Your single modeling pipeline for Automotive Class A Surfacing Empowering the Automotive OEM with technology to push the boundaries of creativity and collaboration with the goal of making better products, faster.

Best practice references to sharpen your Alias knowledge

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Autodesk Technical Surfacing Whitepaper Today’s automotive manufacturers are facing increasing

competition to bring new vehicles to market faster than before. Traditional brands are being challenged by

hosts of new electric startups. Design still stands as the one clear differentiator in a world of commodity

technology. These designs must not only be pleasing to the eye but must be aligned with the

requirements from engineering and manufacturing. This whitepaper walks through how Autodesk Alias

provides the right tools to create these surfaces rapidly, while adhering to strict engineering

requirements.

Alias Subdivisional Modeling eBook The journey from an initial concept to final vehicle design is a long, arduous process. It involves different people from artists to modelers. One of the most challenging handoff areas is between concept design and computer-aided styling, or CAS. The former tend to be Subdivision Modeling (SubD) based, while the latter is Non- Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS) based. This eBook walks through how with Autodesk Alias, you have tools that can solve common issues encountered in this transition from SubD to NURBS.

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Why your design studio needs Alias for Class A surfacing:

Automotive Design Studios are facing rapid change. New competition, faster iterations and the ability to scale across multiple projects is becoming the norm. New challenger companies are

scaling faster than before, adding more pressure to established brands. Autonomous driving, touchscreens and HMI are becoming commodity items, designs still being one of the true

differentiators. Car companies must look to collapse their time to market and get their designs out faster, while still maintaining quality standards.

The technologically innovative surfacing solution:

Rapid scaling requires agile digital design teams. Design studios need be empowered to communicate better and iterate faster while ensuring that the

design intent is protected and maintained at any time. Autodesk Alias enables customers to develop their design from Concept to Engineering release by

offering automated processes and cross-functional (Design, CAS, CLASS and Engineering) collaboration with its single modeling pipeline. Additionally,

Autodesk Alias combines capabilities seen in Engineering tools with the flexibility of a freeform Design and Surfacing package. Unleash creativity,

increase design quality and speed up your process to deliver your Class A designs with Autodesk Alias.

Key benefits to empower your design studio: Communications between departments

• Ensure barriers are removed between CAS, CLASS A and Engineering with a single surfacing tool – break down silos

• Class A can be the ‘bridge’ between CAS and Engineering – unlocking that ‘faster to surface’ workflow.

Agility in the studio • Having a flexible agile team that means some of the CAS team can

deliver partially Class A work and people can float between roles.

• Accelerate change from ‘waterfall’ approach to design and engineering to an ‘agile’ approach.

• This agility offers the ability to get to market faster and critically react faster to any changes or external trends.

Best practice transfer • Foster collaboration, sharing of workload and responsibility for

different roles and tasks.

• Working with Autodesk experts to identify process improvements and streamline workflows – deploying best practice from around the world.

Streamline workflow with automation • Automate normally time consuming and procedural tasks enabling

faster decision making and design exploration.

• Take advantage of new technologies such as ‘Additive Clay’, Automatic Surfacing, Machine Learning to ‘drop’ into Design and Surfacing Process and be effective immediately.

Reduce cost and time by removing data redundancy and wastage

• Mature data from CAS to Class A – ensuring the digital design data is evolved and not thrown away enabling faster development times.

• Capture, share and re-use surfacing components across design teams ensuring standards and components can be shared for faster design decisions.

Confidence in ensuring design intent can be a true differentiator

• Shephard digital design intent from CAS through to surface release.

• Use time saved to focus on design and production quality

Solve your design studio challenges Leverage Autodesk Alias in a variety of ways to help individuals and groups in your design studio. Here are some examples of how they can benefit.

Studio Manager Faster Project delivery and turn around

Mature and evolve dataset from concept to Class A – ensuring seamless data flow

Cost reductions – software cost models more attractive and moveable teams cross projects and cross project gateways

CAS Modeler Single dataset and source of truth

No data ambiguity and interpretation – single data pipeline

Communication barriers removed – talk the same language

Class A Modeler A single toolset containing all the tools need to deliver the work

Access to Alias ready users and train to deliver Class A work

Tight links with Engineering teams via Assembly Link

Collaborative work with Alias Assemblies in Class A and with CAS teams on a single dataset

Designer Confidence that design will stay intact – contained in a single modelling pipeline

Talk the same language (and use the same tools) as the Surfacing team

Reduction in ambiguous data handover and interpretation

Design Manager Agility of teams

Cost down and single software across teams ensure more manageable and scalable costs

Agility of software deployment and roll out

Engineering Department Faster release of design data for downstream feasibility and testing

Earlier Engineering decisions ensure faster time to market

Seamless data flow from Design to Production

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“Time saved in our digital design phase by using a single pipeline and merged teams allows us to re-use CAS data into CLASS A and, importantly, enables us to use that time saved to refine the design, make deci- sions earlier and focus on quality.

- DESIGN MANAGER (AUTO SUPPLIER)

“An agile approach to our Digital Design teams is a central component of our overall agile design process – essential in today’s fast moving and competitive world. The ability to scale and move digital sculpting teams across projects (and at speed) is critical to this.”

- STUDIO MANAGER (GLOBAL AUTO OEM)

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