Game engines are utilized for building realistic virtual environments in design and industrial workflows, ranging from marketing materials creation to remote maintenance performance, from customer-oriented product configurators to immersive collaborative design reviews.Īutomakers such as Volkswagen, Toyota, BMW bring their design reviews into the Unity-powered scenes for more realistic visual feedback and immersive user experience.ĪEC/BIM users can create augmented reality (AR) solutions with Unity Reflect to bring tablets with Unity onto construction site to preview future buildings in the actual landscape.ģD app developers are captivated by visualization and AR/VR capabilities offered by the game engines and look for ways to work with their engineering CAD data with the help of these platforms.

Game engines adoption has moved beyond the game world for quite some time, and such giants as Unity and Epic Games now move significant focus on catering to the needs of engineering and manufacturing. Hopefully, developers from adjacent universes of Unreal Engine by Epic Games and CryEngine by CryTek (and possibly others) may also find this post useful. This post will be most helpful for software developers who plan to or are already developing their 3D apps on top of Unity and face challenges to work efficiently with 3D CAD data. We will specifically focus on unique CAD Exchanger SDK features you could leverage to build your CAD-enabled apps. We will try to summarize available options and give particular recommendations.

If you have been exploring the ways to bring your CAD data into the Unity, this blog post could possibly help you navigate your way. CAD Exchanger Unity module 3D CAD and Unity - how to combine the two worlds?

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