This is a more detailed rework of a previous blog post.
“Feel the heat pushing you to decide
Feel the heat burning you up, ready or not
Some like it hot, and some sweat when the heat is on…
Some like it hot, so let’s turn up the heat ’til we fry”
— “Some Like It Hot,” Power Station, Power Station, 1985.
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. 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 uses those APIs. Although Forge is intended for our customers and 3rd party developers to be able to extend our web services, we use Forge for our development of the cloud-based services that we offer. You can leverage Forge in the same ways that we do.
Forge is…