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Autodesk® Showcase™ software creates accurate, realistic imagery from 3D digital design data to communicate form and brand character. Showcase helps users present and review designs 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.
Autodesk® Showcase™ Professional software addresses the content creation needs of visualization specialists and provides the ability to take advantage of high-end visualization environments. It includes all of the functionality in Autodesk Showcase software, plus additional tools for automating the visualization workflow, enhancing asset and presentation authoring, and building complex visualization setups.
Autodesk® Showcase™ saves time and money by creating accurate, realistic imagery from 3D digital design data. Autodesk Showcase software addresses many of the roadblocks that delay decision-making in the design process, including • Expensive, time-consuming design review and decision-making processes • Limited evaluation of multiple design variations due to time and cost of building physical prototoypes • Low-quality digital prototypes hindering the design approval process • Time consuming data preparation for visualization and review • Design models changing while visualization imagery is being prepared for design review • Expertise and expense required for creating high-quality design presentations
Argile is a new artistic studio dedicated to visualize, sculpt and retouch 3D models. Its flexibility and ergonomics will turn Argile into the indispensable companion to create morphs, to sculpt a model and paint it in real time. Along with the complete set of classic features (automatic detection and selection of points/vertices/faces, rotation, dilatation, displacement, constraints...) etc. In a couple of minutes you will get used to this powerful and intuitive original toolbox.
Sculpt Argile's core, the Sculpture Studio invites you to explore shapes. Along with the complete set of classic features (automatic detection and selection of points/vertices/faces, rotation, dilatation, displacement, constraints...), Argile offers a palette of unique brushes to manipulate a model as if it is clay, to add fine details, to shape the model as you want. These natural and intuitive brushes let you literally feel the volume of the models through the mouse. Other original tools help you soften or accent the relief as if you were drawing. In a blink you will be able to refine your model to the last details and sculpt it according to your imagination!
Paint Does your model need to be enriched with colors and materials? The 3D Paint palette lets you paint on the mesh as easily and naturally as drawing on a canvas. In real time, add textures, colors, transparency, bump, normal mapping... to your 3D models A complete and very innovative 3D paint module that widely opens the gates to your creativity.
Autodesk® 3ds Max® software is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, and rendering application. Its easy-to-learn environment enables artists to quickly ramp up for production. 3ds Max is used by film and video artists, game developers, multimedia designers (print and web), design visualization professionals, and 3D enthusiasts to achieve stunning results in less time. 3ds Max is the leader in 3D animation for game development, design visualization, visual effects, and education.
Create stunning 3D in less time with Autodesk® 3ds® Max software. This full-featured 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and effects solution is used to produce top-selling games and award-winning film and video content. Those looking to quickly and efficiently generate convincing characters, seamless CG effects, or jaw-dropping games will want to explore this latest release of the software.
With 3ds Max 2009, Biped now offers animators a more efficient workflow for rigging quadrupeds, together with other features that facilitate the character animation process. The release also delivers new UV editing features including a UV spline mapping tool, and enhanced Pelt and Relax toolsets that streamline the UVW unwrap workflow.
With 3ds Max 2009, you get the information you want, the way you want it. Greater OBJ translation fidelity and more import/export options mean more accurate data transfers between 3ds Max and Autodesk® Mudbox™ or other digital modeling packages. 3ds Max 2009 also delivers improved Autodesk FBX® memory management and new import options that support interoperability between 3ds Max and other products such as Autodesk® Maya® and Autodesk® MotionBuilder™.
3ds Max 2009 Features: With each new release, Autodesk software solutions become more intuitive and user friendly, while gaining functionality and a broader tool set. The following videos introduce the new features and functionality of Autodesk® 3ds Max® software.
Modeling and Animation With the introduction of the ForeFeet option, Biped now fully supports four-legged characters, In this video, animators see that the center of mass can be animated using external pivots, like the working pivot, making it easier to create realistic body movements like falling forward. Animators also see how the Walkthrough Assistant simplifies the process of creating walk-throughs and how soft selections can be interactively adjusted with a few mouse-clicks.
Easy to learn user interface To design a schematic, simply select and place components onto your document and connect them together using the wire and bus tools. Multisheet design is supported. Then select the menu option 'Convert to PCB' to convert the schematic to PCB. Layout can be updated from Schematic in a few clicks at anytime. When you create or edit design objects they are highlighted to improve your work. Step-by-step tutorial available from web-site guides you through the design process and allows to get started with ease.
Smart placement and auto-placement features After converting Schematic to PCB layout, place board outline and arrange components. Then use "placement by list" for chips/connectors and auto-placement for other components to get acceptable result in a few minutes and start routing.
Easy to use manual and powerful automatic routing DipTrace PCB software includes an advanced automatic router that is able to route single-layer and multi-layer boards. It is available with a 'rip-up and retry' algorithm. Autorouter achieves high completion rates by going back and re-routing nets to make space for connections that could not be routed on a previous pass. Intelligent manual routing tools allow you to create and edit traces by 90, 45 degree or without any limitations. Through, blind or buried vias can be used in automatic and manual routing. Unlimited board size is supported.
