CityEngine is a standalone software that provides professional users in entertainment, architecture, urban planning, GIS and general 3D content production with a unique conceptual design and modeling solution for the efficient creation of 3D cities and buildings. The key highlights of CityEngine include:

GIS/CAD Data Support: Support for industry-standard formats (ESRI Shapefile or DXF) which allow to import/export any geo-spatial/vector data.

OpenStreetMap Import: Use data from OpenStreetMap to copy real cities.

Dynamic City Layouts: Interactively design, edit and modify urban layouts consisting of (curved) streets, blocks and parcels.

Street Networks Patterns: Unique street grow tools to quickly design and construct urban layouts.

Rule-based Modeling Core: Procedural modeling based on CGA rules allows to control mass, geometry assets, proportions, or texturing of buildings or streets on a city-wide scale.

Facade Wizard: Quickly create rules out of an image or a textured mass model with this simple and easy-to-use visual facade authoring tool.

Parametric Modeling Interface: A convenient interface to interactively control specific street or building parameters such as the height or age (defined by the CGA rules)

Map-Controlled City Modeling: Any parameter of the buildings and streets can be controlled globally via image maps (for example the building heights or the landuse-mix).

Industry-Standard 3D Formats: CityEngine supports Collada, Autodesk® FBX®, 3DS, Wavefront OBJ, RenderMan® RIB, mental ray® MI and e-on software's Vue, which allow for flawless 3D data exchange.

Reporting (BIM for Cities): Customized rule-based reports can be generated to analyze the urban design e.g. automatically calculate quantities such as GFA, FAR, etc.

Python: Streamline repetitive or pipeline-specific tasks with the integrated Python scripting interface.

Training Materials & Provided Examples: Several learning videos and tutorials demonstrate you the basics and key concepts of CityEngine. Included are demo cities of ancient, contemporary and future cities.

Available for All Platforms: Available for Windows (32/64bit), Mac OSX (64bit), and Linux (32/64bit).