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03/03/2015 Autodesk Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk 1/15 Autodesk, Inc. Type Public Traded as NASDAQ: ADSK (http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/adsk) NASDAQ100 Component S&P 500 Component Industry Computer software Founded Mill Valley, California (1982) Founder John Walker, Dan Drake Headquarters San Rafael, California, U.S. Key people Crawford W. Beveridge (Chairman) Carl Bass (President and CEO) Products See text Revenue US$ 2,273.9 million (2014) [1] US$ 2,312.2 million (2013) [1] Operating income US$ 284.8 million (2014) [1] US$ 305.9 million (2013) [1] Net income US$ 228.8 million (2014) [1] US$ 247.4 million (2013) [1] Total assets US$ 4,595.0 million (2014) [2] US$ 4,308.4 million (2013) [1] Total equity US$ 2,261.5 million (2014) [2] US$ 2,043.2 million (2013) [1] Number of employees 7,500 (2012)[3] Website www.autodesk.com (http://www.autodesk.com) Autodesk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that makes software for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries. Autodesk is headquartered in San Rafael, California, and features a gallery of its customers' work [4] in its San Francisco building. The company has offices world wide, with U.S. locations in Northern California, Oregon, and in New England in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1982 by John Walker, a coauthor of the first versions of AutoCAD, the company's flagship computeraided design (CAD) software. Its AutoCAD and Revit software is primarily used by architects, engineers, and structural designers to design, draft, and model buildings and other structures. Autodesk software has been used in many fields, from the New York Freedom Tower [5] to Tesla electric cars. [6] Autodesk became best known for AutoCAD but now develops a broad range of software for design, engineering, and entertainment as well as a line of software for consumers, including Sketchbook, Homestyler, and Pixlr. The company makes educational versions of its software available free to qualified students and faculty through the Autodesk Education Community (http://students.autodesk.com/). Autodesk's digital prototyping software, including Autodesk Inventor and the Autodesk Product Design Suite, are used in the manufacturing industry to visualize, simulate, and analyze realworld performance using a digital model during the design process. [7] The company's Revit line of software for Building Information Modeling is designed to let users explore the planning, construction, and management of a building virtually before it's built. [8] Autodesk's Media and Entertainment division creates software for visual effects, color grading, and editing as well as animation, game development, and design visualization. [9] Maya is a 3D animation software used in film visual effects and game development.

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Autodesk, Inc.

Type Public

Traded as NASDAQ: ADSK(http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/adsk)NASDAQ­100 ComponentS&P 500 Component

Industry Computer software

Founded Mill Valley, California (1982)

Founder John Walker, Dan Drake

Headquarters San Rafael, California, U.S.

Key people Crawford W. Beveridge(Chairman)

Carl Bass(President and CEO)

Products See text

Revenue US$ 2,273.9 million (2014) [1]

US$ 2,312.2 million (2013) [1]

Operatingincome

US$ 284.8 million (2014) [1]

US$ 305.9 million (2013) [1]

Net income US$ 228.8 million (2014) [1]

US$ 247.4 million (2013) [1]

Total assets US$ 4,595.0 million (2014) [2]

US$ 4,308.4 million (2013) [1]

Total equity US$ 2,261.5 million (2014) [2]

US$ 2,043.2 million (2013) [1]

Number ofemployees

7,500 (2012)[3]

Website www.autodesk.com(http://www.autodesk.com)

AutodeskFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinationalsoftware corporation that makes software for thearchitecture, engineering, construction,manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries.Autodesk is headquartered in San Rafael, California,and features a gallery of its customers' work[4] in itsSan Francisco building. The company has officesworld wide, with U.S. locations in NorthernCalifornia, Oregon, and in New England in NewHampshire and Massachusetts.

