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AUTOSTUDIO

An Industry-Standard
Automotive Design
Solution
Autodesk® AutoStudio software is the complete automotive design solution used by major automotive
manufacturers around the world. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools for the entire shape definition
process, from concept sketches through Class-A surfacing. AutoStudio accelerates the automotive design
process with specialized tools for concept design, reverse engineering, model evaluation, real-time
visualization, production modeling, and CAD integration.

Productivity
Autodesk AutoStudio delivers one of the fastest
software user interfaces for transportation
design. Not only does this intuitive UI streamline
the design workflow, it helps new users become
productive quickly.
Intuitive, Customizable UI
Shortens learning time for new users and allows
experienced users to work quickly. The UI can be
customized to suit any workflow.
Efficiency
Patented Marking Menus enable designers to use
context-sensitive gestures to select commands with-
out looking away from the design, which allows for
working much faster than with conventional menus.
Workflow-Based Interface
Streamlines the interface for painting, modeling,
or visualization by displaying only the required
tools. UI control panels for modeling, paint, and
visualization provide quick access to the most
commonly used tools. Workflow shelves expose
tools in logical workflow segments, allowing new
users to get productive sooner.

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Sketching and 2D/3D Concept Symmetric Draw

Mobility and Advanced Design Expertise (MADE)
Istituto Europeo di Design
Development
A complete set of tools for 2D design integrated
with 3D allows designers to do all their creative
work in one efficient environment. (Available only
for Microsoft® Windows ® XP and Windows 2000
operating systems.)
Integrated Paint
Create concept sketches, draw directly over
imported CAD reference data, and annotate
models with integrated paint tools: Paint Brushes,
Air Brushes, Smear, Clone, Blur, Sharpen, Flood Fill,
Hide, and Show. Superior interactive performance
and quality.
Shapes
Quickly create illustration-like drawings by
assigning line and fill attributes to curves. Editing
the shape curves automatically updates the shape
for rapid iterations.
Paint WIndow
The Paint Window isolates the task of painting on a
canvas—thus removing the 3D modeling windows
from the painting equation. This window has been
designed to allow for quick navigation between
canvases and variable canvas twist and zoom.
Instantly create either mirror or radial symmetry
copies of brushstrokes. When activated, brushes
dynamically fill in symmetrical sides—a simple,
fast, and accurate way of drawing any symmetrical
object and providing instant feedback on
proportion.
Color Correction and Manipulation
Interactive tools to adjust Color Balance, Contrast,
and Saturation of an entire image or just the
shadows, midtones, or highlights. Replace colors
to produce different color versions.
Image Deform and Warp
Deform an entire image to adjust the size or
perspective. Use curves to warp portions of an
image while protecting others, for example—keep
wheels round while adjusting body shape.
Sketch Curves
Create high-quality curves using a natural
sketching technique.

Layers and Masks

Essential digital paint tools for building levels of
detail and protecting parts of your image. The
new Canvas Layer Editor is a powerful new sketch
workflow tool for managing layers, converting
image layers into masks or stencils, and more.

