Ara 3D

Modern Scalable Software for AEC

About Us

We are a Montreal based start-up specializing in 3D software development for AEC professionals founded by Christopher Diggins.

Ara 3D Studio

Our flagship project, expected to be opened as a public beta on March 1st, 2025 is Ara 3D Studio. Ara 3D Studio is an interactive real-time 3D environment that puts computational design within everyone's reach.

It is inspired by parametric design tools like Grasshopper and Dynamo, but is designed to enable the generation and modification of extremely large amounts of data while maintaining interactive frame-rates.

Unlike other parametric design tools Ara 3D Studio is built on C# scripts rather than graphs. It comes with an extensive and easy to use open-source geometry library. This means your scripts and workflows can be freely reused outside of the environment, including in commercial tools or private in-house tools. You can even run your scripts on the browser.

For those with no coding experience, a state-of-the-art integrated AI assistant generate the code you want with a simple natural language input.

Send us an email to be informed when the beta is ready for download.

Executive Consulting Services

We offer executive consulting services to businesses working with 3D data or developing software for use in the AEC industry. Our expertise is called upon to provide guidance on:

  • Business development
  • Product management
  • Software architecture
  • Data interoperability
  • Developer user experience

Our CEO Christopher Diggins is an experienced computer science instructor and public speaker and is available for seminars and workshops.

Custom 3D and BIM Software Development for AEC

We offer custom software development services for the AEC industry. Together we have many years of experience in web-development, desktop application development, and plug-in development.

We specialize in building prototypes that demonstrate solutions to what are considered by some as "hard" technical problems, such as software optimization or large scale data transformation. We are also excited to work on automating tasks, data analysis, plug-in development, and adding features to existing code-bases.

With the help of our partners we are equipped to address a wide range of technologies and project scopes.

Our Partners

e-verse

Based in Miami Florida, their motto is "architects and engineers who code".

E-verse offers custom software development services to AEC firms and technology companies. We work closely with e-verse to make sure that we offer guidance and perspectives that are not only informed by best practices in the software industry, but that align with how users and customers in the AEC industry actually work.

When you engage with Ara 3D, we specialize develop prototypes, software development plans, and providing strategic and high-level technical guidance. E-verse advises us, provides estimates, and can offer additional software development resources as required for larger scale projects.

Open-Source Projects

We manage or have contributed to a large number of open-source libraries. Here are a few of them:

  • Bowerbird - a C# scripting environment for Revit
  • Revit Utils - a set of open-source libraries for Revit
  • Plato.Geometry - a C# library for 2D and 3D math and geometry
  • Plato - a cross platform programming language
  • BFAST - An efficient serialization format for storing arrays of binary data
  • VIM WebGL Viewer - A 3D WebGL viewer for AEC data
  • VIM File Format - A file format optimized for rendering and querying very large BIM models

Contact Us

“As long as we work together—with both urgency and determination—there are no limits to what we can achieve.”
—Paul Allen

We are always interested in creating new relationships with people and business passionate about 3D. We would love to hear about your projects and needs, and answer any questions you may have.

Copyright 2018-2025 Ara 3D Inc. | Montreal QC, Canada
(438)828-7208 | info@ara3d.com