What is Alias?
Quoting from alias.com, Alias Studio is a powerful suite of award winning 2D/3D software, used for design and styling in the automotive, marine, aircraft, sporting equipment, electronic enclosure, children’s toy, and fashion accessory markets.
Alias Studio is one of the world’s leading developers of CAID (Computer Aided Industrial Design) software, especially since it has a tool for every normal industrial design stage.
Using Alias Studio in the earliest of shape and form defining to the final modeling complete with rendering, and/or complete engineering. An industrial designer or engineer that knows Alias Studio can combine the efforts of the design and engineering sides of a product to cut cost and make projects more efficient to all involved.
What is Alias Studio from our Perspective?
Alias studio is a powerful tool for communicating 3D form. It’s easy to learn therefore designers can ramp up quickly and be apart of the design solution faster. For industrial designers to reach full potential they must communicate in 3D form. Photoshop is not good enough in today’s marketplace, getting to 3D faster is paramount.
Why Alias Studio and Pro/Engineer?
Pro/Engineer has come along ways over the past 10 years. It is an impressive tool in the hands of an industrial designer. However there are techniques in Alias that can not be done in Pro/Engineer especially as related to Auto Exteriors and Interior.
Alias Studio has always been the industrial designer’s choice of tools for proving shape and form, rendering and simply communicating to engineers and tooling vendors.
- Many industrial designers are taught Alias Studio in school
- Alias Studio also has an impressive suite of procedural mapping tools
- Things can be quickly designed in Alias Studio and rendered fairly quickly then be ready to be shown at a meeting or presentation, which can certainly help any marketing team as well as the engineers that need to see exactly what the usability of a certain product is
Alias Studio is a hard program to beat. Engineers often times use Pro/Engineer to communicate. That is why we have the Level 4 Pro/Surface Workshop to integrate IGES or STEP models into Pro/Engineer. Many engineers have problems with import geometry inside Pro/E.
Our Photoshop Design Rendering for Product Designers Workshop shows industrial designers how to deliver a Pro/Engineer deliverable. Taught to engineers, the Level 4 Pro/Surface Workshop helps engineers break their fear of working with import geometry.
The real power of Alias Studio though, is the push and pull that Alias Studio allows you. Almost any curve, surface, or line can be “tweaked” to extreme bounds. This allows you to take a product and make it smoother, rougher, taller, shorter, longer, grooved, slanted, and/or many other changes fairly easily and quickly. This allows the engineer to look at a product and see exactly what the industrial designer is trying to get across in the modeling. Alias Studio is one of the best and most powerful software packages that can be purchased today.
Manufacturers’ Trends?
Many manufacturers do not want their industrial designers using Pro/Engineer or Solidworks. The engineering directors and high-end Pro/E and Solidworks users want the parametric controls in their solid modeler and want to implement that control themselves. Although DESIGN-ENGINE|EDUCATION is about empowering our clients, many times we are directed not to empower industrial designers with such solids tools instead keeping them in Alias even though the form will be remodeled (capture form) in Pro/E Wildfire.
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