Now You Can Turn Your Concepts into Production-Ready Designs. Faster.

Tesla Motors modeled its electric car design using Autodesk Alias software

Turn Concepts into Production-Ready Designs

Reduce Weight & Costs & Drive Innovation

“Autodesk Alias Surface software is the best automotive design tool, bar none. There is simply no other tool that comes close to Alias for visualization, rendering, surfacing, or just drawing. I use Alias to draft lines rather than using pen and paper, and also to replace the traditional tape drawings. I don’t know what I’d do without it.”

—Franz von Holzhausen, Chief Designer, Tesla Motors

Overview Showcase Solutions

Are you struggling to speed the creation of compelling new concepts and refine them into production-ready designs?

Design excellence drives the automotive industry and can give you the competitive advantage, so it’s important that your design teams don’t just create compelling ideas, but that their automotive design concepts are practical, cost effective, and manufacturable.

Boost Creativity and Productivity

Virtually eliminate waste and miscommunication with digital sketching, painting, and modeling tools.
Explore 2D and 3D concepts quickly, reusing conceptual design data in downstream workflows.
Refine concept designs into high-quality models with 3D automotive design software that supports iterative design workflows.

Use Realistic Digital Visualization

Make better design decisions in less time by relying on realistic digital visualization and simulation while minimizing physical models.
Instantly explore color and material options in multiple perspectives with digital design reviews.
Rely on high-fidelity visualizations and animations including realistic paint and materials. Simulate pedestrian safety, manufacturability, and aerodynamic efficiency.

Develop Realistic Designs That Can Be Manufactured

Create designs with refined aesthetics that work with your manufacturing processes.
Simulate injection molding and evaluate new plastic part designs.
Refine design models into Class-A surfaces for an efficient automotive product development workflow.
Use advanced analytics and visualization to help ensure interior and exterior surfaces are aesthetically pleasing, mathematically consistent, and usable in downstream engineering workflows.

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Read the white paper on creating production-ready Class-A surfaces and find out why leading automotive manufacturers are increasingly relying on Autodesk® Alias® software to design their visible exterior and interior surfaces.
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White Paper

Create Class A Surfaces with Autodesk Alias Surface
With Autodesk® Alias® Surface software, designers can create production-quality, reusable NURBS surfaces so the engineering team doesn’t have to start from scratch to create Class-A surfaces for tooling.
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Customer Stories

Learn how other automotive manufacturers and suppliers are using Autodesk automotive design software to develop concepts faster and more creatively while helping to ensure efficient, cost-effective manufacture.

EDAG uses Autodesk software for Class-A surface modeling

EDAG GmbH
As one of the premier tier-one suppliers for the automotive industry in Germany, EDAG is now consistently delivering Class-A projects using Alias Surface.

EDAG Customer Story (pdf - 50Kb)

Holden uses Autodesk software for car design

Holden Special Vehicles
Australia's Holden Special Vehicles uses Autodesk Alias and Autodesk® Showcase software to streamline the development of its high-performance muscle cars.

Holden Special Vehicles Customer Story (pdf - 156Kb)

Tesla uses Autodesk software for car modeling

Tesla Motors
Tesla Motors used Autodesk Alias for automotive design to reinvent the electric car through 3D surface modeling.

Tesla Motors Customer Story (pdf - 430Kb)

Design quickly and creatively with realistic digital visualization, multiple perspectives, and advanced 2D and 3D simulation. Refine concepts into designs for manufacture.

Autodesk offers a complete automotive design solution across the entire workflow from digital sketching and painting, modeling, and technical surfacing to realistic visualization.
Used by every major automaker and many suppliers for conceptual workflow, Autodesk software is among the most widely used software for conceptual design.
Leveraging technologies from film and games, Autodesk brings real-time visualization, animation, and effects to the automotive market.
Autodesk software provides capabilities for pedestrian protection simulation to meet NCAP (New Car Assessment Program) safety requirements.
Autodesk offers solutions for analyzing injection molding and component aerodynamic efficiency and performance within an automotive product development workflow.

Learn more about Autodesk design, simulation, and visualization software solutions for automotive manufacturers and suppliers:

Autodesk® Sketchbook® Designer
Concept design and illustration software.

Autodesk® Alias®
Complete solutions for concept design, modeling, surfacing and visualization.

Autodesk® Showcase®
Real-time 3D presentation and rendering software.

Autodesk® Moldflow®
Plastic injection molding simulation software.

Autodesk® Simulation CFD
Fluid flow and thermal simulation software.