Autodesk
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This is the fourth and final part of the series documenting my recent interview with John Walker. Where the first three parts looked at the early history of the company, the architectural evolution of AutoCAD and its APIs and Autodesk's strategy and eco-system, this part takes a look at past and future business opportunities for the company. I have not linked to terms previously linked to in the first part of the series, which should also be referred to for typographical conventions, if they're not clear. Part 1 - Autodesk's early history Part 2 - AutoCAD's architecture & APIs Part…
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This is the third part of the series documenting my recent interview with John Walker. Where the first part looked at the early history of the company and the second looked at the architectural evolution of AutoCAD and its APIs, this part focuses on Autodesk's business strategy and focus on its eco-system. I have not linked to terms previously linked to in the first part of the series, which should also be referred to for typographical conventions, if they're not clear. Part 1 - Autodesk's early history Part 2 - AutoCAD's architecture & APIs Part 3 - Autodesk's eco-system and…
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This is the second part of the series documenting my recent interview with John Walker. Where the first part looked at the early history of the company, this part focuses more on the architectural evolution of AutoCAD and its APIs. I have not linked to terms previously linked to in the first part of the series, which should also be referred to for typographical conventions, if they're not clear. Part 1 - Autodesk's early history Part 2 - AutoCAD's architecture & APIs Part 3 - Autodesk's eco-system and strategy Part 4 - Past and future opportunities AutoCAD's architecture & APIs…
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On Thursday of last week (September 4th, 2008, for those people accessing this post sometime in the distant future :-), I had the great honour of meeting with John Walker, one of Autodesk's founders and its former CEO. I've known for some time that John lives in the Neuchâtel area, and it turns out he lives just 10 minutes' drive from my home. I decided quite recently to get in touch with John and suggest I interview him for this blog, and I was delighted when he accepted. Not only was John very generous with his time - we talked…
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Autodesk has a wide range of products that expose Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), to the point that it can be a bit overwhelming for developers new to our products. A great place to look for introductory information around developing with Autodesk software is the Developer Center on Autodesk.com: http://www.autodesk.com/developer From here you will be able to navigate to individual Developer Centers for a number of our products, some of which I've provided direct links to below: http://www.autodesk.com/developautocad (AutoCAD) http://www.autodesk.com/developadt (Architectural Desktop) http://www.autodesk.com/developrevit (Revit) http://www.autodesk.com/developmap (Map 3D) http://www.autodesk.com/developmapguide (MapGuide) http://www.autodesk.com/developinventor (Inventor) http://www.autodesk.com/developvault (Vault) http://www.autodesk.com/developdwf (DWF Toolkit) http://www.autodesk.com/developbuzzsaw (Buzzsaw) Each of these…
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I'm very pleased to be part of a great team at Autodesk: the Developer Technical Services team (DevTech), whose focus is on providing high quality services to members of the Autodesk Developer Network. Aside from providing technical support for programming-related questions, we also write technical solutions (which we call DevNotes), present at technical conferences, provide API training and mentoring (a specific type of short-term consulting), and liaise regularly with our Engineering teams. The team is spread around the world: Mikako Harada manages our East Asia team, split between China and Japan, Murali Pappoppula manages the South Asia Pacific (SAPAC) team,…
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Welcome to "Through the Interface", a blog dedicated to programmers working with Autodesk technologies. My team, Autodesk's Developer Technical Services (DevTech), provides technical services to members of the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN), including programming support, consulting, training and evangelism. I'll be using this blog to share technical information about the use of our various Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and component technologies. Members of DevTech are experts on a wide range of Autodesk's products and APIs, so many of these posts will be contributed by members of my team. A little about myself… I have worked with a number of Autodesk's…