Autodesk Alias Design
Inspire with your designs.
Innovate Ahead of the Curve Style, form, and function all influence a consumers choice of products. Create the innovative designs consumers want faster than your competition. Use Autodesk Alias Design to experiment with ideas, rapidly iterate concepts, and refine winning details.
Unleash Creativity Combine creativity with craftsmanship, capturing inspirational forms using the powerful tools in Autodesk Alias Design software. It helps you design innovative consumer product models, addressing the unique creative requirements of the industrial design workflow. Alias Design powers your creative process with industry-leading sketching, modeling, and visualization tools. Using Alias Design, you can bring ideas to reality in a single software environment, in less time. Capture and Communicate Design Intent Tell your story clearly and persuasivelyhelp team members and customers understand your design intent. Alias Design provides a complete set of tools for producing innovative designs and communicating concepts to others. It helps reduce the time required to create high-quality imagery for clear, efficient, and effective communication. As a result, design review decisions are made quickly, and projects progress seamlessly. Own the Design Alias Design helps you maintain design integrity throughout the product development process. It provides tools for efficiently refining model details and creating production-quality data for downstream use. You own designs and incorporate changes later in the process, increasing the flexibility of design decisions and preventing loss or alteration of design intent during the engineering phase. Alias Design helps designers and engineers collaborate effectively, ensuring that designs address both aesthetic and functional requirements. Specialized Design Tools Alias Design unleashes innovation with features that support problem solving and experimentation. An enhanced set of tools for sketching, illustration, and image editing and functionality meets the requirements for: Concept exploration Design modeling Visualization and communication Productive environment Process integration
Contents Concept Exploration.. 3 Design Modeling.. 5 Visualization and Communication. 7 Productive Environment.. 9 Process Integration.. 10 Autodesk AliasStudio Product Line. 11 Learn More or Purchase.. 12
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Concept Exploration Pursue innovative, improved solutions to the challenges in your design brief. Autodesk Alias Design software helps you explore alternatives, experiment with ideas, and solve problems.
Complete Sketching and Illustration Toolset Capture and communicate ideas freehand without switching applications. Alias Design has the tools you needincluding pencils, paintbrushes, airbrushes, markers, erasers, and special texture and effects brushesfor quick sketching, illustration, and image editing.
The concept development phase demands close collaboration between designers and engineers to produce concepts that are new, yet technically feasible.
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Concept Exploration

Customizable Paint User Interface At startup, customize your sketching and illustration user interface, and enjoy a simpler, more efficient workflow. Use paint mode to transition smoothly from other 2D tools to Alias Design software. Alias Design speeds your work by giving you instant access to common brush controls, through a dynamic hot-spot interface that appears directly under the cursor. Hot spots combine common key functions, so you access the keyboard less often and enhance your focus on the task at hand.

Integrated 2d/3d Environment Create sketches at real-world scale, and draw over imported 3D CAD data to ensure design feasibility. Take advantage of the flexibility of Alias Design sketch whats hard to model and model whats hard to sketch.
Image Editing and Modification Create design variations easily. A full suite of color adjustment tools lets you tweak colors and explore color alternatives. Alias Design provides deform and warp tools to alter the proportion or character of an image, and modification tools to make subtle corrections or radical changes quickly and easily.
Advanced Sketching Tools Draw symmetrical objects quickly and get instant feedback on a drawings proportions. The interactive symmetric drawing feature lets you duplicate symmetric brush strokes bilaterally or radially. Capture perfect lines, circles, and ellipses with predictive strokes.
Design Modeling Refine your 3D models through a creative, iterative process evolving concepts from ideas to reality.
Flexible Modeling Take advantage of a range of product modeling techniques to visualize any form. Autodesk Alias Design software combines fast, repeatable curvebased modeling tools with the ability to directly sculpt 3D models.
Duplicate Place Create repetitive geometry that follows surface contours. Edit geometry, duplicate it based on history, and place it onto other geometry.
Dynamic Shape Modeling Experiment with shapes at any stage of the design process. Quickly manipulate your model, exploring variations on 3D forms without rebuilding geometry, or make real-time modifications in design reviews. Shape objects dynamically with these powerful tools: Lattice RigSculpt geometry by manipulating a customizable lattice created around an object. BendBend geometry using a curve to control deformation. TwistTwist geometry around a single-axis curve. ConformConform geometry to the shape of another surface.
Rapid Prototyping Build physical prototypes more efficiently from digital models. With rapid prototyping, you can develop and refine designs before committing to production. Print in 3D using STL output for stereolithography, and export data to computer numerical control (CNC) machines. Alias Design supports 3D printing in color.

