Beyond Typicals - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Built on Unreal Engine 5, Beyond Typicals is a simple yet powerful, drag-and-drop 3D typical section creator for civil infrastructure projects.

Quickly build automatically animated, automatically labeled, photorealistic 3D road, rail, and bridge section models from scratch using library of 100+ pre-made section types and 400+ 3D assets. Over 40 photorealistic textures are available including various paving types, native ground cover, and subgrade layers. Users experience the benefit of real-time 3D section editing to save time and money and come to decisions faster.

Area highlights and pathway arrows can easily be applied and customized to call attention to sensitive areas like work zones and slow lanes. Moving traffic (including cars, trucks, busses, trains, bikes, pedestrians, and more) can be refined for speed, volume, and type. Pedestrian demographic sliders can be used to match gender and ethnicity distributions of the project area.

Export high-quality image and video renders to communicate design alternatives, construction phasing, utility improvements, urban planning, safety improvements, bridges, and more. The desktop application includes 50+ example projects that demonstrate the wide variety of civil infrastructure projects that can be clearly communicated using the tool.

The Photo Compositing feature can be used to import real-world photography to blend 3D models with the surrounding project area to enhance the realism of the 3D visualization. Licensing is available on an individual, per-user basis, and can be purchased for monthly or yearly terms. Enterprise licensing options are also available for shared use among larger teams.