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39-744: The Alliance was formed in February 1998 as the OpenDWG Alliance, with its initial release of code based on the AUTODIRECT libraries written by Matt Richards of MarComp. In 2002, the OpenDWG library was renamed to DWGdirect , and the same year, the alliance was renamed to Open Design Alliance. On November 22, 2006, Autodesk sued the Open Design Alliance alleging that its DWGdirect libraries infringed Autodesk's trademark for

78-508: A 30-person development team in Chernihiv , Ukraine (almost students of Chernihiv Polytechnic National University ). Ukrainian engineers play an important role in developing ODA technologies, including our interoperability toolkits for DWG and Autodesk® Revit® files, and many other areas. On 4 April, 2022 in a response to full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and continuous shelling of Chernihiv Neil Peterson , ODA President, announced

117-1561: A camera at actors wearing motion-capture suits in a studio and see them as characters in the fictional world of Pandora in the film. Autodesk software also played a role in the visual effects of Alice in Wonderland , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 , Inception , Iron Man 2 , King Kong , Gladiator , Titanic , and other films. Walt Disney Animation Studios also utilizes Autodesk Maya for character rigging and animation, being used in films such as Frozen II . Autodesk develops and purchased many specific-purpose renderers but many Autodesk products had been bundled with third-party renderers such as NVIDIA Mental Ray or Iray. Some of Autodesk's "retired" products are listed here: Autodesk CFD (formerly Autodesk Simulation CFD) includes modeling and thermal modeling tools for architectural and MEP applications. Common applications for environmental sustainable design include mechanical ventilation, external flow (wind loading), natural ventilation, and occupant comfort. Other energy applications include analysis for building energy, solar load, advanced energy and heating and cooling. 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

156-418: A campaign for collecting money to donate Ukrainian team members and their families, and stated that help with relocation and temporary housing being provided. Autodesk 38°00′20″N 122°31′51″W  /  38.0055°N 122.5308°W  / 38.0055; -122.5308 Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that provides software products and services for

195-401: A company's gross domestic product (GDP). Unlike other carbon accounting methods, Autodesk's C-FACT measures carbon dioxide emissions that are proportional to a company's global GDP contribution. Autodesk will derive its own targets using this approach through 2020. In 2006, Autodesk sponsored a PBS program named e² Design , which focused on green building design around the world, describing

234-530: A digital model in the design process. The company's Revit line of software for building information modeling is designed to let users explore the planning, construction, and management of a building virtually before it is built. Autodesk's Media and Entertainment division creates software for visual effects, color grading, and editing as well as animation, game development, and design visualization. 3ds Max and Maya are both 3D animation software used in film visual effects and game development. The company

273-399: A proprietary language. Walker and Riddle rewrote the program, and established a profit-sharing agreement for any product derived from InteractCAD. Walker subsequently paid Riddle US$ 10 million for all the rights. The company went public in 1985. By mid-1986, the company had grown to 255 employees with annual sales of over $ 40 million. That year, Walker resigned as chairman and president of

312-897: Is based in Montreal, Quebec. It was established in 1999 after Autodesk, Inc. acquired Discreet Logic, Inc. and merged its operations with Kinetix. In January 2006, Autodesk acquired Alias, a developer of 3D graphics technology. In October 2008, Autodesk acquired the Softimage brand from Avid. The principal product offerings from the Media and Entertainment Division are Flame , and the Media & Entertainment Collection, which include Maya , 3ds Max , Arnold , MotionBuilder , Mudbox , and ReCap Pro. Much of Avatar ' s visual effects were created with Autodesk media and entertainment software. Autodesk software enabled Avatar director James Cameron to aim

