The following updates have been made to ArcGIS Urban.
General
The following new features and general improvements are available in Urban:
- The new projects allow uploading of detailed 3D models that are visible in the project editor, plan editor, and the overview.
Overview
The following new features and general improvements are available in the overview:
- Projects can be visualized with detailed 3D models in the overview. The overview displays the 3D models and volumes that were added to the first scenario of a project.
Project editing
This release introduces a new project editing experience. It includes new features as well as improvements to existing functionality:
- In the left-side panel, four modes guide you through the project editing experience:
- Configure and edit project details, including status, thumbnail, description, and the study area in Info mode.
- Upload 3D models, create and edit volumes and surfaces, place and modify assets, demolish existing buildings, and measure distances and areas in Development mode.
- The context toolbar options for selected items provide an improved editing experience for 3D models, volumes, surfaces, and assets such as trees, vehicles, and furniture.
- The 3D model upload allows storing a detailed model per scenario. See Add 3D content to learn more.
- The 3D models are stored in a 3D object feature layer.
- 3D models can be duplicated and copied between scenarios.
- The upload supports a variety of formats, including IFC, DWG, and FBX.
- After uploading, the 3D model can be positioned in the scene manually or using precise coordinates.
- Review the impact of the project in Analysis mode, where a list of analyses can be stored and persisted.
- The analysis mode includes the Shadow cast, Line of sight, Viewshed, and Elevation profile tools.
- Configure the coordinates and exact height of observer points for line of sight and viewshed analysis.
- Discussion mode allows you to comment on the project and collaborate with others for reviews.
- In the right-side toolbar, you can find additional functionality:
- Configure and review metrics in the Dashboard panel.
- Turn on and off layers in the Layers panel and switch the visualization mode.
- Set the date, time of day, and shadows in the Daylight panel.
- Add and edit viewpoints in the Viewpoints panel.
- Use navigation, take screenshots, and zoom to a study area in the 3D Navigation toolbar at the bottom right.
- The screenshot tool comes with a new UI and allows you to use previously configured extents.
- The new project editor has a new header.
- It includes a Help menu with links to documentation, release notes, and so on.
- Use the new scenario switcher on a drop-down menu to access scenarios and to configure scenario settings.
- The project name drop-down menu in the header allows you to create a web scene and duplicate, share, and delete the project.
- For projects in the urban model, you can click Enable editing for the project if you are the owner of the urban model.
- Nearby future buildings from other projects are displayed in the project editor.
Plan editing
The following features and improvements were added to the plan editing experience:
- All projects that are within the boundaries of the plan’s study area are visualized with a detailed 3D model or 3D volumes.
- Using the Image Upload tool in Details mode, upload images as context to your plan. Images are stored by scenario as media layers.
- To georeference the image in the scene, you can resize and rotate images by using control points.
- Images can be replaced while control points are being persisted.
- You can copy images between scenarios.
- If there are multiple images in one scenario, you can change the order of the images displayed.
Known limitations
The following functionality are known limitations in the current release:
- The 3D models of projects cannot be copied yet. This affects the duplication of projects, the creation of scenario web scenes and the city web scene.
- When editing the study area of a project in the new project editor, the parcels from the urban model cannot yet be displayed.
- The study area cannot be turned off in the new project editor from the layers panel.
Deprecated and removed functionality
The following functionality is deprecated and will be removed with a future release:
- The support for public feedback in plans is deprecated and will be removed in an upcoming release.
The following functionality is removed with this release:
- The old project editor is removed. All previous functionality has been integrated in the new project editor. Urban now opens all existing projects in the new project editor experience. See Configure a project for details.
- In the new project editor, you can't configure project context layers. You can still configure scenario context layers. See Configure scenario context for details.
- The new project editor doesn't support public feedback.
Enhancements and bug fixes
The following enhancements and bug fixes are introduced with this release:
- Improved tooltip behaviors including less occlusion of UI elements by tooltips.
- Bug fix—The add unit drop-down menu in the new metrics side panel persisted the selection of the previously selected unit. This is fixed.
- Bug fix—Resolved the infinite loading state when setting a start date that was later than the end date in the public feedback Commenting open until option.
- Bug fix—Fixed the misleading error highlighting when setting a start date that was later than the end date in the public feedback Commenting open until section.
- Bug fix—In the file upload component, the tooltip displayed No file chosen, when a file was selected. This is fixed.