Tag: COLLABORATION

  • Left-shifting in automotive design: How real-time insight is reshaping creative workflows

    After introducing NavPack Design and exploring how its predictive and generative AI models are trained, we hit a relevant question: what does this actually change in day-to-day automotive design? The answer comes down to a shift that’s gaining momentum across the industry: AI-driven physics-based insights becoming more accessible to designers, not just simulation experts. As…

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  • How NavPack Brings Engineering Intelligence into Alias & the design studio: AIF 2025

    At AIF 2025, the Autodesk NavPack team presented a clear message: AI is rapidly reshaping the relationship between design and engineering. Across “AI-accelerated Design and Engineering” and “Deep Dive: How to leverage simulation data for AI-accelerated design and engineering,” Matthias Bauer and Jakob Lohse demonstrated not only why AI-driven workflows matter, but how designers and…

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  • Celebrating the people behind design: 2025 Car Design News People Awards

    While we love seeing the final shape of beautiful cars on the road, we don’t always recognize that every great car starts with ideas, talent, and people. That’s where  Car Design News People Awards (CDN People Awards) come in, shining a spotlight on the individuals and teams responsible for the creativity, craftsmanship, and innovation behind…

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  • Design smarter, faster: Covestro’s Imagio® material library now in Autodesk VRED

    We’ve got some exciting news for automotive and transportation designers: Covestro’s Imagio® digital sample library is now integrated directly into Autodesk VRED 2026.1. That means instant access to tens of thousands of photorealistic polycarbonate materials—where and when you need them. Designers don’t have to wait on physical samples or hunt through material catalogs, because they…

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  • A Kind of Magic – One Click to XR: How Hololight Stream Runtime and VRED are making Immersive Design effortless

    In the dynamic world of immersive technology, the demand is clear: XR experiences need to be more accessible, flexible, and easier to deploy. Enter Hololight Stream Runtime, in combination with Autodesk VRED – a groundbreaking duo that redefines powerful 3D visualization across various devices. Whether you’re validating complex design data or collaborating on product variants,…

    STORIES & INSPIRATION

  • What’s new in VRED 2026: Next-gen visualization for designers

    The VRED 2026 release continues to refine the value of real-time rendering, interoperability, and collaboration. Packed with groundbreaking new features like the Vulkan render engine and Live Referencing between Alias and VRED, this release is designed to make your design and visualization pipeline more efficient, more collaborative, and more powerful than ever before. Vulkan: A…

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  • What’s new in Alias 2026: A new era of design, surfacing, and visualization

    The Alias 2026 release brings an exciting range of new tools and workflows that continue to redefine how designers and engineers create, collaborate, and visualize their ideas. With a focus on seamless visualization, smarter modeling tools, and workflow efficiency, Alias 2026 makes it easier than ever to bring your creative vision to life. VRED Renderer…

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  • Ideas in Motion: Adaptability at AIF25

    AIF25 – First Look We’re seeing a seismic shift in the automotive and mobility landscape, as the world transitions from ICE to electric. This shift comes with unique challenges – as well as unmatched opportunities. How we meet those challenges and opportunities will define this industry for years to come. The 2025 Automotive Innovation Forum…

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  • A small Christmas elf dressed in red and white, known as the Elf on the Shelf, is sitting on a dark wooden shelf.

    2024 Design Studio reflections

    This has been a year of remarkable achievements, bold innovations, and collective resilience for us in the Autodesk Design Studio. We’ve expanded our solutions (BlankAI, NAVASTO) and focused our attention on initiatives to delight our customers. There will be even more exciting news to come in 2025, but we wanted to take a moment and…

    STORIES & INSPIRATION
  • Large conference room with big stage and screens. Onscreen features a blue car and a green car, and the company name: AUTODESK. The audience is seated and photographed from behind.

    China Automotive Innovation Forum

    Autodesk was thrilled to host its second annual China Automotive Innovation Forum on September 13th in Shanghai. This forum spotlights industry trends, customer case studies, interactive demos, executive meetings, media engagements, and exclusive updates on our ID&V solutions, which encompass automotive design, advanced manufacturing, and digital factories. This event drew 583 attendees – 332 in-person…

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  • Autodesk VRED 2025.3 release

    We are excited to announce the release of Autodesk VRED 2025.3, available to our subscribers for immediate download. The largest enhancement introduced with this point release is a brand new, amazingly comprehensive, and flexible color management system for visual quality called OpenColorIO. This system gives you incredible control over the color in the scene and…

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  • Hill Helicopters: The supercar of the skies

    When we first featured Hill Helicopter in 2020, it was a UK start-up focused on the vision of redefining helicopter design. Founded by Jason and Isabella Hill, the company’s HX50 was meant to disrupt the private helicopter market by moving beyond the over-engineered and under-designed reality of contemporary helicopters. In fact, the most well-known helicopter…

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  • Enabling creative innovation in the design studio: Car Design News webinar – October 2 2024!

    We’re thrilled to be doing another webinar with our friends from Car Design News Wednesday October 2, 2024. Phil Botley and Brandon Tasker will be presenting on some of the latest Autodesk solution insights: Register to reserve your spot. https://www.cardesignnews.com/webinars/register-now-enabling-creative-innovation-in-the-design-studio/45935.article Stay tuned for more customer spotlights, industry stories, and product updates. You can also check…

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  • PAUSE: 2024.1 Highlights

    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. Here are some of the highlights from the first half of 2024.

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  • Making the future: The design studio at Autodesk University 2024

    Autodesk University is happening again in San Diego, CA at the San Diego Convention Center. This annual innovative learning experience is driven by creative problem solvers in the Design & Make community. About Autodesk University (AU) AU is essentially a User Conference focused on learning. Attendees – from diverse fields – architecture, engineering, construction, product…

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