351-582: Is headquartered in Portland, Oregon . The company's manufacturing software is used in various manufacturing segments, including industrial machinery, electro-mechanical, tool and die, industrial equipment, automotive components, and consumer products. The principal products are Fusion 360 , and its family (Fusion 360 with FeatureCAM, PowerMill , PowerShape , PowerInspect, or Netfabb ), Autodesk Alias , Autodesk Inventor , Autodesk Vault , Autodesk CFD (formerly Autodesk Simulation CFD), Moldflow , VRED, and

390-552: Is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, in a LEED Platinum building designed and built using Autodesk software. Autodesk's architecture, engineering, and construction solutions include AutoCAD , and Revit , which is their flagship product for relational Building information modeling . The AEC division also develops and manages software for the Construction industry, including Autodesk Construction Cloud , Advance Steel , and

429-426: Is interested can register and attend the conference. The following is an incomplete list of members of the Open Design Alliance. The following is an incomplete list of founding member organizations of the Open Design Alliance. Asking those who benefit from ODA solutions to help support our Ukrainian developers: https://www.opendesign.com/blog/2022/april/oda-organizes-support-ukraine-developers Since 2016 ODA has

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468-825: The Navisworks (formerly JetStream) product tools; the Infrastructure industry, including Civil 3D , and InfraWorks ; and the MEP industry, including Fabrication CADmep . The Autodesk Services Marketplace offering helps its clients train their team in AEC Industry. Projects that have used software from the Autodesk AEC division include the NASA Ames building, the San Francisco Bay Bridge,

507-595: The One World Trade Center to Tesla electric cars . Autodesk became best known for AutoCAD , but now develops a broad range of software for design, engineering, and entertainment—and a line of software for consumers. The manufacturing industry uses Autodesk's digital prototyping software—including Autodesk Inventor , Fusion 360 , and the Autodesk Product Design Suite—to visualize, simulate, and analyze real-world performance using

546-696: The Apple Mac App Store. 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”. Users range from children, students and artists to makers and DIYers. Autodesk offers certificates in two categories: Autodesk Certified User and Advanced Certified Professional. The Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry group

585-590: The Product Design & Manufacturing Collection, which includes Inventor Nastran (formerly Nastran In-CAD), Inventor CAM (formerly Autodesk HSM and Inventor HSM), Inventor Nesting, Inventor Tolerance Analysis, and Factory Design Utilities. Autodesk Media and Entertainment products are designed for digital media creation, management, and delivery, from film and television visual effects, color grading, and editing to animation, game development, and design visualization. Autodesk's Media and Entertainment Division

624-478: The Shanghai Tower, and New York's One World Trade Center. Autodesk Life Sciences is an extensible toolkit for genetic engineering. It visualises DNA code (Molecule Viewer), and has a tool for writing DNA code (genetic constructor). The tool allows work on molecule-level, rather than nucleobase-level (A, C, G, T) constructs. In 2018, all projects were suspended. Autodesk's manufacturing industry group

663-469: The ability for Internet users to voice their ideas, as well as predicting further Internet censorship. Walker said that the most likely candidate to usher what he calls "the digital imprimatur " is digital rights management , or DRM. Walker married Roxie Smail in 1973. They moved to Switzerland in 1991. He died of head injuries sustained after a fall on February 2, 2024, in Neuchâtel , Switzerland, at

702-477: The architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries. Autodesk is headquartered in San Francisco, California , and has offices worldwide. Its U.S. offices are located in the states of California, Oregon, Colorado, Texas, Michigan, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Its Canada offices are located in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta. The company

741-469: The company, continuing to work as a programmer. In 1989, Walker's book, The Autodesk File , was published. It describes his experiences at Autodesk, based around internal documents (particularly email) of the company. Walker moved to Switzerland in 1991. By 1994, when he resigned from the company, it was the sixth-largest personal computer software company in the world, primarily from the sales of AutoCAD. Walker owned more than 850,000 shares of Autodesk at

780-689: The decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , which reversed the lower court ruling, denying Vernor the right to resale Autodesk software due to Autodesk's nontransferable licensing restrictions. In October 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling. Autodesk introduced a new logo at the TED conference in Long Beach , California, on February 26, 2013. Autodesk announced

