Autodesk Forge is our collection of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that we use to develop our own web services. As part of our Forge efforts, we share those APIs (including documentation and code samples) with customers and 3rd party developers (the Forge community) that want to leverage years’ worth of legacy and current data associated with projects.
Forge is defined by 4 groups of APIs:
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Design Automation API
The Design Automation API gives developers the ability to run scripts on design files, leveraging the scale of the Forge Platform to automate repetitive tasks. The API currently works with DWG files, but we have plans to expand to file types generated by other design software. This is a handy way to publish thousands of drawings to DWF or PDF. Ordinarily, customers would have to download all the files, run a script on them in the AutoCAD desktop software, and then potentially upload them all back to the cloud. Their efficiency would be bottlenecked by the…