Visualize the possibilities.

Don’t just impress them.
Blow them away.

Render photorealistic stills of your design and make your work stand out from the crowd. Evoke an emotional connection by letting your clients get inside, walk through, and experience their custom design. Or use fly-by animation to visualize the impact your design has on its  environment. Whether you are designing a custom-built home, planning a sky-scraping high-rise, or modeling realistic buildings to be used in a next-generation game, Autodesk®  Design Visualization solutions help you realize your ideas and bring your concepts to life.

Explore concepts, validate designs, and produce stunning client presentations with Autodesk VIZ 2008 software.

Get more out of your CAD data
Through its powerful new import engine, Autodesk VIZ 2008 makes it possible to transform your DWG™ files into powerful 3D visualizations.

• Import projects from AutoCAD® 2008 and Revit® Architecture 2008 software applications.
• Improved handling of complex scenes with many objects.
• Optimized memory management system improves import speed and performance.
• Use the Select Similar command to automatically select to multiple imported objects with similar attributes.

Easily Render Stunning Architectural Imagery
VIZ 2008 incorporates new mental ray® (3.5) rendering technology targeted at visualizing architectural spaces and easily producing stunning photo-real imagery.

• Easy-to-use Architectural and Design Shaders with presets for ambient occlusion, rounded corner effects, reflections, and refractions.
• Dramatically improved rendering performance, particularly for large, data-heavy scenes.
• New physical sun and sky Shaders, based on position and turbidity of the atmosphere.

Performance
Autodesk VIZ 2008 is the fastest and highest performing version of Autodesk VIZ software to-date, delivering greater speed and precision to meet today’s time-sensitive production deadlines.

• DirectX® optimizations improve interactivity with high-density geometry and complex scenes.
• Improvements to file I/O, working with splines, geometry modeling, viewports, and XRefs enhance productivity.

Now is the Time
Now is the time to take a look at Autodesk VIZ.  For more information, click on the links at the top right, fill in the form at left, or call your Hagerman & Company representative.