Why Alias and Pro/ENGINEER?
Alias has always been the industrial designer’s choice of tools for proving shape and form, rendering and simply communicating to engineers and tooling vendors. (1) Most industrial designers are taught Alias in school. Many schools are cross disciplinary and the animation courses are also taught in Alias. Silicon Graphics and Alias have strong college programs that ramp up students with Alias skill sets. (2) Alias also has an impressive suite of procedural mapping tools. (3) Even the fact that something that can be quickly designed in Alias can also be rendered fairly quickly and then is ready to be shown at a meeting or presentation, which can certainly help any marketing team as well as the engineers that need to see exactly what the usability of a certain product is. Alias is a hard program to beat. Engineers however use Pro/ENGINEER to communicate. That is why we have the Level 4 Pro/SURFACE workshop. To integrate IGES or STEP models into Pro/ENGINEER. Many engineers have problems
