Autodesk Design Suite Premium 2012

A high-value offering for architects and designers, Autodesk Design Suite Premium software combines the power of AutoCAD software with leading visual communication tools. Solutions for sketching, illustration, 3D rendering, animation, and interactive presentations help you design more creatively, communicate more clearly, and win business.

Autodesk Design Suite Premium includes:

• AutoCAD
• Autodesk SketchBook Designer (formerly Autodesk Alias Sketch)
• Autodesk Showcase
• Autodesk Mudbox
• Autodesk 3ds Max Design

Autodesk Design Suite Premium provides you all the tools you'll need to design and share your work.

Features:

• Leading design and documentation - With new and updated tools for 3D conceptual design, model documentation, and reality capture, AutoCAD helps maximize productivity and quickly drive projects to completion.
• Award-winning design storytelling and visualization - Use Autodesk 3ds Max Design software for push-button rendering, animation, and 3D modeling to create cinematic-quality visualizations to communicate and sell concepts. Simulate and analyze sun, sky, and artificial lighting with daylight analysis tools.
• Easy-to-use, real-time interactive presentation tools - Transform AutoCAD designs and 3ds Max Design models into compelling imagery, movies, and interactive presentations with Autodesk Showcase software.
• Fully integrated design sketching and graphic communication - Use Autodesk SketchBook Designer software to sketch concept designs directly into AutoCAD and tap into a hybrid paint and vector workflow for exploration of design concepts and graphic communication.
• Digital sculpting and texture painting - Sculpt and paint design concepts with a higher level of detail with Autodesk Mudbox digital sculpting and texture painting application.

Design and Documentation

Design and shape the world around you with the powerful, flexible features in AutoCAD software, one of the world’s leading 2D and 3D CAD design tools.

Autodesk has been bringing efficiencies to your design process for more than 28 years. Used by millions of people globally, AutoCAD® software is a world-leading design and documentation solution. Offering robust 3D free-form design tools and powerful drafting and documentation capabilities, AutoCAD drives design innovation for companies of all sizes in almost all industries.

Explore Your Design Ideas
Create the previously unimaginable. AutoCAD gives you the flexibility you need to explore design ideas in both 2D and 3D. A powerful set of intuitive tools helps you visualize and shape your ideas, bringing innovative concepts to life.

• Autodesk® Inventor Fusion—An easy-to-use tool for direct modeling, helping you flexibly edit and validate models from almost any source.
• 3D Free-Form Design—Use robust surface, mesh, and solid modeling tools in AutoCAD software to investigate and refine your ideas.
• Point Cloud Support—Bring your 3D scans to life, streamlining time-consuming renovation and restoration projects.
• Powerful Visualization Tools—Add impact to your designs.
• 3D Navigation Tools—Quickly and intuitively walk or fly through a model.

AutoCAD delivers the flexibility and power needed to help bring your design ideas to life.

Accelerate Documentation
Speed projects from concept to completion with the powerful documentation tools in AutoCAD. Import 3D models directly into AutoCAD and instantly create intelligent 2D views. Minimize repetitive tasks and accelerate your workflow. No matter your project’s size or scope, you can meet the challenge with AutoCAD software.

AutoCAD offers a broad toolset that helps you drive efficiencies throughout the drafting and documentation process, no matter what industry you are in.

• Model Documentation—Automatically generate intelligent documentation for AutoCAD, Autodesk® Inventor® software, and other models. You can import and document designs from a wide variety of software applications including SolidWorks®, Pro/ENGINEER®, CATIA®, Rhinoceros®, and NX®.
• Parametric Drawing—Define relationships between objects, minimizing the time needed to edit or rework drawings.
• Associative Array—Easily create arrayed objects, like windows on a building or trusses on a bridge. Plus, you can now array objects in 3D or along a specified path.
• Sheet Sets—Organize and manage your drawing sheets efficiently.
• Dynamic Blocks—Save time when using standard, repetitive components.
• Multifunction Grips—Maximize productivity with context-aware, object-specific menus.

Don’t settle for second best. Rely on the drafting and documentation tools in AutoCAD to exceed expectations.

Communicate Seamlessly
Share critical design data securely, efficiently, and accurately with AutoCAD (or online with AutoCAD® WS web and mobile service). Native support for DWG™, one of the world’s most widely used design data formats, helps you keep everyone informed at all times. With presentation-ready graphics, rendering tools, and robust plotting and 3D printing capabilities, AutoCAD helps to bring clarity and impact to all of your design communications.