The company was founded in 1982 by John Walker,a coauthor of the first versions of AutoCAD, thecompany's flagship computer­aided design (CAD)software. Its AutoCAD and Revit software isprimarily used by architects, engineers, andstructural designers to design, draft, and modelbuildings and other structures. Autodesk softwarehas been used in many fields, from the New YorkFreedom Tower[5] to Tesla electric cars.[6]

Autodesk became best known for AutoCAD butnow develops a broad range of software for design,engineering, and entertainment as well as a line ofsoftware for consumers, including Sketchbook,Homestyler, and Pixlr. The company makeseducational versions of its software available free toqualified students and faculty through the AutodeskEducation Community(http://students.autodesk.com/). Autodesk's digitalprototyping software, including Autodesk Inventorand the Autodesk Product Design Suite, are used inthe manufacturing industry to visualize, simulate,and analyze real­world performance using a digitalmodel during the design process.[7] The company'sRevit line of software for Building InformationModeling is designed to let users explore theplanning, construction, and management of abuilding virtually before it's built.[8]

Autodesk's Media and Entertainment division creates software for visual effects, color grading, and editingas well as animation, game development, and design visualization.[9] Maya is a 3D animation software usedin film visual effects and game development.

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A screenshot of AutoCAD, Autodesk'sflagship product.

Contents

1 Products1.1 Platforms1.2 Architecture, engineering and construction1.3 Manufacturing1.4 Media and entertainment1.5 Discontinued products

2 History2.1 Corporate acquisitions

3 Sustainability4 See also5 References6 External links

Products

Platforms

The Platform Solutions and Emerging Business (PSEB)division develops and manages the product foundation for mostAutodesk offerings across multiple markets, includingAutodesk's flagship product AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT,AutoCAD for Mac, and AutoCAD 360. Autodesk Suites,Subscription and Web Services, which includes AutodeskCloud, Autodesk Labs, and Global Engineering are also part ofPSEB. In what was seen as an unusual step for a maker of high­end business software, Autodesk began offering AutoCAD LT2012 for Mac through the Apple Mac App Store.[10] Also partof PSEB is the Autodesk Consumer Product Group, which wascreated in November 2010 to generate interest in 3­D designand “foster a new wave of designers who hunger for sophisticated software”.[11] The products from thegroup include 123D, Fluid FX, Homestyler, Pixlr, and SketchBook. Users range from children, students andartists to makers and DIYers.[12]

Architecture, engineering and construction

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One of the buildings at Autodesk's formerheadquarters in San Rafael (Autodesk latermoved around the corner)

Autodesk office in Toronto

The Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry group is headquartered in Waltham,Massachusetts, in a LEED Platinum building[13] designed and built using Autodesk software.[14] Autodesk'sarchitecture, engineering, and construction solutions include AutoCAD­based design and documentationsoftware such as AutoCAD Architecture (formerly Architectural Desktop), AutoCAD MEP[15] (formerlyAutodesk Building Systems), and AutoCAD Civil 3D. Their flagship product for relational Buildinginformation modeling is Revit. Revit is available as Revit Architecture, Revit Structure, Revit MEP or anall­in­one product. The AEC division also develops and manages software for the Construction industry,including Buzzsaw, Constructware, and the NavisWorks (acquired 2007) product tools; the Infrastructureindustry, including AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Map3D, and AutoCAD MapGuide Enterprise; and thePlant industry, including AutoCAD P&ID and AutoCAD Plant3D. Projects that have used software from the Autodesk AECdivision include the NASA Ames building,[16] the SanFrancisco Bay Bridge,[17] the Shanghai Tower, and New York’sFreedom Tower.[18]

Manufacturing

Autodesk's manufacturing industry group is headquartered inLake Oswego, Oregon. The company's manufacturing softwareis used in various manufacturing segments, including industrialmachinery, electro­mechanical, tool and die, industrialequipment, automotive components, and consumer products.Products include the Autodesk Product Design Suite, AutodeskFactory Design Suite, Autodesk Inventor Suite, AutodeskInventor Professional Suite, AutoCAD Mechanical, Autodesk Vault,Alias Products and Moldflow.

