The company makes educational versions of its software available at no cost to qualified students and faculty through the Autodesk Education Community, and also as a donation to eligible nonprofits through TechSoup Global. Īutodesk became best known for AutoCAD, but now develops a broad range of software for design, engineering, and entertainment-and a line of software for consumers, including Sketchbook. Autodesk software has been used in many fields, and on projects from the One World Trade Center to Tesla electric cars. AutoCAD, which is the company's flagship computer-aided design (CAD) software and Revit software are primarily used by architects, engineers, and structural designers to design, draft, and model buildings and other structures. The company was founded in 1982 by John Walker, who was a coauthor of the first versions of AutoCAD. Its Canada offices are located in Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta. locations are Northern California, Oregon, