The software is developed and sold by Autodesk, Inc., first released in December 1982 by Autodesk in the year following the purchase of the first form of the software by Autodesk founder, John Walker.

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.

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.

Qt is most notably used in Autodesk Maya, The Foundry's Nuke, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Skype, VLC media player, VirtualBox, and Mathematica, and by the European Space Agency, DreamWorks, Google, HP, KDE, Lucasfilm, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Siemens, Volvo, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Research In Motion.

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.

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

Sony's XDCAM MXF is supported by Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro via XDCAM Transfer and MXF4Mac, Autodesk Smoke, Avid, Dalet, Front Porch Digital, Harris, mxfSPEEDRAIL, Omneon, Quantel, Rhozet, Sony Vegas Pro, Sorenson Squeeze Telestream FlipFactory, Thomson Grass Valley GrassValley EDIUS and K2.

Panasonic's P2 MXF is supported by Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Dalet, Autodesk Smoke, Avid, MXF4mac for Final Cut Pro, mxfSPEEDRAIL and P2Soft from OpenCube Technologies.

Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that focuses on 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media and entertainment industries.

Also part of PSEB is the Autodesk Consumer Product Group, which was created in November 2010 to generate interest in 3-D design and “ foster a new wave of designers who hunger for sophisticated software .” The products from the group include 123D, Fluid FX, Homestyler, Pixlr, and SketchBook.

The AEC industry group is headquartered in Waltham, MA in a LEED Platinum building designed and built using Autodesk software.

Autodesk ’ s Media and Entertainment Division is based in Montreal, Quebec.

The functionality of this product is largely replaced by Autodesk DWF Composer ( versions 1 and 2 ) later replace by the free Autodesk Design Review.

Pi Mobility is a clean tech partner of Autodesk ’ s.

The Autodesk Sustainability Workshop is a free on-line tutorial that covers sustainable design concepts such as light-weighting and whole systems thinking.

* Older versions of Autodesk 3ds Max use a dongle for copy protection ; if it is missing, the program will randomly corrupt the points of the user's model during usage, destroying their work.

The line between hardware and software is blurring as many software-based color correctors ( e. g. Pablo, Mistika, SCRATCH, Autodesk Lustre, Nucoda Film Master and Filmlight Baselight ) use multi processor workstations and a GPU ( graphics processing unit ) as a means of hardware acceleration.

* Autodesk Lustre is another high-end color grading solution.

1950 ) is a computer programmer and a co-founder of the computer-aided design software company Autodesk, and a co-author of early versions of AutoCAD, a product Autodesk originally acquired from programmer Michael Riddle.

Rudy later drew from his experience at Autodesk, in Silicon Valley, for his novel The Hacker and the Ants where one of the characters is loosely based on John Walker.

Projects that have used software from the Autodesk AEC division include the NASA Ames building, the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the Shanghai Tower, and New York ’ s Freedom Tower.

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.

Additionally, features an importer for Blender and Autodesk 3ds Max.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Autodesk has chosen not to support DGN in AutoCAD 2006, although it does support the format in its Map3D, Land Desktop, and Civil3D products.

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.

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

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.

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

While at Autodesk, the group, led by Gregory, completed a version of the software, written in the C programming language, though the software did not work the way they wanted.

: Autodesk Vault plug-in, which ships with 3ds Max, consolidates users ’ 3ds Max assets in a single location, enabling them to automatically track files and manage work in progress.

* Autodesk Toxik, introduced in 2007, a compositing software that allowed users to coordinate work on a production.

In mechanical engineering with software programs such as Pro / ENGINEER, Solidworks, and Autodesk Inventor users can design products as pieces not part of the whole and later add those pieces together to form assemblies like building LEGO.

The Building Information Modeling ( BIM ) capabilities of Autodesk software help the architect, engineering and construction ( AEC ) industry create more sustainable buildings and optimize building performance.

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