Autodesk ALIAS DESIGN Brochure

Autodesk®

Alias® Design

Inspire with your
designs.

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.

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

Unleash Creativity

Combine creativity with craftsmanship, captur­ing inspirational forms using the powerful tools
in Autodesk
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 persuasively—help 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,
ecient, and eective communication. As a result,
design review decisions are made quickly, and proj­ects progress seamlessly.

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Alias® Design software. It helps you

Own the Design

Alias Design helps you maintain design integrity
throughout the product development process.
It provides tools for eciently 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 eectively, 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

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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

The concept
development phase
demands close
collaboration between
designers and engineers
to produce concepts that
are new, yet technically
feasible.

Capture and communicate ideas freehand without
switching applications. Alias Design has the
tools you need—including pencils, paintbrushes,
airbrushes, markers, erasers, and special texture and
eects brushes—for quick sketching, illustration,
and image editing.

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Concept Exploration

Customizable Paint User Interface

At startup, customize your sketching and illustration
user interface, and enjoy a simpler, more ecient
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 D/D 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 what’s hard to model and model what’s 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 drawing’s proportions. The
interactive symmetric drawing feature lets you
duplicate symmetric brush strokes bilaterally or
radially. Capture perfect lines, circles, and ellipses
with predictive strokes.

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