CommunityViz 4.1 Features

• Faster Performance – much faster analysis updates for many types of formulas. Great for regional scale models and all kinds of geodesign procedures.
• Updated WebShots – these web-ready, partly-interactive displays are now more attractive and easier to use. Just the thing for showing off your analysis to general audiences on the web.
• Multimedia Alerts – launch videos, audio clips and other media when updates to your analysis trigger events or cross thresholds. Try it for storytelling, planning games, and creative public meetings.
• Selected Feature Analysis – calculate impacts, information, and modeling results from just the features you select. Great for geodesign and interactive conversations about designs and plans.
• Presentation Improvements – charts are now easier to manage and display; organization is more flexible, and Common Impacts reports are easier to generate in real time.
• Customizable Settings – set your preferred defaults for dozens of Scenario 360 settings including Common Impacts assumptions, Build-Out defaults, metric units, and more. Our most-requested upgrade for this release!
• Scenario Management Improvements – now you can link tables and layers together across scenarios just as you do with assumptions. Also makes it faster and easier to connect with external models and Excel spreadsheets.

Upgradeable to ArcGIS 10
CommunityViz 4.1 is designed for ArcGIS 9.2 and 9.3. Customers with technical support will receive free upgrades to an ArcGIS 10-compatible CommunityViz release shortly after ArcGIS 10 is released.

Visualize...

• Scenario 3D makes information rich, interactive 3D scenes from your 2D map. It takes advantage of the latest advances in 3D technology to provide great performance, high levels of realism, and compatibility with industry-standard 3D modeling tools like SketchUp and most CAD systems.
• Google Earth Exporter quickly and easily creates 3D versions of your analysis for viewing in Google Earth and other KMZ-compatible viewers.
• Great Presentation Features – Saved Views of screen configurations, TimeScope™ animations, intuitive Assumption Slider Bars, and more.
• ArcScene-compatible for tightly integrated 3D analysis.

Analyze...

• Scenario 360 is the interactive, real-time analysis framework of CommunityViz. Use it for geodesign and scenario planning.
• Build-Out Wizard projects future building that regulations will allow.
• Common Impacts Wizard automatically analyzes a dozen economic, social, and environmental impacts associated with new development.
• Custom Impacts Wizard makes it easy to set up custom impact studies.
• Scenario Sketch Tools "paint" your maps with proposed land-use styles and all their attributes, then see the resulting effects in real time.
• Suitability Wizard creates an analysis to determine which locations are best for particular uses; results can be color-coded on a map and updated in real time.
• TimeScope™, the slider bar for time, lets you show and study landscape changes year-by-year. Watch as a community grows over time.
• Land-Use Designer – Sketch land uses on a map and get detailed impact analysis in real time.
• LandFrag Wizard* – Measures the impact of new roads, buildings and other development on the natural landscape.
• External Table Interface – Connect CommunityViz analysis to Excel® spreadsheets and other external models.
• Assumption slider bars let you change inputs and variables.
• Dynamic charts update automatically as you work.
• Allocator* places new buildings on the landscape according to rules of supply and demand – ideal for projecting where growth will occur.
• Optimizer* chooses the best combination of features to meet certain goals.
• Formula Wizard lets you create your own impact formulas using over 75 sophisticated functions.
• Interoperable (if desired) with Network Analyst, Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst, and practically any software that uses GIS data, databases or tables.

Communicate...

• WebShots allow you to share your analysis results over the web in a free, partly interactive viewer including maps, charts, variable assumptions and more.
• Sharable 3D models that anyone can view and navigate using the free Scenario 3D Viewer. Or create KMZ files for Google Earth.
• Dynamic charts update automatically as you work with your map, scenarios and assumptions.
• Web-ready reports display details or summaries of your work.
• Analysis diagrams illustrate your logic with interactive flow charts.
• Compare scenarios side-by-side within a single analysis.

...and more

• Convenient downloadable tutorials, sample data, and excellent documentation
• Extensive on-line resources, including examples, FAQs and forums
• Available full-service technical support, including live consulting and free upgrades