AnyLogic enables users to create 3D animations for their models. 3D animation is the most realistic and natural way of visualizing the simulated process.
3D animation in the Autoclaved Aerated Concrete Factory model
Just add a scene for 3D animation (3D window) on the graphical diagram of your top-level (Main) agent.
AnyLogic enables users to construct 3D animations from the set of standard geometric shapes: rectangle, line, oval, polyline, image, text, group. These shapes support the third dimension — Z-height and appear in 2D and 3D presentation scenes, thereby, you may get two representations of the process at once.
3D primitives used in the Copper Nickel Mine model animation
Standard shapes are usually used to draw simple objects (e.g. columns, boxes, etc.). More complicated objects (railcars, forklift trucks, airplanes, etc.) are usually not drawn in AnyLogic, but rather imported from the outside using the special 3D Object element. AnyLogic supports import of 3D models that are stored in Collada (DAE) files.
AnyLogic also provides a set of ready-to-use 3D objects in the 
3D Objects palette.
3D Objects palette
You can implement a kind of a workbench with controls, charts, 2D and 3D animations side by side, thus eliminating the necessity to switch between several windows at the model runtime.
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