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Small acquisition shops look at a lot of sites and can only afford to model a few. I built an...


I pushed the same 300-acre district through five modeling platforms and measured what came out the.....


Generative 3D is arriving in site pipelines the way photogrammetry did a decade ago: faster than the...


The fastest way to find a problem in an AI 3D workflow is to hand the files to someone else. A model...


I used Glen Canyon Dam as a test case for a problem that appears in many infrastructure projects: a....


I needed a quick 3D blockout of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge for a lighting and camera test....


A fairground reuse project gave me a clean test: 180 acres, one survey, four barns, a grandstand, a....


I spent a winter rebuilding the same six parcels twice, once in Cityweft and once in Shapezo, becaus...


The fence on the bluff property sat about four feet off the deed line, and nobody could agree which....