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    Free, limited version of Fusion 360 for qualified hobby, non-commercial users. Basic features include:

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    • Limited electronics – 2 schematics, 2 layers, 80cm2 board area
    • Basic manufacturing – 2.5 axis milling & 3 axis milling, turning, FFF additive, fabrication
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        Free, limited version of Fusion 360 for qualified hobby, non-commercial users. Basic features include:

        • Standard 2D/3D CAD tools
        • Limited electronics – 2 schematics, 2 layers, 80cm2 board area
        • Basic manufacturing – 2.5 axis milling & 3 axis milling, turning, FFF additive, fabrication
        • Local rendering only
        • Limited to 10 active and editable Fusion 360 documents, unlimited inactive documents
        • Single-user data management only
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        • Limited file type import and export

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          Features

          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

          • Rendering of a red sports car with a representation of the Camera and 2 perpendicular lines drawn from the Camera in VRED

            Camera and navigation

            VRED PROFESSIONAL

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

          • Video: Functionality within the UV creation workflow helps you to apply a texture to an object in World Scale units

            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)

          • Render of the interior of a car in VRED user interface with Objects Behind and an object file selected in 2 drop-down menus

            Navigation in a scene

            VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

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

          • Enhanced geometry behaviour

            VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

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

          • File I/O and interoperability

            VRED PROFESSIONAL

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

          • Import Alias layer structure

            VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

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

          Visual setup

          • VRED scene of a red sports car on a set with camera lights and a large reflector lighting up the car

            Light

            VRED PROFESSIONAL

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

          • Video: Instead of having a static HTML image, the HTML 5 content in VRED lets you add all kinds of interaction

            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.)

          • Video: Silent screencast displaying ambient occlusion with baked shadows, then baked lights added to a sporty grey convertible

            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.)

          • Subsurface scattering

            VRED PROFESSIONAL

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

          • 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.

          • Powerful lighting options

            VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

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

          • Physical camera settings

            VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

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

          • 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.

          • Layered glass material

            VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

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

          Presentation

          • Video: Using a Transform Variant in VRED reduces scene size, Scenegraph nodes and memory usage

            Transform Variants

            VRED PROFESSIONAL

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

          • Video: Add fully rigged and posable hands with preset gestures in VRED to make the VR experience more realistic

            Virtual reality interaction

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

          • Video: Learn how to manage and create object and material animations within VRED

            Animation module

            VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

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

          • Variants and Variant Sets

            VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

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

          • 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.

          • 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.

          • Enhancements in materials

            VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

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

          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.

          • External device control

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

          • Powerful rendering engines

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

          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.

          • Annotations

            VRED PROFESSIONAL

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

          • Alias curvature shader

            VRED PROFESSIONAL

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

          • 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.

          • Render passes and render layer

            VRED DESIGN, VRED PROFESSIONAL

            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.

          • 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.

          • 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.

          • TrueNURBS

            VRED PROFESSIONAL

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

          • Spectral rendering

            VRED PROFESSIONAL

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