Unity for AEC

Bring IFC or FBX files into Unity to develop interactive, real-time experiences and publish to multiple platforms.

Create real-time 3D experiences in AR, VR, and more from your BIM data. You can also bring projects from Unity Reflect into Unity Pro to customize the experience for clients, consultants, and other stakeholders.

SHoP Architects' interactive visualization team shares why Unity Reflect is "a very welcome technology" for their industry.

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Real-time BIM is here (Unity Reflect)

Design, engineer, or construct buildings in VR, allow clients to experience an environment before it exists, train without being constrained by physical boundaries, and iterate across teams before the concrete is poured.

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The power of real-time 3D (Unity Pro)

A powerful, fast, and flexible platform

Read the Unity User Manual for a complete introduction to Unity. You’ll learn how to customize your workflow, integrate with external tools, and even extend the Editor itself.

Animation and cinematic tooling

Animation
2D rigging IK
2D animation
Timeline
Cinemachine

Audio and video

Audio components/mixer
Spatializer
Video player

Data-Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS)

C# Job System
Burst Compiler
Entity Component System
Unity Physics and Havok Physics (preview)
DSPGraph audio framework (preview)

Editor

Custom extensions
Package Manager
HUB
Asset workflow
Asset Database
Prefabs
Physics

Effects

Particle System
Visual Effect Graph

Interface

User interface tools
Text Mesh Pro
UIElements

Lighting

Global llumination (GI)
Progressive lightmapper
Ray tracing (preview)
Reflection Probes

Programming tools

Scripting in Unity
APIs
Creating C# Scripts
IDE support
Pathfinding
Version control
IL2CPP
Unity Test Framework

Optimization

Unity Profiler
Frame Debugger

Rendering

Rendering
Scriptable Render Pipeline
High Definition Render Pipeline
Universal Render Pipeline
Post-processing
Shaders
Shader Graph
Ray Tracing

Worldbuilding

Terrain
ProBuilder
Polybrush
Tilemap
Sprite Shape
2D Worldbuilding

2D

2D Pixel Perfect
Sprite tools
SVG
Physics 2D
Tilemap
Sprite Shape

Key benefits

No need to leave design tools

From Revit, Navisworks, SketchUp, or Rhino, you can prepare and transfer data for real-time 3D and make changes to models during review sessions. Creating AR and VR experiences has never been easier.

Quick data preparation

Seamlessly optimize and federate BIM and CAD data from your applications and generate interactive 3D renderings that are live-linked to your BIM model.

Stay on track and on budget

Meet increasingly condensed client timelines by bringing key stakeholders into a unified real-time 3D experience to share ideas and gather and implement feedback instantly.

Easily customizable

Bring your projects into Unity Pro to enhance the quality of your experience and create custom AR/VR applications connected to your BIM data.

Build once and distribute anywhere

Thanks to the power and flexibility of the Unity platform, stakeholders can review models in real-time 3D on the platform of their choice.

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Mortenson case study: Better building designs and lower costs

Mortenson employs interactive VR experiences for construction clients. Using Unity to simulate new building designs in interactive 3D spaces, their customers benefit from improved designs, faster iterations, higher quality and lower costs.

Skanska case study: Fewer risks, safer workers with VR

Skanska collaborated with creative VR and AR agency OutHere, implementing a Unity-based VR experience into their standard worker-safety training program, enhancing construction-site safety.

Mortenson case study: Better hospital designs with VR

With their new operating rooms and care facilities perfectly simulated in interactive VR and 360 video, Mortenson’s customers can realistically experience future workspaces for benefits like streamlined patient services and more efficiency.

Webinar: Propelling Design Viz to New Heights

Explore a real-time rendered, full-scale 3D model of Unity’s new London office, created by VR agency Oneiros and M Moser Associates.

Creating lifelike environments with real-time 3D

Go behind the scenes on a state-of-the-art AEC demo project, built and rendered completely in Unity.

Improving ROI in AEC using XR

Learn how Unity empowered Studio 216 to create sales & marketing real-time visualizations in mixed reality. Watch a variety of client examples showcasing both stunning visualizations and team collaboration in order to iterate their designs across platforms.

Prototype and navigate in real-time immersive environments

Aurecon worked on the Brisbane airport and Unity empowered them to navigate through environments, ID security flaws, and test design layout options. With real-time collaboration, it allowed for the modification and prototyping before the work starts, saving time and money.

“With interactive, immersive VR experiences, the project team was able to identify deficiencies in the design, ensure the most productive and efficient workflows, and get important buy-in.”

Will Adams, Emerging Technology Developer, Mortenson

OutHere and Skanska“What I am most passionate about in this project is the possibility to eliminate these types of risks. We should not be in danger at work. Workers should come home injury-free, every day.”

Stephen Cooney, Visual Effects Artist and Engineer

The real-time development platform of choice

For designers, engineers, and trailblazers across AEC, Unity is the most versatile and widely used real-time 3D platform for visualizing products and building interactive and virtual experiences.

True flexibility

We provide unmatched extensibility and adaptability with a powerful C# scripting system, comprehensive API and extensive documentation. Source code access can be purchased for under-the-hood C++ development.

Rapid creation

With its intuitive UI and tools, we make it easy to jumpstart a working prototype and bypass low-level programming. Changes are easy and instant through the magic of real-time, giving you more time to create and iterate.

Unparalleled platform support

Maximize your reach with our support for 25+ platforms. We partner early and deeply with publishing platforms so you can build once and deploy everywhere, including mobile and XR.

Rich interactivity

Included is a robust and well-documented API with access to a complete range of features – including physics, rendering, and communications – to enable a rich interaction model and easy integration with other systems.

Optimal graphic performance

Our Scriptable Render Pipeline (SRP) provides total flexibility for graphics optimization. The HD Render Pipeline (HDRP) offers world-class visual quality on high-performance hardware, while the Universal Render Pipeline (URP) maintains responsive performance when scaling for mobile.

A massive catalog of assets and tools

The Unity Asset Store gives you access to the largest marketplace of off-the-shelf assets and productivity tools to jumpstart your project. These building blocks cut down on development time to get you up and running and across the finish line faster.

Accelerating innovation across the AEC industry

Design visualization

Get to better designs, faster. From concept to data integration, visualization and prototyping, we enable architects and engineers to catch and adjust flaws while easily collaborating on designs at scale in immersive, interactive 3D environments.

Sales and marketing

Deliver experiences that win bids by creating rich scenarios that immerse clients in the buying process. From online configurators to virtual showrooms, build unique 3D, interactive experiences that engage them emotionally.

Training and safety

Build training applications that enable learning in an interactive, immersive 3D space, which speeds up knowledge transfer, reduces physical mockup costs, and lowers risks of on-site construction injuries.

Onsite visualization

View the latest design & construction plans streamed to your device onsite, while leveraging BIM (Revit) metadata in assembly sequencing visualizations.

Unity & Autodesk: Powering your creativity

Learn how you can quickly import, prep, and optimize your data. Eliminate friction with the smooth and seamless import of Revit and 3ds Max directly into Unity – while keeping your BIM data intact.

Get Unity Reflect

Whether you’re a developer or have never touched a line of code, Unity Reflect lets you create real-time BIM experiences in real time to win more projects, conduct immersive design reviews, and connect design and construction. Available now.

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