Yes. For it to be useful, you need a detailed, accurate model of the thing you're working on. They exist for aircraft because they're needed to build the thing. Before 3D CAD, full-scale mock-ups were built to figure out how everything fit, and 3D CAD is cheaper than building a full-scale wooden mock-up.
Few other objects are that big, that complex, and have a sufficiently detailed model available. For a building, updating the model is a lot of work and requires discipline to keep the model in sync. Nuclear plants, spacecraft, and unusually complex chemical plants might have a model at that level of detail.
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Yes. For it to be useful, you need a detailed, accurate model of the thing you're working on. They exist for aircraft because they're needed to build the thing. Before 3D CAD, full-scale mock-ups were built to figure out how everything fit, and 3D CAD is cheaper than building a full-scale wooden mock-up.
Few other objects are that big, that complex, and have a sufficiently detailed model available. For a building, updating the model is a lot of work and requires discipline to keep the model in sync. Nuclear plants, spacecraft, and unusually complex chemical plants might have a model at that level of detail.