topic Re: Alias|Wavefront Advanced Visualizer in Alias Forum

Alias|Wavefront Advanced Visualizer

bitpak — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:34:06 GMT

Hi everybody,

Sorry if I'm posting in the wrong category, but maybe someone here can help me with my search.

Autodesk bought Alias in 2005 and owns every application that Alias|Wavefront ever produced. But they never made legacy manuals available. Anyway, I couldn't contact the support to ask about it and decided to ask here.

I have this old A|W Advanced Visualizer (Wavefront TAV) software for Irix. And am trying to learn it the hard way. Maybe someone knows where to get the manual for it?

I have already searched the archive.org and all SGI-related web forums. I hope to find somebody who used the software in the 90s and/or still have the documentation and is kind enough to share it.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Alias|Wavefront Advanced Visualizer

david.lau — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:05:05 GMT

Just an FYI, when we moved from the King St E (Toronto) office to the MaRS office, a lot of the older manuals were recycled and older (SGI) equipment were e-wasted.

Re: Alias|Wavefront Advanced Visualizer

bitpak — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:43:03 GMT

Thanks for reply. I found a museum with these ancient A|W manuals, but they won't let me just copy it. It is required to have a permission from copyright owners first. Do you know who can I contact at Autodesk to ask for their permission to copy these manuals? It is for my private use only and I have no intent to share it anywhere.

Re: Alias|Wavefront Advanced Visualizer

david.lau — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:00:46 GMT

I spoke to the legal team for some feedback. Please go the section: Other Autodesk Content and Other Uses here:

NOTE: It is actually called: Wavefront Advanced Visualizer

NOTE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_Systems_Corporation

Re: Alias|Wavefront Advanced Visualizer

bitpak — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 04:44:48 GMT

Thank you very much, David! You helped a lot.