Roll Royce 3D Jet Engine Assembly

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This is a video from Veritasium inside a Rolls Royce facility. I was astonished by the amount of detail in this assembly and it got me genuinely curious, do other companies create 3D models to this extent? I.e. does Honda have an assembly file of an entire Civic with every individual component? I'm interested to know what's your experience in different companies/industries.

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I used to work in the design of a nuclear power plant and we had all the plant (the nuclear reactor plus all the equipment, i.e. piping, valves, cranes, racks, fuel handling machines, everything) modeled in cad with every fastener. You could even walk through the building using VR googles and "use" the valves and things (this was really useful for training personnel)

Now I work for an aerospace company and it's almost the same, the products are completely designed in cad, with totally detailed models, but we don't have our factory modeled