
New Alias & VRED UX (user experience) Autodesk is excited to announce its new user experience for Alias and VRED, launching in our 2024 release. This is a solution-wide update to the ways users experience our products, how they learn to use our products, and a major update to the technical foundation of our User…
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Our PAUSE series aims to share Design Studio Blog posts you may have missed. It’s a chance for you to pause on a particular subject or series and take it in. PAUSE: Exploring VRED with Mike Turner Mike Turner, Senior Designer with DG Design, is an industrial designer with 24 years’ experience working primarily in…
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The new 2024 releases of Autodesk Alias and Autodesk VRED are now available for subscribers to download. The first thing you will notice with the Alias release is the new look and feel. There has been a major overhaul of the Alias user experience. This new user experience aids in learnability for new users of Alias,…
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Who is Genesis Design? Genesis Design is an owner-managed and independent full-service design agency. Founded by Rainer Mueller and Dirk Juergens in 2002, Genesis Design helps brands express their value through evocative and emotional design. Genesis works in the automotive and industrial design fields, bringing life and soul into the conceptual and creative process. With…
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What happens when world-class design and visualization software are used by a start-up driven to revolutionize SUVs and pick-up trucks? Rivian. A newer OEM with a keen focus on sustainability, Rivian wanted to create something that was entirely new in the EV space. Their R1T pick-up truck and R1S SUV have been designed to offer…
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The perfect workflow What does the perfect design studio workflow look like? This provocative question by ShotGrid PM Brandon Tasker opened the 2023 AIF Design Studio Keynote. Some prospective answers: agile, freeform, flexible, works effectively, enables collaboration, shares information, captures and organizes data and decisions automatically, ensures access to the best tools, supports the work…
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The 2024 Automotive Innovation Forum in Frankfurt, Germany gave us more chances to explore Autodesk solutions, customer innovations, and partner insights. Thanks to the incredibly hard work of the technical sales, marketing and product teams who contributed to the amazing expo. We had: Exhibition overview Discover Alias & Meet the Experts Alias User Experience, future…
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The 2023 AIF in Frankfurt, Germany was an opportunity for the automotive design and manufacturing community to come together over two full days. Attendees from around the world heard from leading OEMs, suppliers, start-ups and technology partners, and had the opportunity to network with experts in design, manufacturing and engineering. We’d like to thank everyone…
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One of the things we’ve learned from our customers about Flow Production Tracking integration is that terminology matters. Flow Production Tracking was originally founded over 17 years ago as a project management tool for visual effects and animation in television shows, movie production and video game development. Seeing how it shifted the digital management of…
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The Automotive Innovation Forum is a premier automotive industry event focused on advancing design, automation and manufacturing technology. We invite you to join us and the international community of industry leaders and share your vision on the future of design, automation, and manufacturing. Registration is now live! Visit autodesk.com/aif to secure your spot at AIF…
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In episode 03 of his third VRED series, Mike Turner goes deeper into raytraced rendering and covers the basics as well as an overview of VRED options and how hardware/software is evolving. In episode 04, Mike shows you how to add basic motion within an environment to convey a sense of dynamism and speed –…
Essential SKILLS

We are excited to announce our 2023 Automotive Innovation Forum (AIF), taking place May 10-11 in Frankfurt, Germany. This is your opportunity to join industry leaders as they discuss the trends and forces shaping the automotive industry of tomorrow. What does that look like? AIF 2023 is also our chance to share how Autodesk and…
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This 4-part YouTube tutorial series focuses on real-time visualization (OpenGL) in VRED. Automotive designer Christian Woefel shares tips and tricks for setting up and optimizing your VRED scenes for better performance. The videos explain the necessary trade-offs to get the best possible render quality while maintaining smooth, real-time interaction with the scene in VRED. Watch…
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Over the course of two weeks, more than 10,000 attendees took in sessions at Autodesk University 2022. 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 AU Automotive…
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What they are, how they work, who can access What kind of Learning Edition software is Autodesk releasing? Both Alias and VRED are releasing Learning Editions. They’re meant to increase access to our software. This provides users the time to really get to know the programs and finesse their skills. We’ve heard from a lot…
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