Autodesk Alias Surface ® ® Perfect your designs.
Master Complex Shapes Model high-quality production surfaces with speed and control. Autodesk Alias Surface gives you all the advanced surface creation tools you need to create high-quality surfaces ready for manufacturing. ® ® Image courtesy of Daniel Simon, Cosmic Motors Contents Design Modeling.......................................... 3 Precision Surface Modeling....................... 4 Reverse Engineering.................................... 5 Visualization and Communication...........
Design Modeling Take your 3D models to the next level. Evolve concepts through a creative, iterative process. The concept development phase demands close collaboration between designers and engineers to produce concepts that are new, yet technically feasible. Flexible Modeling Take advantage of a range of product modeling techniques to visualize any form. Autodesk® Alias® Surface combines fast, repeatable curve-based modeling tools with the ability to directly sculpt 3D models.
Precision Surface Modeling Develop the Class-A surfaces engineering teams need to create tooling. Dynamic modeling capabilities help you develop Bezier or NURBS geometry in less time. Advanced Surface Creation Tools Advanced tools for creating surfaces ensure that your surfaces maintain positional, tangent, or curvature continuity with surrounding surfaces—for high-quality results ready for manufacturing. Surface Evaluation Verify the quality of created surfaces, including curvature and radii analysis.
Reverse Engineering Move easily between the analog and digital worlds. Autodesk Alias Surface lets you incorporate changes to a physical model into your digital model. Scan Data Workflows Import and configure data from 3D scanners to visualize and reverse-engineer consumer product or vehicle models. Alias Surface helps you simplify and remove data with tools for cutting, smoothing, automatic hole filling, and reducing mesh.
Visualization and Communication 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 enhance realism and to evaluate surfaces and design form. Autodesk Alias Surface reduces time-consuming renderings by providing immediate visual feedback on your designs.
Productive Environment Shorten the learning curve and speed your workflow with the intuitive Autodesk Alias Surface user interface. Marking Menus Quickly select commands without looking away from the design. Patented marking menus let you use context-sensitive gestures to select commands. 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.
Process Integration Reliable data exchange with CAD software is important throughout the design process. Imported engineering data can be used as references for sketching and modeling. After the design model is created and approved, data can be exchanged with CAD software to help preserve design integrity in the engineering phase.
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.
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.
