Solutions for Product Visualisation

Autodesk Showcase forms part of the Autodesk Digital Prototyping solution and is designed to help designers, engineers, and marketing teams evaluate designs in context, rapidly explore alternatives, and tell the stories of their designs with vividly immersive 3D presentations and highly realistic renderings. Featuring storyboarding and movie creation capabilities, a new cross-section tool, and an intuitive user interface and navigation techniques, Showcase enables users to make more informed product decisions and more clearly convey design intent. Showcase provides enhanced Autodesk Inventor interoperability and numerous third-party CAD translators, helping users save time and prevent rework. The result is a more efficient, economical design review and rendering process.

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Turn your 3D models into Piranesi Illustrations....

....and turn your prospects into clients

Piranesi is not just a painting tool – it’s a graphical persuader. Using Piranesi, convert your 2D and 3D designs into breathtaking presentations images for clients and prospects, expressing your creative solutions with maximum dramatic impact.
Export directly from your renderer to Piranesi EPix file format, and quickly convert your rigid, hard-edged model into a soft, expressive artist’s impression, tailored to your company’s own house style. Piranesi does not need to be heavily-detailed source model that is time consuming to produce – you can rapidly create stunning images even from simple models. Alternatively if your product does not support the Piranesi EPix file format plugin – Piranesi ships with a free tool ‘Vedute’ that enables you to generate Piranesi EPix from most popular CAD applications prior to opening your scene in Piranesi.
Simple to use, straight forward but powerful tools including comprehensive tutorials are shipped complete with the product – impressive presentation output right at your fingertips!

Selling the concept – not the detail
Anyone who has presented an initial design concept understands the power of non-photorealistic artist’s impressions. Especially at the early stages of the project, where specifications are limited and it’s simple not possible (or desirable) to present detailed treatments – Piranesi can work wonders.
Piranesi’s unique abilities to generate stylish illustrations with a truly hand-painted feel sets it apart from any other visualisation tools. In your hands, Piranesi produces subtle and emotive impressions which allow the creative idea to shine, drawing the focus to the elements of the design proposal.
At the later stages of your project, after your initial concepts have been approved, Piranesi can again be used to produce finished visuals (either photorealistic or non-photorealistic) for distribution to all parties involved, or for competition submission.
In Piranesi you can place photorealistic and non-photorealistic cutouts of people, plants, trees, cards, street furniture and so on onto your image to create a better context. Best of all – the enormous library is supplied completely free with purchase of the product – and Piranesi now also supports clipart available from Google Warehouse.
Piranesi is unlike any other painting application – and supports amongst others the following applications: SketchUP, 3D Studio MAX, AutoCAD Architectural Desktop, Revit Architecture / MEP / Structure, Microstation and NavisWorks.
A Free trial is able to be downloaded at: www.piranesi.co.uk. For information contact AEC Systems

Solutions for Design and Construction Management

Autodesk NavisWorks software is a powerful solution for design and construction management professionals, providing control and peace of mind for advanced analysis and coordination of 3D models. Navisworks allows the design data created in different CAD packages to be combined with geometry and information from other design tools and reviewed as an entire project, regardless of file size or format. Navisworks has three versions, Manage, Simulate and Review which has a ranged of advanced design review toolsets which with the co-ordination and communication of the project: 

• Clash Detective - early fault prediction and error recognition help prevent later, more costly, miscalculations.
• Timeliner – 4D construction simulation for building and site planning, as well as presentation of time-based modelling.
• Presenter – an easy to use rendering toolset to communicate design intent.
• Animator and Scripter - provides users with access to animate and interact with models.

Solutions for Creative Ideas

Autodesk 3ds Max Design \ software enables architects, designers, and visualization specialists to fully explore, validate, and communicate their creative ideas—from initial concept models to final, cinema-quality presentations. This comprehensive 3D modeling, animation, and rendering solution includes Exposure lighting simulation and analysis technology; Recognize scene loading toolset, for accurate importing of Revit 2009 software lights, materials, and cameras; and Reveal rendering technology for accelerated creative workflows.

Plus, 3ds Max Design delivers the extensive ProMaterials library for mental ray, which provides fast access to manufacturer-related building surfaces, such as glossy and matte paints, solid glass, concrete, and more.