• AutoCAD WS—Enables you to stay connected to your designs over the web or from your mobile device.
• Native DWG Support—Demand native DWG support, not a conversion or a translation.
• PDF Import/Export—Share and reuse designs easily. Import PDF files as an underlay within your workspace.
• Autodesk Exchange—With connected access to tips and tutorials, getting started videos, and help content, Autodesk Exchange brings the content you need directly to your AutoCAD workspace.
• Photorealistic Rendering—Create stunning, visually rich images.
• 3D Printing—Connect online to service providers or print from AutoCAD to a local machine.

AutoCAD is communication at its best.

Customize in Ways You Never Thought Possible
Your job is unique. Your software should be as well. With deep APIs, thousands of available add-ons, and a broad developer community, AutoCAD software can be customized for your particular requirements. Whether you simply want to arrange tools to match how you work or tailor the software for your industry, AutoCAD is flexible enough to fit your needs—perfectly.

• Simplified Migration Tools—New and enhanced tools make it easier to migrate your custom settings.
• Customizable User Interface—Get the tools you want, at your fingertips.
• Programming Interface—Create specialized design and drafting applications.
• Partner Products and Services—Extend AutoCAD software to suit all your needs.

Don’t choose between flexibility and power. With AutoCAD, you can have both.

Every Design Has a Story.

Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2012 software delivers powerful new rendering toolsets, accelerated iterative workflows, and enhanced interoperability that together help significantly increase overall productivity.

Whether you’re an architect, designer, civil engineer, or visualization specialist, Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2012 software provides a powerful, integrated toolset that helps you to more rapidly iterate on design concepts and accurately analyze daylight effects. Create higher-impact visuals as you explore, validate, and communicate the story behind your design.

High Impact Visuals Made Easier
3ds Max Design 2012 continues to reach new milestones in the Rendering Revolution, helping you achieve the look you want more easily. Case in point: the newly integrated iray® rendering technology from mental images that enables you to get more predictable, photo-real results without worrying about rendering settings—similar to a ‘point-and-shoot’ camera. Meanwhile, new stylistic rendering capabilities enable you to create a variety of non-photorealistic (NPR) effects in a looser, more abstract style well suited to communicating core design intent while fine details are still undetermined. And, with a new library of 80 Substance procedural textures that feature dynamically editable and animatable parameters, a wide range of look variations is at your fingertips.

Iterate Faster, Work in Context
3ds Max 2012 forges ahead with the next steps in the Excalibur (XBR) initiative to revitalize the software at its core. Engineered to help provide dramatic improvements in performance and visual quality, the new Nitrous viewport system leverages accelerated GPUs and multi-core workstations to help you iterate faster and manage larger data sets with limited impact on interactivity. The render-quality display environment helps you make better creative decisions in the context of your final output.

Smoother Interoperability
For many visualizations, useful data already exists in another application. Now you can more easily take advantage of that data, thanks to new interoperability with Autodesk® Alias® Design software for industrial design. You can add sculpted details on top of Alias Design reference data using the intuitive Graphite polygon modeling toolset, which now features a new French curve-like ‘Constrain to Spline’ mode to help guide the brush as changes are made to the mesh, as well as new Transform and Conform brushes. What’s more, you can now enjoy automated iterative workflows between AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software and 3ds Max Design with the Civil View feature set. Using civil data in 3ds Max Design, you can automatically create roads complete with road markings, circulation lanes, and chevrons; place trees at random or regular offsets along the side of a road or railway; or populate a highway with moving vehicles.

New Features in Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2012

Nitrous Accelerated Graphics Core
Experience dramatic improvements in performance and visual quality with the new Nitrous viewport system. Nitrous leverages accelerated GPUs and multi-core workstations to enable you to iterate faster and handle larger data sets. The render-quality display environment support lights, soft shadows, screen-space ambient occlusion, tone-mapping, and higher-quality transparency.

Autodesk Alias Design Interoperability
Enjoy smoother interoperability with Autodesk Alias Design software for industrial design, with the new ability to import .WIRE files natively into 3ds Max Design 2012 as Bodies objects, preserving object names, hierarchies, layers, and material names. You can now interactively adjust tessellation results inside 3ds Max Design and add sculpted details on top of Alias Design reference data using the intuitive Graphite polygon modeling toolset.

Substance Procedural Textures
Achieve a vast range of look variations with a new library of 80 Substance procedural textures. These dynamically editable and animatable resolutionindependent textures automatically generate bump maps and specular maps for impressive results, and can be quickly converted to bitmaps for rendering.

iray Renderer
Creating highly realistic images is easier with 3ds Max Design, using the newly integrated iray rendering technology from mental images. iray enables you to set up your scene using real-world materials and lighting, press ‘render’, and get more predictable, photo-real results without worrying about rendering settings; iray progressively refines the image until the desired level of detail is achieved.

