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“What we’re doing with the Fantasyland expansion is using the tablet technology combined with the BIM, which is allowing us to take our project into the field like we’ve never done before,” said Warzecha. “It’s allowing us to take some of our partners who can’t read the two-dimensional plan.
“As an example, as we built our kitchen, we took our operating partners as well as the head chef, and we allowed them to walk through the 3D model to ensure the design layout was perfect. Before, we couldn’t do this until the kitchen was actually in construction.”
It’s also having a profound impact in the field. Imagineers can pull up the 3D recreation of a ride like the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and use that for both pre-visualization and for cross-checking and problem-solving at the building site. …
That work is bringing 3D movies to life like the new Cars Land section of Disneyland, which opens June 15 and allows kids of all ages to actually drive Mater, Lightning McQueen and other popular characters from the hit films in a life-sized Radiator Springs.
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