Design Modeling

Surface Creation Tools Maintain positional, tangent, or curvature continuity with surrounding surfaces for high-quality results that are ready for manufacturing. The surface modeling tools in Alias Design accelerate the process of creating high-quality surfaces.
3D Sculpting Sculpt surfaces by adjusting surface control vertices. You can use curve-based tools to define a shape at its edges, and direct modeling to adjust the shape at any point. With Alias Design you maintain complete control, achieving the exact form and surface quality you need.

CAD Evaluation Verify the quality of created surfaces, including curvature and radii analysis, to help ensure that geometry can be used by downstream CAD products such as Autodesk Inventor, and meets manufacturing requirements. Semiautomated Modeling Tools Create the type of clean, complex surface results that satisfy engineering requirements and reduce the time required to add finishing details to a design model. For example, create a fillet and an accompanying flange in a single operation.
Align Tool Cleanly and accurately align surfaces and curves for quality surface modeling. The Align tool provides a focused, intuitive interaction that is supported by a new math capability that delivers optimal surface construction. Surface Fillet Accurately create aesthetic fillets, even through trimmed surface sets. Makes the fillet process faster and easier to repeat.
Visualization and Communication Communicate your design intentbring your ideas to life. Help team members and customers understand and visualize designs, so they can easily evaluate design options.
Interactive Shading Use shading models to increase realism and to evaluate surfaces and design forms. Autodesk Alias Design software reduces the need for time-consuming renderings with immediate visual feedback. The software supports material color, texture, glow, incandescence, bump, and displacement, and lets you quickly verify surface conditions such as curvature maps, zebra stripes, and draft angles. Compelling Output Get high-resolution images without a full software rendering. With Alias Design, you can instantly save high-resolution images of any modeling window. Compose images that display wireframes, canvas planes, or fully shaded models to create turntables or 360-degree interactive QuickTime VR files. Software Rendering Photorealistic rendering capabilities in Alias Design let you create images for print, video, or interactive presentations. Alias Design raycast and ray-trace renderers incorporate ambient occlusion calculations (soft shadows) and HDRI support for added realism.
Ambient Occlusion Render shading based on an omnidirectional light source to create general areas of shadow on models. Ambient occlusion, crucial to creating realistic environments with ambient lighting, provides soft shading similar to that of other complex, indirect lighting techniques. Image-Based Lighting (IBL) Use high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) as the light source for interactive visualization and rendering. The result is more realistic images for evaluating, presenting, and marketing designs.