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2D/3D Concept Development
An integrated 2D/3D concept design workflow
enables designers to take advantage of sketching
skills throughout the design process and rapidly
evolve design sketches into 3D models. Add details
and explore ideas quickly by sketching over 3D
forms before taking the time to model them.
2D Planes in 3D Space
Istituto Europeo di Design Rotate digital canvases just like moving paper while
sketching. Arrange planes (sketches) in 3D space to
visualize concepts and as a reference for modeling.
Sketch and annotate over models or anywhere in
the 3D environment using Overlay Planes.
Project Sketch
Project 2D sketches and images onto the surfaces
of 3D models for quick aesthetic evaluation of
design ideas and iterations. This workflow enables
designers to explore concepts by quickly sketching
details in both perspective and orthographic views
and projecting them onto a model without taking
the time to model them.
Guillaume Daniel, Julien Lebely, and Richard Modeling
Pedronfrom Creapole in Paris, France.
NURBS-based surface modeler allows for fast,
flexible concept modeling and precise production
surfacing.
Flexible Modeling Workflow
Any shape can be created using either a procedural
(curve-based), direct (CV manipulation), or a
hybrid modeling approach.
Construction History
Most tools keep the history of how surfaces were
created so that they can be automatically rebuilt if
the curves or surfaces they were constructed from
are modified. This allows designers to experiment
with shape without manually rebuilding geometry
and to accommodate changes throughout the
design process.
Curve Tools
Create and edit lines, arcs, and high-quality freeform
NURBS curves (degree 1,2,3,5,7). Interactively move,
rotate, scale, and stretch curves using intuitive
manipulator handles.
Blend Curves
Intelligent curves automatically update to maintain
constraints set by the user such as position,
direction, or continuity (G0 to G4) with other
geometry.
Sweep Curves
The software includes a set of industry-standard
Sweep Curves (French Curves) to be used as
reference during sketching or modeling.
Surface Creation Tools
Creation of surfaces such as revolves, extrusions,
skins, and boundary surfaces. Interactively edit or
trim away regions of the surface.
Draft/Flange
Create surfaces with draft angles or flange
surfaces. Create more complex surfaces by setting
multiple pull depths and angles using interactive
manipulators.
Multisurface Draft
Finish edges with single surface flanges across
multiple surface edges. Automatic chain selection
of multiple adjacent edges.
Align
Used to connect geometry to create high-quality
surfaces. Moves or reshapes curves and surfaces to
achieve G0, G1, or G2 continuity between them.
Layers
Organize related parts of a model into groups that
can be picked, displayed, and edited individually or
together. Improved data management with Layer
categories used to filter the display of layers based
on category type.
Construction Planes
Used as references to create and align objects
outside of the XYZ (world space) coordinate system.
Proportional Modification
Reshape objects by moving groups of control
points proportionally relative to a master control
point (CV).
Tubular Offset
Create cut lines, grooves, or ridges across multiple
surfaces to represent detail geometry such as door
cut lines on concept models. Quickly create and
experiment to find “gap” solutions before taking
time to create final geometry.
Unify Normals
Align all surface normals for rendering, interactive
visualization, or modeling.
Curve Networks
Automatic surface creation from a set of
intersecting curves and surface edges for rapid
model development. The resulting model can
be easily reshaped and sculpted to experiment
with form.
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Advanced Surface Creation Tools
Surface creation tools that maintain positional,
tangent, or curvature continuity with surrounding
surfaces—for high-quality, manufacturable results.
Rail
Create surfaces by sweeping one or more curves
along path curves.
Square
Five Axis Create surfaces by blending four bounding curves.
Multisurface Filleting
Create fillets across multiple surfaces. Precise
control of fillet shape, radius, and blending. Peak
radius control makes it easy to respect legal
requirements for minimum radii and to control
highlights.
Multisurface Freeform and Profile Blend
Timesaving tools that connect two sets of surfaces
in a single step. Each set can have a different
number of surfaces or trimmed surfaces. This tool
replaces the Freeform Fillet tool. The Multisurface
Five Axis Profile Blend tool offers additional control over the
shape of the result using one or more profile curves.
Aesthetic Ball Corner
This powerful new tool enables a ball corner to
be created semi-automatically at the intersection
of three surfaces. Any situation where three radii
meet will be solved—with high-quality surface
results. Manual construction of ball corners can
take more than 10 times longer than this semi-
automatic process.
Contact Analysis
Safety regulations restrict sharp radii on automotive
interior surface areas—to avoid accidents where
the head of the driver touches a sharp interior
surface. This analysis tool detects these sharp radii
within a defined range of movement.
Honda R&D, Torrance, California
Rolled Edge Tools
Automatically create filleted flanges with variable
radius, angle, and flange depth. Speeds the task of
finishing model edges. Peak radius control makes it
easy to respect legal requirements for minimum radii.
Trim Convert
Convert trimmed surfaces into natural surfaces for
further editing and to make models easier to use
downstream.
Dynamic Shape Modeling
Dynamic Shape Modeling enhances the creative
process by providing designers with the power to
change the shape of their models in order to study
design alternatives. Local or global modifications
can be made at any stage in a fraction of the time
it would take to modify the model manually or to
create a new version.
Dynamic Shape Modeling Lattice Rig
This powerful new tool creates a lattice around
selected objects, which can be manipulated to
globally modify groups of surfaces, meshes, and
hybrid models. This tool is easy to set up and
use; just select the surfaces to be modified and
the lattice is automatically created. Because the
lattice can be customized to the shape of the
target object, a fast balancing of shapes can be
obtained for conceptual design or for fast changes
to advanced surface models.
Dynamic Shape Modeling
Transformation Rig
This tool allows for the global modification of
multiple surfaces, meshes, and hybrid models
through existing surfaces, curves, points, or proxy
geometry, which is used to drive or constrain
the modification. Because the toolset creates a
construction history, existing transform tools can
be used to dynamically control shape change. The
advantage of the Transformation Rig—as compared to
the Lattice Rig—is its advanced ability to constrain
