February 2023 Autodesk Update: What’s New

February 15, 2023

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AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT

Update to AutoCAD 2023.1 – see what’s new (blog post)
Get bite-sized fixes, shortcuts, advice & tips (AutoCAD Community)
Subscribe to the AutoCAD podcast (blog post)

Architecture, Engineering & Civil Engineering

Revit update: see what’s new in Revit 2023.1 (blog post)
See what’s New In Civil 3D 2023.2 and InfraWorks 2023.1 (blog post)
Sheet Set Manager for Civil 3D updated to be cloud-first (blog post)

Design & Manufacturing

Inventor update – What’s new in 2023.2 (blog post)
Fusion 360 update – What’s New November 2022 (video)
Share ideas for future product features directly with the Inventor team (forum)

Media & Entertainment

See What’s New in Maya (timeline)
New learning courses for 3ds Max, Maya & Arnold (courses)
Level up your Games Studio with ShotGrid (webinar)

Admin resources and more

More Information

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Autodesk Arnold

Render high-quality 3D images faster with Arnold – so you can focus on the art

Overview

Arnold software is an advanced Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer that helps you to work more efficiently

Interactivity produces immediate results, leaving more time for iterations.
The controls and UI are simple and intuitive.

Features

Subsurface scatter

High-performance ray traced subsurface scattering eliminates the need to tune point clouds.

Hair and fur

Memory-efficient ray traced curve primitives help you create complex fur and hair renders

Motion blur

3D motion blur interacts with shadows, volumes, indirect lighting, reflection, or refraction. Deformation motion blur and rotational motion are also supported.

Volumes

The volumetric rendering system in Arnold can render effects such as smoke, clouds, fog, pyroclastic flow, and fire.

Instances

Arnold can more efficiently ray trace instances of many scene objects with transformation and material overrides.

Subdivision and displacement

Arnold supports Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces.

OSL support

Arnold now features support for Open Shading Language (OSL), an advanced shading language for Global Illumination renderers.

Light path expression

LPEs give you power and flexibility to create Arbitrary Output Variables to help meet the needs of production.

Adaptive sampling

Adaptive sampling gives users another means of tuning images, allowing them to reduce render times without jeopardizing final image quality.

Toon shader

An advanced Toon shader is part of a non-photorealistic solution provided in combination with the Contour Filter.

Extended Features

Maximize the performance for most complex project with Arnold:

As per your production need switch between CPU and GPU rendering.
Arnold thrives heavy datasets and complex scene files.
Manage complex characters, scenery and lighting challenges.
Optimize compute performance when creating elements like hair, fur and skin.

Flexible tools and integration:

Easy to integrate with all of the 3-D digital content creation tools.
Scalability of an open and extensible architecture available.
Build custom shaders.

Use Cases

Arnold Toon Shader

Artist Calder Moore demonstrates how to customize the Arnold Toon Shader to create unique looks for your scene.

Photoreal CG characters

Aviral Agarwal shares his process for making a photorealistic 3D character using Autodesk Maya and Autodesk Arnold.

Experimenting with Volume Displacement techniques

Artist Lee Griggs shares the tools and techniques behind his unique renders.

Pricing

Buy Arnold on an Annual Subscription or 3 Year Subscription. Get more value from the Media and Entertainment Collection.

$ 1375 3 Year Subscription

Discounted
Price locked in for 3 Years
Includes updates and support

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What’s New in 3ds Max 2022

March 30, 2021

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What's New in 3ds Max 2022

The focus on the new 3ds Max 2022 has been in the following areas: workflows, texturing, rendering and security.

Smart Extrude

The edit Poly modifier now includes Smart Extrude which allows you to extrude with fewer constraints. The adition of the Cut Through command offers further functionality to when Smart Extrude was released in 2021.1

Slice Modifier

The performance of the Slice Modifier has been improved in 2022 with new modelling features based on customer feedback:

Capping – cap open holes
Multi-Axis Cutting – X, Y and/or Z aligned planar slice
Radial Slice – User defined min/max angles
Alignment options – align the cutting gizmo to faces or other references.

AutoSmooth

2022 generates new smoothing data faster and is applicable to Mesh, Poly, Spline or in other modifiers such as Chamfer, Smooth, Edit Mesh, Edit Poly, ProOptimize and other modifiers.

Symmerty Modifier

New features and enhancements produce faster results with more user interactivity:

Multi-axis Symmetry – Planar symmetry on X, Y and/or Z
Radial Symmetry – Quickly duplicate and repeat geometry around the gizmo
Alignment – Reference a face or another object in the scene.

Relax Modifier

The volume preserve option reduces small detail and noise from models while maintaining the shape and overall definition and especially useful in scan or sculpt data.

Arnold

Auto-tx – automates texture files to .tx at render
New Images tab in the Arnold RenderView to apply, remove, re-order or edit to post-process without additional render time.
Light Mixer – Edit the contribution of each light group AOV’s during and after rendering
Bloom has been addedd to the Lens Effect
Noice and OptiX Denoiser are now possible during post-processing.

Viewports

Full-screen, borderless window from any floating viewport. When using presentation mode, all gizmos are hidden.

Bake to Texture

Simplified inteface offers easier navigation and selection of baked map types.

It also includes utility maps such as rounded corners and MAterial ID maps, making in a few clicks what was complex.

Security

The safe scene script protects against malware in 3ds scenes.

The Malware Removal tool detects and removes scripts that are malicious.

For more information, check out the public roadmap of 3ds Max which can be found here

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AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT

Architecture, Engineering & Civil Engineering

Design & Manufacturing

Media & Entertainment

Admin resources and more

More Information

Render high-quality 3D images faster with Arnold – so you can focus on the art

Overview

Features

Subsurface scatter

Hair and fur

Motion blur

Volumes

Instances

Subdivision and displacement

OSL support

Light path expression

Adaptive sampling

Toon shader

Extended Features

Maximize the performance for most complex project with Arnold:

Flexible tools and integration:

Use Cases

Arnold Toon Shader

Photoreal CG characters

Experimenting with Volume Displacement techniques

Pricing

ARNOLD

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What's New in 3ds Max 2022

Smart Extrude

Slice Modifier

AutoSmooth

Symmerty Modifier

Relax Modifier

Arnold

Viewports

Bake to Texture

Security

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