Let’s say you’ve been an Autodesk customer for a long time. You’ve got decades of your intellectual property captured in AutoCAD drawings or Revit Building Information Models. If you’d like to leverage that data to showcase your work to your customers, then Autodesk Forge is for you.
Forge is our application program interface (API) platform and supporting materials (sample code, manuals) as well as a community of developers who use those APIs. Although Forge is intended for our customers and 3rd party developers to be able to use our web services, we also use Forge for our development of the cloud-based services that we offer. In Microsoft terminology, “we eat our own dog food.” Our Forge partners can leverage Forge in the same ways that we do.
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