Autodesk® Alias® Design software helps solve CAD interoperability issues by providing fast, high-quality data exchange with Autodesk® Inventor® software and other third-party CAD applications using industry-standard data formats.
- Protect design intent in the engineering phase by exporting data to engineering packages.
- Create production-quality geometry that can move back and forth between Alias Design and Autodesk Inventor, enabling collaborative product development.
- Design and engineering teams can work together so both aesthetic and functional requirements are addressed when developing design solutions.
- Create sketches at real-world scale, and draw over imported Inventor data to ensure design feasibility.
- Read native Inventor data with Alias Design.
- Read a native Alias .wire file in Autodesk Inventor with the Alias Direct Reader translator; the translator reads surfaces, shells, solids, and curves from the .wire file.
- Verify the quality of created surfaces, including curvature and radii analysis, to help ensure that geometry can be used by downstream CAD products such as Autodesk Inventor.
- Test geometry created in Alias Design to predict and diagnose problems when transferring to CAD software such as Autodesk Inventor.
| Alias to Inventor Workflow
See how surfaces are passed from Alias to Inventor for integration into the digital prototype, where engineering teams can start to simulate and test for manufacturability. |