Animation Create dynamic designs that show design functionality, without building a working prototype. With animation features, you can make object properties such as position and color change over time; display these properties in real time or as rendered images. Alias Design lets you create repetitive geometry that follows surface contours, and place geometry onto other geometry. Annotation Tools Evaluate and review designs with ease. Take advantage of your entire screen space, working with only necessary interface aspects. Alias Design provides a full set of annotation tools including bookmarks, full-screen capabilities, and pencils and markers. Reference Data Workflow Generate and compare an unlimited number of design variations for engineering and design reviews. The Reference Manager lets teams review massive amounts of 3D geometry and interact directly with detailed digital models.
Productive Environment Its never been easier to learn quickly and work more efficiently. The intuitive user interface of Autodesk Alias Design shortens the learning curve and speeds your workflow.
Unified Shading Environment Click through tasks faster with task-centric marking menus that reduce the use of dialog boxes. You can choose materials and assign shaders directly on surfaces with only a few clicks.
Customizable Interface Customize your user interfaceincluding hotkeys, tool displays, and marking menusto suit any workflow. Data Organization Improve workflow and performance by organizing work and speeding navigation through complex models. Alias Design helps you categorize and organize model components into layers, for more efficient navigation.
Marking Menus Quickly select commands without looking away from the design. Patented marking menus let you use context-sensitive gestures to select commands.
Mac OSX Operating System Use Alias Design 64-bit on your Apple Mac. Windows Vista Support Use Alias Design 32-bit or 64-bit with Microsoft Windows Vista.
Process Integration Exchange data with CAD software throughout the design process. Sketch and model over imported engineering data. And when your model is approved, protect design integrity in the engineering phase by exporting data to engineering packages.
Data Exchange Exchange digital design data with engineering teams using fast, high-quality CAD translators for industrystandard data formats such as DXF, IGES, and STEP. Data Exchange with Autodesk Manufacturing Products Exchange data with mechanical design and engineering products, such as Autodesk Inventor software, using the industry-leading DWG data format. The Alias Direct Reader add-in for Inventor software makes it possible to directly read a native Alias.wire file in Autodesk Inventor; the translator reads surfaces, shells, solids, and curves from the.wire file. Autodesk Alias Design also directly reads native Autodesk Inventor data. DirectConnect Data Translators Integrate Alias Design into your development pipeline by exchanging data bidirectionally with CAD software packages such as CATIA, UGS NX, Pro/ENGINEER, PTC Granite, JT, and SolidWorks. Model Verification Test geometry created in Alias Design to predict and diagnose problems when transferring to CAD systems such as Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, and Pro/ENGINEER. DWF File FormatNew Create DWF files from Alias Design data with a single click. DWF protects the integrity of a design and allows for precise publishing, rendering, and printing of even the most complex digital models.

Autodesk Alias Product Line The Autodesk Alias product line, part of the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping helps optimize the creative design process with industry-leading sketching, modeling, and visualization tools that help you quickly realize ideas in a single environment. The product family includes Autodesk Alias Design, Autodesk Alias Surface, and Autodesk Alias Automotive.
Autodesk Alias Product Line Autodesk Alias Design Autodesk Alias Design, part of the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping, is for consumer product designers who control the entire design processfrom ideation to the final surfaces that are passed to engineering. It enables designers to rapidly develop and communicate product design concepts using sketches, illustrations, photorealistic renderings, and animations. Autodesk Alias Surface Autodesk Alias Surface software, part of the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping, offers a full set of dynamic 3D modeling capabilities that enable virtual modelers to evolve concept models and scan data into high-quality production surfaces for consumer product design and Class-A surfaces for automotive design and styling. Autodesk Alias Automotive Autodesk Alias Automotive software, part of the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping, is an industry-leading application for automotive design and styling and the choice of leading automotive styling studios throughout the world. The software provides a comprehensive set of visualization and analysis tools for the entire shapedefinition process, from concept sketches through Class-A surfacing.
Task Deliverables Product
Creation and Communication of Design
Sketches Illustrations 3d concept models Production models Rapid prototypes Visualization Animation can data S Class-A surfaces Reverse engineering Advance evaluation Rapid prototypes isualization V can data S odified scan data M Class-A surfaces Reverse engineering Advance evaluation 3D concept models Rapid prototypes Visualization Sketches Illustrations Animations
Advanced Surfacing and Reverse Engineering

Autodesk Alias Surface

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Autodesk Alias Automotive
Digital Prototyping for the Manufacturing Market Autodesk is a world-leading supplier of engineering software, providing companies with tools to experience their ideas before they are real. By putting powerful Digital Prototyping technology within the reach of mainstream manufacturers, Autodesk is changing the way manufacturers think about their design processes and is helping them create more productive workflows. The Autodesk approach to Digital Prototyping is unique in that it is scalable, attainable, and cost-effective, which allows a broader group of manufacturers to realize the benefits with minimal disruption to existing workflows, and provides the most straightforward path to creating and maintaining a single digital model in a multidisciplinary engineering environment.