819-614: The door for third party developers to extend AutoCAD's functionality, to address a wide range of vertical markets , strengthening AutoCAD's market penetration. Subsequent to AutoCAD Release 13, the company stopped supporting the Unix environment and the Apple Macintosh platform. After AutoCAD Release 14 (R13 was last DOS & Unix release), first shipped in 1997, Autodesk discontinued development under DOS , and focused exclusively on Microsoft Windows . AutoCAD has grown to become

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858-654: The free trial downloads of the ODAFileConverter. Drawings SDK also provides exchange of the following file formats to and from .dwg and .dgn: There are six types of ODA membership: There is also a free trial period. Open Design Alliance provides monthly production releases. Open Design Alliance holds an ODA conference every year in September. The two-day conference includes presentations from directors and developers and face-to-face meetings for non-members, members, ODA developers, and ODA executives. Anyone who

897-601: The largest lay off in its history on November 27, 2017, with the lay off of 1,150 jobs. This was in addition to the almost 1,000 job cuts announced in January 2016. The number of Autodesk employees decreased from approximately 9,200 to 7,200 in less than 2 years. Autodesk updated to its current logo in September 2021. In 2022, Autodesk moved their headquarters to San Francisco from San Rafael, California —which served as their headquarters since 1994. Platform Solutions and Emerging Business (PSEB) division develops and manages

936-532: The leaders and technologies that drive sustainable design. In November 2021, the company was added to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index . John Walker (programmer) John Wallace Walker (May 16, 1949 – February 2, 2024) was an American computer programmer , author and co-founder of the computer-aided design software company Autodesk . He was later recognized for his writing on his website Fourmilab. Walker

975-399: The most widely used CAD program for 2D non-specialized applications. The native file formats written by AutoCAD, DXF and DWG , are also widely used for CAD data interoperability . In 1989, Autodesk's sales grew to over $ 100,000,000 after just four operational years. Walker remained a programmer at Autodesk until 1994, when he left due to disagreements with changes at the company. With

1014-474: The product foundation for most Autodesk offerings across multiple markets, including Autodesk's flagship product AutoCAD , AutoCAD LT, AutoCAD for Mac, and AutoCAD mobile app (formerly AutoCAD 360). Autodesk Suites, Subscription and Web Services, which include Autodesk Cloud, Autodesk Labs, and Global Engineering are also part of PSEB. 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

1053-515: The program, and agreed to sell it to Walker in exchange for royalties. The program was further developed and renamed AutoCAD . Autodesk became a public company in 1985. John Walker did not enjoy the process of writing the prospectus, relating the process to "lying on the beach or juggling chainsaws". Release 2.1 of AutoCAD, released in 1986, included AutoLISP , a built-in Lisp programming language interpreter initially based on XLISP. This opened

1092-608: The purchase of Softdesk in 1997, Autodesk started to develop specialty versions of AutoCAD , targeted to broad industry segments, including architecture, civil engineering , and manufacturing . Since the late 1990s, the company has added several significant non-AutoCAD-based products, including Revit , a parametric building modeling application (acquired in 2002, from Massachusetts-based Revit Technologies for $ 133 million), and Inventor , an internally developed parametric mechanical design CAD application. In 2007, Timothy Vernor sued Autodesk ( Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc. ), alleging that he

1131-498: The time of his departure, worth about $ 45.8 million at the time ($ 94,150,157 adjusted for inflation). He published on his personal domain, "Fourmi Lab", designed to be a play on Fermilab and Fourmi , French for “ant”, one of his early interests. On his Web site, Walker published about his personal projects, including a hardware random number generator called HotBits, along with software that he wrote and freely distributed, such as his Earth and Moon viewer. Another notable book

