Autodesk® Alias®

What’s new in Alias 2016

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 Autodesk Alias 2016 family of products

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Design SpeedForm Concept Surface AutoStudio
Industrial and product Advanced conceptual Complete conceptual Advanced technical Premier automotive
design solution for design tool design package surfacing for design, technical
the creative design production and surfacing, and
process Class-A modelers visualization solution

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 Alias 2016 product line
What are the 2016 Alias product offerings ?

Product Alias Alias VRED

Alias Design Alias Surface VRED Design VRED Sketchbook® Maya®
Package SpeedForm AutoStudio Professional

Alias AutoStudio ○  ○  ○  ○  
Alias Surface ○ ○  ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Alias Concept   ○ ○ ○ ○   ○
Alias SpeedForm ○  ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Alias Design  ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○  ○

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 Alias 2016 themes

Thought leadership
Technical surfacing Customer satisfaction
Stitch and seam
Scan data workflows Chain select surfaces
Multisurface workflows Extend trim surfaces

User interaction Interoperability

Layer Autodesk common materials
Variants
Switch shaders

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 Interoperability

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 Interoperability
New tools
 Automotive common materials
 Alias export from SpeedForm

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 Interoperability

Interoperability

Key features
 Autodesk® SketchBook®
software and sketching
tools
 SpeedForm
 Automotive common
materials
 Same materials for Alias and
VRED
 Alias to VRED™
 Alias to clay
 Alias from scan
 Alias to CAD

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 User interaction

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 User interaction

New tools Enhanced tools

 Ability to switch shading assignments
 Interface scaling for high-resolution  Pick component to select trimmed
monitors surfaces
 New Transform tool  Object lister and layer categories
 Variant sets replace bookmarks  Reference Manager
 Text improvements
 Tool window improvements  Confirm window update
 Window transparency
 Layer folders

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Layers

Key features
 Layer folders
 Right-click to group selected
folders
 Create folder and drag layers
 Layer organization
 Right-click to create layer with
selected objects
 Duplicate layers and folders
 Alt + single click
visibility/invisibility/isolate

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Variants

Key features
 Replaces bookmark lister
 One click to create
 Adds groups for
organization
 Add/recreate/delete/
publish

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Switch shaders

Key features
 Ability to switch shading
assignments
 Create switch shader
 Select shader and ADD
 Assign switch shaders to
objects

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Reference Manager
enhancements
Key features
 Isolate node
 (alt-click)
 All nodes visible/invisible
 (shift+click)
 Change point of interest
when working with
Reference Manager
 New filter menu
 Change layer colors inside
Reference Manager
 Expand to see components

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Window transparency

Key features
 Adds transparent windows
 Enables visual access to
your models under windows
 Move over window to make
opaque

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Xform tool with manipulators

Key features
 Add transform manipulator
 Move
 Scale
 Rotate

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 Customer satisfaction

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 Customer satisfaction
New tools
 Surface chain pick
 Interface Scaling
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Enhanced tools
 Extend tool enhancements
 Shared preferences improvements
 Trim divide
 History on both sides
 Text Improvements
 Tool Window Improvements
 Tool window same size and position
 Window collapse direction and lock
 Alt-Click to expand window
 Window Transparency
 Customer satisfaction

Chain select surfaces

Key features
 Chain select surfaces with
 G0 Continuity (default)
 G1 Continuity
 Simple select and all
connected surfaces are
selected
 Follows
 Construction tolerances
 Tool-selectable tolerances

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Extend trimmed surfaces

Key features
 Extend chains of surfaces
select (not new for 2016)
 Extend NATURAL edges of
trimmed surfaces
 Trimmed edges stay
trimmed as long as you
meet trimming conditions

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 Customer satisfaction

Trim divide

Key features
 Trim divide
 History maintained with divide

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 Thought leadership

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 Thought leadership in modeling

New tools Enhanced tools

 Stitch and seam tool
 Draft surfaces
 Flange surfaces
 Surface fillet

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 Thought leadership in modeling

Stitch and seam tool

Key features
 Great for visualization purposes
 Create
 Join – A seam
 French – A seam and a straight stitch
 Baseball – Seam and x-like stitch pattern
 Surface edge or curve on surface
 Multiple controls for seam:
 Length into the surface
 Depth
 Shape of the seam
 Gap between seam edges
 Bulge of the seam
 Switch to choose what side should
get option
 Controls over stitch

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 Technical surfacing

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 Technical surfacing

New tools Enhanced tools

 MultiBlend tool
 Align tool enhancements
 Surface from mesh
 Check model identifies T-connections
 Mesh subdivide
 Updated fit scan
 Mesh smooth
 Multisurface draft
 Trim divide

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Scan data workflow:

Mesh subset improvements
Key features
 Introduces new mesh
selection techniques
 NormalAngle selects mesh
with similar normal direction
 Brush selects mesh from
user-controlled brushes

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Scan data workflow:

Fit to scan redone
Key features
 Simple click four points on
mesh and controlled
surface is fit to the mesh
 History-based tool

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Scan data workflow:

NEW Surface from mesh
Key features
 New mesh selection
techniques
 Adds curvature to mesh
selection
 Three creation modes
 Simple
 Boundary
 Theoretical
 History-based

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Multisurface workflows:
NEW Multiblend
Key features
 Replaces n-sided blend
 Fills an enclosed gap from
three or more input edges
 Control boundary continuity
and internal structure of the
surface

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 Technical surfacing Parameter User-defined
Multisurface Places the surface boundaries in
the middle of the curve
Manually control the position of
the edges

workflows:
MultiBlend
Edge split type

Flexure Arc length

Similar to Curvature but adds Places the surface boundaries in
additional Math properties the middle of the chord

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 Technical surfacing Automatic Planar
Multisurface Alias automatically places location
of star point
defined by the plane of the current
star point and normal direction

workflows:

MultiBlend
Star point
Modification
Normal View
along a line in the direction of the plane is defined by star point and is
normal perpendicular to the camera view

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Multisurface workflows:
MultiBlend Edge continuity – G0 to G2
Other options
Seam continuity – G1 or G2
Shape factor – Default to 1; similar to flow control in other tools. It controls the influence of
edge normal inside the multi blend.

Cross variation – Default off or to longitudinal variation to create lowest degree surface
 Longitudinal variation moves control point parallel to the edge
 Cross variation manipulates distance of control point to edge

Inner curvature – This only operates if in G1 Seam Continuity is set.

 If working with more than five edges, this should be set.

Star point modification – moves star point

 Automatic – Alias chooses best option. No control for user
 Planar – user moves start point defined by the plane of the current star point and normal
direction
 Normal – user moves start point along a line in the direction of the normal
 View – user moves similar to planar but plane is defined by star point and is perpendicular to
the camera view

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Multisurface workflows:
Multisurface draft
Key features
 Build clean flange off lightweight
curve
 Create flange from curve on surface
 New length mode
 Default
 Projected
 Projected planar
 Intersect flange with trim or trim
convert
 Orientation vector
 Draft to surface
 Rotational draft angle calculation
 Draft radial

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 Summary

Thought leadership
Technical surfacing Stitch and seam Customer satisfaction
Scan data workflows Chain select surfaces
Multisurface workflows Extend trim surfaces

User interaction Interoperability

Layer Autodesk common materials
Variants
Switch shaders

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