Editing Autodesk Alias (section)

{{Short description|Industrial design software}}
{{Infobox software
| name = Autodesk Alias
| screenshot = AliasScreenshot.png
| screenshot size = 300px
| caption = Autodesk AliasStudio window
| developer = [[Autodesk]]
| latest_release_version = 2021.3
| latest_release_date = 
| operating_system = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]
| genre = [[computer-aided industrial design|CAID]] software
| license = [[Proprietary software]]
| website = http://usa.autodesk.com/alias/
}}

[[Autodesk]] '''Alias''' (formerly known as [[Alias Systems Corporation|Alias]] '''StudioTools''') is a family of [[computer-aided industrial design]] (CAID) software predominantly used in [[automotive design]] and [[industrial design]] for generating [[class A surfaces]]  using  [[Bézier surface]] and [[non-uniform rational B-spline]] (NURBS) modeling method.

The product is sold specifically as CAID rather than CAD, and its tools and abilities are oriented more towards the "styling" aspect of design - that is to say, the product's housing and outer appearance. It does not go into mechanical detail like other CAD programs such as [[Siemens NX]],  [[Autodesk Inventor|Inventor]], [[CATIA]], [[ProEngineer|Creo]] and [[SolidWorks]].