Autodesk ALIAS DESIGN User manual

Autodesk®

Alias®Design

Inspire with your

designs.

Innovate Ahead of the Curve

Unleash Creativity

Combine creativity with craftsmanship, captur-

ing inspirational forms using the powerful tools

in Autodesk®Alias®Design software. It helps you

design innovative consumer product models, ad-

dressing the unique creative requirements of the

industrial design workﬂow. Alias Design powers

your creative process with industry-leading sketch-

ing, 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 communicat-

ing 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 proj-

ects progress seamlessly.

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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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

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.

Complete Sketching and Illustration Toolset

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.

Concept Exploration

The concept

development phase

demands close

collaboration between

designers and engineers

to produce concepts that

are new, yet technically

feasible.

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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.

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.

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.

Concept Exploration

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.

Flexible Modeling

Take advantage of a range of product modeling

techniques to visualize any form. Autodesk Alias

Design software combines fast, repeatable curve-

based modeling tools with the ability to directly

sculpt 3D models.

Dynamic Shape Modeling

Experiment with shapes at any stage of the design

process. Quickly manipulate your model, exploring

variations on 3D forms without rebuilding geometry,

or make real-time modiﬁcations in design reviews.

Shape objects dynamically with these powerful tools:

• LatticeRig—Sculptgeometrybymanipulatinga

customizable lattice created around an object.

• Bend—Bendgeometryusingacurvetocontrol

deformation.

• Twist—Twistgeometryaroundasingle-axiscurve.

• Conform—Conformgeometrytotheshapeof

another surface.

Design Modeling

Duplicate Place

Create repetitive geometry that follows surface

contours. Edit geometry, duplicate it based on

history, and place it onto

other geometry.

Rapid Prototyping

Build physical prototypes more eciently from

digital models. With rapid prototyping, you can

develop and reﬁne designs before committing

to production. Print in 3D using STL output for

stereolithography, and export data to computer

numerical control (CNC) machines. Alias Design

supports 3D printing in color.

Reﬁne your 3D models through a creative, iterative process—

evolving concepts from ideas to reality.

Surface Creation Tools

Maintain positional, tangent, or curvature continuity

with surrounding surfaces for high-quality results

that are ready for manufacturing. The surface

modeling tools in Alias Design accelerate the

process of creating high-quality surfaces.

CAD Evaluation

Verifythequalityofcreatedsurfaces,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.

Design Modeling

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.

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.

VisualizationandCommunication

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.

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.

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

or360-degreeinteractiveQuickTime®VRles.

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.

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.

Annotation Tools

Evaluate and review designs with ease. Take

advantage of your entire screen space, working

with only necessary interface aspects. Alias Design

provides a full set of annotation tools including

bookmarks, full-screen capabilities, and pencils and

markers.

Reference Data Workﬂow

Generate and compare an unlimited number

of design variations for engineering and design

reviews. The Reference Manager lets teams review

massive amounts of 3D geometry and interact

directly with detailed digital models.

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.

Productive Environment

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.

Marking Menus

Quickly select commands without looking away

from the design. Patented marking menus let you

use context-sensitive gestures to select commands.

Customizable Interface

Customize your user interface—including hotkeys,

tool displays, and marking menus—to suit any

workﬂow.

Data Organization

Improve workﬂow and performance by organizing

work and speeding navigation through complex

models. Alias Design helps you categorize and

organize model components into layers, for more

ecient navigation.

Mac OSX Operating System

Use Alias Design 64-bit on your Apple®Mac®.

Windows Vista Support

Use Alias Design 32-bit or 64-bit with Microsoft®

WindowsVista®.

It’s never been easier to learn quickly and work more

eciently. The intuitive user interface of Autodesk Alias

Design shortens the learning curve and speeds your workﬂow.

Process Integration

Data Exchange

Exchange digital design data with engineering teams

using fast, high-quality CAD translators for industry-

standard data formats such as DXF™, IGES, and STEP.

Data Exchange with Autodesk Manufacturing

Products

Exchange data with mechanical design and

engineering products, such as Autodesk®Inventor®

software, using the industry-leading DWG™data

format. The Alias Direct Reader add-in for Inventor

software makes it possible to directly read a native

Alias.wire ﬁle in Autodesk Inventor; the translator

reads surfaces, shells, solids, and curves from the

.wire ﬁle. Autodesk Alias Design also directly reads

native Autodesk Inventor data.

DirectConnect Data Translators

Integrate Alias Design into your development

pipeline by exchanging data bidirectionally with

CAD software packages such as CATIA®, UGS®NX,

Pro/ENGINEER®, PTC Granite®, JT, and SolidWorks®.

Model Veriﬁcation

Test geometry created in Alias Design to predict

and diagnose problems when transferring to CAD

systems such as Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, and

Pro/ENGINEER.

DWF File Format—New

Create DWF™ﬁles from Alias Design data with a

single click. DWF protects the integrity of a design

and allows for precise publishing, rendering, and

printing of even the most complex digital models.

Exchange data with CAD software throughout the design

process. Sketch and model over imported engineering data.

And when your model is approved, protect design integrity in the

engineering phase by exporting data to engineering packages.

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