StudioTools
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Alias StudioTools is a family of computer-aided industrial design products starting with DesignStudio as the entry-level conceptual design system, progressing to Studio, and then to AutoStudio as the top-of-the-line product with all of the options.
Tools for sketching, modeling and visualization are combined in one software package. It meets the specialized needs of designers: sketching, freedom to experiment with shape and form, creating organic shapes, visualization for design review, and data exchange with CAD packages.
As the product is sold specifically as CAID rather than CAD, its tools and abilities are oriented more towards the "styling" aspect of design - that is to say, the product's housing and outer appearance. It does not go into mechanical detail to anywhere near the extent that CAD programs such as AutoCAD, ProENGINEER and SolidWorks do, but has a much more powerful set of tools for the creation of precisely sculpted curves and surfaces.
From version 13 and up StudioTools changed its name to AliasStudio.
[edit] About AliasStudio
Quoting from alias.com, AliasStudio is a powerful suite of award winning 2D/3D software, used for design and styling in the automotive, marine, aircraft, sporting equipment, electronic enclosure, children's toy and fashion accessory markets.
AliasStudio is a powerful tool for communicating 3D form. For industrial designers to reach full potential they must communicate in 3D form. 2D Photoshop is not good enough in today's marketplace as getting to 3D faster is paramount in today's global product design world.
Using AliasStudio in the earliest of shape and form defining efforts helps designers get to a desired final shape right away. Then getting to a rendering sales, marketing and engineering can get an idea what the product is going to look like. An industrial designer or engineer that knows AliasStudio can combine the efforts of the design and engineering sides of a product to cut cost and make projects more efficient to all involved.
AliasStudio has always been a favorite conceptual modeling tool for industrial designers. It has long been a tool for creating the outside geometry of cell phones and other hand held electronic products because of the software's ability to prove out form using control vertices or CVs.
Many programmers of competing 3D software have set AliasStudio as the defacto standard when developing NURBS based surfacing software.
AliasStudio imports into most popular 3D engineering packages via IGES or STEP such as SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA and Unigraphics.
AliasStudio has two types of modelers within it: NURBS and polygons.
