Because Showcase allows design model changes while preparing imagery for design reviews, it significantly reduces preparation time so design and visualisation work can be done in parallel.
Showcase helps users present and review models in an environment in which team members can make timely, reliable decisions both locally and via remote sessions. Use high-quality digital 3D visualisation to evaluate multiple design variations and communicate ideas.
Showcase helps users reduce the time and cost of building physical prototypes in early design phases. Interact with digital models in real time. Use a variety of materials and geometry during presentations, and switch between variations with a single mouse click.
Facilitate the design approval process by using Showcase to bypass client or management reluctance to approve designs based on low-quality imagery.
Showcase generates photorealistic imagery with superior visual fidelity that accurately represents real-world materials, lighting, and environments.
Showcase makes realistic, interactive visualisation accessible to designers and provides advanced functionality by combining the latest technology with an easy-to-access architecture.
With its well-documented API (application programming interface) and scripting language, Showcase can be accessed on a programming level to meet specific customer needs. It provides tools to prepare, process, and present 3D design data in a single application, simplifying the preparation of data for high-quality visualisation and further use.
Autodesk Showcase Product Family
Autodesk Showcase
Autodesk Showcase software addresses the visualisation requirements of designers to help them interactively evaluate work and present it for review.
Autodesk Showcase Professional
Autodesk® Showcase™ Professional software addresses the content creation needs of visualisation specialists and provides the ability to take advantage of high-end environments. It includes all of the functionality in Autodesk Showcase software, plus additional tools to automate the workflow, for enhanced asset and presentation authoring, and to build complex visualisation setups.
Import 3D data via Autodesk® DirectConnect software. Supported formats include Autodesk® Inventor,™ APF, STEP, IGES, SGI® Open Inventor,™ CSB, and STL. Autodesk DirectConnect data translators that can be purchased separately and are available for other CAD formats include JT,™ UGS® NX,® CATIA® V5, SolidWorks,® Pro/ENGINEER,® and Granite® formats.
Showcase retains information about which parts were removed, where they were positioned, and which materials were applied. As a result, design work can continue in parallel while the visualization team prepares for important design reviews without spending time redoing visualisation work on updated models.
Produce high-quality results in less time by automating the repetitive task of assigning Showcase materials to incoming geometry. The Showcase material substitution feature can automatically search and assign the best available material to imported models based on names, layers, or colors defined in the CAD package.
Showcase displays 3D design data with the realism and accuracy required to confidently make crucial design decisions. High-performance display technology allows smooth movement and interactive display of large models. Presentation features help designers showcase design intent in a single location or around the globe.
Autodesk is a world-leading supplier of engineering software, providing companies with tools to experience their ideas before they are real. By putting powerful Digital Prototyping technology within the reach of mainstream manufacturers,
Autodesk is changing the way manufacturers think about their design processes and is helping them create more productive workflows. The Autodesk approach to Digital Prototyping is unique in that it is scalable, attainable, and cost-effective, which allows a broader group of manufacturers to realize the benefits with minimal disruption to existing workflows, and provides the most straightforward path to creating and maintaining a single digital model in a multidisciplinary engineering environment.
Autodesk Showcase 2009 - Launch Demonstration
Date: Friday, May 9th 2008
Venue:
Holmesglen Conference Centre
Warrigal & Batesford Roads, Holmesglen
Private off-street parking available
Time:
3.00pm Welcome
3.30pm Demonstration session
4.30pm Networking drinks and canapes
Registration:
Free entry
Click here to register online.
