This release brings new tools to ground your development projects in real-world context. Whether you're sketching early concepts, reviewing in-progress designs, or analyzing strategic plans, here are the highlights of this release to make 3D a more seamless part of your planning workflow.
- Sketch buildings directly from 2D images
Still toggling between a PDF of a site plan on one screen and ArcGIS Urban on another? Now you can import blueprints directly into your project, position them accurately, and use them as a reference to sketch buildings.
- Set the default project scenario that matters most
Whether it's the proposal under review, the version in progress, or the upcoming phase, choose which project scenario appears by default in the overview—so stakeholders see the most relevant information in context of other development activities.
- Copy and paste metrics
Behind every scenario dashboard are the metrics that reveal your design’s impact—and now, you can scale that impact, not your effort, by copying and pasting metrics between plans and from your urban model to any existing plan.
- Your spatial analysis, saved and ready to go
Create shadow cast, line-of-sight, viewsheds, and elevation profile analyses for your plan study area, and revisit and refine with results saved automatically.
- Organize discussions by channels
New discussion channels allow you to organize comments by topic or stakeholder groups to help keep conversations focused, secure and on task.
Check out the “What’s New in ArcGIS Urban (July 2025)” blog, watch the release video, or read through the release notes for more details.
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