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Alias is design software that lets you create products and improve processes with a single design pipeline.
- Seamlessly collaborate across different workflows and personas.
- Increase productivity and eliminate the need to toggle between siloed systems.
- Use a single source for design from sketch through production surfacing.
- Virtually collaborate in Alias with Create VR for Alias.
Why Alias?
Make faster design decisions with automated workflows
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Enhance collaboration with Alias Assemblies and Shotgun
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Highlights
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Subdivisional modeling workflows (NEW) Alias 2023 provides more SubD automation with the reform function, and a unique way to transition creases. Reform gives you the power to take any scanned mesh data and convert it to a SubD model for faster roundtrip design iteration. |
Accelerate your design process (ENHANCED) Accelerate your design process with multiple enhancements in the latest version of Alias, including a new reworked round tool. |
Features
Concept Design and Fast Content Modeling
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Sketching and illustration tools Draw and edit with integrated tools. Capture lines, circles, and ellipses with predictive strokes. |
Flexible product modeling Fast, repeatable, curve-based modeling tools let you directly edit and sculpt 3D models. |
Fast concept modeling Get a complete concept model workflow, from sketch to final concept model. |
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Photoshop live link Sketches from Photoshop can be linked to Alias. Changes to sketches are dynamically updated in Alias. |
Dynamic shape modeling Quickly manipulate your product model and explore shape variations on 3D forms without rebuilding geometry. |
3D sculpting 3D sculpt surfaces by directly adjusting surface control vertices. Use curve-based tools, direct modeling, and more. |
Detailed Design and Surface Analysis
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Deck seam Deck seam (similar to a flat fell seam) has been added to the Stitch and Seam tool. |
Precise surface creation Use tools that help you create mathematical shapes. Control pitch with the Revolve tool, and more. |
Multiblend tool Make smooth transitions between surfaces. |
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Light ray effects and reflections Study your surfaces in a virtual lighting studio with the Light Tunnel tool. |
Computational design Quickly generate complex repeatable patterns, and enable rapid design iterations and exploration. |
Automatic arrays of shapes Simplify uniform and nonuniform objects using arrays. Create arrays of lines and surfaces in 2D and 3D. |
Surface Modeling and Class-A Surfacing
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New subdivision modeling tools Alias has integrated the strengths of adaptive subdivision with native NURBS surface technology. |
Global refit Refit your digital model to the changed physical model. |
Improved surface from mesh tool Create a surface on mesh with 1 of 3 surface types. Update original data with scanned clay data. |
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Precision surface modeling Create Class-A surfaces with speed and control. |
Surface creation and editing Perform multiple operations with a single, automated tool. |
Predictive control Get more predictable results with new tools such as Freeform Curve Blend and View Flip. |
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Multicurve profile input Profile tools provide an advanced way to work with surfaces, such as rotating a profile to a target surface. |
Intelligent form factor capability Define ratios with Form Factor tools. |
Mesh selection techniques Use an expanded mesh selection toolset. |
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Offset tool Offset command ensues that offset CV layout quality is maintained, enabling a semiautomated, time-saving workflow. |
Design Communication and Product Visualization
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Save file author options Save the file author information under the save information section when saving or exporting a file. |
File > Share view Disable the share view option using an environment variable. |
Virtual reality with Alias Enhance design reviews with virtual reality. Explore your design to scale using an HMD in VR. |
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Interactive product visualization Evaluate design options with real-time visualizations. Use shading models, apply color, add texture, and more. |
Convenient data exchange Share industrial design data with mechanical design and CAD software, including Inventor, CATIA, and SOLIDWORKS. |
Switch between shading assignments Easily switch between color combinations. |
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Variant configuration sets Capture your current view to return to it easily. |
VRED compatibility Quickly convert Alias files to VRED software for 3D visualization. |
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Which version of Alias is right for you?
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Fast concept modeling |
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Mesh-like modeling for 3D sculpting |
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Concept exploration |
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Controlled lines for concept design |
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Non-destructive detailing |
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Rendering and material management |
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Detailed design |
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Computational design with Dynamo |
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Stitches and seams |
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Surface chain select tool |
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Automatic arrays of shapes |
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Mathematically precise surface creation |
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Flip view across x-axis |
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Freeform curve blend tool |
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Surface modeling and Class-A surfacing |
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Precision surface modeling |
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Scan data workflows |
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Multiblend tool |
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Multicurve profile input |
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Surface analysis |
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Light ray effects and reflections |
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Shading in clay |
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Isophotes for surface flow |
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Surface evaluation |
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