Learn More or Purchase Access specialists worldwide who can provide product expertise, a deep understanding of your industry, and value that extends beyond your software purchase. To purchase Autodesk Alias software, contact an Autodesk Premier Solutions Provider or Autodesk Authorized Reseller. Locate a reseller near you at www.autodesk.com/reseller. Autodesk Learning and Education From instructor-led or self-paced classes to online training or education resources, Autodesk offers learning solutions to fit your needs. Get expert guidance at an Autodesk Authorized Training Center (ATC) site, access learning tools online or at your local bookstore, and validate your experience with Autodesk certifications. Learn more at www.autodesk.com/learning. Autodesk Services and Support Accelerate return on investment and optimize productivity with innovative purchase methods, companion products, consulting services, and support from Autodesk and Autodesk authorized partners. Designed to get you up to speed and keep you ahead of the competition, these tools help you make the most of your software purchaseno matter what industry you are in. Learn more at www.autodesk.com/servicesandsupport. Autodesk Subscription Get the benefits of increased productivity, predictable budgeting, and simplified license management with Autodesk Subscription. You get any new upgrades of your Autodesk software and any incremental product enhancements, if these are released during your Subscription term. In addition, you get exclusive license terms available only to Subscription members. A range of community resources, including web support direct from Autodesk technical experts, self-paced training, and e-Learning, help extend your skills and make Autodesk Subscription the best way to optimize your investment. Learn more at www.autodesk.com/subscription.
*Free products are subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user license agreement that accompanies download of this software. Image Designed by Apparatus Inc. and Blueform Design Autodesk, Alias, Autodesk Inventor, DWG, DXF, and Inventor are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Autodesk reserves the right to alter product offerings and specifications at any time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or graphical errors that may appear in this document. 2009 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved. BR0A1-000000-MZ82

Autodesk Alias Design

Inspire with your designs.
Innovate Ahead of the Curve Style, form, and function all influence a consumers choice of products. Create the innovative designs consumers want faster than your competition. Use Autodesk Alias Design to experiment with ideas, rapidly iterate concepts, and refine winning details.
Facing these issues? Staying ahead of the competition requires consistent production of innovative designs. Design intent is lost or altered during the engineering phase. Moving between multiple software applications interrupts design workflow. Projects are delayed by a slow design review process. Design and engineering teams struggle to collaborate on designs.
Unleash Creativity Combine creativity with craftsmanship, capturing inspirational forms using the powerful tools in Autodesk Alias Design software. It helps you design innovative consumer product models, addressing the unique creative requirements of the industrial design workflow. Alias Design powers your creative process with industry-leading sketching, modeling, and visualization tools. Using Alias Design, you can bring ideas to reality in a single software environment, in less time. Capture and Communicate Design Intent Tell your story clearly and persuasivelyhelp team members and customers understand your design intent. Alias Design provides a complete set of tools for producing innovative designs and communicating concepts to others. It reduces the time required to create high-quality imagery for clear, efficient, and effective communication. As a result, design review decisions are made quickly, and projects progress seamlessly.
Own the Design Alias Design helps you maintain design integrity throughout the product development process. It provides tools for efficiently refining model details and creating production-quality data for downstream use. You own designs and incorporate changes later in the process, increasing the flexibility of design decisions and preventing loss or alteration of design intent during the engineering phase. Alias Design helps designers and engineers collaborate effectively, ensuring that designs address both aesthetic and functional requirements. Specialized Design Tools Alias Design unleashes innovation with features that support problem solving and experimentation. An enhanced set of tools for sketching, illustration, and image editing functionality helps meet the requirements for: Concept exploration Design modeling Visualization and communication Productive environment Process integration
Discover how Autodesk Alias Design helps companies turn design into a competitive advantage.
Bring your ideas to life. Build conceptual product models and create highquality surfaces with a comprehensive set of digital modeling, shape definition, painting, and sketching tools.
The Autodesk Alias Product Line Autodesk Alias Design Autodesk Alias Design is for consumer product designers who control the entire design processfrom ideation to the final surfaces that are passed to engineering. It enables designers to rapidly develop and communicate product design concepts using sketches, illustrations, photorealistic renderings, and animations. Autodesk Alias Surface Autodesk Alias Surface software, part of the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping, offers a full set of dynamic 3D modeling capabilities that enable virtual modelers to evolve concept models and scan data into high-quality production surfaces for consumer product design and Class-A surfaces for automotive design and styling. Autodesk Alias Automotive Autodesk Alias Automotive software, is an industry-leading application for automotive design and styling and the choice of leading automotive styling studios throughout the world. The software provides a comprehensive set of visualization and analysis tools for the entire shapedefinition process, from concept sketches through Class-A surfacing.
Stay ahead of the competition by consistently producing innovative designs. Autodesk Alias Design comprises a set of digital paint and sketching tools that enable you to efficiently experiment with and iterate your ideas throughout the entire design and refinement process. Providing a direct path to other software applications, you can replicate the same high quality as when designing with a brush, increasing productivity by helping reduce the time spent scanning and touching up paper sketches. Prevent design intent from being lost or altered during the engineering phase. Autodesk Alias Design software tools help you capture the forms you want without compromise. Create production-quality geometry that can move back and forth between design and engineering applications, enabling collaborative product development. Because you retain control of your designs, you can incorporate changes much later in the process, increasing flexibility. Deliver projects on time and on schedule. Autodesk Alias Design provides a complete set of tools for concept design and communication. Productivity tools help to reduce the time required to create high-quality imagery, animated movies, or interactive presentations for persuasive visual communication. Collaborate effectively on 3D design data. Autodesk Alias Design helps solve CAD integration issues by providing fast, high-quality data exchange with Autodesk Inventor software and other third-party CAD applications with industry-standard data formats and optional native translators using Autodesk DirectConnect software.