Media and entertainment

Autodesk Media and Entertainment products are designed for digitalmedia creation, management, and delivery, from film and televisionvisual effects, color grading, and editing to animation, gamedevelopment, and design visualization. Autodesk’s Media andEntertainment Division is based in Montreal, Quebec. It wasestablished in 1999 after Autodesk, Inc. acquired Discreet Logic,Inc. and merged its operations with Kinetix. In January 2006,Autodesk acquired Alias, a developer of 3D graphics technology. InOctober 2008, Autodesk acquired the Softimage brand from Avid.The principal product offerings from the Media and EntertainmentDivision are the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites, whichinclude Maya, Softimage, 3ds Max, Mudbox, Smoke, Flame, andLustre. Films created with Autodesk products have won theAcademy Award for Best Visual Effects for 16 consecutiveyears.[19]

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Much of Avatar's visual effects were created with Autodesk media and entertainment software. Autodesksoftware enabled Avatar director James Cameron to aim a camera at actors wearing motion­capture suits ina studio and see them as characters in the fictional world of Pandora in the film.[20] Autodesk software alsoplayed a role in the visual effects of Alice in Wonderland, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, HarryPotter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Inception, Iron Man 2, King Kong, Gladiator, Titanic, and otherfilms.[21]

In 2011, Autodesk acquired a cloud­based set of image tools and utilities called Pixlr.[22]

Discontinued products

Some of Autodesk's "retired" products are listed here:

Lightscape 3.2 Was the worlds only radiosity rendering package at the time (1991) developed fromwork done by Donald Greenberg at the Cornell University Department of Computer Graphics. Theproblem with this part of Autodesk's history is that it was a time of discovery in computer graphics,and Cornell was one of the birthplaces for the technology. In this sense Lightscape was more thanjust another product, it was an essential part of the development of rendering technology generally,and part of its evolution. Additionally the software came from a university research department andrepresented the start of a development cycle that users the world over were watching closely.Regardless, Autodesk purchased rights to the software and promptly discontinued its sale. A veryprimitive version of the radiosity renderer was incorporated into the companies 3d Studio Maxproduct, whilst existing Lightscape customers and the product were simply dropped. The most likelyreason for this was that Lightscape offered a number of features that were simply too ahead of itstime and therefore did not offer the optimum economic return for the company.

Volo View was a web­enabled review and markup tool from Autodesk for engineering data,including support for Autodesk's DWG, DXF, and DWF formats. Volo View enabled design teams tocommunicate ideas and review designs without access to AutoCAD software. Autodesk discontinuedsales of Volo View on May 1, 2005. The latest version of the software, Volo View 3, worked with thefollowing file formats: AutoCAD 2004, DWG and DXF; Design Web Format (DWF 6); AutodeskInventor 7 IPT, IAM, and IDW and raster files. The functionality of this product is largely replacedby Autodesk DWF Composer (versions 1 and 2) later replace by the free Autodesk Design Review.Autodesk has also released a free product called DWG TrueView. This product enables users to viewand plot AutoCAD DWG and DXF files, and to publish these same files to the DWF file format.

Autodesk Animator Pro (DOS) and Autodesk Animator Studio (Windows) were products designedfor cell based animation produced between the early­to­mid­1990s. At the time Autodesk was alsoadvertising an Autodesk Media product similar in description to Macromedia Director but thisproduct was never released to the public.

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Cyberspace by Autodesk was an early real­time 3D environment capable of producing basic phongshaded walkthroughs of DXF format models in "realtime". No textures were supported, and thesystem was able to support a maximum DXF model size of around 35 KB. A popular demo model ofthe Parthenon in Greece was shown around the United States in a tour of the portable demo system –complete with virtual reality goggles.

AutoCAD Survey (Autodesk Survey)

Civil Design

AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion (AutoCAD Land Desktop)

AutoCAD Freestyle, released in April 26, 2010 and discontinued January 31, 2011.

History

Autodesk's first notable product was AutoCAD, a computer­aided design application designed to run on thesystems known as "microcomputers" at the time, including those running the 8­bit CP/M operating systemand two of the new 16­bit systems, the Victor 9000 and the IBM Personal Computer (PC). This toolallowed users to create detailed technical drawings, and was affordable to many smaller design,engineering, and architecture companies.

