Global Urban Planning Standards

SIMO provides a growing set of International Urban Planning and Graphic Standards that hugely simplify your job day-to-day.

We currently provide a set of Programme Name and Color standards from international contexts. Many more Cities and Levels of Detail are in our pipeline.

SIMO uses our UIM graphic and programme standard as a default, but you can select other ones, or create your own with the SIMO Dashboard!

• SIMO UIM, Custom by Spatiomatics
• URA Masterplan, Singapore
• ZoLa Masterplan, New York City
• Ruimtelijkeplannen, Netherlands
• Urban Footprint, USA
• Create your own!

<aside> ➡️ Please tell us what graphic styles you need! Submit your ideas here.

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Sorry, What is this Exactly?

SIMO gives the option to control graphics across the software according to a set urban planning schemas. SIMO will automate the following graphic elements within Rhino and the Dashboard based on the graphic styles, especially:

• data visualization
• geometry presentation,
• layer names,
• layer style and
• render material

These can be loaded into the Rhino Plugin by clicking on the Data Styles or Layer Styles buttons. We provide our own UIM-L3.json color schema as well as a set of industry standard color schemas including:

This loads a colors.json file with a set of Names and RGB Color numbers. SIMO will match any programme (aka: Land Use) names in your file with the names in the JSON and color the data accordingly. If you have a name not in the schema, the app will assign a random RGB color.

<aside> ❗ Example: If you have a programme called "office" and you use the UIM Color Schema, it will be dark red.

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Create your own Color Schema!

SIMO provides two workflows for using the UIM Graphic Standards: in Rhino and in the Dashboard. For further information, please refer to the respective user guides (in this website). Files are saved with the Rhino App installation within the Packages folder, here:

C:\\Users\\[user]\\AppData\\Roaming\\McNeel\\Rhinoceros\\packages\\[RHINOVERSION]\\SIMO-Rhino\\[SIMOVERSION]\\EmbeddedResources\\color-schemas

In the SIMO Dashboard app you can Load, Edit, Create and Save your own color schemas for presenting your data visualization. You can also open the JSON files and edit them manually if you would like. From the Dashboard, you can save your .json file wherever you want and load it into both the Rhino and Dashboard app. You can create and use as many as you want!