Alias

Autodesk Alias: Create high-quality, desirable products

Product modeling, surfacing, and visualization

3D wireframe and surface model of a car showing control points, curves, and detailed wheel geometry.

What is Autodesk Alias?

Autodesk Alias is design software that lets you create products and improve processes with a single design pipeline.

  • Seamlessly collaborate across different workflows and disciplines.

  • Increase productivity and eliminate the need to toggle between siloed systems.

  • Use a single software source for design, from concept to production surfacing.

What is Autodesk Alias?

Autodesk Alias is design software that lets you create products and improve processes with a single design pipeline.

  • Seamlessly collaborate across different workflows and disciplines.

  • Increase productivity and eliminate the need to toggle between siloed systems.

  • Use a single software source for design, from concept to production surfacing.

3D wireframe and surface model of a car showing control points, curves, and detailed wheel geometry.
3D wireframe car model showing wheel design iterations above and a highlighted front wheel for comparison.

Make faster design decisions with automated workflows

Tools like computational design and shareable templates enable users to make rapid design iterations automatically.
3D CAD model of a bicycle frame and front wheel with colored wireframes highlighting components and design adjustments.

Quickly create and review industrial design projects

A new, easy-to-learn user experience means fast modeling and collaboration. Alias also offers updates relevant to industrial design, as well as flexible licensing, aligned with project lengths.
Shader and color palette panels showing material settings, color wheel, and RGB sliders in a 3D design application.

Enhance collaboration and automation with Alias and Flow Production Tracking

Alias and non-Alias modelers can use Alias Assemblies and Flow Production Tracking to collaborate across teams and manage and review design projects. Flow Production Tracking also powers up Alias with automations, allowing faster design iterations.
3D wireframe car model showing wheel design iterations above and a highlighted front wheel for comparison.

Make faster design decisions with automated workflows

Tools like computational design and shareable templates enable users to make rapid design iterations automatically.

Quickly create and review industrial design projects

A new, easy-to-learn user experience means fast modeling and collaboration. Alias also offers updates relevant to industrial design, as well as flexible licensing, aligned with project lengths.
3D CAD model of a bicycle frame and front wheel with colored wireframes highlighting components and design adjustments.
Shader and color palette panels showing material settings, color wheel, and RGB sliders in a 3D design application.

Enhance collaboration and automation with Alias and Flow Production Tracking

Alias and non-Alias modelers can use Alias Assemblies and Flow Production Tracking to collaborate across teams and manage and review design projects. Flow Production Tracking also powers up Alias with automations, allowing faster design iterations.

Features to support your operations

Concept modeling

Bring your concepts to life with subdivisional modeling, tailored for product design.

Surfacing

Fine-tune your technical surfaces to the highest quality levels inclusive of construction history.

Automated surfacing

Build surfaces from scanned or mesh data automatically.

Computational design

Quickly create production-quality, repeatable patterns with user-friendly, algorithm-based design.

Design in virtual reality

Create immersive conceptual design with curve, surface, and subdivisional modeling tools.

Working with assemblies

Cross-team and -department assembly modeling uses the reference manager to quickly update design changes.

What Autodesk Alias product is right for you?

Alias Concept

Get sketching, fast concept modeling, and visualization tools.

"I think the greatest benefit of using Alias is that you can spend more time perfecting the design."

— Hiroshi Kureha, General Manager, Design Modeling Studio, Mazda Motor Corporation
Image courtesy of Mazda Motor Corporation

"None of those tools stall the designer they all allow the designer to push their feelings and emotions out there."

— Craig Dent, Design Lead, KISKA

Explore Alias resources

  • BLOG

    Design Studio blog

    A source for customer stories and profiles, as well as product and industry news

  • VIDEOS

    Alias YouTube channel

    Videos with Alias product information and tips

  • TUTORIALS

    Videos and hands-on training

    Instructions and guidance to build your Alias foundational knowledge

Questions? We have answers.

Autodesk Alias is used to design innovative products and communicate ideas in a visual medium from 2D sketch to 3D form, and from conceptual models to production-level data.

Alias is used by industrial designers, automotive designers, creative design professionals, digital sculptors, and production surface modelers.

Your Alias subscription gives you access to install and use the three previous versions. Available downloads are listed in your Autodesk Account after subscribing. See also previous releases available for subscribers.