Autodesk Developer Network

AutoCAD is the world’s leading 2D and 3D CAD tool, delivering powerful design and documentation capabilities to millions of people around the world. AutoCAD is also the most popular CAD platform in the world with thousands of add-ons addressing a wide variety of specialized design needs across numerous industries—enabled by deep and broad application programming interfaces (APIs). 

Designed specifically for architects and built on AutoCAD software, AutoCAD Architecture offers efficiency and immediate productivity, flexibility in implementation and use, and versatile file-based collaboration. Its intelligent architectural objects mean you can get productive right away in your existing processes, while implementing increasingly powerful and effective features at your own pace.

AutoCAD Civil is a civil engineering tool incorporating a dynamic engineering model that allows elements to be automatically updated in response to changes in your design. Using AutoCAD Civil 3D as a platform, you can take advantage of industry-standard development tools and technologies when building applications.

AutoCAD Mechanical software is AutoCAD for manufacturing, purpose-built to accelerate the mechanical design process. With all the functionality of AutoCAD, one of the world’s leading CAD software tools, plus comprehensive libraries of standards-based parts and tools for automating common design tasks, AutoCAD Mechanical offers significant productivity gains and can help you save hours of design time.

AutoCAD OEM is a CAD development platform that provides tools to build custom AutoCAD-based software products for specific markets and extend design information to users outside the traditional CAD community. You can easily create industry-specific products that offer only the features, commands, menus, and design data that your customers require.

AutoCAD Map 3D software is a flexible development platform for specialized mapping, land planning and infrastructure management applications. With AutoCAD Map 3D as a platform, you can take advantage of industry-standard development tools and technologies when building applications.

The Inventor developer community has another development platform option to consider: Inventor OEM. With Inventor OEM, developers have access to the same API supported by Inventor. Unlike the add-in approach, which extends Inventor, Inventor OEM allows developers to create their own branded products based on Inventor. Branded products present their own identity while being completely compatible with other Inventor applications.

Inventor is a high-performance 3D mechanical design system based on adaptive technology. The software successfully combines 2D capabilities with the power of 3D, delivers the best DWG compatibility in the industry, and offers the best value to mechanical engineers interested in moving into 3D design.

Have direct access to your data through the Vault API. Learn how to query the server for information, update your files, customize your workflows, build utilities, and integrate with other systems.

Navisworks is project review software for 3D coordination, 4D planning, photorealistic visualization, dynamic simulation, and accurate analysis. Use Navisworks and its API as a platform to integrate and accelerate your project review and management processes and extend its capabilities to tailor Navisworks to you and your customers' specific needs.

Gain instant competitive advantage with the Revit parametric building modeler. You don’t have to deal with tedious documentation coordination because the software does it for you. Parametric building technology means that you can make a change to any part of your building project—plans, schedules, you name it—and it’s updated everywhere else. Automatically.

The Plant SDK provides development tools for both AutoCAD P&ID and AutoCAD Plant 3D.

Incorporated into Autodesk infrastructure modeling and geospatial products, and also available as a stand-alone open-source technology for developers, FDO helps increase productivity and save time by enabling users to work seamlessly on a variety of spatial and nonspatial databases and file formats natively, without the need for translation and risk of data loss.

For the most up to date FDO information, LGPL license, software downloads, - and to become part of the growing open source developer community, please visit http://fdo.osgeo.org/ Additional marketing literature and white papers can also be found at http://www.autodesk.com/fdo

Use the RealDWG software library to access, read, and write AutoCAD DWG files and intelligent object databases.

Using Autodesk’s point cloud format, RCP/RCS (Reality Capture Project/Reality Capture Scan), opens up a world of reality-data-based workflows in many of Autodesk’s most-used design and construction tools. Embed read, modify, and write support for this format in your solution.