Autodesk Showcase 2011

Autodesk® Showcase 2011 visual communication software—part of the Autodesk Digital Prototyping solution—helps designers, engineers, and marketing teams evaluate designs in context, rapidly explore alternatives, and tell the stories of their designs with vividly immersive 3D presentations and highly realistic renderings.

Featuring storyboarding and movie creation capabilities, a new cross-section tool, and an intuitive user interface and navigation techniques, Showcase 2011 enables users to make more informed product decisions and more clearly convey design intent. The new release also provides enhanced Autodesk® Inventor® interoperability and certain free third-party CAD translators, helping users save time and prevent rework. The result is a more efficient, economical design review and rendering process.

Make Better Decisions, Faster
Autodesk Showcase software addresses the important issue of decision-making on digital prototypes. It enables designers to create accurate, realistic imagery from 3D CAD data to not only convey form and function, but also create environmental context to communicate brand character. Showcase helps users present and review models in an environment in which team members can make reliable decisions locally and via remote sessions—resulting in an efficient and economical design review process.

Power Up Your Digital Prototype

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 approval of designs 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.

Make Visualisation Accessible

Showcase makes realistic, interactive visualisation accessible to designers and provides advanced functionality for visualisation experts 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. 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.