* 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Autodesk introduced C-FACT, an open-source, science-driven approach to setting greenhouse gas reduction targets, which calls for greenhouse gas ( GHG ) reductions to be made in proportion to a company ’ s gross domestic product ( GDP ).

Autodesk's digital prototyping software, including Autodesk Inventor and the Autodesk Product Design Suite, are used in the manufacturing industry to visualize, simulate, and analyze real-world performance using a digital model during the design process.

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

* On August 25, 2011, Autodesk announced the acquisition of Numenus, which optimizes CAD and construction processes by using NURBS technology.

During the filming of James Cameron's Avatar all of the scenes involving this process were directed in realtime using Autodesk Motion Builder software to render a screen image which allowed the director and the actor to see what they would look like in the movie, making it easier to direct the movie as it would be seen by the viewer.

The original " Toddler with Diaper " model # VP5653 was built by, and courtesy of, Viewpoint Datalabs, with the bulk of the skinning and rigging performed by John Chadwick using the " Physique " skin / deformation system in Character Studio, and final edits by John and members of the Autodesk development team.

* After producing video, studios then edit or composite the video using programs such as Adobe Premiere or Apple Final Cut at the low end, or Autodesk Combustion, Digital Fusion, Apple Shake at the high-end.

An example of this approach is the Autodesk Topobase 2010 Help document, which contains separate Administrator Guides, User Guides, and a Developer's Guide.

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.

The Hacker's Diet ( humorously subtitled " How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition ") is a diet plan created by the founder of Autodesk, John Walker, outlined in an electronic book of the same name, that attempts to aid the process of weight loss by more accurately modeling how calories consumed and calories expended actually impact weight.

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.

When Marinchip Software Partners ( later known as Autodesk ) formed, the founders decided to re-code Interact in C and PL / 1.

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

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

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

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

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.

* DXF Specifications – Autodesk documentation on versions of DXF from Release 13 to current.

In 1989, Autodesk, an American multinational corporation that focuses on 2D and 3D design software, developed a virtual design system called Cyberspace.

Meanwhile Nelson, who had been working on and advocating his Xanadu system for over two decades, along with the commercial success of HyperCard, stirred Autodesk to invest in his revolutionary ideas.

The project continued at Autodesk for four years, but no product was released.

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.

In October 2005, Autodesk announced that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Alias for $ 182 million in cash.

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

This led to the release of mid-range packages such as SolidWorks in 1995, Solid Edge ( then Intergraph ) in 1996 and Autodesk Inventor in 1999.