Everyone who has used AutoCAD knows that it has a User Interface (UI). There is still debate today: command line or ribbon menu system?
- Proponents of the command line argue that using the command line is faster.
- Proponents of the ribbon menu point out that the menu system makes it easier to find which command to use.
What if the question was moot?
In addition to a UI, AutoCAD also has an API (Application Program Interface) that allows tasks to be automated and for the functionality to be extended to other purposes. Much like a desktop application like AutoCAD has an API that allows AutoCAD to be extended, our web services also have APIs that allow them to be extended. When using an API, the UI is out of the picture, because the application issues the commands on the user’s behalf. For our web services, this is possible by what we call Autodesk Forge.
Forge is a:
- Platform (APIs) and supporting materials (sample code, manuals)
- Community of developers who uses…