By signing up with CADLore.com you become part of our online CAD community where users can interact with each other, share documents and files, participate in link directory exchange, post in our CAD specialized forum, participate in online CAD auctions, etc. Most of our members use software from Autodesk. You can find more detailed information regarding Autodesk in general below: Autodesk, Inc., a Fortune 1000 company, is a software and services company for the manufacturing, infrastructure, building, media and entertainment, and wireless data services fields. Autodesk was founded by John Walker and twelve other co-founders in 1982. Over its history, it has had various locations in Marin County, California, USA. It is currently headquartered in San Rafael, California. Organization Autodesk is divided into four industry-specific business divisions: Manufacturing Solutions (MSD), the Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC), the Media and Entertainment Division (M&E), and Platform Solutions & Emerging Business (PSEB), which includes geospatial and plant solutions, content and search, and extended design as well as Autodesk Labs. Autodesk also has a services group, Autodesk Consulting, and the Location Based Services Division (LBS). Portfolio The Platform Solutions and Emerging Business division develops and manages Autodesk's flagship product, AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, Autodesk's Geospatial solutions, Plant solutions, Extended Design offerings such as Design Review, Content and Search solutions, Autodesk Labs, and worldwide engineering. The Manufacturing Solutions Division develops and manages Autodesk Inventor Series, Autodesk Inventor Professional, AutoCAD Mechanical and Autodesk Vault. The Architecture Engineering and Construction division develops and manages Autodesk AutoCAD Architectural (Old name - Architectural Desktop), Autodesk Building Systems, Autodesk Revit Architectural (Old name - Revit Building), Autodesk Revit Structure, Autodesk Revit Systems, and Autodesk Civil3D. The principal product offerings from the Media and Entertainment Division are Maya, 3ds max, Discreet Inferno, Discreet Flame, Discreet Fire, Discreet Flint, Discreet Smoke, Toxik and Lustre. These Academy Award winning products are covered on a dedicated page for the Media and Entertainment Division. Other products include Autosketch, Autodesk Subscription Program and Autodesk LocationLogic. Discontinued Products From time to time Autodesk discontinues some of the products in their portfolio. Some of Autodesk's "retired" products are listed here: - Volo View was a web-enabled review and markup tool from Autodesk for engineering data, including support for Autodesk’s DWG, DXF, and DWF formats. Volo View enabled design teams to communicate ideas and review designs without access to AutoCAD software. Autodesk discontinued sales of Volo View on May 1, 2005. The latest version of the software, Volo View 3, worked with the following file formats: AutoCAD 2004, DWG and DXF; Design Web Format (DWF 6); Autodesk Inventor 7 IPT, IAM, and IDW and raster files. The functionality of this product is largely replaced by Autodesk Design Review. Autodesk has also released a free product called DWG TrueView. This product enables users to view and 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 designed for cell based animation produced between the early to mid 1990s. At the time Autodesk was also advertising a Autodesk Media product similar in description to Macromedia's Director but this product was never released to the public.
- Cyberspace by Autodesk was an early real time 3d environment capable of producing basic phony shaded walkthroughs of DXF format models in "realtime". No textures were supported, and the system appeared to support a maximum DXF model size of around 35kb. A popular demo model of the Parthenon in Greece was shown around the US in a tour of the portable demo system - complete with virtual reality goggles. on the September 30th, 2004 Autodesk announced that QuickCAD would be discontinued after version 8.
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