How Can Autodesk^® Showcase™ Help Me?

Whether you are securing approvals or competitive bids from external customers, or simply securing internal buy-ins and sign-offs from within your company, Autodesk Showcase can help you win business.

Autodesk Showcase is a real-time design visualization software package that lets you transform CAD data into compelling imagery, videos and interactive presentations to improve your design review process.

Typical issues that most companies are experiencing include:

• Design review and decision-making processes require too much time and expertise.
• Physical prototypes limit the evaluation of multiple design variations.
• Low-quality digital prototypes hinder the design approval process.
• Data preparation for visualization and review is too time-consuming.
• Design models change while preparing imagery for design reviews.
• High-quality design presentations can be created only by visualization experts and consultants.

Here is where Autodesk Showcase comes into play.

Your customers and non-engineering stakeholders may not be technical people and cannot, and will not, spend the time reviewing shop drawings. Autodesk Showcase software addresses the important issue of decision making in the design process. It enables designers to create accurate, realistic imagery from 3D digital design data to not only convey form, but also create environmental context to communicate brand character. Showcase helps users keep up with the demand for new concepts and variations by providing an environment in which they can present and review designs to make important informed decisions. The result is an efficient, as well as economical design review process.

You don’t have to wait for a physical prototype to present early-on with customers and stakeholders. With Showcase, users reduce the time and cost of building physical prototypes to present a range of design options. Varying materials and geometry during presentations and switching between variations are just a mouse click away.

You can facilitate the approval of designs by using Showcase to overcome the reluctance of a client or management to approve designs based on low-quality digital prototypes. Showcase helps designers create digital prototypes with superior visual fidelity that accurately represents real-world materials, lighting and environments. It also provides the ability to interact with digital prototypes in real time.

The learning curve for Showcase is virtually none. You don’t have to be a CAD or Visualization expert to learn Showcase. The simple user interface enables you to quickly and easily create photorealistic design presentations, as well as satisfy the advanced requirements of visualization experts. Showcase provides tools to prepare, process and present 3D design data in a single application - simplifying the preparation of data for high-quality visualization. Showcase allows design model changes while preparing imagery for design reviews, significantly reducing preparation time and enabling design and visualization work to be done in parallel. Readymade materials and environments in Showcase reduce the time and expertise required to set up and light a scene. You can use image-based lighting to create high-quality visual effects.

So go ahead and bring your designs to life, make informed decisions, and win more businesses with Autodesk Showcase.

Visit www.autodesk.com to learn more about Autodesk® Showcase™ 2012 or contact your local Hagerman Account Representative for a product demonstration or training information.

This page last edited on Thursday, September 08, 2011

How Can Autodesk® Showcase™ Help Me?

How Can Autodesk^® Showcase™ Help Me?