Very excited to announce the release of the Cesium Design Tiler and Cesium ion for Autodesk Revit Add-In. This release provides new tools to improve workflows and provide new capabilities that place architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) content in a 3D geospatial context.
These tools transform IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) and Revit files into 3D Tiles, the OGC community standard created by Cesium for streaming massive 3D geospatial datasets.
The Design Tiler and Revit Add-In provide easier, more efficient workflows for sharing your design data via the web or other visualization platforms like Unreal Engine, Unity, and NVIDIA Omniverse. By incorporating Cesium and 3D Tiles, you are now able to quickly and easily share your data, making it more accessible while also creating more performant applications.
You can download the Cesium ion for Autodesk Revit add-in directly from the Autodesk App Store.
The Cesium ion for Autodesk Revit is also available as open source - GitHub repo
You can use the Design Tiler to process you IFC files directly through Cesium ion - Learn more here
We can’t wait to see what you create with these tools!
I imported 3D arch tiles and 3D geospatial context in UE, but I am having a hardtime to relocate my 3d model to match the geospatial context, the model is located in nowhere close to geospatial context , anyone have an idea how to relocate my bldg to match with context? Thanks.
@isheng One option would be to manually position the 3D architecture files once they have been uploaded to Cesium ion. You can do that using Cesium Tiles Location Editor - here is a link to tutorial on the location editor.
If your 3D architecture files used shared coordinates you can export the data using the information to geo-reference your model - here is a link providing a little more detail
@Dave_Braig Thanks for the tips.
I did follow the tutorial by using Cesium tiles location editor to manually position the 3d arch file to match with Cesium would Terrain, (I think google photorealistic 3d tiles and cesium would terrain are in the same geospatial location in the UE), clicked save in the location editor, then went back to UE and refresh the asset list, select the updated arch 3D tiles file, add to level.
unfortunately, the 3d arch model is still not located in the same position when I manually position in the tiles location editor.
Not sure which part I was missing? thank you.
@Dave_Braig
good news! The workflow by using location editor works.
I refreshed the assert list again and added to level and it shown up and match the geospatial location.
For some reasons, I assumed it is the cloud speed issue, you may have a better idea to figure out the problem, thanks.
Hi @bertt, Revit to 3D Tiles is only supporting through the Autodesk Revit Add-In at this time. The Design Tiler in Cesium ion currently only supports IFC files.
, anyone have an idea how to relocate my bldg to match with context? Thanks.