaner navigation.
- The Analysis mode comes with the following enhancements:
- Users without editing permissions can now access the Analysis mode in plans and projects and can modify the analysis for a better understanding while changes do not persist.
- The Analysis mode is now persisting the previous state when switching to other modes. This allows for easier comparison and making changes to scenario designs based on analysis results.
- In the Elevation profile analysis, you can now store the state of the chart and specify whether the ground or the scene profile is visible.
Project editing
The following new features and improvements were added to the project editing experience:
- Projects can now be checked against the zoning regulations of the urban model for a smooth review process. See Work with envelopes to learn more.
- Envelopes display the city’s zoning regulations in 3D and enable a visual comparison between a proposed building and what is allowed.
- The envelopes can be exported as part of the project scenario web scene for outreach and stakeholder management.
- Alongside the envelopes, the details panel shows information about the regulations within the project perimeter, providing rich information such as coverage, floor-area ratio, tiers and setbacks, and allowed space-use types.
- The 3D model upload now supports IFC4, which unlocks placement based on exact coordinates of the origin of the model. When uploading a model with coordinates, it is now placed at the correct location.
Plan editing
The following new features and improvements were added to the plan editing experience:
- Suitability analysis has been improved. See Work with suitability analysis to learn more.
- Suitability is now part of the analysis mode together with other analyses such as shadow cast, viewshed, and so on.
- Existing suitability models are migrated when opening the analysis mode.
- Suitability calculations can now be run in the background and no longer block the application. This is especially useful for large plans for which running a suitability analysis can take several minutes.
- Undo/redo is now available for a better editing experience.
- Parcel parameters are available to calculate metrics:
- Parcel-based numeric parameters such as population or land value can now be used to calculate metrics.
- The parameter values can be manually added or imported from feature layers. See Edit parcel parameter values and Import parcel parameter values to learn more.
- New metrics come with a few improvements:
- Space-use type parameters now have an optional default value that is applied for any space-use types that don’t have a specified value.
- When exploring metrics at the parcel resolution in the dashboard, parcels are now colored as well.
- The colors in the mini map of the metrics graph are now aligned with the type of metric to mimic the colors in the graph.
Known limitations
The following functionality are known limitations of this release:
- As in the last release, copying of 3D data is not yet possible. This affects 3D models in projects that are not copied when creating duplicates and web scenes.
Deprecated and removed functionality
The following functionality is deprecated and will be removed with a future release:
- Old metrics are deprecated and will be removed in an upcoming release.
The following functionality is removed with this release:
- The Counts towards GFA / FAR setting on surfaces is removed in this release.
Enhancements and bug fixes
The following enhancements and bug fixes are introduced with this release:
- The default template is now available when creating urban models outside of the United States. The template includes example data such as space-use types, building types, and metrics.
- Unlicensed, anonymous, and hub community users can now benefit from a new landing page with a list of recently opened models.
- The feedback category and dashboard icons have been updated and appear in a fresh, calcite-based look.
- The list of channels in discussions now has a clearer icon and tooltip for removing channels from a discussion.
- The error messages for inaccessible layers were improved.
- The browser favicon was updated to a glyph icon.
- When deleting a scenario, there is now a confirmation dialog box as the action cannot be undone.
- When an uploaded image is not editable, the pop-up does not show the edit actions.
- Various UI elements (for example, drop-down menus, buttons, and cards) were replaced to achieve visual consistency.
- Bug fix—The default setting for the Counts towards GFA/FAR option in the building type editor wasn’t working correctly. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—After assigning a newly created space-use type to a building space, it could be deleted in the space-use type's dialog box. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—Uploading the same 3D model twice to the same project was not possible. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—The parcel explorer edge infos would stay visible when switching to the data manager. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—When exporting a plan scenario to a web scene, only projects stored in the urban database were exported. Design projects were missing. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—When exporting a plan scenario to a web scene, the planned surfaces step was missing on the dialog box, if the plan had only ground surfaces defined. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—Some setback and skyplane parameters were ignored when showing envelopes in the overview. This is fixed.