Release 2.1 of AutoCAD, released in 1986, included AutoLISP, a built­in Lisp programming languageinterpreter initially based on XLISP.[23] This opened the door for third party developers to extendAutoCAD's functionality, to address a wide range of vertical markets, strengthening AutoCAD's marketpenetration.

Subsequent to AutoCAD Release 13, the company stopped supporting the Unix environment and the AppleMacintosh platform. After AutoCAD Release 14 (R13 was last DOS & Unix release), first shipped in 1997,Autodesk discontinued development under MS­DOS, and focused exclusively on Microsoft Windows.

AutoCAD has grown to become the most widely used CAD program for 2D non­specializedapplications.[24] The native file formats written by AutoCAD, DXF and DWG, are also widely used forCAD data interoperability.

In the 1990s, with the purchase of Softdesk in 1997, Autodesk started to develop specialty versions ofAutoCAD, targeted to broad industry segments, including architecture, civil engineering, andmanufacturing. Since the late 1990s, the company has added a number of significant non­AutoCAD­basedproducts, including Revit, a parametric building modeling application (acquired in 2002, fromMassachusetts­based Revit Technologies for $133 million), and Inventor, an internally developedparametric mechanical design CAD application.

In Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc., Autodesk was sued in 2007 by Timothy Vernor, who alleged that he wasentitled to sell on eBay "used" copies of AutoCAD software he had obtained at an office liquidation salefrom an Autodesk licensee.[25] A federal district judge in Washington state denied Autodesk's initial motion

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to dismiss in early 2008. In February and March 2009, both sides filed motions for summary judgmentaddressing the issue whether the First Sale Doctrine applies to previously licensed software.[26] The Courtruled in Vernor's favor, holding that when the transfer of software to the purchaser materially resembled asale (non­recurring price, right to perpetual possession of copy) it was, in fact, a "sale with restrictions onuse"[27] giving rise to a right to resell the copy under the first­sale doctrine. As such, Autodesk could notpursue an action for copyright infringement against Vernor, who sought to resell used versions of itssoftware on eBay. The decision was appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,which reversed the lower court ruling, denying Vernor the right to resale Autodesk software on eBay due toAutodesk's nontransferable licensing restrictions.[28] In October 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand the9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling.[29]

Autodesk introduced its current logo at the TED conference in Long Beach, California on February 26,2013.[30][31][32]

Corporate acquisitions

On August 4, 1993, Autodesk acquired Ithaca Software, a 3D computer graphics company founded

by Autodesk's current CEO Carl Bass and Garry Wiegand.[33][34]

On December 10, 1996, Autodesk announced its plan to acquire Softdesk, a developer of

architecture, engineering and construction software.[35]

On May 6, 1998, Autodesk acquired assets of Genius CAD­Software GmbH related to themechanical application business for 68 Mio Euro in cash. The assets were used to strengthen the

functionality of its core mechanical products.[36]

On March 16, 1999, Autodesk acquired Discreet Logic Inc. (Nasdaq: DSLGF)for an undisclosed

amount.[37]

On April 22, 1999, Autodesk acquired VISION* Solutions, a vendor of enterprise automatedmapping/facilities management/geographic information systems (AM/FM/GIS) solutions based, fromMCI Systemhouse Corp., MCI WorldCom's global information technology company, for US$26

million.[37]

On January 24, 2001, Autodesk acquired Gentry Systems, a supplier of specialized software tools andservices in the electric utility industry for an undisclosed amount. The asset were used to strengthen

Autodesk's position in the utility industry.[37]

On September 24, 2001, Autodesk acquired Buzzsaw for $18 million.

On February 21, 2002, Autodesk acquired Revit Technology Corporation a Massachusetts­based

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developer of parametric building technology for building design, construction, and management, for$133 million in cash.

On August 6, 2002, Autodesk acquired CAiCE Software Corporation, a developer of surveying andengineering applications for transportation agencies and consultants, for approximately $10 million incash.

