Here’s a blog post that gives you a sneak peek under the hood. This reflects work with technology that we are developing and using internally.
When you use a computer program, you exercise its User Interface (UI). Prior to the year 2000, making a UI “user-friendly” was all the rage. Now it’s just expected. Another way some people use a computer program is via an Application Program Interface (API). APIs allow one program to talk to another program. When you embed an Excel workbook in a Word document, Excel and Word communicate using Microsoft APIs. APIs are becoming more commonplace as more and more tasks augment human capabilities via automation. In keeping with the times, or perhaps leading the way, Autodesk has Autodesk Forge which is our collection of APIs that we use to develop our own web-based services. We make these services available (as well as documentation/sample code) to customers and 3rd party developers that make up our Forge community.
UIs and APIs aside,…