Autodesk Platform Services (APS) is the foundation of Autodesk's Design and Make Platform. It gives you powerful APIs and web services to digitally transform your business.

APS—formerly Forge—extends the functionality of your enterprise software and helps you unlock the value of your Design and Make data.

Whether you want to automate processes, connect teams and workflows, or visualize your data – you can now create those applications and so much more using our APIs.

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“It’s literally like walking in the middle of the model and being able to view live video simultaneously. It’s not just camera hardware that does that. It’s EarthCam’s software. It’s our partnership with Autodesk and APS that brings these worlds together.”

Lisa Kelly, VP New Business, EarthCam

“It can take 70 hours for a senior engineer to redesign the same product. With Autodesk Platform Services, you can get this down to minutes.”

Tolgay Hickiran, Founding Partner, Codeo

“With APS, we’re driving change in the AEC industry, as clients and partners see the benefits.”

Katherine Crowley, Project Coordinator for Federal and Health Care Projects, AECOM

“Autodesk Platform Services (APS) connects the unconnectable. When my business partner and I set out to solve this problem, the ‘a-ha moment’ was APS.”

Brian Nickel, Co-founder at Allied BIM

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Connect and centralize your data in the cloud

How?

Extract and integrate your project data so it’s readily available to stakeholders across departments and industries.

Transform your Design and Make data into valuable insights

How?

Make your data hugely valuable to all project stakeholders. Visualize the data to unlock insights and help optimize business solutions.

Make it easier to collaborate with colleagues

How?

By connecting the data, you’ll also connect the people. Align everyone with a single source of truth and break down department silos.

Streamline your workflows with automation

How?

Automate repetitive tasks and cut down your costs. Free up your time for more important jobs and build better products and services.

Adopt more sustainable practices with data on demand

How?

With your Design and Make data accessible to all, stakeholders can respond to real-time insights and make more sustainable business decisions.

Build solutions for your business with Autodesk Platform Services

With APIs as powerful building blocks, you can create so many innovative solutions. What’s more, new APIs and services are introduced every year. Here are just a few of the most popular solutions that developers are creating today.

Digital twins

Contextualize your project data with 3D visualizations. See real-time building information and understand exactly what it means.

Visualize 2D and 3D models within a web browser. Enable powerful tools and let your audience interactively control AutoCAD, Autodesk Fusion, and Revit models.

Visualize heatmaps and sprites with custom data on your design models to create digital twin solutions.

Derive outputs viewable by the Autodesk Viewer from more than 70 different file input formats, and extract metadata about the models as well as the individual objects within the model.

Generate tokens based on the 0Auth 2.0 standard to authenticate requests made to APS APIs and SDKs.

Dashboards

Collate project data from multiple sources and present it back to the team with easy-to-access, interactive dashboards.

Access data across BIM 360 Team, Fusion Team, BIM 360 Docs, and the Object Storage Service and build apps which display and extend your data—adding value to your users.

Efficiently connect and access subsets of design data in your app of choice, without the hassle of hefty file translations, imports, and exports.

Build apps and custom integrations for the construction industry.

Integrate with the new unified Autodesk Construction Cloud platform to create seamless construction and field management workflows with builders’ critical documents and data.

Generate tokens based on the 0Auth 2.0 standard to authenticate requests made to APS APIs and SDKs.

Configurators

Use 3D-model-based configurators to streamline design processes and enable end-user-led product customization.

Automate repetitive tasks and run scripts on your design files in the cloud. Almost any task you can automate on your desktop application can now be achieved at scale.

Access data across BIM 360 Team, Fusion Team, BIM 360 Docs, and the Object Storage Service and build apps which display and extend your data—adding value to your users.

Derive outputs viewable by the Autodesk Viewer from more than 70 different file input formats, and extract metadata about the models as well as the individual objects within the model.

Enterprise integration

Make it easy for your team to analyze data and make well-informed decisions. Connect your software systems so all data feeds into one place.

Efficiently connect and access subsets of design data in your app of choice, without the hassle of hefty file translations, imports, and exports.

Access product design and manufacturing cloud-based data for analysis, processing, and sharing—without needing desktop authoring tools.

Visualize 2D and 3D models within a web browser. Enable powerful tools and let your audience interactively control AutoCAD, Autodesk Fusion, and Revit models.

AR/VR tools

Encourage real-time collaboration across locations. Democratize model access and keep everyone on the same page.

Derive outputs viewable by the Autodesk Viewer from more than 70 different file input formats, and extract metadata about the models as well as the individual objects within the model.

Visualize 2D and 3D models within a web browser. Enable powerful tools and let your audience interactively control AutoCAD, Autodesk Fusion, and Revit models.

Generate tokens based on the 0Auth 2.0 standard to authenticate requests made to APS APIs and SDKs.

Catalogs

Move catalogs to the web and achieve alignment between the design and sales teams, while making it easier to showcase customizable products to customers.

Derive outputs viewable by the Autodesk Viewer from more than 70 different file input formats, and extract metadata about the models as well as the individual objects within the model.

Visualize 2D and 3D models within a web browser. Enable powerful tools and let your audience interactively control AutoCAD, Autodesk Fusion, and Revit models.

Automate repetitive tasks and run scripts on your design files in the cloud. Almost any task you can automate on your desktop application can now be achieved at scale.

Generate tokens based on the 0Auth 2.0 standard to authenticate requests made to APS APIs and SDKs.

