New features for 2015

Alias® automotive and industrial design software showcases enhanced concept modeling, technical surfacing, and visualization tools for 2015. Industrial designers and technical surfacing experts in automotive and other industries will find support for their creative visual models and innovations.

Concept design & product modeling

Revolve tool enhancements NEW

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The Barrel and Helix tools are now grouped under a Side Glass surface type.

Skin tool enhancements NEW

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Enhanced Bezier surface quality supports segmented rail curves. Improved Proportional Crown lets you choose direction and adjust the surface crown.

Form Factor included in Freeform Blend tool NEW

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In addition to Shape controls, Freeform Blend uses Form Factor controls in fillet-like situations, which makes it easier to match the shape between blends and fillets.

Design communication & product visualization

VRED compatibility NEW

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VRED 3D visualization software users can view Alias geometry with realistic materials and environments.

Surface modeling & Class-A surfacing

Enhanced Profile tool NEW

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Rotate or slide a profile to touch a curve or surface with the updated Profile tool.

3D Surface Array tool NEW

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Create arrays across surfaces in multiple directions with the enhanced Surface Array tool.

Enhanced Align tool NEW

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Align now includes multiple improvements, including Center Original options.

VRED NURBS surface analysis NEW

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High-quality surface analysis uses native spline definitions for better accuracy.

Surface analysis

Light Tunnel NEW

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Create linear reflections on a model in a cylindrical tunnel of lights.

Shading in clay NEW

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Give your model the look of clay by shading it with a low-specularity clay color.

Isophotes for surface flow NEW

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Display thin, sharp isophote lines to alert you to possible errors in your design.

Explore concept design and product modeling

Alias® industrial design software supports your innovative concept designs. From digital sketching in 2D to developing your ideas into 3D, Alias supports a creative, iterative product modeling process.

Revolve tool enhancements NEW

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The Barrel and Helix tools are now grouped under a Side Glass surface type.

Skin tool enhancements NEW

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Enhanced Bezier surface quality supports segmented rail curves. Improved Proportional Crown lets you choose direction and adjust the surface crown.

Form Factor included in Freeform Blend tool NEW

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In addition to Shape controls, Freeform Blend uses Form Factor controls in fillet-like situations, which makes it easier to match the shape between blends and fillets.

Sketching and illustration tools

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Capture and communicate concept design ideas freehand without switching applications.

Flexible product modeling

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Experiment with ideas in shape and form and pursue innovative solutions to your design challenges.

Dynamic shape modeling

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Experiment with shapes at any stage of the design process.

Array tool

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Create arrays of objects, linearly or radially, from an original set of objects. This is useful when modeling products such as grills, speakers, and wheels.

Duplicate objects around curves

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The Path Array tool duplicates objects around curves into “stitch patterns.”

Advanced Skin tool controls

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In addition to NURBS, Bezier, and explicit control, Proportional Crown raises the midpoint of the surface, providing exceptional flexibility for concept or technical surfacing.

3D sculpting

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Refine your 3D models through an intuitive, iterative process. Evolve design concepts from idea to reality.

Automated surface creation and editing

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The task-based surface modeling tool integrates vector and model space controls to help improve productivity.

Product visualization for design communication

Convey the fine detail and high-level precision of your design communication to customers, team members, and collaborators with ease. Help your work make a statement with the manifold product visualization and annotation tools intrinsic to Alias® industrial design software.

VRED compatibility NEW

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VRED 3D visualization software users can view Alias geometry with realistic materials and environments.

Interactive product visualization

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Quickly evaluate design options with real-time interactive product visualization in Alias software.

Compelling photorealistic renderings

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Use product visualization for photorealistic renderings in print, video, animation, or interactive presentations.

Annotation tools

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Built-in bookmarks, pencils, and markers help you review designs. Use your entire screen to work with just the necessary interface aspects.

Convenient data exchange

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Share your design data with mechanical design and engineering software, such as Inventor and AutoCAD, using the DWG™ format.

Class-A surfacing and digital sculpting tools

Alias® industrial design software provides the digital surfacing tools you need to build high-quality Class-A surfaces. Create production-ready digital surfacing and refine innovative design details, all with speed, control, and accuracy.

Enhanced Profile tool NEW

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Rotate or slide a profile to touch a curve or surface with the updated Profile tool.

3D Surface Array tool NEW

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Create arrays across surfaces in multiple directions with the enhanced Surface Array tool.

Enhanced Align tool NEW

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Align now includes multiple improvements, including Center Original options.

VRED NURBS surface analysis NEW

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High-quality surface analysis uses native spline definitions for better accuracy.

Precision surface modeling

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Create production surfaces with speed and control with Alias software.

Automated surface creation and editing

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Accelerate the design of precision surfaces.

Multicurve profile input

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The Profile tool helps you design multicurve input for the profile, which can then be swept along a single- or multiple-path curve.

Surface trimming and screen management

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Trim, Divide, and Trim Convert tools support intersections and give you surface trimming control.

Efficient multisurface fillet tool

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Streamlined selection improvements from Form Factor make the Surface Fillet and Symmetric Fillet tools faster.

Intelligent Form Factor capability

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The tool defines the ratio of the length of the innermost CV arms to the length of the outer (tangent) arms of the hull in the V direction of the fillet.

Multiple profile set inputs

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The Profile tool enables multiple profile sets as inputs to the tool.

Align tool and NURBS to Bezier

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Efficient Align tool, Transform CV, and NURBS to Bezier support.

Automotive and industrial surface evaluation

In addition to creating Class-A technical surfaces, Alias® industrial design software is well-equipped to analyze complex surfaces for numerous imperfections. With multifaceted surface data analysis, Alias gives you the tools to help refine your design in progress, eliminating wasted production time and resources.

Light Tunnel NEW

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Create linear reflections on a model in a cylindrical tunnel of lights.

Shading in clay NEW

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Give your model the look of clay by shading it with a low-specularity clay color.

Isophotes for surface flow NEW

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Display thin, sharp isophote lines to alert you to possible errors in your design.

Surface evaluation

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Fine-tune surfaces with analysis tools that offer instant numerical and graphical feedback on surface quality.