On December 18, 2002, Autodesk acquired the assets of truEInnovations, Inc for an undisclosedamount. The assets were used to create the application Autodesk Vault.

On March 4, 2003, Autodesk acquired Linius Technologies, Inc. and purchased certain assets of athird software company—VIA Development Corporation, for an undisclosed amount.

On February 24, 2004, Autodesk acquired MechSoft, Inc., an Autodesk Inventor(R) CertifiedApplications Program partner and developer of the MechSoft product.

On March 2005, Autodesk acquired the assets of COMPASS systems GmbH for 13 Mio Euro, aEuropean­based developer of the COMPASS family of data management solutions. The assets were

used to strengthen Autodesk's position in the European product data management market.[38]

On January 10, 2006, Autodesk acquired Alias, with its automotive styling and digital content

creation applications such as FBX file format, for $197 million USD.[39]

On August 6, 2007, Autodesk announced the acquisition of Skymatter Inc, developer of Mudbox.[40]

On August 9, 2007, Autodesk Completes Acquisition of NavisWorks Limited for a purchase price of

$26 million, plus a working capital adjustment.[41]

On August 20, 2007, Autodesk announced that it has completed the acquisition of technology and

product assets of Opticore AB, based in Gothenburg, Sweden.[42] Opticore is specialized in real timevisualisation primarily for the carmakers industry.

On August 28, 2007, Autodesk announced the acquisition of California­based PlassoTech, developers

of CAE applications. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.[43]

On November 25, 2007, Autodesk announced the intent to acquire Robobat, a France­baseddeveloper of structural engineering analysis applications. The acquisition was completed on January

15, 2008.[44][45]

On February 12, 2008 Autodesk announces that it has completed the acquisition of the assets of

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Carmel Software Corporation: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=11681717&linkID=14271589

On May 1, 2008, Autodesk announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Moldflow

Corporation, a leading provider of injection molding simulation software.[46]

On May 7, 2008, Autodesk announced that it has completed the acquisition of Kynogon SA, the

privately held maker of Kynapse artificial intelligence middleware.[47] Paris­based Kynogonspecialized in video game middleware and simulation.

The same day, Autodesk also announced the acquisition of REALVIZ S.A.[48] REALVIZ wasfounded in 1998 and is headquartered in Sophia Antipolis, France. REALVIZ's flagship products are"Stitcher" software for the creation of panoramas and 360 degree virtual tours, and "ImageModeler"software to produce 3D models from photographs.

On June 26, 2008, a press release announced the acquisition of Square One Research and its flagship

product, Ecotect.[49]

On October 23, 2008, Autodesk announced the acquisition on Avid's Softimage, Co. business,

developers of 3D application Softimage (formerly Softimage|XSI), for $35 million USD.[50]

On December 17, 2008, Autodesk signed a definitive agreement to acquire ALGOR, Inc. for

approximately $34 million.[51]

On December 2009, Autodesk announced the acquisition of VisualTAO (also known asPlanPlatform), an Israeli start­up that developed a cloud­based Web application, enabling users toview and edit AutoCAD files online. The company also developed a mobile version of theapplication. VisualTAO became part of PSEB, and the product was released during 2010 as

"AutoCAD WS".[52]

On July 21, 2010, Autodesk announced the acquisition of Illuminate Labs, the maker of Beast (aglobal illumination middleware) and Turtle (a global illumination plugin for Maya) used for video

game development.[53]

On February 17, 2011, Autodesk announced the acquisition of Blue Ridge Numerics, Inc., a leading

provider of simulation software, for approximately $39 million in cash.[54]

On March 1, 2011, Autodesk announced the acquisition of Scaleform, a UI middleware for video

games.[55]

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On July 19, 2011, Autodesk announced the acquisition of Pixlr, online photo editing and sharing

service.[56]

On August 1, 2011, Autodesk announced the acquisition of Instructables, a website and platform

where users can share their ideas and collaborate with a variety of do­it­yourself projects.[57]

On August 25, 2011, Autodesk announced the acquisition of Numenus, which optimizes CAD and

construction processes by using NURBS technology.[58]

