Autodesk Showcase 2011 Product Line

Overview

Save time and money by making informed design decisions on 3D digital prototypes. Autodesk® Showcase® visualization software enables you to create accurate, highly realistic imagery from 3D CAD data to communicate form and brand character.

Present and review multiple design variations in context, accurately conveying real-world materials, lighting, and environments. With Autodesk Showcase visualization software, team members can make reliable decisions locally and via remote sessions. The result is an efficient, economical design review process.

Autodesk Showcase 2010 Brochure.pdf (pdf - 438Kb)

Autodesk Showcase software addresses the most important issues that effect design process decision making:-

• Too much time and expertise is required by design review and decision making processes.
• The cost and time to produce physical prototypes limit the creation and evaluation of multiple design variants.
• The approval process is hindered by low quality digital prototypes that don’t convey design intent accurately.
• Too much time required to prepare data for visualisation and review.
• Preparation if imagery for design reviews can lag behind changes in model design.
• Visualisation experts or 3rd party consultants are required to create high-quality design presentations.

Autodesk Showcase delivers answers to these problems, in an accessible streamlined manner empowering designers to quickly generate multiple iterations of high-resolution photo-realistic imagery

Create and Evaluate Design Options
Present multiple design variations, quickly changing the appearance of the product during presentations. Adjust materials, geometry, and positioning, and switch between design options with a single mouse-click.

Make Informed Decisions
Customers and stakeholders often respond to low-quality imagery with reluctance. Use Showcase to create photorealistic imagery that represents real-world materials, lighting, and environments, and gain approval with high-quality 3D designs.

Make Visualization Part of Your Workflow
Prepare, process, and present 3D CAD data in a single application. An easy-to-use interface reduces the time and expertise required to set up and communicate your product design. Because you can make model changes while preparing imagery, you save time by simultaneously doing design and visualization work.

Autodesk Showcase Product Family

Autodesk Showcase
Autodesk Showcase software addresses the visualization requirements to help designers interactively evaluate their work and present it for review.

Autodesk Showcase Professional
Designed for visualization specialists, Autodesk® Showcase® Professional software includes all of the functionality of Autodesk Showcase, plus additional specialized features. Included are high-end visualization environments and tools for automating the visualization workflow, enhancing asset and presentation authoring, and building complex visualization setups.