Alias 2011 provides a complete set of interactive surfacing, modification, and evaluation tools for creating surface models that meet the demanding levels of quality and precision required in manufacturing.

This tutorial presents examples of typical production workflows using Alias with a series of high-resolution movies with audio. We will introduce powerful tools and interactive features available in Autodesk Alias Surface and Autodesk Alias Automotive and demonstrate how to use them to accomplish your surfacing tasks.

These movies are intended for those users who want to learn surface modeling. In order to successfully complete this tutorial, we strongly recommend that you have a basic understanding of Alias and have completed the tutorials in Learning Alias.

Learning Technical Surfacing movie chapters:

• Introduction and overview
• Curve fitting and patch layout
• Constructing the main surfaces, part 1
• Constructing the main surfaces, part 2
• Creating transition surfaces
• Creating secondary transition surfaces
• Creating ball corners
• Finishing the model
• Direct modeling, part 1
• Direct modeling, part 2