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Working within a project

Working within a project - Alias Tutorial

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Working within a project

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- It's very important in Alias to work in a proper project structure. So when we first install Alias, where is the installation path, where is it actually located, the application? Well, we can go very simply up to File, Open, and the default installation path in Alias is under your User Name, Documents, Autodesk, Alias, user_data. Now because this is a brand new installation, we haven't actually set up any projects right now, so Alias gives us a dummy project to work with, and it calls it "demo." If I double-click on demo, this is the standard file structure for an Alias project. At the very bottom we have "wire," which is where all our wire files will go, and the standard file format for an Alias model is a .wire file, and we can see that down here. Another very useful folder to work with is miscellaneous data, and also pix, where we'll keep our images and pictures. But there's a whole load of folders here that can actually help us organize our data while working within this…

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