Industrial design and Class-A surfacing software
Alias® industrial design software provides sketching, concept modeling, surfacing, and visualization tools for industrial, product, and automotive design.
What's new
Photoshop live link
Sketches from Photoshop can be linked to Alias. Changes to sketches are dynamically updated in Alias.
Computational design in Alias
Quickly generate complex repeatable patterns and enable rapid design iterations and exploration.
Marking Menu editor
More easily customize Marking Menus with a new selection of styles.
Design model share
Design and collaborate on a single Alias model in the cloud. Review, mark up, and collaborate via the web and on portable devices.
Offset tool
Offset command ensures that offset CV layout quality is maintained, enabling a semi-automated, time-saving workflow.
Look around feature
Fly to a point of interest immediately; enable immediate navigation to a point in the design.
Canvas pivot function
Manipulate Canvas layers like any other geometry type—scale, snap, and pivot images in real time.
Performance improvements
Multithreading implemented for File I/O for Alias reduces File Open and Save times by an order of 3.
Concept design and fast concept modeling
Sketching and illustration tools
Draw and edit with integrated tools. Capture lines, circles, and ellipses with predictive strokes, and more.
Flexible product modeling
Fast, repeatable, curve-based modeling tools let you directly edit and sculpt 3D models
Photoshop live link
Sketches from Photoshop can be linked to Alias. Changes to sketches are dynamically updated in Alias.
Look around
Fly to a point of interest immediately; enable immediate navigation to a point in the design.
Improved color assignment for layers
Random custom color assignments for layers and layer folders.
Customized clutch keys
Define clutch key assignments.
View options in Curve Planarize
Add view options in the Curve Planarize.
Surface fillet improvements
Add the option of Inter Continuity and Inter Tangent Angle checking in surface fillets.
Skin tool options
Add the Shape option in the Skin 2012 tool to control the CV layout of the Skin surface section.
Variable degree surface fillets
You have the ability to have a variable degree in fillet surfaces.
Dynamic shape modeling
Quickly manipulate your product model and explore shape variations on 3D forms without rebuilding geometry.
3D sculpting
3D sculpt surfaces by directly adjusting surface control vertices. Use curve-based tools, direct modeling, and more.
Detailed design and surface analysis
Deck seam
Deck seam (similar to a flat fell seam) has been added to the Stitch and Seam tool.
Mathematically precise surface creation
Access tools that help you create mathematical shapes. For example, control pitch with the Revolve tool, and more.
Multiblend tool
Make smooth transitions between surfaces.
Light ray effects and reflections
Study your surfaces in a virtual lighting studio with the Light Tunnel tool.
Computational Design
Quickly generate complex repeatable patterns and enable rapid design iterations and exploration.
Automatic arrays of shapes
Simplify uniform and non-uniform objects, using arrays. Create arrays of lines and surfaces in 2D and 3D.
Stitches and seams
Automatically create stitches and seams.
Surface chain select tool
Select a chain of surfaces with one pick.
Shading in clay
Temporarily change your shaders to a clay material. When you're finished, your model goes back to its original form.
Design communication and product visualization
Virtual reality with Alias
Enhance design reviews with virtual reality. Explore your design to scale using an HMD in VR.
Interactive product visualization
Evaluate design options with real-time visualizations. Use shading models, apply color, add texture, and more.
Compelling photorealistic renderings
Visualize your product with high-resolution imagery.
Convenient data exchange
Share industrial design data with mechanical design and CAD software, including Inventor, CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, and many others.
Interoperability with other tools
Interoperability helps streamline operations with other products used in the design process, such as cutters, meshers, and more.
Switch between shading assignments
Easily switch between color combinations.
Variant configuration sets
Capture your current view to return to it easily.
