Autodesk Showcase 2010 - Overview

Streamline the design review process with Autodesk® Showcase® visualisation software. It simplifies and speeds the design review process by making it easier to create highly realistic visualisations of your product - before you ever build a physical prototype.

Create and Evaluate Design Options

Present multiple design variations, quickly changing the appearance of the product during presentations. Adjust materials, geometry, and positioning, and switch between design options with a single mouse-click.

Make Informed Decisions

Customers and stakeholders often respond to low-quality imagery with reluctance. Use Showcase to create photorealistic imagery that represents real-world materials, lighting, and environments, and gain approval with high-quality 3D designs.

Make Visualisation Part of Your Workflow

Prepare, process, and present 3D CAD data in a single application. An easy-to-use interface reduces the time and expertise required to set up and communicate your product design. Because you can make model changes while preparing imagery, you save time by simultaneously doing design and visualisation work.

Autodesk Showcase Product Family

Autodesk Showcase

Autodesk Showcase software addresses the visualisation requirements to help designers interactively evaluate their work and present it for review.

Autodesk Showcase Professional

Designed for visualisation specialists, Autodesk® Showcase® Professional software includes all of the functionality of Autodesk Showcase, plus additional specialised features. Included are high-end visualisation environments and tools for automating the visualisation workflow, enhancing asset and presentation authoring, and building complex visualisation setups.

Autodesk Showcase Features

Discover the wide range of features in Autodesk® Showcase® design visualisation software. Create highly realistic 3D visualisations of your product, provide clients and stakeholders with multiple design alternatives, and streamline the design review process.

• Data Preparation - Import models from the Autodesk® Alias® family of products or CAD software, and convert them to a format suitable for high-quality, interactive 3D visualisation.

• Presentation Authoring - Use Showcase to create a range of realistic design alternatives for design reviews. Apply realistic textures and materials—such as paint, glass, and leather—and place models in an environment for context.

• Presentation Review & Decision Making - Put your 3D CAD data on display. Present large models in a realistic, accurate way, so team members can make informed design decisions.

What’s New

Autodesk Showcase 2010 is packed with new tools and capabilities to help produce visualisations faster, make informed decisions on 3D prototypes, and accelerate the design review cycle. More>>

Autodesk Showcase System requirements

Hardware

Hardware Configurations for Autodesk Showcase 2010

Minimum / Laptop

Performance may be limited in scenes with large numbers of objects.

• 2.4 GHz Intel® or equivalent AMD® processor

• 2 GB RAM

• NVIDIA GeForce® or Quadro® FX graphics card with at least 512 MB graphics memory

Recommended

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or 4-core 2.8 GHz processor or equivalent AMD processor

• 4 GB RAM

• NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics card with 768 MB graphics memory or more

Supported NVIDIA Graphics Cards

NVIDIA Quadro FX and GeForce cards released since Summer, 2006 that include the 7, 8 or 9 series graphics chipset. Cards must have a minimum 512 MB graphics memory. More memory is recommended on Microsoft® Windows Vista® or for users working with large data sets or complex scenes. Example graphics cards include:

• 7 series: Quadro FX 4500, Geforce 7900GTX, Mobile FX 2500M

• 8 series: Quadro FX 1700, Quadro FX 4600, GeForce 8800 GTS, Mobile FX 1600M

• 9 series: Quadro FX 3700, Quadro FX 5800, GeForce 9600 GT, Mobile FX 3600M

• Quadro Plex Model II and Model D2 are also supported.

Operating System

• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP 2 or higher)

• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (Autodesk® Showcase® software runs as a 32-bit application on 64-bit operating system)

• Microsoft Windows Vista® 32-bit or 64-bit, including Business, Enterprise or Ultimate (SP 1)

Note: Showcase can use up to 3 GB RAM on 32-bit Windows XP (with modified boot options) or on Windows Vista 32. 64-bit Windows XP x64 or Windows Vista 64 allows Showcase to access up to 4 GB of system RAM.