Digital twins
Catalogs
AR/VR tools
Enterprise integration
Configurators
Dashboards

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APIs used

Derive outputs viewable by the Autodesk Viewer from more than 70 different file input formats, and extract metadata about the models as well as the individual objects within the model.

Visualize 2D and 3D models within a web browser. Enable powerful tools and let your audience interactively control AutoCAD, Autodesk Fusion, and Revit models.

Integrate with the new unified Autodesk Construction Cloud platform to create seamless construction and field management workflows with builders’ critical documents and data.

Access data across BIM 360 Team, Fusion Team, BIM 360 Docs, and the Object Storage Service and build apps which display and extend your data—adding value to your users.

Digital twin

Disparate systems were preventing operational efficiencies across Roche's global network of real estate assets. By using APS, the team was able to transform the building models into digital twins—giving them a single point of access to all BIM data.

The products

BIM 360
Revit

“As we bring all our data together using Autodesk Platform Services, we see opportunities to not just be reactive, but be predictive.”

Pascal Ettenhuber, BIM Product Manager, Roche

APIs used

Integrate with the Autodesk BIM 360 platform to extend its capabilities and reach segments of the construction ecosystem that don’t have direct access to BIM data.

Dashboards

AECOM uses dashboards to monitor business performance in real-time. Leveraging Autodesk Platform Services, the team has built a solution which informs decision-making at all project levels. From financial and schedule metrics to safety and compliance needs, all data is in one place—providing new and improved communication flows and readily accessible project-status updates.

The products

AutoCAD
BIM 360
Revit

“We’re increasing our quality and performance—clearly APS assists us in that goal of providing a better project to our client.”

Russ Dalton, BIM Director for Design and Construction Services, AECOM

APIs used

Set up an automatic responder to receive custom orders and prepare initial documents and models for engineers to fine-tune or validate.

Derive outputs viewable by the Autodesk Viewer from more than 70 different file input formats, and extract metadata about the models as well as the individual objects within the model.

Visualize 2D and 3D models within a web browser. Enable powerful tools and let your audience interactively control AutoCAD, Autodesk Fusion, and Revit models.

Configurators

With an increasing demand for product customization, Arkance Systems CZ, a company previously focused on mass manufacturing, recognized the need to adapt. To give its customers an accessible and flexible way to fine-tune their own products, the team leveraged configurators on APS.

The products

AutoCAD
Autodesk Fusion
Inventor

“APS helps our customers obtain completed, accurate orders in minutes—where before it would take days.”

Vaclav Bardon, Consultant for CAD Solutions, Arkance Systems CZ 

APIs used

Connect and access subsets of design data in your app of choice.

Enterprise integration

CCTech’s huge data sets were hindering productivity. Sifting through irrelevant information to try and find what they needed was wasting time and money. So, the team decided to build cloud-based connectors to move data between software—using APS. As a result, they were able to break data down into components and give people the right data, when they needed it.

The products

Revit
Inventor

“This is just the beginning. We're starting with a few workflows that enhance productivity with Data Exchange. But data engineering will be a major part of our lives, so it’s the right time to invest in this.”

Sandip Jadhav, CEO and Co-Founder, CC Tech

APIs used

Integrate with the Autodesk BIM 360 platform to extend its capabilities and reach segments of the construction ecosystem that don’t have direct access to BIM data.

Access data across BIM 360 Team, Fusion Team, BIM 360 Docs, and the Object Storage Service and build apps which display and extend your data—adding value to your users.

Build cloud-native apps and services that create, extract, and modify Revit data. Automate model creation, modify existing models to maintain company standards, and much more.

Derive outputs viewable by the Autodesk Viewer from more than 70 different file input formats, and extract metadata about the models as well as the individual objects within the model.

Visualize 2D and 3D models within a web browser. Enable powerful tools and let your audience interactively control AutoCAD, Autodesk Fusion, and Revit models.

AR/VR tools

PIRO has been using APS to bring 3D models to the construction site via AR/VR. By leveraging APS APIs, all project data is stored in the cloud, making the rendered 3D models viewable from any web-based browser, on any portable device. Now teams can collaborate from anywhere, reduce costly errors by seeing their models within the environment, and speed up project lifecycles.

The products

3ds Max
AutoCAD
BIM 360
Inventor
Maya
Navisworks
Revit

“APS helps us move toward our goal of making maximum use of the digital model.”

Alexandre Piro, CTO, PIRO CIE

APIs used

Access data across BIM 360 Team, Fusion Team, BIM 360 Docs, and the Object Storage Service and build apps which display and extend your data—adding value to your users.

Set up an automatic responder to receive custom orders and prepare initial documents and models for engineers to fine-tune or validate.

Derive outputs viewable by the Autodesk Viewer from more than 70 different file input formats, and extract metadata about the models as well as the individual objects within the model.

Visualize 2D and 3D models within a web browser. Enable powerful tools and let your audience interactively control AutoCAD, Autodesk Fusion, and Revit models.

Catalog

Codeo’s challenge was keeping all sales and design teams on the same page when it came to their highly customized product offerings. By building 3D-model-based configurators on APS, they could access the same 3D web catalog and there was a clearer understanding on pricing and feasibility.

The products

BIM 360
Inventor
Revit

“It can take 70 hours for a senior engineer to redesign the same product. With Autodesk Platform Services, you can get this down to minutes.”

Tolgay Hickiran, Founding Partner, Codeo