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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…
Podcast
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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…
INDUSTRY NEWS
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Design What’s in Your Head: Christian Grajewski on Alias as Career Software
It’s easy, these days, to be drawn to the latest software programs, the newer and more simplified versions of some of the programs you cut your design teeth on. Not for Christian Grajewski. This Alias veteran, from Hannover, Germany, has an intriguing career that reinforces both a “creativity…
STORIES & INSPIRATION
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The Biggest Disruption of the Last Century: Car Design Dialogue Panel
Changing Demands, New Technologies and How Transportation Design is Meeting the Challenge Moderated by Car Design News’s Abel Sampson, this February 2022 Panel engaged one of the biggest questions the vehicle design industry is facing: how to navigate the most fundamental disruption of the last century. Customer demands are changing…
INDUSTRY NEWS
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Behind the Scenes with Mike Turner: Taking Vehicle Design Off Highway
In 2021, we went behind the scenes with Senior Designer Mike Turner to hear about some of his work with VRED. These videos offer tips and processes for extending VRED’s value and experimenting with views and environments, the basics of data set-up and file import; artwork techniques to make…
Essential SKILLS
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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 scriptsHistory Visualizer improvementsEnhancements to LocatorsReference manager updatesSubD workflow enhancements andSeveral other modeling tool updates You can see details…
PRODUCT NEWS
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Behind the Scenes with Mike Turner, Video 1: VRED meets UK Bespoke Automotive
In the first of his VRED series, DGDesign’s Senior Designer Mike Turner takes us through a bespoke automotive case study with UK Fifteen Eleven Design agency. Fifteen Eleven — Escort Speedster project Some of the highlights: Extending VRED value: how it fits within overall development, building confidence in designTransferring Alias…
Essential SKILLS
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Coming Soon … Behind the Scenes with Automotive and Transportation Designer Mike Turner
We’re delighted to share with you this teaser from Mike Turner, Senior Designer with DGDesign. An industrial designer with 24 years’ experience working primarily in automotive and non-automotive design sectors—passenger rail vehicle, motorcycle, construction machinery, off-road vehicle, to name just a few. A self-described “Alias Pilot…
Essential SKILLS
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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 ManagerExploring the Surface Continuity Locator improvements Reviewing enhancements to the Align Tool Check out this replay, complete with demos,…
Essential SKILLS
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Camera Based Selection — Alias 2021 Deep Dive
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…
Essential SKILLS
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Shotgun Keynote – AIF 2021
What’s the future of automotive design? We dove into it at our 2021 Automotive Innovation Forum. Shotgun PM Brandon Tasker positioned Shotgun 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…
PRODUCT NEWS
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VRED Keynote – AIF 2021
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…
PRODUCT NEWS
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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…
Essential SKILLS
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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…
Essential SKILLS
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Alias Keynote – AIF 2021
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…
PRODUCT NEWS