Autodesk Showcase 2011 visual communication
software is an indispensible companion to Autodesk
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Inventor
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and Autodesk
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Alias
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software products,
enabling designers, engineers, and marketing
teams to evaluate designs in context, more rapidly
explore alternatives, and tell the stories of their
designs with more realistic imagery and higher-quality
digital 3D environments.
Storytelling
Tell the stories of your Inventor and Alias Digital
Prototypes more effectively by creating immersive
design presentations using enhanced storyboard
tools, new keyframe animation capabilities, interactive
triggers, and a 360-degree Orbit Shot. Plus, you can
publish your Showcase scenes as movies or Adobe
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Flash
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files so that they can more easily be posted
to the Web and reviewed remotely.
Interoperability and Performance
Save valuable time with improved ability to read
Autodesk Inventor data and certain free third-party
CAD translators. Native 64-bit support helps boost
performance and stability of complex scenes and
higher-resolution rendering.
More effectively reviewing and evaluating
designs in context
Take a more detailed look at your design and evaluate
it in a real-world context using new and enhanced
environments, cross-section tools for creating more
informative views, and a Bloom camera effect that
creates surreal lighting on highly reflective objects.
Key Features
Storyboard Timing and Movie Creation
Slide-timing allows you to better control the timing
of environment switching, alternative changes,
behavioral triggering, or camera position changes.
With slide-timing, you can more precisely define the
creative direction of your presentations. Also, you
can share work with colleagues or customers who
do not use Showcase by more quickly and easily
exporting slides as movies or rendering Showcase
scenes to interactive Flash files.
Cross-Section Tool
Explore designs in detail with the new cross-section
tool, which enables you to intersect model geometry
with a freely position-able plane or box, in real time, to
help create more informative views for design review.
Patch Level Access
Access model data with greater flexibility with the
new patch-level access tool. Isolate and apply different
materials to one or a group of surface patches.
Bloom Effect
Showcase 2011 software allows you to create surreal
lighting effects by over-exposing concentrated lights
on highly reflective objects.
Ambient Shadows Textures on Polygons
Create highly realistic imagery by simulating more
accurate Ambient Shadows for polygonal objects.
Showcase 2011 enables users to better calculate
ambient shadows on polygonal objects that contain
UVs, using textures instead of vertices.
Showcase eliminates the need for physical
prototypes to convey design intent –
enabling economical, efficient review
processes where teams can make informed
decisions in real time.
For more information about Showcase visit
www.autodsk.com/showcase.
To locate the reseller nearest you, visit
www.autodesk.com/reseller.
Communicate Your Designs
Part of the Autodesk Digital Prototyping solution, Autodesk
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Showcase
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2011 helps you tell the stories of your designs
through realistic imagery and interactive presentations.
Image courtesy of Hurni Engineering Sarl.
