Rhinocity - RhinoTerrain

Featuring a unique building modeler and extensive automatic texturing capabilities, RhinoCity™ is the ideal tool to produce high quality, textured 3D data that can be used directly in CityGML format.

automatic 3D modeling

RhinoCity™ produces exact 3D models using a unique and innovative boolean extrusion engine.

By combining geometry (3D polygons) and semantic information, the RhinoCity™ 3D modeler automatically produces a 3D model whose accurancy is the guarantee of :

Exact walls, roofs and footprints surfaces
A 3D model composed of watertight volumes
Optimized 3D data good for 3D analysis and studies : solar, wave propagation, noise, wind...

digital model of Terrain + OrthoPhoto + CityGML buildings + LIDAR Vegetation

Courtesy of: Républic and Canton of Neuchâtel (CH)

produCe, edit, analyZe, texture

Import/Export

CityGML, Shapefile and GeoDatabase (ESRI),
PostgreSQL

GIS data

Feature class definition, attribute values definition and edition

3D geometries

Creation and editing of precise, topological and coplanar 3D geometries

TexturING

Automatic texturing with vertical or oblique aerial images

MONACO, 3D DIGITAL MODEL
Courtesy of: Monaco principaty (MO)

A SET OF POWERFUL FEATURES

Import / Export

CityGML
Shapefile ESRI
Any type of 3D geometry, including MultiPatch
ESRI GeoDatabase
PostgreSQL
3D CityDB

Texturing

Automatic texturing
Using vertical and/or oblique aerial images
Generating an atlas of images per building
Idéal for export as CityGML, OBJ, SketchUp, etc...
Multiple texturing parameters
Taking into account occultations, dimension (Power of 2 or not), extension (Jpeg, Tiff, Png...), etc...

3D geometry

3D error detection tools
Self-crossing polygons, polygons containing a vertical segment, polygons having an area less than..., double points, etc.…
3D MultiPolygons managment (consisting of multiple contours)
Analysis and unification of the direction (clockwise, counterclockwise
Multiple tools for control and automatic correction of "Snap"
Snap 2D, Snap 3D, Snap constrained by surface, etc...
Automatic correction of coplanariy
3D polygon division

GIS

Feature class with attributes definition
Any type attribute definition
String, integer, boolean, enumerated, etc...
Single or multiple editing of attributes values
Grid view: bijection grid/drawing

3D modeling

Automatic 3D modeling of complex buildings
Procédé inédit basé sur l'utilisation conjointe de courbes 3D (bords de toits) et de données attributaires type « SIG »
Creating various of 3D models
CityGML, Mesh, ESRI Shapefile, BReps (Boundary Representation)
3D Tiles creation

CityGML

CityGML import
Automatic generation of CityGML data during the 3D modeling phase
Handling Level Of Detail LOD1, LOD2 and LOD3
CityGML 3D object manual creation
Road, WaterSurfaces, etc...
CityGML export

RhinoCity™ includes the RhinoTerrain™ software !

All the features of this powerful Digital Terrain Modeler are available to RhinoCity™ users !

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CityGML is an official international standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

It is both a data model and an interchange format for storing digital 3D models of urban environments.

It defines different levels of details (LOD). These allow the use of different representations of 3D objects according to their uses, from vizualization to simulation (energy, mobility, housing, services...).

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CityGML : IMPORT

RhinoCity™ can import any file in CityGML format : it is compatible with 100% of the specifications of the format.

In particular, it can import and render textured 3D models.

Including a complete GIS core, it also ensures perfect management of the attribute values attached to the objects of the imported 3D model.

CityGML : CREATE, TEXTURE, EXPORT

RhinoCity™ allows you to :

Create a 3D model at LOD2 or LOD3 Level Of Detail using an unique and innovating automatic 3D modeler.
Texture your 3D model automatically using vertical and/or oblique aerial images.
Export your textured 3D model in CityGML format.

textured cityGML 3D model
Courtesy of : City of Montréal (CA)

CityGML : USE IT

The development of the OpenData gives free access to more and more urban models in CityGML format.

RhinoCity™ allows you to import this data and imagine all possible uses !

Example : excerpt from the CityGML 3D model from Berlin (DE) imported using RhinoCity™ and then re-exported in FBX format to be exploitable in a game engine.

analysis and editing of 3D geometries

The quality of 3D data useful for modeling is a decisive factor in the accurancy of the 3D models that will be produced.
To garantee this quality and ensure that the 3D models that will result, RhinoCity™ includes all the tools needed to control and edit your 3D data.

Here are some non-exhaustive examples of the multiple commands available :

Detect unclosed polygons

Detect self-crossing polygons

Detect vertical polygons

Control and unify direction

Dissolve polygons

XYZ Snap

Detect vertical segments

Remove duplicated points

Detect duplicated polygons

Divide 3D polygons

Snap polygons

Control and edit coplanarity

AUTOMATIC TEXTURING

RhinoCity™ allows automatic texturing of your 3D models in just a few clicks !

Oriented images taken from vertical and/or oblique aerial shots are processed fully automatically to extract the textures necessary for the perfect rendering of 3D models.

TEXTURE 3D MODEL

Courtesy of: AEROWEST

3D Tiles is an open specification designed for streaming heterogenous 3D geospatial content.

Submitted to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) by a team led by Cesium, the OGC has approved the 3D Tiles Specification 1.0 for adoption as Community Standard.

RhinoCity™ allows the 3D Tiles export of your 3D textured data !

The 3D models produced are exportable to in this new format, exploiting these most advanced features :

Draco is an OpenSOurce extension developed by Google to compress and decompress 3D meshes.

Compression of vertices, normals, colors and texture coordinates dramtically improve the speed of transmitting 3D content on the Web.

The glTF is the result ot the Khronos Group consortium that already initiated the specifications of Collada, Vulkan et OpenGL.

Sometimes presented as the "3D JPEG" glTF can minimize the size of 3D scenes described and therefore minimize the time of loading and rendering, espacially on the Web.

A complete GIS core : definition of feature classes, attribute creation and editing.

Full compatibility with the SHP format with many tools dedicated to management of data at ESRI formats (inputs and outputs)

Several import/export capacities : CityGML, PostgreSQL, 3DCityDB, Shapefiles, GeoDatabase

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