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Autodesk is a leading developer of 2D and 3D design software, founded in 1982. It is headquartered in San Rafael, California and known for its flagship AutoCAD software. Autodesk pursues acquisitions to expand its product portfolio, and focuses on design, engineering, manufacturing, and media/entertainment software solutions. Key products include AutoCAD, Maya, 3ds Max, and solutions for architecture, plant design, and digital content creation.

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Presentation Autodesk

Autodesk is a leading developer of 2D and 3D design software, founded in 1982. It is headquartered in San Rafael, California and known for its flagship AutoCAD software. Autodesk pursues acquisitions to expand its product portfolio, and focuses on design, engineering, manufacturing, and media/entertainment software solutions. Key products include AutoCAD, Maya, 3ds Max, and solutions for architecture, plant design, and digital content creation.

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Autodesk, the worlds leading company for developing software and solutions for state of the art high-end

Computer Aided Design and Computer Generated Imagery .

It is an American multinational corporation that focuses on 2D and 3D design software for use in architecture, engineering and building construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment.

Autodesk was founded in 1982 by John Walker, a coauthor of early versions of the company's flagship CAD software product AutoCAD, and twelve others. It is headquartered in San Rafael, California.

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

Over the last few years Autodesk has pursued a strategy of acquisitions such as: -In January 10, 2006, Autodesk acquired Alias, with its automotive styling and digital content creation applications, for $197 million USD.

-On August 6, 2007, Autodesk announced the acquisition of Skymatter Inc, developer of Mudbox. -In October 23, 2008, Autodesk announced the acquisition on Avid's Softimage, Co. business, developers of 3D application Softimage (formerly Softimage|XSI), for $35 million

Products & Solutions -Platform Solutions & Emerging Business (PSEB) The Platform Solutions and Emerging Business division develops and manages the product foundation for most Autodesk offerings across multiple markets, including Autodesk's flagship product, AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, Autodesk's Geospatial solutions (AutoCAD Map3D, AutoCAD MapGuide Enterprise, etc), Plant solutions (AutoCAD P&ID, AutoCAD Plant 3D), Autodesk Impression, Extended Design offerings such as Design Review, Autodesk Content Network

-Manufacturing Autodesk's manufacturing solutions are used in various manufacturing segments, including industrial machinery, electro-mechanical, tool and die, industrial equipment, automotive components, and consumer products. Products include AutoCAD Inventor Suite, AutoCAD Inventor Professional Suite, AutoCAD Mechanical, Autodesk Vault, Alias Product and Moldflow.

-Media & Entertainment Autodesks media and entertainment solutions are designed for digital media creation, management, and delivery across all disciplines, from film and television visual effects, color grading, and editing to animation, game development, and design visualization.

Autodesks Media and Entertainment Division is based in Montreal, Quebec. It was established 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.

The principal product offerings from the Media and Entertainment Division are Maya, Softimage, 3ds max, Inferno, Flame, Discreet Flint, Discreet Smoke, Lustre, ImageModeler and Stitcher. These products have won Academy Awards

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