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Autodesk at the NVIDIA GTC
The NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, or GTC, is NVIDIA’s flagship conference. As a technology partner, Autodesk works very closely with NVIDIA, among other collaborations on supporting and testing their latest hardware with Autodesk VRED, 3D visualization, and virtual prototyping software for automotive designers. This year, Autodesk is featured prominently in several industry tracks, including: Graphics,…
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Automotive Innovation Forum 2021
Discover the solution of choice for the next generation of automotive, transportation, mobility and premium Design Studios. Iterate faster and master the journey of digital transformation with more collaborative and connected workflows and with more agile and automated processes. What’s the future of automotive design? Discover it with us at the Automotive Innovation Forum. Join…
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Car Design Dialogues: EMEA virtual event
On the heels of the incredibly successful Car Design News Car Design Dialogues event held for North America in December, CDN is hosting another virtual event for its customers in Europe March 17th and 18. Car Design News has been well known for their Designer Night Events around the major auto shows. Held around the…
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Announcing Automotive Innovation Forum 2021
We are excited to invite you, our customers and users, to the Automotive Innovation Forum April 28-29, 2021. This is your chance to join industry leaders in exploring the major shifts facing the automotive industry. It’s also an opportunity to learn more about the journey of digital transformation, or what we call the Agile Design…
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The Call of the future: Project Arrow and the winning team
What does the APMA do in response to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s call to action for a net-zero emission economy by 2050? Engage young, fresh, and motivated minds. Cue Project Arrow. As Canada’s national association for OEM producers, the APMA has led several innovative and collaborative projects within Canada’s automotive industry since 2014. But…
STORIES & INSPIRATION
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ALIAS Create VR: VR review (video 5)
You’ve created the concept, refined it, reviewed for your own feedback, set the scene—now it’s time to share. Create VR offers the potential for collaborative reviews in VRED, and when your model is fully rendered, you have more sightlines on what you want to edit. Our final video in this series covers the basics…
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ALIAS Create VR: Setting the scene (video 4)
An integral part of any workflow is rendering, where we can see a refined model painted, in the right environment, with appropriate lighting. It’s hard to fully capture the value this offers: the reality of seeing your rendered, photorealistic model in VR, being able to vary paint colors, and being in this immersive environment to…
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Sketching in Create VR for Alias
Over the last few months, we’ve shared what Autodesk Create VR for Alias offers designers and 3D modelers: an immersive virtual environment that can speed the transformation from 2D concept to 3D model. Colin Smith’s posts and videos demonstrate some of what’s possible with this technology. I’d like to share what this technology means for…
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VRED 2021.3 update release
The VRED 2021.3 release provides continued enhancements on existing functionality, as well as addressing issues as reported by our customers. These enhancements include interactivity with the depth of field for rendering, Ambient Occlusion, further UV Editor improvements, and more options for our streaming capability and app. We also provide access to our Python API v2.0,…
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Saying goodbye to 2020
2020 has been … quite a year. We asked our Automotive & Conceptual Design team members to share an image or two that sums up their experience of 2020. Time with family, new ways of working, and new habits have brightened an otherwise challenging year. From all of us at ACD, happy holidays! Here’s to…
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Ford’s realtime design review: A conversation with the team behind the scenes
Back in May, when the world was deep in the grips of the Covid crisis, Car Design News and Ford shared a look into their virtual design review process, which Lukas Faith reviewed in June on the Design Studio Blog. Since then, we have been working with the Ford team behind the scenes, to gain…
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ALIAS Create VR: Review and feedback (video 2)
Create VR doesn’t just make concepts and refinement easier. It’s also a powerful evaluation tool, letting you see your model at a 1:1 scale in a true immersive environment can save time and costs for evaluation. Our third video is about evaluating and reviewing your work in Create VR. We’ll talk through how to start…
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Dynamo: Solving pattern application across different surfaces
One of the most common problems users have had with Dynamo, Grasshopper, and similar tools is how to apply patterns across different target surfaces so that it looks natural and authentic. This issue arises most frequently with interior design, when we want to place patterns (say, a logo) across the interior of a door. Usually,…
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Car Design Dialogues virtual event
Car Design News has been well known for its Designer Night Events around the major auto shows. Held around the world, including LA, Detroit, Frankfurt, and Tokyo, their events are always worth the time. Things are going to be a little different this year, given the coronavirus pandemic that has laid siege to the world.…
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ALIAS Create VR: Creating a concept (video 1)
We introduced you to our new modeling workflow, Alias Create VR, with a short overview. Now we get to go deeper. We start with Video 1, Creating a Concept. Here, you’ll learn how to get started and then dive into how to create a new layer for the curve network or a wheel design with…
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