Autodesk VIZ 5 in Production

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Autodesk VIZ 5 in Production

 

Autodesk Sets Design Visualization Direction, Targeting Family of Offerings for Specific Design Visualization Needs

SAN RAFAEL, Calif., October 3, 2003—Autodesk, Inc., the world’s leading design software and digital content company, announced today an integrated design visualization strategy to serve a wide spectrum of designers at varying stages in the design process. Built upon the same underlying core technology, each product within Autodesk’s family of design visualization offerings will provide a new level of interoperability, allowing designers the flexibility to use a wide range of tools to best serve their needs.

A strategic component of the design visualization strategy is Autodesk® VIZ software, the award-winning 3D modeling, rendering, and animation tool. The next release of Autodesk VIZ, offering greater interoperability with other Autodesk design solutions, including the AutoCAD® 2004 product family, is currently under development. Planned to be available in the first half of 2004, the new product release will benefit from advancements made last year in developing VIZ Render--an integral part of Autodesk® Architectural Desktop software--and the upcoming release of 3ds max® 6 software.

Autodesk VIZ

For designers and rendering specialists who need to visualize data from a variety of Autodesk applications, Autodesk VIZ provides a rich environment for modeling, rendering, and animation. VIZ is targeted for architectural and industrial designers who need to produce high-quality images of their work and do not need many of the advanced multimedia features of 3ds max, such as character animation or special effects.

VIZ Render
For architectural designers who use Autodesk Architectural Desktop as their primary design application, VIZ Render provides a streamlined environment to present photo-realistic images of in-progress designs. An integral part of Architectural Desktop, VIZ Render does not offer modeling capabilities and is not available as a stand-alone product.

3ds max

3ds max is the leading general 3D modeling, rendering, and animation application. The upcoming release, 3ds max 6, focuses on addressing the needs of advanced visualization designers in a variety of disciplines, including architectural, graphic, and industrial design. 3ds max software has become the tool of choice for those who provide advanced visualization services to design enterprises around the world.

About Autodesk

Autodesk is the world’s leading design software and digital content company, offering customers progressive business solutions through powerful technology products and services. Autodesk helps customers in the building, manufacturing, infrastructure, digital media, and wireless data services fields increase the value of their digital design data and improve efficiencies across their entire project lifecycle management processes. For more information about the company, see http://www.autodesk.com.

During the course of this communication, we may make forward-looking statements regarding future events and the future performance of the Company. These forward looking statements are subject to assumptions, risks and uncertainties, which are discussed in documents we file from time to time with the SEC and specifically in our Annual Report and 10-K filed for the year ended January 31, 2003. These documents contain and identify important factors that may cause the actual results to differ from those contained in our forward looking statements. Additionally, we may make statements regarding planned or future development efforts for our existing or new products and services. These statements are not intended to be a promise or guarantee of future delivery of products, services or features but merely reflect our current plans, which may change. The Company assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist or change after the date on which they were made. Autodesk and 3ds max are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc./Autodesk, Inc. Canada, in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders.

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