@admaiora wrote:
Showcase was a great software and at the moment there is not a similar alternative in Autodesk.
In Showcase you can:
- manage very big assemblies
- obtain good visual quality in a very short time, for static renders and for animation (i can realize and render with a global good material, light, shadow, etc, 15 min video in less of 30 mins work.
-in a very intuitive way, move, rotate, scale a model, position a key, move cameras, with a very few commands and a very quick learning curve
- open a large ammount of files formats
- do very impressive things without being a genius in the multimedia field.
I can't do these things with the same high rate quality-simplicity/time in AutoCAD, neither in Inventor Studio, neither in Fusion 360, neither in v Red, neither in 3ds Max or Maya.
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Showcase did this.
You skipped right over a current product: Navisworks Simulate and Manage. These programs can do most, if not all, of those tasks, plus a few more to boot. Simulate is covered under most of the Suite and Collection licenses; Manage is under the top tier.
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