Alias Reference Assembly Support

We added the importing of native CAD file assembled in the Alias Reference Manager into VRED 2022. A new Reference Manager group will be created in the Scenegraph to mimic the Alias Reference Manager and layers.

Alias 2021 introduced the possibility to create an assembly structure from various CAD file formats, such as .wire, .iges, .step, etc. Alias creates an intermediate .wref reference file for modeling and visualization purposes in the viewport, while keeping the link to the original CAD file in the background. When importing an Alias .wire file containing an assembly structure into VRED, the linked CAD files are now imported, as well. Find these imported assembled files under the new Reference Manager group in the Scenegraph.

Alias References and Assemblies