Shape-based copper pour Powerful copper pour system can help to reduce your manufacturing costs by minimizing the amount of etching solution required. To use it, all you have to do is insert a copper area on your board in the PCB Layout program and any pad or trace inside the selected area will be automatically surrounded with a gap of the desired size. Using copper pour you can also create planes and connect them to pads and vias (different thermal types are supported).
TurboCAD Pro 15 is the premium design software solution that’s delivered exceptional value to both 2D and 3D users for over 20 years.
TurboCAD Pro’s robust set of 2D drafting and 3D modeling tools enable users to create innovative designs for a wide range of industries and disciplines. TurboCAD also includes several industry-leading technologies, such as Spatial Technology’s ACIS® solid modeling engine, LightWork Design’s photorealistic rendering and lighting engine and material libraries, and Siemens PLM Software’s D-Cubed geometric and dimensional constant engine.
TurboCAD Pro’s incredible flexibility, low learning curve and overall ease of use are hallmarks of this award-winning program. A completely customizable graphical user interface, SEKE’s (Single Entry Key commands), and a Part/History Tree allows for editing of complex designs in any order.
TurboCAD Pro is incredibly compatible with other CAD and graphics programs and formats, supporting import from over 30 file formats and export to over 25 formats. Our DXF and DWG file translators for AutoCAD® are considered some of the best in the industry.
Whether you are a professional mechanical engineer, architect or builder, civil engineer, woodworker, hobbyist or student, TurboCAD has you covered! Plus, there are optional, specialized architectural and mechanical toolsets available for purchase, as well as plug-ins that extend TurboCAD’s capabilities into 3D Animation, Furniture Design, Computer Aided Machining (CAM), and more.
ADG Aspect 3D is a program, which lets you from a series of photos quickly and easily generate, edit & publish 3D photo compositions on the Web. ADG 3D can be viewed through ADG Java Viewer that eliminates any plug-in installation and gives a platform independent use on the Internet. It can be integrated with ADG Web Panorama, so you can insert 3D object into 360 degrees panorama.
Minimum System Requirements • Intel Pentium (R) - class PC • Microsoft Windows (R) 95/98/2000/XP • Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 SP1, Netscape Communicator 4.0 or higher • Microsoft DirectX 6.0 or higher • 32 MB of RAM • 10 MB of available hard drive space • 3D accelerator recommended for the best performance
Installation ADG Aspect Tools requires DirectX Version 6.0 or better installed. ADG Aspect Tools is distributed within a single executable file ADGaspect50.exe, just download and launch it to start your installation. It does not affect any Windows system files, so there is no need to restart your computer after the installation. Use Start/Programs menu or corresponded icon on the desktop to launch ADG Aspect.
AutoCAD® 2009 software enables you to create and explore ideas like never before. With AutoCAD® software Autodesk has just one goal in mind: increasing your productivity. From conceptual design through drafting and detailing, AutoCAD 2009 is all you need to create, visualize, document, and share your ideas. AutoCAD 2009 combines the familiar AutoCAD commands and user interface that you already know with an updated design environment, giving you the power to shape and explore your ideas like never before.
AutoCAD 2009 boosts efficiency with customizable and extensible user interface enhancements that increase overall drafting productivity by decreasing the number of steps to reach a command. Newly designed, innovative features simplify working with layers and help make new users productive as quickly as possible. Easy-to-use navigation tools make finding your way around 3D models a snap. Move to new highs of productivity with AutoCAD software.
Make efficiency a daily part of the job with AutoCAD® 2009 software. The drafting, detailing, and conceptual design leader is showing the way once again. Meticulously refined with the drafter in mind, AutoCAD 2009 propels day-to-day drafting forward with features that increase speed and accuracy while saving time. Annotation scaling and layer properties per viewport minimise workarounds, while text and table enhancements and multiple leaders help deliver an unmatched level of aesthetic precision and professionalism. Always innovative, the existing AutoCAD tools for conceptual design and visualisation work with a new toolset to deliver virtually instant productivity, making efficiency a daily part of the job.
The TAB 3.0 gives animators more tools to draw and animate, new features to add power to animations, improvements for most of the features already available to speed up the production pipeline.
The TAB 3.0 Pro offers, in addition to the TAB standard tools, a bunch of special features developed specifically for professional users.
Interface : The TAB 3.0 interface is organized in rooms optimized for a particular task.
Each room is a different collection of panes which are laid out at specific positions on the screen, and has its own menus. You can move from room to room simply by clicking on the tabs on the far right of the menu bar.
Working rooms can be customized with any interface pane and with floating windows.
Features :
Interface : Support for Windows and Macintosh Customizable Interface Configurable Shortcuts