Best Urban Planning Software in the UK

Simplex 3D is a high-resolution 3D reality-planning platform designed to help professionals visualize, plan, and build within accurate urban and infrastructural contexts. It provides seamless 360° navigation through cityscapes at up to 3 cm-per-pixel resolution, layering integrated data (zoning, transportation, financial, infrastructure) for comprehensive situational awareness. Users can import detailed architectural CAD or BIM models (such as from Revit or SketchUp), draft new structures, run “what-if” scenarios for height, shadows, and visibility, and evaluate designs within real-world surroundings. A complete collaboration workspace enables project stakeholders to share views, bookmarks, comments, and presentations in one unified environment, streamlining approval workflows and reducing misalignment. With engineering-grade measurement tools, split-screen past-vs-future views, and real-time data layers, Simplex 3D eliminates guesswork and supports data-driven decisions.

Conform is 3D Geospatial Software for fusing, visualizing, editing, and exporting beautiful 3D environments for urban planning, games, and simluations. Build your 3D scene from GIS features, digital elevation models, point-clouds, and imagery without the need for the knowledge of a GIS expert or software engineer. While Conform does support procedural scripting, you do not have to do any scripting to produce high fidelity environments. Export 3D scenes into open formats for game engines, simulations, web/mobile visualizations, and geodesign applications. Exporting into interchanges formats for game engines, simulations, and geodesign applications.

CityEngine is advanced 3D modeling software for creating huge, interactive and immersive urban environments in less time than traditional modeling techniques. The cities you create using CityEngine can be based on real-world GIS data or showcase a fictional city of the past, present, or future. Create a massive city all at once instead of modeling each building individually. CityEngine powers rapid adjustments to the architectural style or other features of your city so you can easily create multiple design scenarios. Make 3D models to show planned changes and alternate designs. Inform your designs with 3D representations of regulatory and land use conditions. Share multiple design alternatives with your team or stakeholders to gather feedback. CityEngine integrates smoothly with your current creation pipeline. Bring in your hero buildings or other assets to build 3D context around them. Export work back into your high-end visualization software or game engines.