• 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…


  • AIF 2021: Alias keynote

    What’s the future of automotive design? We dove into it at our 2021 Automotive Innovation Forum.   Alias PM Phil Botley highlights some of the game changing features in the latest releases of Alias, including the Feature Library tool. Connecting the various components has meant that Alias is at the center of the Design Studio as…


  • AIF 2021: Agile Design Studio keynote

    What’s the future of automotive design? We dove into it at our 2021 Automotive Innovation Forum.   Marek Trawny takes a look at how digitization has been changing the design studio process, offering more flexibility and broader, deeper collaboration for design teams. How can you be as efficient as possible, maximizing your available time and resources…


  • Tutorial series: Learning Python with Autodesk VRED

    Python scripting is a very powerful tool to extend VRED`s standard capabilities, customize it towards your needs and integrate it into your existing systems and pipeline. To enable more people to work with Python and VRED, learn about its potential and specialities we have worked with Christopher Gebhardt to create a series of Python tutorials…


  • VRED 2022 release – available now!

    The VRED 2022 release provides further enhancements to some existing functionality, as well as introducing some new exciting changes. These improvements include data handling, streaming capabilities, and an enhanced render engine. Improvement in Data Handling VRED now supports Alias reference assemblies and recognizes them upon import. We’ve developed support for texture-based light and shadow baking,…


  • Alias 2022 release is live!

    This exciting release of Alias focuses on improvements to several workflows. These areas include SubD modeling, Dynamo, Class A and design reuse. There is a lot of new functionality in this release, but we also want to remind you of existing functionality that can enhance the whole workflow experience. Check out the videos linked below…


  • 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,…


  • 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…


  • 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…


  • 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…


  • 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…


  • 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…


  • 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…


  • 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…


  • 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,…