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TestFit 4.7: Urban Planner—Free Massing Tool

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Joann Lui
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In case you’ve missed it, we recently launched Urban Planner, a free version of TestFit that will allow you to quickly evaluate solutions for your site using our out-of-the-box massing tools.

TestFit Urban Planner
TestFit Urban Planner

Let’s dive right in.

What is Urban Planner?

Urban Planner is a free version of TestFit that streamlines large-scale urban planning with customizable massing tools, including road layouts, zoning setbacks, design schemes, and more.

It allows architects and urban planners to quickly and efficiently generate massing studies, analyze site feasibility, and create dynamic urban plans. Whether you're designing a multi-block city or single-block development, Urban Planner provides the tools you need to get your urban planning done fast.

Key Features of Urban Planner

Site Planning

Quickly create a site boundary with map or satellite views.

Site boundary
Site boundary

Develop road layouts with automatic intersection generation and dynamic street section editing.

Road layout
Road layout

Model angle-planed and form-based setbacks based on user-input parameters.

Angle-planed setbacks
Angle-planed setbacks

Concept Iteration

Create and save different scenarios to find the best site solution possible.

Design schemes
Design schemes

Impress your clients with early-stage financial data from land cost to yield on cost.

Financial data
Financial data

Direct Integration

Easily jump from massing to design and documentation with our Revit add-in.

Massing to Revit
Massing to Revit

Visualize your urban plans and capture rendering views with Enscape right inside TestFit

Urban Planner with Enscape rendering
Urban Planner with Enscape rendering

Why a Free Massing Tool?

TestFit started out on a granular building scale—solving unit mix, parking layout, and warehouse sites. But if we truly believe in reinventing the development process for the betterment of our future communities, how can we do that if we’re only limited to serving our existing markets?

It’s time to democratize access to TestFit so that more architects and urban planners can use it to optimize their feasibility studies for projects of all sizes. With Urban Planner, we’re one step closer to helping build what the world needs fast.  

Use our massing tool for free to get your urban planning done 4x faster. Try Urban Planner today.

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