Stylistic Rendering
Create a variety of non-photorealistic (NPR) effects with the new ability to render stylized images in the viewport and with the Quicksilver renderer. The looser, more abstract style of NPR imagery helps you more effectively communicate your core design intent while deemphasizing distracting or incomplete design details.

Autodesk Civil View
Automatically create highly realistic visualizations in 3ds Max Design using civil data from AutoCAD Civil 3D with the Civil View (formerly Dynamite VSP) feature set. With the repeatable, style-based process, styles are defined once, and then applied with minimal effort to multiple iterations or projects. Civil View now offers enhanced support for the new iray and Quicksilver rendering solutions.

Sculpting and Painting Enhancements
Enjoy greater control over brushstrokes and their effects on geometry, thanks to new sculpting and painting workflows. Some highlights: new Transform brushes enable you to slide vertices along target surfaces; a new Conform brush guides geometry towards another surface; and Paint Deform brushstrokes can now be constrained to a spline for use as a guide or ruler.

Autodesk Design Suites 2012
A license of Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2012 software can be acquired as part of certain suites offered by Autodesk, including Autodesk® Design Suite Premium 2012 and Autodesk® Design Suite Ultimate 2012 at a significant cost saving overall*. The Premium suite includes AutoCAD® 2012 software, Autodesk® SketchBook® Designer 2012 software, Autodesk® Showcase® 2012 software and Autodesk® Mudbox™ 2012 software alongside 3ds Max Design 2012, while the Ultimate suite additionally offers
Autodesk® Alias® Design 2012 software.

Experience creative freedom with the Autodesk SketchBook Designer family of products

Autodesk SketchBook Designer
Unlike photo-editing or artistic painting applications, SketchBook Designer is a tool geared for creative exploration. It includes an advanced illustration toolset geared for tasks from freehand sketches and tight technical linework to compositing photo and image assets for graphic communication. Whether you are a freehand artist or using a standard mouse configuration, you can produce professional, high-quality artwork, quickly and easily.

Intuitive UI
Designed to encourage creativity, SketchBook Designer offers a dynamic and scalable UI, which is optimized for both pen- and mouse-based interaction.

Hybrid Paint/Vector Workflow*
Whether creating freehand sketches, tight technical linework, or compositing photo and image assets, the hybrid raster/vector environment allows lines to be edited at any time, providing users with a high degree of control and flexibility.

Powerful Explorative Tools
With powerful tools for exploring shape variations, symmetric design, color variations, and compositions, SketchBook Designer

Autodesk SketchBook Designer for AutoCAD
This product is especially helpful for AutoCAD users who have a creative part of their job and require multiple products outside of AutoCAD to get their job done. Key functionality includes:

Work Directly within Your AutoCAD
Enrich your AutoCAD workflows with integrated painting and image editing capabilities directly within AutoCAD, enhancing how you explore and communicate; without having to learn or use a separate illustration application.

Communicate via Illustration Tools
Included are numerous painting tools so that AutoCAD users who need to integrate handwritten annotations can now communicate via illustrations versus only a DWGTM file. Included are marking menus, direct on-screen controls, and a collapsible window that lets users maximize screen real estate for increased productivity.

Composite and Manipulate Images in Minutes
Use layers to compose multiple images together. Dynamically transform and manipulate content to create new variations.

CAD to real-time 3D presentations, in just a few clicks.

Autodesk® Showcase® 2012 software helps you transform your digital prototypes and architectural designs into compelling imagery, movies, and immersive presentations for interactive design reviews, stunning marketing materials, and convincing sales pitches.

Autodesk Showcase for Manufacturing
Autodesk Showcase 2012 is a highly useful companion to Autodesk® Inventor® and Autodesk® Alias® software because it helps designers, engineers, and marketing teams to evaluate designs in context, more rapidly explore design options, and accelerate the feedback loop by reducing the need for physical prototypes. Showcase now enables you to automatically generate interactive scenes from your Inventor files, complete with Shots, Alternatives, Storyboard, and animated Constraints.

Autodesk Showcase for Architecture
Showcase is an easy-to-use companion to Revit® Architecture and AutoCAD® software because it helps to provide architects, interior designers, principals, developers, and city planners with the tools to visualize their designs in context. They can explore material alternatives and design options with the click of a button, and create their own renderings and real-time presentations to convey design intent at any stage of the project.