parts of the selected geometry, resulting in more
precise control over the geometry to be modified.
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Interactive Visualization and
Evaluation
Interactively evaluate and present the aesthetic
and physical properties of models, while creating
and editing geometry.
Interactive Visualization
Realistic interactive shaded display of 3D
models without rendering. Support for textures,
Mathieu Lesage transparency, and hardware anti-aliasing for high-
quality image display. Higher levels of realism for
real-time visualization with support for reflected
backgrounds on model surfaces and soft shadows.
Per-pixel shading delivers interactive image quality
comparable to raycast software rendering without
the wait, including bump maps and procedural
maps. New support for environment maps enables
display of environment reflections in hardware
shaded mode.
Ambient Occlusion
Ambient occlusion is a crucial element in creating
a realistic ambient-lit environment. It provides
the soft shading similar to that of other complex,
Robert Tomarchio & David Latreille indirect lighting techniques. Realistic soft
shadowing using ambient occlusion is available
from both the Hardware Shade and Software
Rendering solutions.
Drag-and-Drop Shaders
Simplified assignment or substitution of shaders on
a model.
Visualization Panel
Quick access to visualization tools accelerates
material assignment and modification. Includes
premade materials such as glass, metal, paint,
plastic, and rubber.
Curve Curvature Display
Interactively display curvature comb plots to help
ensure quality of curves and surface sections.
Sections
Help ensure surface quality via real-time feedback
from an interactive or XYZ section display,
including curvature comb plots. Enhanced cross-
section management tools.
ISO Angle Diagnostics
Evaluate surface quality by highlighting using an
interactive light source. Helps find flaws such
as tangent discontinuities between surfaces by
sweeping a beam across a surface.
Bookmarks
Take snapshots of what is being viewed at any time.
Organize and replay bookmarks for design reviews
or presentations using the Bookmark Lister.
Share AliasStudio files, including bookmarks with
Autodesk® PortfolioWall® StudioViewer.
High-Resolution Screen Grab
Create snapshots of any window without UI or
window borders in any predefined format and at
any specified size. Thanks to new Hardware Shade
features, this tool enables users to output high-
quality, high-resolution images without waiting for
a software render.
Borderless Display
Display only the model without the interface
for evaluation or presentation, or to maximize
available workspace while sketching and modeling.
Reverse Engineering
Tools for importing and configuring data from 3D
scanners for visualization and reverse engineering.
AutoStudio uses meshes, a highly efficient
polygonal geometry representation for handling
large models with millions of polygons.
Mesh Cutting
Separate a mesh into components to isolate parts
for visualization or reverse engineering.
Mesh Repair
Identifies meshes that are nonmanifold, nonoriented,
or self-intersecting and repairs them by deleting
triangles. It also locates any duplicate, degenerate,
or “folded over” triangles and removes them.
Smoothing Meshes
Smooth selected regions on a mesh to clean up the
appearance of a mesh that has problems resulting
from a rough scan.
Hole Filler
Cleanup tool for filling holes in a mesh. Curvature
of the shape around the hole is used to create a
patch that matches the surrounding surface.
Stitching Seams Between Mesh Boundaries
Seals the gaps between the boundaries of
components. Stitching can be along the whole
boundary, or just part of it.
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Mesh Reduce
Reduce the number of triangles in a mesh down
to a specified percentage of the original number—
while preserving, as much as possible, the mesh
shape. This feature can be used to optimize
performance by reducing the polygon count of
large scans.
Collar Surface
Mathieu Lesage and Dejan Havidic Creates a collar NURBS surface along any
boundary of a mesh. This surface is fitted to the
mesh along its edge—for continuity of information
that enables users to build additional geometry
from it. The collar can also be used as a reference
when creating NURBS surfaces from scan data.
Mesh Offset and Draft
Takes a mesh and produces a watertight STL mesh
from it. Users simply select a mesh and define the
offset—the tool automatically “thickens” the result
to produce a closed mesh.
Project Curves on Meshes
Mathieu Lesage and Dejan Havidic Project a curve on one or more meshes to extract
shape information or cutting. Projected curves
retain history.
Mesh Cross Sections
Create interactive cross sections on meshes as
geometry or visual references.
Mesh Deviation Display
Compares a set of meshes and surfaces and
displays the results using an intuitive color map.
Improved to provide deviation evaluation for all
combinations of meshes and surfaces
Blend Curve Snapping
Interactive snapping of blend curves onto meshes
to outline features and extract shape information.
Mesh Locators
Point-based locators can be positioned on meshes
for measurement.
Mesh Data Conversion
Convert a NURBS or polygon surface to a mesh or
a mesh into polygons.
Claymate
Integrate digitized clay model data with modeled
surfaces. Offset a group of surfaces based on data
captured from the physical model while maintaining
continuity between the original surfaces.
Fit Scan
Automatically modify surfaces to fit section data or
a polygonal surface.
Fit Curve
Create curves that match cross-section data.
Scan Data Processing using EvalViewer (IRIX®
operating system only) or Spider (Windows XP
and Windows 2000 operating systems only)
EvalViewer and Spider software are stand-alone
applications that offer fast, interactive tools for
cloud data processing.
Software Rendering
Create photorealistic images using textures, colors,
highlights, shadows, reflections, and backgrounds
for design reviews and presentations.
Raytracing
Achieve realistic effects for glass, water, and soft
shadows.
Rendering Effects
Apply realistic effects such as motion blur to
individual objects or an entire scene. Create camera
and lighting effects, including lens flare, fog, light
beams, object and light glows, projector glows.
Unlimited Rendering
Render on any number of computers.
Multi-CPU Rendering
AutoStudio includes a license to render on
machines with two CPUs.
Animation
Animations are used to create dynamic design
presentations and demonstrate functionality faster
and cheaper than building working prototypes.
They can be presented in real time or as rendered
images.
Design Animation
Present designs with turntable animation or create
more sophisticated movements with key frames
and motion paths. Create compelling presentations
by animating geometry, shaders, lights, and more,
to show color studies and geometry modifications.
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Data Integration Custom Development Support

