Analyzing a whole city

sariug · March 17, 2016, 09:24

Hello everyone!

For my thesis work, i will need to simulate an entire city topography, Athina.It is 1000 km^2 . I tried to find its CAD but of course its impossible. Then i grabbed it from GlobalMapper but even the STL was 1 GB and my CAD programs (Solidworks, design modeller) do not let it work.

So what would you guyz recommend me to do ?

How do you think i can manage to simulate a whole city.

kaya · March 19, 2016, 11:24

what exactly do you want to simulate?

davidwilcox · March 21, 2016, 00:06

you could try looking at tools like ArcGIS and deal with billions of cloud points to get your shape geometry. I would contact the city planners of that city. They should have the heights and shapes of the buildings. That is all you need unless you wanna include windows, trees, etc which would probably be a little overkill. I simulated something similar and I used autocad Civil.

March 17, 2016, 09:24	Analyzing a whole city	#1
sariug New Member U.S Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 16 Rep Power: 10	Hello everyone! For my thesis work, i will need to simulate an entire city topography, Athina.It is 1000 km^2 . I tried to find its CAD but of course its impossible. Then i grabbed it from GlobalMapper but even the STL was 1 GB and my CAD programs (Solidworks, design modeller) do not let it work. So what would you guyz recommend me to do ? How do you think i can manage to simulate a whole city.

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kaya Member Kaya Onur Dag Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 94 Rep Power: 13	what exactly do you want to simulate?

March 21, 2016, 00:06		#3
davidwilcox Senior Member david Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 142 Rep Power: 13	you could try looking at tools like ArcGIS and deal with billions of cloud points to get your shape geometry. I would contact the city planners of that city. They should have the heights and shapes of the buildings. That is all you need unless you wanna include windows, trees, etc which would probably be a little overkill. I simulated something similar and I used autocad Civil.