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Digital Prototyping Alias Design is part of the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping, which connects conceptual design, engineering and manufacturing teams through the use of a single digital model. This single digital model simulates the complete product and gives manufacturers the ability to better design, simulate and visualize their products. This unique approach to the product development process allows companies to reduce their reliance on physical prototypes and bring products to market ahead of the competition.
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Digital Prototyping for the Manufacturing Market Autodesk is a world-leading supplier of engineering software, providing companies with tools to experience their ideas before they are real. By putting powerful Digital Prototyping technology within the reach of mainstream manufacturers, Autodesk is changing the way manufacturers think about their design processes and is helping them create more productive workflows. The Autodesk approach to Digital Prototyping is unique in that it is scalable, attainable, and cost-effective, which allows a broader group of manufacturers to realize the benefits with minimal disruption to existing workflows, and provides the most straightforward path to creating and maintaining a single digital model in a multidisciplinary engineering environment.
Learn More or Purchase Access specialists worldwide who can provide product expertise, a deep understanding of your industry, and value that extends beyond your software purchase. To purchase Autodesk Alias software, contact an Autodesk Premier Solutions Provider or Autodesk Authorized Reseller. Locate a reseller near you at www.autodesk.com/reseller. Autodesk Learning and Education From instructor-led or self-paced classes to online training or education resources, Autodesk offers learning solutions to fit your needs. Get expert guidance at an Autodesk Authorized Training Center (ATC) site, access learning tools online or at your local bookstore, and validate your experience with Autodesk certifications. Learn more at www.autodesk.com/learning. Autodesk Services and Support Accelerate return on investment and optimize productivity with innovative purchase methods, companion products, consulting services, and support from Autodesk and Autodesk authorized partners. Designed to get you up to speed and keep you ahead of the competition, these tools help you make the most of your software purchaseno matter what industry you are in. Learn more at www.autodesk.com/servicesandsupport. Autodesk Subscription Get the benefits of increased productivity, predictable budgeting, and simplified license management with Autodesk Subscription. You get any new upgrades of your Autodesk software and any incremental product enhancements, if these are released during your Subscription term. In addition, you get exclusive license terms available only to Subscription members. A range of community resources, including web support direct from Autodesk technical experts, self-paced training, and e-Learning, help extend your skills and make Autodesk Subscription the best way to optimize your investment. Learn more at www.autodesk.com/subscription.

*Free products are subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user license agreement that accompanies download of this software. Image Designed by Apparatus Inc. and Blueform Design Autodesk, Alias, Autodesk Inventor, DWG, DXF, and Inventor are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Autodesk reserves the right to alter product offerings and specifications at any time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or graphical errors that may appear in this document. 2009 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved. BR0A1-000000-MZ78