Support for industry-standard data formats and Open Digital Studio and OpenAlias
wide range of peripheral devices. Develop plug-ins for custom functionality.

Check Model
Check geometry surfaces and intersurface Options
relationships for potential problems that could
occur when model is passed to a downstream Direct Data Exchange with CAD Packages
CAD system. Includes tests based on standards Autodesk® DirectConnect modules for CATIA V4,
developed by the VDA (German Automotive CATIA V5, and I-DEAS.
Five Axis Industry Association).
PowerRender (2 OR 4+ CPU)
CAD/CAM Data Input/Output Render images using the parallel capabilities of
STEP (AP203/214), IGES, VDA/FS, VDA/IS, DES, multiprocessor systems.
DXF™ export, JAMA-IS, Autodesk Inventor® , Pro/
RENDER input, UG ® FAC input.
Learn More or Purchase
Granite Support
Exchange data with CAD packages that support the Enhance your creative design process with Autodesk
PTC® Granite® file format, such as Pro/ENGINEER® AliasStudio software. For more information, visit
and Pro/DESKTOP® . Support for Granite3. www.autodesk.com/aliasstudio.

Vendor-Specific IGES Export For more information on making the most of your
Settings for CATIA ® , Pro/ENGINEER, I-DEAS ® , software investment, visit www.autodesk.com/
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AutoCAD ® software formats.
To purchase Autodesk AliasStudio, contact an
Import Sketches from Autodesk® Autodesk Authorized Reseller. To locate the reseller
SketchBook® Pro nearest you, visit www.autodesk.com/reseller.
Import of layered TIFF images created in
SketchBook Pro. Import Native SolidWorks ® Part
and Assembly Files.

STL Export
Export STL files for rapid prototyping.

WebDAV Server Support

Manage digital assets in a collaborative virtual file
system.

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