Category: PRODUCT NEWS


  • AIF 2022: Energy, transformation and the agile design studio

    In Conversation with Thomas Heermann and Marek Trawny The Automotive Innovation Forum is the opportunity for the Automotive Design team to share updates, tease new releases, and connect customers as a community. Our first live AIF in two years took place in Munich, Germany. Ananda Arasu and I caught up with Thomas Heermann (Automotive, Concept…


  • AIF 2022: The agile design studio keynote

    Our first full AIF in two years took place in Munich, Germany. Hotel restrictions meant a reduction in our usual capacity, but we were pleased to host 250+ attendees from 20 countries. One of the Day 1 Highlights was our Design Studio Keynote presentation, featuring Autodesk’s Marek Trawny, Brandon Tasker, Phil Botley and Lukas Fäth.…


  • Think beyond: Automotive Innovation Forum 2022

    With so much disruption in industries across the world, businesses are being challenged to Think Beyond. The 2022 Automotive Innovation Forum (AIF) aims to do just that. This limited, in-person event in Munich features industry leaders and in-demand guest speakers, including: Silverdraft PIXMOVING NIO Varjio BMW Autodesk’s Marek Trawny, Brandon Tasker, Phil Botley and Lukas…


  • 2023 releases: Alias and VRED out now!

    Alias 2023 Welcome to another release of Alias.  In this release, a lot of work was done in the area of conceptual design with SubD modeling.  A huge enhancement was in the area of automation, where the Reform tool takes any scanned mesh data and converts it to a SubD model, making for much faster…


  • VRED 2022.3 release

    The 2022.3 release of VRED is now available for download to all subscribers.  This point release focused on: Data handling with improvements to Decore Improvements in the touch sensors for VR hands Rendering directly from a VR scene, as well as improvements in isolation mode Control over viewable content in the streaming app You can…


  • Autodesk University 2021: Automotive on demand

    Over the course of two weeks, more than 100,000 attendees representing 175 countries attended sessions in seven languages. If you joined us, we hope you had a fantastic experience. And if you didn’t, we hope you’ll consider it for next year. We know the value of time these days, so we wanted to share with…


  • VRED performance and scalability with Silverdraft

    by Amy Gile – Co-Founder and CEO, Silverdraft Real-Time rendering is not a valid pain point! It has been solved for years, it has just become a workaround, and once that workaround has been removed, it is amazing what can be created, saving time and money. When I founded Silverdraft, my goal was to free…


  • Alias and Create VR 2022.2 releases

    The 2022.2 release of Alias is now available for download to all subscribers. In this point release, we introduced several new enhancements to Alias. These improvements include: A new Dynamo Toolbox and scripts History Visualizer improvements Enhancements to Locators Reference manager updates SubD workflow enhancements and Several other modeling tool updates You can see details…


  • VRED 2022.2 release

    VRED 2022.2 is now available for all VRED subscribers. We have added several new features in the areas of Rendering, Data Handling, and Streaming that help you improve the efficiency of your visualization process. Rendering: Together with AI-Based supersampling from Nvidia, we have also introduced the ability to use the camera height as the ground…


  • Taking Alias to the next level – a webinar

    On July 21st, the Alias team hosted a webinar to share some tips on using a few Alias tools: Working in a team environment and working with Engineering information via Reference Manager Exploring the Surface Continuity Locator improvements Reviewing enhancements to the Align Tool Check out this replay, complete with demos, below. Stay tuned for…


  • Alias 2021 Deep Dive: Camera-based selection

    An exciting new feature of Alias 2022 is the Camera-Based Selection feature. We know that camera-based selection gives Alias users confidence that they will only select the entities that they can see and not accidentally select entities that are hidden by shading. This video will explore how this Camera-Based Selection feature speeds up modeling with…


  • AIF 2021: ShotGrid keynote

    What’s the future of automotive design? We dove into it at our 2021 Automotive Innovation Forum.   ShotGrid PM Brandon Tasker positioned ShotGrid as the “operating system” your studio needs — that can help support a creative studio’s core functions. Its Production/Project Management, Creative Collaboration and Integrated Workflows make it an advantage for your Design Studio. …


  • AIF 2021: VRED keynote

    What’s the future of automotive design? We dove into it at our 2021 Automotive Innovation Forum.   VRED PM Lukas Fäth discussed the three key focuses for VRED over the last year, shared what’s new and explored how to make the most of VRED’s core offerings:  Realizing efficiencies in the Design Studio and beyond. How? By…


  • VRED Deep Dive — Series 1

    With VRED 2022, we are excited to release many new features that continuously provide value to you, our VRED users. We have been hard at work these last few weeks, creating technical deep-dive videos to explain the new main features in detail. We hope you enjoy.  Our first two videos go deep on how to bake lightmaps to textures and create…


  • Agile Design Studio: Workflow demo

    What’s the future of automotive design? We dove into it at our 2021 Automotive Innovation Forum.   Our Tech Sales team explores how as the global context has changed, we’ve seen a higher demand for connected workflows and processes. These enable our customers to deliver more concepts, better quality designs and fewer physical mock-ups, while staying…