Autodesk Showcase 2012

Autodesk Showcase real-time 3D presentation and rendering software enables architects, designers, engineers, and managers to quickly and easily transform 3D CAD data into compelling imagery, movies, and immersive presentations that can be used for interactive design reviews, marketing imagery, and sales pitches.

Showcase users can bring their designs to life and explore design variations in real time, helping to accelerate the approval loop.

Bring your designs to life – Transform your CAD data* quickly and easily into breathtaking, real-time 3D presentations and renderings.

Validate your designs in real time – Explore your design variations dynamically with peers, managers and constituents in an immersive 3D environment. Accelerate your feedback loop by reducing physical prototypes and long rendering times.

Win more business – Make a positive impression with your customers, regardless of whether they are in the same room or on the other side of the world**. Stand apart from your competition by communicating your designs with high-quality images and storytelling features.

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.

PDF Downloads 
• Autodesk Showcase Overview Brochure
• Autodesk Showcase Frequently asked Questions
• System Requirements

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