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foundation = Mill Valley, California (1982) location = San Rafael, California key_people = John Walker (programmer)John Walker, Founder
Carol Bartz, Chairwoman & CEO industry = CAD/CAM Software hoovers.com products = #PortfolioSee complete products listing. revenue = $1.234 billion United States dollarUSD (2005) num_employees = 3,493 (2004) homepage = autodesk.com - www.autodesk.com}}Autodesk, Inc. nasdaqADSK , a design software and digital content company, was founded by John Walker (programmer)John Walker and 12 other co-founders in 1982. Over its history, it has had various locations in Marin County, California. It is currently headquartered in San Rafael, California.
Organization - Autodesk is organized into two segments: the ''Design Solutions Group'' and !Autodesk_Media_and_Entertainme nt? division. The ''Design Solutions Group'' (DSG) encompasses Autodesk's core competency of design technology applications while ''MED'' provides media and entertainment solutions.The ''Design Solutions Segment'' is divided into five industry-specific business divisions: the ''Platform Technology Division'' (PTD), the ''Manufacturing Solutions Division'' (MSD), the ''Infrastructure Solutions Division'' (ISD), the ''Building Solutions Division'' (BSD) and ''Other'', which includes #Collaboration ServicesAutodesk Collaboration Services and #ConsultingAutodesk Consulting.
Portfolio - The principal product offerings from the Design Solutions Segment are described below::* The ''Platform Technology Division'' develops and manages Autodesk's flagship product, AutoCAD, and AutoCAD LT.:* The ''Manufacturing Solutions Division'' develops and manages #Inventor SeriesAutodesk Inventor Series and #MechanicalAutoCAD Mechanical.:* The ''Infrastructure Solutions Division'' develops and manages #MapAutodesk Map, #Land DesktopAutodesk Land Desktop, #Civil3DAutodesk Civil3D and #MapGuideAutodesk MapGuide .:* The ''Building Solutions Division'' develops and manages #Architectural DesktopAutodesk Architectural Desktop and #RevitAutodesk Revit.The principal product offerings from the Media and Entertainment Division are 3ds max, ''flame'', ''inferno'', ''smoke'', ''toxik'' and ''lustre''.Other products include Autosketch, #Subscription ProgramAutodesk Subscription Program and #LocationLogicAutodesk LocationLogic.
History - Autodesk featured AutoCAD (formerly named MicroCAD) at COMDEX in 1982.Initially AutoCAD was written for multiple operating systems, focusing on the CP/M architecture, but also made a branch for DOS and Unix.The company's ultimate goal was to achieve a major software brand (AutoCAD) running upon IBM's recently born PC platform. Thus, its power was its weakness: a relatively mediocre CAD application (due to Intel and MS-DOS limitations those days), available on a widespread platform. It made a CAD tool, good enough to create detailed technical drawings, possible and affordable to many smaller design, engineering, and architecture companies. The further versions and implementations (Release 2.1 introduced a new (for those days) concept in CAD and software industry: the open platform software, by means of the introduction of a built-in Lisp programming languageLisp interpreter with a custom dialect of the Lisp Language: AutoLisp, customized to program built-in particular AutoCAD solutions.Furthermore, they also implemented a C subset of its own libraries and made it available to developers.This brought as a result the "evolutionary" growth of a large collection of minor software companies developing solutions for AutoCAD as the main platform (as a operating system one could say). Since then, Autodesk has profited greatly from these developments by buying the cutting edge companies that made major improvements to its software. These companies' code is then brought into the Autodesk codebase where it can be retooled for use in new products.Since Release 12, the company abandoned the Unix environment, and since Release 14 it discontinued the MS-DOS releases and worked closely together with Microsoft sharing its base technology to achieve superior performance in the Windows operating system.AutoCAD is the ''de facto'' standard non-specialized CAD solutions and its file formats "AutoCAD_DXFDXF" and "DWG" are the most common for CAD interchange.Autodesk has now ventured into the world of midrange 3D CAD with the introduction of Autodesk Inventor usa.autodesk.com and Autodesk Revitusa.autodesk.com. Autodesk's largest competitors in this category are SolidWorks, owned by Dassault Systemes, and Pro-E, owned by PTC.
External links - autodesk.com - www.autodesk.com fourmilab.ch - Early AutoCAD information fourmilab.ch - The Autodesk File, a History of !Autodeskde:Autodesksv:Autodesk Category:Computer? companies of the United StatesCategory:Companies based in CaliforniaCategory:Software companies
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