Plex-Earth

Built by engineers, for engineers.

Plex-Earth is an engineering-led product built for the day-to-day reality of AEC work: deadlines, messy inputs, and the need to make decisions before the survey arrives. The focus is simple: make real-world context usable inside CAD, not trapped in side tools, screenshots, and disconnected reference files.

Real-world context, without the GIS overhead.

Teams and individuals use Plex-Earth to bring georeferenced aerial and satellite imagery, plus terrain and elevation data, into CAD to understand existing conditions, constraints, and access points before ever setting foot on site.

Recent and historical high-resolution imagery.

For projects that need sharper, more recent imagery than default basemaps provide, Plex-Earth offers direct access to premium imagery partners within the platform, without separate contracts. Premium providers like Vantor (formerly Maxar), Airbus, Hexagon, and Nearmap offer higher-resolution or specialized coverage that’s especially useful for dense urban sites, complex corridors, and higher-stakes planning work.

Key capabilities:

• Import design-ready imagery: Bring high-resolution aerial/satellite imagery into the drawing (single images or mosaics) for reliable site context.
• Build terrain models from elevation data: Turn elevation sources (including GeoTIFF) into CAD terrain outputs like contours, meshes, and native Civil 3D surfaces.
• See site change over time: Create imagery timelines with recent + historical datasets using Timeviews.
• Transform coordinate systems without rework: Convert between coordinate systems while keeping Plex-Earth imagery and terrain aligned.
• Connect your own basemaps: Add WMS/WMTS/Tile Server/ArcGIS services as custom imagery providers inside CAD.
• Share via Google Earth: Export CAD geometry to Google Earth with KML/KMZ (including 3D KMZ options) for a simple, shareable 3D view.
• Adjust imagery in-CAD: Fine-tune brightness/contrast/transparency and create clippings/cutouts to keep drawings readable.