User manual AUTODESK ALIAS DESIGN BROCHURE

[. . . ] 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. [. . . ] 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 Verifythequalityofcreatedsurfaces, 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. 6 VisualizationandCommunication Communicate your design intent--bring 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 or360-degreeinteractiveQuickTime®VRfiles. 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. 7 VisualizationandCommunication Communicate your design intent--bring your ideas to life. Help team members and customers understand and visualize designs, so they can easily evaluate design options. 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. [. . . ] 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. [. . . ]