Study On The Process Of Car Design In The Automotive Design

Automotive has now become a part of people's life all over the world. After hundreds years development of the world's automobile industry, it is now hosting a complete system of organization, extent, production and service which makes the enterprise as a perfect running machine to satisfy the needs of both enterprise and the market. Since the market demands the requirements for the operations of the enterprise continuously, those enterprises should upgrade their system in order to adapt the market as well as look for their benefits. Having a fierce market competition, all the manufacturers are stepping up research the new models to match the market and their own needs.As the technology of the engine and chassis become more and more refined, the new models requires a higher level of the electronic equipment and model upgrades. Currently, all the enterprises in the automobile industry injects a large amount of human resources and financial resources. Thanks to the improvement of the society and technology, the level of automobile modeling technology has been raised as well, moreover, the modeling designers are getting more supports, this is the reason why the automobile modeling develops so fast.The application of the digital technology injects a new blood into the automobile model design, particularly the integration of the CAS technology and virtual technology brings the new productions to a new height. The improvement of digital modeling is considered as a strong support of the automobile design. As a result, the method of model design gets faster and more convenient, and it also makes certain design method from impossible to possible. Thanks to the development of the computer science and the appearance of high-speed digital computer, especially the graphics terminal, from the 1970s, the computer technology has been applied gradually in the automobile model design domain. The realization and development of the technology as CAD, CAE and CAM turns the creation of the mathematic-computer based model to reality, also it does a great improvement on the body design. Now, a large number of digital model designs are being used in the modeling phase. Basically includes the digital creation technology, 3D digital modeling and presenting technology, VR virtual realization technology, CNC processing and fast forming technology, data management and distributed collaboration.In the digital based design process, the characteristic of quick, convenient and a high pursuit of quality make the choices of the software platform important. It requires the best software for each phase which could also make the convergence of both previous and next phase. Based on these characteristics, Autodesk released an automobile modeling software that using Autodesk Alias as the core. It contains the creative sketch software Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, modeling kit Autodesk Alias and real time showcase software Autodesk Showcase. Designers are supposed to create, edit and render their work in a complete processing platform base on a group of software, so that they could focus on their designs. This article will hold a practice of Crossover car project by using these software.