Saving time and money with Autodesk Showcase

By Dave Schaeg,
MCAD Solutions Engineer
Hagerman & Company

Autodesk Showcase creates accurate, real time, realistic imagery from 3D digital design data. This dynamic solution addresses many of the roadblocks that delay decision-making process, including:

1. Expensive, often time-consuming repeated design reviews

2. Limited evaluation of multiple design variations

3. Spending days on data preparation, then waiting hours on visualization files

4. Design models changing while visualization imagery is being prepared

5. Expertise required for creating high-quality realistic design presentations

Make Better Decisions; Faster
Autodesk Showcase software addresses the important issue of decision-making on digital prototypes. It enables designers to create accurate, realistic imagery from 3D CAD data to not only convey form and function, but also create environmental context to communicate brand character. Showcase helps users present and review models in a real time environment in which team members can make reliable decisions.

Power Up Your Digital Prototype
Use high-quality digital 3D visualization to evaluate multiple design variations and communicate ideas. Showcase helps users reduce the time and cost of building physical prototypes in early design phases. Interact with digital models in real time. Use a variety of materials and geometry during presentations, and switch between variations with a single mouse-click. Showcase generates photorealistic imagery and animation with superior visual fidelity that accurately represents real-world materials, lighting, and environments. When design models change in your 3D CAD application like Autodesk Inventor, Showcase recognizes the need to update and incorporate these changes while preserving previous settings. Thus, Showcase allows you to leverage your Inventor models to present a real time visualization of your product without spending time and money on multiple prototypes, outsourced renderings or costly photo shoots. (Showcase Your Inventor Promotion http://www.hagerman.com/promotions/ShowcaseInventor.htm - also, refer to FAQs)

Make Visualization Accessible
Showcase is easy to use and makes realistic, interactive visualization accessible to designers and provides advanced functionality for visualization experts. It provides tools to prepare, process, and present 3D design data in a single application, simplifying the preparation of data for high-quality visualization and further use. Because Showcase allows design model changes while preparing imagery for design reviews, it significantly reduces preparation time so design and visualization work can be done in parallel.

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Seeing is believing! So, contact your Hagerman & Company representative today to get a first hand look at this amazing solution - Autodesk^® Showcase^®.

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