Transportation and Consumer Product Goods Designers and Modelers Improve Their Ability to Capture Design Ideas and Intentions With Autodesk's Enhanced Design Tool

SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK) today announced the release of Autodesk AliasStudio 13.5 software, an improved version of Autodesk AliasStudio, which supports the complete industrial design process -- from sketching and concept visualization to production modeling -- all within a single, intuitive working environment.

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"In order to keep up with the ever-changing industry demands, to stay on the forefront of market trends and continue to produce revolutionary designs, industrial designers and modelers need to have fast, high-quality and easy-to- use design tools that they can depend on," said Richard Jones, vice president of Autodesk Alias Design Products. "The introduction of Autodesk AliasStudio 13.5 addresses this need by providing designers with enhanced performance and best-in-class tools that accelerate all phases of the design workflow process and, in turn, maximizes their productivity."

As a premier industrial design tool, Autodesk AliasStudio enables users to take great ideas from conceptual design all the way through to manufacture to drive competitive business. As a result, Autodesk AliasStudio is being used by virtually every automotive manufacturer around the world and to design products from many of the world's most recognizable brands, including such companies as BMW DesignWorks, Five Axis, Nova Design, Lunar Design, Stile Bertone, Symbol Technologies, Wild West Motor Company, RKS Design and Alchemy Labs.

This latest version of Autodesk AliasStudio delivers enhanced performance and improves the design workflow process so designers can increase their overall productivity. AliasStudio software also provides updates to Autodesk DirectConnect software to enhance support for exchanging data with Computer Aided Design (CAD) packages.

"The performance improvements delivered through AliasStudio 13.5 have enhanced my experience and enabled me to improve my overall modeling productivity by providing a significantly faster software user interface for designing," said Damien Fleury, a 3D consultant and software tester for Autodesk AliasStudio 13.5. "This, in turn, will help me to produce faster results on design iterations moving forward."

About Autodesk AliasStudio 13.5

With Autodesk AliasStudio 13.5, Autodesk offers many new features and enhancements that help designers excel aesthetically and functionally:

          Performance
          Quicker responsiveness of the software, especially when working with
          large data sets, enhances the user experience and improves
          performance 
          Productivity
          Enhancements to the user interface and existing tools streamline the
          design workflow and improve productivity for sketching, modeling and
          visualization
          Modeling
          Continued evolution of the production-proven AliasStudio modeling
          tools to address customer requests
          Data Transfer
          Addition of a faster and more robust Initial Graphics Exchange
          Specification (IGES) translator, and a new DWG/DXF translator
          enables importing of files from AutoCAD software


         Availability
         Autodesk AliasStudio 13.5 will be available November 10, 2006. Please
         visit www.autodesk.com for more information. 

About Autodesk

Autodesk, Inc. is a Fortune 1000 company, wholly focused on ensuring that great ideas are turned into reality. With seven million users, Autodesk is the world's leading software and services company for the manufacturing, infrastructure, building, media and entertainment, and wireless data services fields. Autodesk's solutions help customers create, manage and share their data and digital assets more effectively. As a result, customers turn ideas into competitive advantage, become more productive, streamline project efficiency and maximize profits.

Founded in 1982, Autodesk is headquartered in San Rafael, California. For additional information about Autodesk, please visit http://www.autodesk.com .

NOTE: Autodesk, AutoCAD, AliasStudio, DWG and DXF are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Autodesk reserves the right to alter product offerings and specifications at any time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or graphical errors that may appear in this document

Contact: Carly Herrig 312-233-1356 Andrew Favreau 312-297-7587

Email: carly.herrig@edelman.com andrew.favreau@edelman.com

SOURCE Autodesk, Inc. 11/02/2006


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