AutoCAD has included support for. dwg, a format developed and promoted by Autodesk, for publishing CAD data.

In the past, Autodesk has estimated the total number of existing. dwg files as more than three billion.

Since then Autodesk has chosen to halt major enhancements to Visual LISP in favor of focusing more effort on VBA and. NET and C ++.

Autodesk software has been used in the design of everything from the New York Freedom Tower to Tesla electric cars.

Autodesk media and entertainment software has been used to construct scenes in every Academy Award Best Visual Effects winner for the last 16 years.

Autodesk has also released a free product called DWG TrueView.

Autodesk created the notion of BIM seven years ago but it has only recently become popular.

Through the use of telepresence, Autodesk has reduced its travel by 16 percent in three years as part of its overall carbon emissions reduction strategy.

The enforceability of shrink wrap contracts has been an issue of controversy as demonstrated in a few notable cases, Vernor v. Autodesk and ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg both of which cited the Step-Saver case.

Montreal has two major creators of 3D animation software: Softimage and Autodesk Media and Entertainment Division.

Reality Lab has been acclaimed by a wide range of developers, including Autodesk, Creative Labs,

Through the years, Autodesk has augmented its Entertainment division with many other acquisitions.

The code of MayaVi has nothing in common with that of Autodesk Maya or Vi.

* Autodesk Alias support page

* Volo View was a web-enabled review and markup tool from Autodesk for engineering data, including support for Autodesk ’ s DWG, DXF, and DWF formats.

The IFC initiative began in 1994, when Autodesk formed an industry consortium to advise the company on the development of a set of C ++ classes that could support integrated application development.

Mention can be made of the technological components available in the following units: The SIU ( University Information System, acronym in Spanish ) with its " People Soft " platform for Academic Management ; the New Technologies-Aided Education Center ( CEANTIC ) that offers virtual courses support through its Blackboard platform ; the Centro Audiovisual Javeriano, with front edge technology in this field in Latin America, internationally accredited like Autodesk Training Center-ATC ; the Computer-Aided Architecture and Design Project, CAAD ; the Technological Industrial Automation Center ; the Geo-referenced Information Center, GIC, the Javeriana Center of Oncology ; the San Ignacio University Hospital, and the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center.

In 2008 Autodesk and Bentley agreed on exchange of software libraries, including Autodesk RealDWG, to improve the ability to read and write the companies ' respective DWG and DGN formats in mixed environments with greater fidelity.

According to Autodesk company information, the AutoCAD software is now used in a range of industries, employed by architects, project managers and engineers, amongst other professions, and as of 1994 there had been 750 training centers established across the world to educate users about the company's primary products.

Autodesk had to work with a compiler developer, Lattice, to update C, enabling AutoCAD to run.

AutoCAD DXF ( Drawing Interchange Format, or Drawing Exchange Format ) is a CAD data file format developed by Autodesk for enabling data interoperability between AutoCAD and other programs.

DXF was originally introduced in December 1982 as part of AutoCAD 1. 0, and was intended to provide an exact representation of the data in the AutoCAD native file format, DWG ( Drawing ), for which Autodesk for many years did not publish specifications.

Autodesk now publishes the DXF specifications on its website for versions of DXF dating from AutoCAD Release 13 to AutoCAD 2010.

Autodesk was founded 1982 by John Walker, which led to the 2D system AutoCAD.

Autodesk purchased this, renamed it Visual LISP, and briefly sold it as an add-on to AutoCAD 14 released in May 1997.

It is now owned by Autodesk, the producers of AutoCAD and 3ds Max.

On October 4, 2005, Autodesk, makers of 3ds Max and AutoCAD drafting software, announced plans to acquire Alias in a cash acquisition valued at US $ 182 million.

* Nathan Brinkley-Instrumental in developing the computer language used in interfacing 3rd party applications with Autodesk AutoCAD.

Autodesk became best known for AutoCAD but now develops a broad range of software for design, engineering, and entertainment as well as a line of software for consumers, including Sketchbook, Homestyler, and Pixlr.

The PSEB division develops and manages the product foundation for most Autodesk offerings across multiple markets, including Autodesk's flagship product AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, AutoCAD for Mac, and AutoCAD WS.

In what was seen as an unusual step for a maker of high-end business software, Autodesk began offering AutoCAD LT 2012 for Mac through the Apple Mac App Store.

Products include the Autodesk Product Design Suite, Autodesk Factory Design Suite, Autodesk Inventor Suite, Autodesk Inventor Professional Suite, AutoCAD Mechanical, Autodesk Vault, Alias Products and Moldflow.

In 2006, Autodesk estimated the number of active. dwg files at in excess of one billion.

On January 10, 2006, Autodesk completed the acquisition of Alias for US $ 197 million in cash.

In January 2006, Autodesk acquired Alias, a developer of 3D graphics technology.

In 2006 Autodesk sponsored a PBS program named e < sup > 2 </ sup > Design, which focused on going green in building designs around the world.

Although Autodesk does not seem to offer Autosketch for download they still carry documentation and tutorials.

* Cyberspace by Autodesk was an early real-time 3D environment capable of producing basic phong shaded walkthroughs of DXF format models in " realtime ".

* AutoCAD DXF-contour elevation plots in AutoCAD DXF format ( by Autodesk )

* Autodesk Scene Export, a file format used also in 3D animations

By contrast, when an organization licenses Visual Basic for Applications ( VBA ) from Microsoft-as companies such as Autodesk, StatSoft, Great Plains Accounting and Visio ( subsequently acquired by Microsoft ) have done-it is allowed to redistribute the full VBA code-writing and debugging environment with its product.

After that, its development was neglected by Autodesk in favor of more fashionable development environments like VBA,. NET and ObjectARX.

Autodesk is headquartered in San Rafael, California and features a gallery of its customers ' work in its San Francisco building.

The company makes educational versions of its software available free to qualified students and faculty through the Autodesk Education Community.

It was established in 1999 after Autodesk, Inc. acquired Discreet Logic, Inc. and merged its operations with Kinetix.

Autodesk will derive its own targets using this approach through 2020.

After Alias was acquired by Autodesk, StudioTools changed its name to Autodesk AliasStudio.

In August 1998, Autodesk announced plans to acquire Discreet Logic and its intent to combine that operation with Kinetix.

In March 2005, Autodesk renamed its business unit Autodesk Media and Entertainment and discontinued the Discreet brand.

One of the most significant one was in October 2005, when Autodesk acquired Toronto-based Alias, and merged its animation business into its Entertainment division.