Esri CityEngine Integration

6B partners with local authorities, central government departments, national infrastructure bodies, urban planning teams, and geospatial technology providers to deliver high-quality integrations with Esri CityEngine. Whether you’re automating 3D model generation, synchronising GIS data, linking planning applications, or embedding CityEngine outputs into operational systems, we ensure your integration is reliable, secure, and built for long-term sustainability.

Our mission is to help government and public-sector organisations modernise planning and infrastructure processes by enabling seamless, standards-based data exchange between CityEngine and the tools used for design, modelling, and analysis.

Understanding Esri CityEngine

Esri CityEngine is a procedural 3D modelling and urban planning platform used to create detailed, data-driven models of cities, infrastructure networks, and built environments. It enables planners, surveyors, engineers, and GIS specialists to build large-scale 3D models quickly, using rules-based generation (CGA rules) to simulate scenarios, assess design options, and support visualisation and analysis.

CityEngine integrates with ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Urban, ArcGIS Pro, and other Esri tools, supporting bidirectional exchange of spatial and 3D data. It accepts a wide range of formats including SHP, geodatabases, CSV, OBJ, FBX, COLLADA, and common geospatial standards. Through Python scripting, RESTful APIs, and Esri’s ecosystem tools, external applications can automate model creation, import/export datasets, update attributes, and trigger procedural generation workflows.

The platform plays a central role in digital twins, 3D GIS, master planning, environmental modelling, and transport planning. CityEngine also supports scenario comparison, policy testing, and stakeholder engagement by enabling realistic, high-fidelity visualisation of proposed developments and city-wide changes.

Our Esri CityEngine Integration Process

We begin with a detailed discovery phase to understand your objectives — such as generating 3D city models, automating imports from GIS systems, supporting planning applications, or enabling digital twin pipelines. We map these use cases to CityEngine’s APIs, workflows, CGA rulesets, and 3D data structures.

Our architects design a secure, scalable integration architecture using REST APIs, Python scripting, ETL pipelines, Esri data exchange standards, and custom CGA workflows. We consider core technical factors including geospatial alignment, performance, file sizes, version management, permissions, and infrastructure constraints.

6B accelerates development using reusable components including ETL pipelines, spatial transformers, 3D asset mappers, authentication modules, and workflow orchestrators. We perform rigorous testing to validate geospatial accuracy, model integrity, performance behaviour, automation reliability, and compliance with public-sector governance frameworks.

During deployment, we coordinate with planning teams, GIS departments, architects, engineers, and IT teams to deliver a smooth launch. After go-live, 6B provides long-term support, monitoring, optimisation, and updates to ensure your CityEngine integration remains aligned with platform changes and organisational needs.

Benefits of Esri CityEngine Integration

Integrating your systems with CityEngine enables faster, more accurate 3D modelling, improved scenario planning, and consistent data exchange across planning, urban design, and infrastructure workflows. Automated model generation reduces manual modelling effort, increases accuracy, and ensures alignment between GIS and 3D assets.

Real-time or scheduled synchronisation supports better decision-making, clearer visualisation for stakeholders, and improved interdisciplinary collaboration across planning, engineering, and environmental teams. CityEngine’s 3D capabilities support clearer analysis of development proposals, infrastructure layouts, and long-term growth strategies.

For solution providers, CityEngine integration expands capability and strengthens relevance across planning, smart cities, and digital twin ecosystems, improving adoption and deployment opportunities in the public sector.