Product updates, pipeline deep-dives, and how AEC teams use 3D site context.
Cityweft now offers nationwide LOD2 3D building data for Japan, covering ~26.8 million buildings across 266 datasets. Generate accurate 3D city models for Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Kyoto, and more with detailed roof geometry and building heights. Export ready-to-use models for architecture, planning, visualization, and digital twins via the Cityweft platform, plugins, or API.
The Cityweft SketchUp Plugin lets architects import 3D site, context, and city models directly into SketchUp. Fully editable and layered, models integrate seamlessly into projects, enabling real-world context, massing studies, and early-stage design without leaving SketchUp. Quickly search, select, and generate accurate city models to speed workflows and improve architectural decisions.
Georeferencing in Cityweft helps architects and design teams align BIM models with real-world coordinates, reducing coordination errors, misalignment, and time spent fixing clashes. By embedding WGS84-based location data while keeping models lightweight, it enables smoother collaboration across disciplines and more reliable BIM workflows.
Cityweft now includes nationwide LOD2 3D building data for Germany, aggregated from official German state geospatial authorities. Generate detailed, high-accuracy city models with realistic roof geometries and building heights, improving urban context for design, planning, and analysis. The dataset is available across the Cityweft platform, plugins, and API, enabling a seamless workflow for projects anywhere in Germany. 🇩🇪
Cityweft Model from San Francisco with Raster Map and Satellite Surfaces 3D buildings are essential for understanding a site, but they are only part of the story. To truly understand how structures interacts with its surroundings, you also need to understand the ground it sits on. Surfaces influence how people move, how buildings relate to streets and landscapes, and how projects affect mobility, accessibility, and the urban environment around them. With our latest update, Cityweft expands...
We’re excited to announce a new collaboration between Cityweft and Graphisoft , focused on bringing accurate, real-world site context directly into Graphisoft’s next-generation design intelligence tool. Together, we’re working to help architects make smarter, more confident decisions - from early feasibility through to delivery - by ensuring that buildings and topography are not add-ons, but a natural starting point for design. Grounding design in real context Graphisoft’s new tool expands...
Cityweft provides a nationwide dataset of 3D building heights for England based on high-precision airborne LiDAR data collected by the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) between 2022 and 2025. Building heights are measured from real elevation data, not inferred estimates. Coverage includes urban and rural areas and supports architectural design, urban planning, environmental analysis, and simulation via Cityweft’s platform, plugins, and API.
Looking for an alternative to OSM-based 3D city models? Cityweft is built for architects who need complete, exportable 3D site context —with building heights, roofs, terrain, and richer datasets than OpenStreetMap alone. It’s the fastest way to go from open data to a usable 3D city model for design . Try Cityweft → From Open Data to Complete City Context Architects use 3D city models to make decisions about massing, height, daylight, views, and urban fit. Those decisions depend on how...
Diving into advanced workflows using Cityweft's Grasshopper plugin for Rhino
Cityweft now includes swisstopo’s full 3D LOD2 building dataset, delivering detailed, high-accuracy models across Switzerland. Enjoy richer roof geometries, improved urban context, and more precise analysis for design, planning, and visualization. The data is available on the platform, plugins, and API for a seamless, high-fidelity workflow nationwide.
We’re excited to share our new collaboration with Podium.io , who have recently integrated the Cityweft API into their platform. This...
We’re excited to announce the latest update to our data sources, bringing in a wealth of localized, high-quality building data from...
At Cityweft, we’re constantly evolving to make working with 3D city models faster, smarter, and more useful in real-world design...
Introduction Architects, planners, and designers often need detailed 3D city models that go beyond rough massing. Global coverage,...
Earlier this summer, Cityweft partnered with the AEC Tech+ Hackathon in Barcelona , hosted by CORE studio at Thornton Tomasetti , McNeel...
Cityweft model of New York, rendered with Rhino/Enscape Over the past few months, the Cityweft platform has been growing at full speed....
High-quality cityscape 3D models are essential for accuracy and realism in urban modeling, city planning, and other areas. Cityweft...
