Alias Essential Training

Course details

Autodesk Alias is the premier CAD studio application for concept and surface design, enabling artists and designers to create high-quality, feasible CAD models. Whatever industry you're in, Veejay Gahir will provide a grounded introduction to Alias's tools and techniques. He'll show you how to create, modify, and analyze data, and export this data into formats that are usable in other CAD applications. Start watching and learn how to get up and running with this industry-leading program.

Learning objectives
Manipulating views and entities
Working with layers
Creating curves
Sweeping, extruding, revolving, offsetting, and blending surfaces
Modifying geometry
Moving, scaling, flipping, and rotating objects
Trimming curves and surfaces
Creating copies of objects
Aligning, combining, and splitting objects
Analyzing geometry
Shading models

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know before watching this course
03 - Using the exercise files
04 - Installing Alias Design

1. Interface

05 - Checking out the Alias interface
06 - Working within a project
07 - View and entity manipulation
08 - Snapping entities with the Pivot option
09 - The ViewCube and the Navigation bar
10 - Marking-menu custom shelves
11 - Hotkeys and the Menu Editor
12 - Let's get started
13 - Looking at layer basics
14 - Layer symmetry
15 - Layer management

2. Curve Creation

16 - Curve primitives - Circles and sweeps
17 - New curves - CV, Edit Point, and Sketch curves
18 - Blend curves
19 - Keypoint curves
20 - Snapping entities
21 - Moving control points
22 - The Hotbox interface (spacebar)
23 - Creating text

3. Basic Surfaces

24 - Surface primitives
25 - Planar surfaces
26 - Surface sweep extrude
27 - Multi-Surface Draft
28 - Bevel and Skin
29 - Surface Revolve
30 - Mono-rail sweep surfaces
31 - Bi-rail sweep surfaces
32 - Additional notes on sweeps
33 - Tube Flange - Center Radius
34 - Tube Flange - Tangent Offset
35 - Tubular Offset
36 - Fillet Flange
37 - Simple fillet
38 - Freeform Blend
39 - Profile Blend
40 - Ball corners (round)

4. Construction Aids

41 - Using the History view
42 - The Object Lister
43 - The Information window
44 - Reference vectors
45 - Construction planes

5. Modifying Geometry

46 - Symmetrical modeling
47 - Extending curves and surfaces
48 - Flatten (planarize) a basic curve
49 - Flatten hulls onto planes

6. Move, Scale, Flip, or Rotate

50 - Moving geometry
51 - Scale and Non-Proportional Scale
52 - Rotating geometry
53 - Reflecting or flipping objects
54 - 3D placement
55 - 3D placement with multiple copies

7. Edit Objects

56 - Increasing the complexity of curves
57 - Increasing the complexity of surfaces
58 - Trimming curves
59 - Trimming surfaces
60 - Reverse the direction of a curve or surface
61 - Making an object closed

8. Cut, Trim, and Offset

62 - Offset entities
63 - Intersecting planes and surfaces
64 - Create curves on a surface

9. Create Copies of Objects

65 - Duplicating objects
66 - Rebuilding curves
67 - Rebuilding surfaces
68 - Copy and paste options
69 - Exporting data
70 - Exporting to rapid prototype

10. Align, Combine, and Split Objects

71 - Aligning curves
72 - Aligning surfaces
73 - Joining two curves
74 - Split or detach entities
75 - Stretch a curve

11. Evaluate Geometry

76 - Analyze curve problems
77 - Annotations and measurements
78 - Creating cross-sections
79 - Evaluating curve continuity
80 - Evaluating surface continuity
81 - Measuring deviation between two objects

12. Shading a Model

82 - Multicolor shading
83 - The random-color diagnostic shader
84 - Horizontal and vertical shaders
85 - Visual state analysis
86 - Die-line evaluation

Conclusion

87 - Next steps
88 - Goodbye