Key Features:

ENHANCED Interactive Raytracing
With RapidRT raytracing functionality, users can now switch on the fly between a GPU-powered viewport and full raytracing, without the need to change materials, lighting, or environments. The RapidRT raytracing engine renders the scene progressively, directly in the viewport. With Showcase 2012, RapidRT raytracing has been accelerated by a factor of up to 10x.

ENHANCED Interoperability
Autodesk Showcase 2012 supports Autodesk Materials, which are now automatically imported from AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Revit Architecture and 3ds Max® Design. In addition, the interoperability with Autodesk® Maya® and 3ds Max Design through the Autodesk® FBX® data exchange tool has been improved and now includes support for cameras. Showcase imports more than 15 third-party CAD file formats*.

NEW Import Templates
Save time when working with Inventor software data. You can now automatically create a Showcase scene from an Inventor file, complete with Materials, Shots, Alternatives, Storyboard, and animated Constraints.

Easy-to-use Camera and Animation
Add narrative to your design with cinematic camera motion and animation features. The Orbit shot allows you to move the camera 360 degrees around a center of interest, while keyframe animation techniques and triggers add greater interactivity to your presentations. Import 3ds Max and Maya camera animations directly into Showcase shots via the Autodesk FBX data exchange tool.

Storyboard and Movie Creation
Storyboard enables you to orchestrate the story of your design in a familiar, slide-based metaphor. The Storyboard slides can be played back in sequence, or one at a time. Also, you can share work with colleagues or customers who do not use Showcase by more quickly and easily exporting slides as movies or rendering Showcase scenes to interactive Adobe® Flash® files.

NEW Automatic Real-time Shadows
Create highly realistic imagery by automatically simulating ambient shadows for polygonal objects and adding real-time, geometry-casted shadows.

NEW Non-photorealistic Effects and Styles
Create a variety of non-photorealistic (NPR) effects that help simulate artistic styles created by hand. The Styles user interface aggregates all rendering styles in one view, making it quicker and easier to explore options.

NEW Smart Navigation
Use Autodesk® Steeringwheels® to walk naturally around architectural scenes. Navigate up or down stairs, or remain on the ground level; avoid walls and other obstacles. Showcase now supports 3Dconnexion input devices for total motion control.

NEW Quick Start Wizards
Users who are new to Showcase can now be productive almost immediately. The new Quick Start wizards guide users through common workflows in two to six steps, helping them accelerate time to completion and reach a successful finish every time.

NEW Language Packs
Showcase now ships in English, French, German, and Japanese.

Autodesk Showcase Product Family

Autodesk Showcase 2012 Viewer
Autodesk® Showcase® 2012 Viewer software is a free** application that enables anyone to view and navigate Showcase scenes. Autodesk Showcase 2012 Viewer is particularly useful when sharing your designs with customers. The free viewer can be downloaded at www.autodesk.com/showcase-viewer.

Autodesk Showcase 2012
A free** 30-day trial of the standard version of Showcase 2012 can be downloaded at www.autodesk.com/showcase-trial.

Autodesk Showcase Professional 2012
Autodesk® Showcase® Professional 2012 software is designed for specialized display environments involving multiple-screen displays, high-speed raytracing clusters, stereoscopy, and remote session sharing. Autodesk Consulting can help design and implement the right Showcase Professional software solution for your specific needs.

System Requirements:

32-Bit Autodesk Design Suite Premium 2012 for Windows

• Operating System Windows 7 Home premium, Professional, Ultimate, Enterprise. Vista Home basic, Home premium, Enterprise, Ultimate. XP Professional x64 (SP2)
• Processor Intel Pentium 4 (SSE2), Intel Xeon, Intel Core, AMD Athlon 64 (SSE2), AMD Opertron (SSE2)
• RAM 4GB
• Available Hard Disk Space 40GB
• Display 1280 x 1024
• Graphics 256 MB DirectX 9 capable graphics card with Shader Model 3
• Internet Connection Required Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or later

64-Bit Autodesk Design Suite Premium 2012 for Windows

• Operating System Windows 7 Home premium, Professional, Ultimate, Enterprise. Vista Home basic, Home premium, Enterprise, Ultimate. XP Professional x64 (SP2)
• Processor Intel Pentium 4 (SSE2), Intel Xeon, Intel Core, AMD Athlon (SSE2), AMD Opertron (SSE2)
• RAM 4GB
• Available Hard Disk Space 40GB
• Display 1280 x 1024
• Graphics 256 MB DirectX 9 capable graphics card with Shader Model 3
• Internet Connection Required Internet Explorer 7.0 or later