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