On November 6, 2011, Autodesk announced the acquisition of Grip Entertainment, which develops

behavior control systems for computer­controlled characters in video games.[59]

On December 16, 2011, Autodesk announced the acquisition of Horizontal Systems, a provider ofcloud­based BIM (Building Information Modeling) collaboration solutions for the AEC (architecture,

engineering and construction) industry.[60]

On October 4, 2012, Autodesk announced the acquisition of Qontext, Inc., an enterprise socialcollaboration platform to accelerate Autodesk’s ongoing move to the cloud and expansion of social

capabilities in the Autodesk 360 cloud­based service.[61]

On March 19, 2013, Autodesk completed the acquisition of Firehole Technologies, a developer of

design and analysis software for composite materials.[62]

On May 18, 2013, TinkerCAD announced it had been bought by Autodesk.[63] TinkerCAD is abrowser­based 3D solid modelling tool for rapid prototyping known for its simple interface and

entry­level ease of use.[64]

On February 6, 2014, Autodesk completed the acquisition of Delcam, a UK based supplier ofadvanced CAD/CAM software for the manufacturing industry, for approximately $286 million, using

non­U.S.­based cash.[65]

On March 19, 2014, Creative Market announced it had been bought by Autodesk.[66] Creative Marketis a platform for handcrafted, mousemade design content from independent creatives around theworld.

Sustainability

Autodesk solutions for Digital Prototyping allow designers, manufacturers and engineers to design moresustainably by reducing the amount of physical prototypes required for a project, or eliminating the need forthem entirely.

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The Building Information Modeling (BIM) capabilities of Autodesk software help the architect, engineeringand construction (AEC) industry create more sustainable buildings and optimize building performance.Autodesk took Graphisoft's ArchiCAD's earlier Virtual Building concept from 1987 and has continued todevelop it as Building Information Modelling since around 2003. Widespread BIM adoption is a morerecent phenomenon.[67]

Autodesk's Simulation CFD includes a range of CFD modeling and thermal modeling tools for architecturaland MEP applications. Common applications for environmental sustainable design include mechanicalventilation, external flow (wind loading), natural ventilation, and occupant comfort. Other energyapplications include analysis for building energy, solar load, advanced energy and heating andcooling.[68][69]

The Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/item?siteID=123112&id=14981616) provides design and engineering software to early­stage clean technologycompanies in North America and Europe, helping to accelerate development of solutions to the world’smost pressing environmental challenges. Each year, Autodesk gives hundreds of clean tech companies$150,000 worth of software to cut start­up costs. For example, Pi Mobility is a clean tech partner ofAutodesk’s. Using digital prototyping software to build the company’s production bicycle, Autodesksoftware realized one of the frame components could be cut by a half­inch, saving Pi Mobility more than$300,000 in production costs.[70]

The Autodesk Sustainability Workshop (http://students.autodesk.com/?nd=sustainable_home) is a free on­line tutorial that covers sustainable design concepts such as light­weighting and whole systems thinking.These videos instruct viewers how to make sustainable design decisions early in the design process. It isaimed at students, “giving them easy access to free digital content that can supplement traditionalengineering education”.[71]

Autodesk introduced C­FACT (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/item?siteID=123112&id=14981941), an open­source, science­driven approach to setting greenhouse gasreduction targets, which calls for greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions to be made in proportion to acompany’s gross domestic product (GDP). Unlike other carbon accounting methods, Autodesk’s C­FACTmeasures carbon dioxide emissions that are proportional to a company’s global GDP contribution.[72]Autodesk will derive its own targets using this approach through 2020.

Through the use of telepresence, Autodesk has reduced its travel by 16 percent in three years as part of itsoverall carbon emissions reduction strategy.[73]

In 2006 Autodesk sponsored a PBS program named e2 Design,[74] which focused on going green in buildingdesigns around the world. Narrated by Brad Pitt, viewers learn about the leaders and technologies drivingsustainable design.

See also

Digital Prototyping

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