Design Technology Leader Sponsors Key Events and Showcases European Automaker Success

Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 December 2010 09:16 Written by DCD Admin Friday, 3 October 2008 09:04

Design Technology Leader Sponsors Key Events and Showcases European Automaker Success A world leader in design innovation technologies, will make its debut appearance at the 2008 Paris Mondial de l’Automobile, one of the world’s largest and most important auto shows, in Paris Porte de Versailles, France, from October 4-19, 2008. Autodesk’s participation reflects its focus on providing a solution for Digital Prototyping that helps automotive industry manufacturers to better concept, model and test designs before they are ever built, thereby reducing costs and accelerating time to market. Sponsored by the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, the Paris Mondial de l’Automobile has been the venue for the introduction of new production automobile and concept cars for more than a century.

As part of its presence at the show, Autodesk will be serving as a gold sponsor for several main events: — AutoDesignNight. Scheduled to take place on October 2, AutoDesignNight provides an unparalleled networking opportunity for the automotive industrial design community in a casual, but professional, atmosphere. For more information, visit http://www.autodesignnight.com/Paris. — Interior Motives Design Awards. On October 3, this contest recognizes automotive industrial design achievements in categories ranging from Best Conceptual Interior, Best Use of Ambient Lighting, Best Safety Innovation and more. For additional information, visit http://www.interiormotivesawards.com/.

“Historically, Autodesk has been a major partner of the global automobile industry, delivering integrated conceptual design, engineering, and manufacturing tools across all phases of product development,” said Robert “Buzz” Kross, senior vice president of Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions. “Our attendance at the Paris Motor Show, and our sponsorship of AutoDesignNight and the Interior Motives Design Awards, is a natural extension of our commitment to meeting the needs of global automotive engineers and designers.”

Autodesk customer Estech, a French design firm specializing in the industrial automotive field, will have a booth at the 2008 Paris Mondial de l’Automobile (Hall 3, Lane 5, Stand 524) displaying its full-scale show car, the Crysalys, which it developed using Autodesk Digital Prototyping tools. Digital Prototyping brings together design data from all phases of the development process to create a single digital model. This digital model simulates the complete product and gives designers and engineers the ability to better visualize, optimize and manage designs before producing physical prototypes.

“The Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping helps us to better concept, model and test designs before they are ever built,” said Herve Roman, chief executive officer of Estech. “A wide range of Autodesk products, from Autodesk AliasStudio to Autodesk Showcase, worked together seamlessly to create a digital workflow and speed the development of the Crysalys.”

Venturi Automobiles, an ecologically minded French sports car manufacturer, will also have a booth at the show (Hall 5, Lane 1, stand 101) to display animations of its latest prototype vehicle, which was developed with Autodesk Opticore real-time raytracing visualization software, which produces highly interactive and realistic 3D digital product visualizations and presentations.

Gildo Pallanca Pastor, chief executive officer of Venturi Automobiles, said, “Autodesk 3D visualization software solutions enable us to implement a fully digital design process. Those tools reduce development costs of our future models; the choice of production is not based on expensive physical prototypes but on digital prototypes that are entirely explorable and modifiable anytime.” Autodesk in Automotive Autodesk is the market leader in solutions for automotive design, styling and marketing development and is a major supplier of engineering and visualization software for the automotive industry.

For more than 20 years, Autodesk has provided automotive original equipment manufacturers with innovative 2D and 3D applications to simplify the design-to-manufacturing process and provide creative professionals with photorealistic tools that transform imagination into reality. Many of the new vehicles presented by car manufacturers at the 2008 Paris Mondial de l’Automobile were designed with Autodesk solutions for Digital Prototyping.

ICEM sponsors Design Awards

Last Updated on Saturday, 4 December 2010 08:32 Written by DCD Admin Sunday, 6 August 2006 08:31

ICEM sponsors popular automotive industry event, the Interior Motives Design Awards 2006.

ICEM Ltd., the global leader in advanced surface modelling, surface model validation and design visualisation software, has announced that it is a Gold Sponsor of the Interior Motives Design Awards 2006. More specifically, the company is sponsoring the ??Best Conceptual Exterior Design Award??, the winner of which will be announced, along with the winners of the other categories, at a special awards ceremony and reception to be held on Friday, 29 September, 2006 at La Galeria, in Paris, France during Le Mondial de l??Automobile (the Paris Motor Show).

Now in their fourth year and designed to appeal to and encourage young designers and automotive stylists, the Interior Motives Design Awards 2006 have already attracted strong interest from students of transportation and industrial design from around the world. Initial judging has already begun of the more than 200 entrees expected from some 20 countries by the time registrations close.

The judging panel for the 2006 Awards comprises chief designers, design directors and senior executives from many of the world??s leading automotive companies and their suppliers, including Bentley Motors, BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Design Centre Europe, Faurecia, Fiat, Lancia & Fiat Light Commercial Vehicles, GME Design, Intier Automotive, Johnson Controls and Volkswagen.

??We are delighted to have the opportunity once again to be involved with these increasingly prestigious awards,?? said Kate Mills, global marketing director, ICEM Ltd. ??With their emphasis on and encouragement of young designers, the Interior Motives Design Awards reflect ICEM??s view of the importance of the front-end conceptual design and styling process and the need to integrate that process into the downstream design development and vehicle engineering processes through the use of our ICEM Surf and ICEM Shape Design software products.??
For more information on the awards, visit: http://www.interiormotivesawards.com