Category: PRODUCT NEWS
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What’s new in VRED 2026: Next-gen visualization for designers
The VRED 2026 release continues to refine the value of real-time rendering, interoperability, and collaboration. Packed with groundbreaking new features like the Vulkan render engine and Live Referencing between Alias and VRED, this release is designed to make your design and visualization pipeline more efficient, more collaborative, and more powerful than ever before. Vulkan: A…
PRODUCT NEWS
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What’s new in Alias 2026: A new era of design, surfacing, and visualization
The Alias 2026 release brings an exciting range of new tools and workflows that continue to redefine how designers and engineers create, collaborate, and visualize their ideas. With a focus on seamless visualization, smarter modeling tools, and workflow efficiency, Alias 2026 makes it easier than ever to bring your creative vision to life. VRED Renderer…
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BMW Redefines Design Review with Cloud Streaming & VRED Core
At AIF25, BMW showcased its bold approach to the future of automotive design collaboration—bringing high-fidelity workflows directly into the cloud. Centered on pushing efficiency, security, and innovation, BMW’s demonstration focused on how VRED Core’s cutting-edge streaming functionality is reshaping collaborative design reviews from anywhere at every step in the process. Watch the BMW Cloud Streaming…
PRODUCT NEWS
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Autodesk Alias training material
For those of you who follow Autodesk Alias on social media, you will probably be aware of the many YouTube videos we have on the Alias channel. There are several Deep Dive as well as What’s New videos available. Autodesk Alias YouTube Channel What you may not be aware of, is the many training resources…
PRODUCT NEWS
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NIO Drives Workflow Efficiency Powered by Flow Production Tracking
At the 2025 Automotive Innovation Forum (AIF25), global EV innovator NIO shared how their team streamlined complex design and engineering workflows using Autodesk Flow Production Tracking — a solution built to support collaboration, transparency and process automation across fast-paced, creative production pipelines. As NIO scaled its operations to manage more concurrent programs, the need for…
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AIF25: Adaptability in Action – The Future of Automotive Innovation
The 2025 Automotive Innovation Forum (AIF25) brought together over 550 industry professionals, representing over 60 global automotive and mobility companies plus many individual designers, for two days of deep discussion around a central theme: Adaptability. Featuring 34 sessions, 28 external speakers, and 24 Autodesk experts, AIF25 explored how the design, engineering, and manufacturing landscape is evolving — and how teams must adapt their…
AI
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AIF25 Day 2 Recap – Going Deeper
The Automotive Innovation Forum (AIF25), Autodesk’s flagship annual event dedicated to the automotive and mobility industry, has just concluded. It’s been an exciting event, packed with meetings with our customers, networking, inspiring keynotes and sessions from our customers, sharing how they are adapting to face challenges in automotive design. Highlights from Day 2 Thomas Heermann,…
PRODUCT NEWS
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Autodesk VRED 2025.3 release
We are excited to announce the release of Autodesk VRED 2025.3, available to our subscribers for immediate download. The largest enhancement introduced with this point release is a brand new, amazingly comprehensive, and flexible color management system for visual quality called OpenColorIO. This system gives you incredible control over the color in the scene and…
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Autodesk Alias 2025.1 release
We are happy to announce that the 2025.1 release of Autodesk Alias is now available for download to our subscribers and users. This release focused a lot on modeling improvements in NURBS and SubD and further work on the new Puck menu interface. Highlights in this release include: Watch the video below for all these highlights and more in detail:…
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Autodesk VRED 2025.2 release
Excited to announce that the 2025.2 point release of VRED is now available for subscribers to download. We continue on our path to improving the user experience and ensuring consistency between our solutions. We also always work on our core rendering and XR functionality, and this release is no exception. Featured in this release: As…
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Enabling creative innovation in the design studio: Car Design News webinar – October 2 2024!
We’re thrilled to be doing another webinar with our friends from Car Design News Wednesday October 2, 2024. Phil Botley and Brandon Tasker will be presenting on some of the latest Autodesk solution insights: Register to reserve your spot. https://www.cardesignnews.com/webinars/register-now-enabling-creative-innovation-in-the-design-studio/45935.article Stay tuned for more customer spotlights, industry stories, and product updates. You can also check…
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D3D 30 Awards: Alias Control Puck recognized
The D3D 30 is DEVELOP3D’s annual round-up of 30 new technologies. These technologies are chosen because they have are potentially the most impactful in the product development processes of D3D readers. Companies and technologies from around the world are chosen by the DEVELOP3D editorial team entirely on the basis of merit – no entry fee, no black-tie…
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Making the future: The design studio at Autodesk University 2024
Autodesk University is happening again in San Diego, CA at the San Diego Convention Center. This annual innovative learning experience is driven by creative problem solvers in the Design & Make community. About Autodesk University (AU) AU is essentially a User Conference focused on learning. Attendees – from diverse fields – architecture, engineering, construction, product…
INDUSTRY NEWS
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AIF 2024: Agile design studio keynote
The 2024 AIF Design Studio keynote was our chance to share with you, our customers and users, what we’re excited about, what’s new, and what’s in development at the 2024 Automotive Innovation Forum. The Product Management team discussed people and workflows, project management, collaboration, managing data, and more. Watch the full keynote here — and…
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Autodesk VRED and Varjo, collaborating in XR
The Evolution of Varjo and Its Impact on Industrial Design Founded in 2016 by former senior executives from Nokia and Microsoft, Varjo has made significant strides in developing mixed-reality headsets. With its headquarters in Finland, Varjo stands out as the only major European maker of headsets, others being based either in the United States or…
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