Use a single dataset and pipeline for surface modeling
Alias® 2020 industrial design software offers a unified hybrid modeling solution with integrated SUBD modeling paradigms.
Automate complex tasks with computational design tools
Create and reuse computational templates across the design and surfacing teams, capturing and reusing surfacing language.Integrate Dynamo with Alias to create custom algorithms to process data and generate geometry.Drive design changes via parametric constraints.
Transform designs with enhanced surface modeling tools
Maximize design results with core surfacing tools, including offset and new time-saving tools such as corner blend.Use Alias enhancements, such as VR, to accelerate collaboration across teams and geographies.
What’s new in Alias 2020
New subdivision modeling tools The addition of subdivision surfaces to Alias integrates the strengths of adaptive subdivision with native NURBS surface technology.
Layer operations You now have the option to copy/paste a layer within a folder to be outside or inside of the original folder structure.
File > Share view You can now disable the share view option using an environment variable.
New draw style options To support the new subdivision features, we added draw style options for the subdivision surface geometry and control cage manipulator.
Save file author options
You can now save the file author information under the save information section when saving or exporting a file.
Pick behavior improvements
You can now pick a curve by selecting on a hull or CV; you are no longer required to select directly on the curve during pick operations for certain tools.
Concept design and fast concept modeling
Flexible product modeling
Fast, repeatable, curve-based modeling tools let you directly edit and sculpt 3D models.
Layer operations
You now have the option to copy/paste a layer within a folder to be outside or inside of the original folder structure.
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.
Surface evaluation
Get more accurate feedback on surface model quality.
VRED NURBS surface analysis
Achieve more accurate, native spline definition analysis.
Surface modeling and Class-A surfacing
New subdivision modeling tools
The addition of subdivision surfaces to Alias integrates the strengths of adaptive subdivision with native NURBS surface technology.
Global refit
Refit your digital model to the changed physical model.
Scan data workflows: surface from mesh
Create a surface on mesh with 1 of 3 surface types.
Improved Surface from Mesh tool
Update original data with scanned clay data.
Precision surface modeling
Create Class-A surfaces with speed and control.
Automated surface creation and editing
Perform multiple operations with a single tool.
Multicurve profile input
Profile tools provide an advanced way to work with surfaces, such as rotating a profile to a target surface.
Efficient Multisurface Fillet tool
Speed up the process from factor to surface fillet.
Intelligent form factor capability
Define ratios with Form Factor tools.
Scan data workflows: mesh selection techniques
Use an expanded mesh selection toolset.
Offset tool
Offset command ensues that offset CV layout quality is maintained, enabling a semiautomated, time-saving workflow.
Design communication and product visualization
Save file author options
You can now save the file author information under the save information section when saving or exporting a file.
Pick behavior improvements
You can now pick a curve by selecting on a hull or CV; you are no longer required to select directly on the curve during pick operations for certain tools.
File > Share view
You can now disable the share view option using an environment variable.
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.
VRED compatibility
Quickly convert Alias files to VRED software for 3D visualization.
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.