1170-421: The transfer of software to the purchaser materially resembled a sale (non-recurring price, right to perpetual possession of copy) it was, in fact, a "sale with restrictions on use" giving rise to a right to resell the copy under the first-sale doctrine. As such, Autodesk could not pursue an action for copyright infringement against Vernor, who sought to resell used versions of its software on eBay. Autodesk appealed

1209-421: The translation of numerous computer language compilers to Intel platforms. In 1982, John Walker and 12 other programmers pooled US$ 59,000 to start Autodesk, and began working on several computer applications. The first completed was AutoCAD , a software application for computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting. AutoCAD had begun life as Interact , a CAD program, written by programmer Michael Riddle in

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1248-532: The word "Autodesk", by writing the TrustedDWG code (including the word "AutoCAD") into DWG files it created. In April 2007, the suit was dropped, with Autodesk modifying the warning message in AutoCAD 2008 (to make it more benign), and the Open Design Alliance removing support for the TrustedDWG code from its DWGdirect libraries. In 2008, support was added for .dgn files with DGNdirect. In April 2010, DWGdirect

1287-511: Was born in Baltimore, Maryland on May 16, 1949. He studied electrical engineering at Case Western Reserve University . In 1974/1975, Walker wrote the ANIMAL software , which self-replicated on UNIVAC 1100 machines. It is considered one of the first computer viruses. Walker also founded the hardware integration manufacturing company Marinchip . Among other things, Marinchip pioneered

1326-467: Was called The Hacker's Diet . Among other things, he is noted for a frequently cited article entitled The Digital Imprimatur: How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle , an article about Internet censorship written in 2003. It was published in the magazine Knowledge, Technology & Policy . In the article, Walker argues that there is increasing pressure limiting

1365-658: Was entitled to resell "used" copies of AutoCAD software on eBay . He had obtained the software from an Autodesk licensee at an office liquidation sale. A federal district judge in Washington denied Autodesk's initial motion to dismiss in early 2008. In February and March 2009, both sides filed motions for summary judgment addressing the issue whether the First Sale Doctrine applies to previously licensed software. The Court ruled in Vernor's favor, holding that when

1404-661: Was founded by John Walker and a team of programmers in 1982. Walker founded the company after acquiring Interact, a computer-aided design program that operated on microcomputers running the 8-bit CP/M operating system and two of the new 16-bit systems, the Victor 9000 and the IBM Personal Computer (PC). This tool made it affordable for smaller design, engineering, and architecture companies to create detailed technical drawings. The program had been developed by Michael Riddle in 1979. Riddle had struggled to sell

1443-411: Was founded in 1982 by John Walker , who was a coauthor of the first versions of AutoCAD . AutoCAD is the company's flagship computer-aided design (CAD) software and, along with its 3D design software Revit , is primarily used by architects, engineers, and structural designers to design, draft, and model buildings and other structures. Autodesk software has been used in many fields, and on projects from

1482-771: Was removed. In October 2018 ODA started work on IFC Solutio. In January 2019 Drawings 2019.2 introduced extrude and revolve 3d solid modeling operations as part of the standard SDK. Also that month, ODA announced the release of its new BimNv SDK. In May 2020 ODA switched to monthly releases. In June 2020 ODA released its free Open IFC Viewer, and in July 2021 ODA started development for STEP Support. In October 2021 ODA released its IFC validation engine. In January 2022 ODA started Scan-to-BIM development. In September 2022 ODA started MCAD SDK development, and in October 2022 ODA released STEP SDK for production use. In September 2024 ODA removed

1521-402: Was renamed to Teigha for .dwg files, OpenDWG was renamed to Teigha Classic and DGNdirect was renamed to Teigha for .dgn files. Since August 2017 (v. 4.3.1), Teigha contains production support for version 2018 .dwg files, including architectural, civil and mechanical custom objects. In February 2018 (v. 4.3.2), support for STL and OBJ files was announced. In September 2018 Teigha brand

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