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AutodeskWhat’s New in Autodesk® Showcase® 2012

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Highlights

Autodesk® Showcase® 2012 real-time 3D presentation and rendering software enables architects, designers, engineers, and managers to transform CAD data into compelling imagery, movies, and real-time presentations.

2012 release:

Easier to use Automatic interoperability with

Autodesk® Inventor® software 10x faster raytracing

Image on the box. Visualization of energy-efficient building with wind turbines and solar panels. Autodesk® Revit® Architecture and Autodesk® 3ds

Max® Design software products were used in the design and visualization process. Wind turbine design based on QuietRevolution.

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Autodesk® Showcase® Professional

Advanced Solutions

Product Autodesk® Showcase® Viewer Autodesk® Showcase®

Purpose Exploration/Viewer (~100MB) Stand-alone and Suites

Free*

Showcase 2012 product line

*Free products are subject to the terms and conditions of the license and services agreement that accompanies the software.

Note that Autodesk® Showcase® Presenter is no longer be available for purchase. It is being replaced by Autodesk Showcase 2012. Existing Autodesk Showcase Presenter Subscription customers will have their entitlement migrated to Autodesk Showcase 2012. Full details are available in the Autodesk Presenter EOL FAQ, in the Partner Portal.

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Showcase Professional

Special display environments X-Rite MA98 material scanning Hosted shared sessions Connecting to RTRT cluster

Showcase Showcase Professional

Workflow features (storyboard, animation, etc.)

Aruba scripting access

Display clustering

RapidRT clustering

Stereoscopy

Host shared session

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Autodesk Inventor interoperability: Automatically set up scenes and animate Inventor files Enhanced Interactive raytracing : Up to 10X faster, precision on large scenes Autodesk Material Library: Import materials assigned in AutoCAD®, Inventor, Autodesk® Revit® , 3ds

Max® Design Smart walkthroughs: use the Autodesk® SteeringWheels® feature to walk up stairs Quick Start Wizards: Simplified workflows GPU optimization: Automatic ambient shadows, real-time geometry-on-geometry shadows, NPR

Autodesk Showcase 2012 – Key Features

GPU interactive shadows

RapidRT 2.5X - 10X speed boost

Automatic ambient shadows

User experience: UI enhancements and guided

task wizards

Easy real-time walk-throughs

Support for Revit and AutoCAD , with

Autodesk materials

Automatically set up and animate Inventor files

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• Animated constraints• Import Templates tool• Autodesk Material Library

Inventor Interoperability

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RapidRT raytracing has been accelerated by a factor of up to 10x.

Enhanced Interactive Raytracing

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Automatically import materials from AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, and Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software.

Autodesk Material Library

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Use the SteeringWheels feature to naturally walk around architectural scenes.

Smart Walk-Throughs

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Guide new users through common workflows in two to six steps.

Quick Start Wizards

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Generate ambient shadows automatically, or choose to manually insert prebaked ambient shadows.

Automated Ambient Shadows

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Geometry casts shadows on geometry, in real time. Shadows are tuned for large scale scenes. Users can fine-tune shadows depending on priorities (frame-rate,

quality, context).

Real-time Geometry-on-Geometry Shadows

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A variety of non-photorealistic effects are available to help simulate artistic styles created by hand.

Non-Photorealistic (NPR) Styles

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Autodesk ® FBX® asset exchange tool support enhancements

Simple object placement

Updated user interface

3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator™ 3D mouse support

Pack scene for Viewer

Additional New and Enhanced Features

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