Key features of Autodesk Alias

Several new modeling tools like the bridge fillet and gap checker help improve your design workflow and speed up processes. Plus, many other tools have additional enhancements. (video: 3:11 min.)

Alias 2024 introduced a new user experience, and the 2025 release continues to build upon these improvements. The new changes now improve your ability to be more efficient in Alias. (video: 2:23 min.)

Alias 2025 includes a new radial menu user interface element called the Custom Puck. This video details how to customize the puck for faster tool and navigation access. (video: 2:32 min.)

We have introduced support for several new file formats over the last six months. With Alias 2025, we are excited to introduce Universal Scene Description (USD) support. (video: 1:13 min.)

Alias 2024 includes a modernized user interface, while maintaining the familiar Alias tools and DNA. (video: 2:24 min.)

Improve collaboration and review with intuitive markup and animation editors. (video: 1:27 min.)

Easily control objects on curves with the feature modifier. Smooth curved surfaces quickly and easily with the accelerated surface function. (video: 2:30 min.)

Alias 2023 provides more SubD automation with the reform function, as well as a unique way to transition creases. Reform gives you the power to take any scanned mesh data and convert it to a SubD model for faster roundtrip design iteration. (video: 1:47 min.)

Accelerate your design process with multiple enhancements in the latest version of Alias, including a new reworked round tool. (video: 54 sec.)

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Create shareable presets for tools and parametric capabilities. (video: 1:42 min.)

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Custom-built feature sets and Dynamo scripts aid in creating libraries and templates for use by your whole team. (video: 1:31 min.)

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Get an improved workflow and user experience, including faster SubD modeling and new Dynamo scripts. (video: 3:22 min.)

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SubD modeling improvements included diagnostic shade, specific menus, and a shelf for the SubD workflow. (video: 1:18 min.)

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SubD modeling in your VR workflow represents another step forward in Alias Create VR. (video: 1:13 min.)

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Gain a new interactive user interface for working with and modifying Dynamo scripts. Improve speed of design automation. (video: 1:47 min.)

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This update includes enhancements to the tool finder, variant lister, and freeform blend tool. (video: 1:19 min.)

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Experience additional enhancements to reference workflows, including a true assemblies workflow. (video: 1:07 min.)

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Generate subdivision topology by placing CVs and building SubDs on a reference mesh or NURBS geometry. (video: 1:04 min.)

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Subdivision modeling workflow includes a customized SubD Marking menu and dedicated SubD shelf set. (video: 2:18 min.)

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Save Import Dynamo sample file locations so that you can drag and drop scripts to a shelf. 

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Create, modify, and select objects and components using selection sets.

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Get a new way of visualizing the flow of construction history in your Alias files. 

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G2 curvature/Arc creates a fillet that has curvature lead-in and maintains a more arc-shaped section.

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This capability has been added to Skin, Surface Fillet, Multi-Surface Draft, and Free Form Blend.

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Quickly create wheel arches using a Dynamo sample file, saving you time when building a new vehicle concept model.

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Modify components such as CVs, hulls, and edges. Transform entities without moving off the selected plane.

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New options allow for better control over how subdivision CVs align to curves and surface boundaries.

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A visual clipping plane tool now exists in Alias Concept for quick visual sectioning and clip of geometry.

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A supersampling option increases the anti-alias quality by a factor of 4, resulting in a quality of up to 64x.

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You can now replace shaders by name when you import Alias supported geometry with shader assignments.

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An immersive conceptual design tool that lets designers explore form in 3D using simple curve and surface tools.

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Get SubD and Dynamo tutorials and exercises for Alias, including example files and three special Alias 2021 scripts.

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Draw and edit with integrated tools. Capture lines, circles, and ellipses with predictive strokes. (video: 2:43 min.)

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Fast, repeatable, curve-based modeling tools let you directly edit and sculpt 3D models. (video: 2:32 min.)

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Get a complete concept model workflow, from sketch to final concept model. (video: 3:03 min.)

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Sketches from Photoshop can be linked to Alias. Changes to sketches are dynamically updated in Alias.

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Quickly manipulate your product model and explore shape variations on 3D forms without rebuilding geometry.

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3D sculpt surfaces by directly adjusting surface control vertices. Use curve-based tools, direct modeling, and more.

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Use the deck seam (similar to a flat fell seam) to create a deck shape and stitch along an edge or curved surface. (video: 3:31 min.)

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Use tools that help you create mathematical shapes. Control pitch with the Revolve tool and more. (video: 1:26 min.)

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Use the Multiblend tool to easily generate nice-looking, hard-to-build surfaces and make smooth transitions between surfaces. (video: 4:28 min.)

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Study your surfaces in a virtual lighting studio with the Light Tunnel tool.

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Quickly generate complex repeatable patterns, and enable rapid design iterations and exploration.

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Simplify uniform and nonuniform objects using arrays. Create arrays of lines and surfaces in 2D and 3D.

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Take concept modeling to a new level with the strengths of adaptive subdivision controls combined with native NURBS surface technology in Alias. (video: 3:45 min.)

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Refit your digital model to the changed physical model. (video: 1:24 min.)

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Create a surface on mesh with one of three surface types. Update original data with scanned clay data. (video: 2:01 min.)

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Create Class-A surfaces with speed and control.

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Perform multiple operations with a single, automated tool.

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Get more predictable results with new tools such as Freeform Curve Blend and View Flip.

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Profile tools provide an advanced way to work with surfaces, such as rotating a profile to a target surface.

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Define ratios with Form Factor tools.

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Use an expanded mesh selection toolset.

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Maintain offset CV layout quality to enable a semiautomated, time-saving workflow.

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Save the file author information under the save information section when saving or exporting a file.

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Disable the share view option using an environment variable.

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Enhance design reviews with virtual reality. Explore your design to scale using an HMD in VR.

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Evaluate design options with real-time visualizations. Use shading models, apply color, add texture, and more.

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Share industrial design data with mechanical design and CAD software, including Inventor, CATIA, and SOLIDWORKS.

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Quickly convert Alias files to VRED software for 3D visualization.

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Easily switch between color combinations.

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Capture your current view to return to it easily.