Virtual prototyping for automotive, industrial design

Features in VRED® 3D product visualisation and virtual prototyping software let you create compelling product presentations, design reviews and virtual prototypes in real time.

Data preparation and navigation

Camera and navigation

VRED PROFESSIONAL

Interface improvements and visibility in the render view are among the many enhancements to the Camera function.

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Data preparation and scene handling

VRED PROFESSIONAL

UV Editor improvements include scale checker texture to adjust and better spot distorted areas. (video: 1.44 min)

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Navigation in a scene

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You can navigate more easily within a VRED scene and control which objects to select.

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Enhanced geometry behaviour

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Work more easily with the geometry, promote geometry simply and communicate your designs more effectively.

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File I/O and interoperability

VRED PROFESSIONAL

Enhancements made to the Alias wire import capability, with Alias Variants and Transform Pivots support in VRED.

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Import Alias layer structure

VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

Wire files from Alias industrial design software are imported with the corresponding layer and tagging information.

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Visual setup

Light

VRED PROFESSIONAL

Improvements to lighting within VRED scenes, as well as support for more functionality in OpenGL mode.

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Human Machine Interface

VRED PROFESSIONAL

Visualise HTML 5 content in a VRED scene, including immersive validation of a user HMI design in 3D. (video: 2.26 min.)

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Pre-rendering shadows into geometry

VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

Bake light shadows into geometry to get a more natural view of the object with fewer calculations. (video: 31 sec.)

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Subsurface scattering

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Accurately simulate the translucent behaviours of materials such as skin, milk, wax and plastic.

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Lens flares

Create a lens flare effect for your lights in ray tracing and OpenGL modes.
Fog effect in VRED

Create an atmospheric fog effect in your scene, with controls for colour, falloff and density.
Realistic materials

VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

Use a wide range of photorealistic, automotive virtual-prototyping materials such as glass, car paint and metal.

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Powerful lighting options

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Easily control brightness using HDR lighting to illuminate an entire scene with a high-dynamic-range picture.

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Physical camera settings

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The Camera module’s physical parameters make elaborate post-processing unnecessary.

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Measured materials

VRED PROFESSIONAL

Use measured materials to visualise realistic behaviour based on captured material data.
Displacement mapping

VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

Efficiently simulate highly detailed surface structure based on texture information in real time.

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Layered glass material

VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

Single-sided objects can have a simulated thickness to achieve the appropriate index of refraction (IOR).

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Presentation

Transform Variants

VRED PROFESSIONAL

This function lets you add multiple transforms as variants to Scenegraph nodes. (video: 1.16 min.)

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Virtual reality interaction

Get a more natural look and feel in your VR environment with hands and gestures in VRED. (video: 55 sec.)
Animation module

VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

Create keyframe animations in real time. Simulate motion sequences and produce moving images. (video: 2.04 min.)

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Variants and Variant Sets

VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

Present different configurations of your 3D model using Variants and Variant Sets.

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Support for new HMD

VRED PROFESSIONAL

In addition to our VR Oculus Rift and HTC Vive support, VRED offers extended support for head-mounted displays.

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Virtual reality enhancements

VRED PROFESSIONAL

Improvements include omnidirectional stereo render for 360-degree style images for mobile and web VR.
VRED app

VRED PROFESSIONAL

Remotely control a VRED scene from your mobile device when connected to the Internet.

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Enhancements in materials

VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

Improved metallic car paint options allow for more realistic automotive virtual prototyping.

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VRED Presenter

Point-of-sale demos

Show all your product configurations at a local dealership, even on a stereo display, without an Internet connection.
Internal and external presentations

Communicate your design vision to your team, management board, or external partners and customers.

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External device control

Control your presentation and content in real time using a tablet or mobile phone.

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Powerful rendering engines

VRED Presenter uses the same powerful OpenGL and ray tracing rendering engines as that of other VRED products.

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VRED Core

Complete Python API

Use Python for automated data translation, preparation of visualisation assets and automated visualisation systems.
Streaming capabilities

Stream high-quality real-time renderings for management reviews and internal or customer-facing visualisation systems.
Cloud or on-premise

Easy to deploy and integrate via on-premise servers or in the cloud to power rendering systems on Linux and Windows.
Scalable ray tracing capabilities

Full flexibility to scale GPU and CPU rendering needs according to hardware setup.
Real-time renderings

Stream high-quality VRED real-time renderings on laptop, tablet or other mobile devices.

Evaluation workflows

Clipping module

VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

Use 3D clipping on digital data, polygons and even on native NURBS data.

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Annotations

VRED PROFESSIONAL

Attach annotations directly to a 3D model during an interactive review.

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Alias curvature shader

VRED PROFESSIONAL

Use the same curvature shader evaluation mode that is available in Alias industrial design software.

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Visual simulation

VRED PROFESSIONAL

Visual simulation features help you better understand lighting distribution inside a scene.

Rendering

Layer module

VRED PROFESSIONAL

Set material override in the Render Layer module. Store render passes in pre-composed layered EXR and PSD files.

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Render passes and render layer

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For additional post-processing, export your render passes for further adaptions in image processing software.
Better results with fewer cycles

VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

A noise reduction tool for rendering provides better visual quality for interior scenes with fewer overall samples.

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Multiple rendering modes

VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

Rendering modes help deliver various levels of display quality and speed. Switch between OpenGL and ray tracing mode.

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Cluster Manager

VRED PROFESSIONAL

Organise how multiple users share a cluster, schedule cluster ray tracing and manage jobs.
Sequencer

VRED PROFESSIONAL

Organise complex batch processes and execute them sequentially, on a single machine or in a CPU cluster environment.

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TrueNURBS

VRED PROFESSIONAL

Build NURBS topology or rebuild an existing one. With TrueNURBS, you can load native NURBS data from a CAD model.

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Spectral rendering

VRED PROFESSIONAL

Achieve colour correctness and capture realistic dispersion effects with wavelength-based spectral rendering.

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Features

Virtual prototyping for automotive, industrial design

Data preparation and navigation

Camera and navigation

Data preparation and scene handling

Navigation in a scene

Enhanced geometry behaviour

File I/O and interoperability

Import Alias layer structure

Visual setup

Light

Human Machine Interface

Pre-rendering shadows into geometry

Subsurface scattering

Lens flares

Fog effect in VRED

Realistic materials

Powerful lighting options

Physical camera settings

Measured materials

Displacement mapping

Layered glass material

Presentation

Transform Variants

Virtual reality interaction

Animation module

Variants and Variant Sets

Support for new HMD

Virtual reality enhancements

VRED app

Enhancements in materials

VRED Presenter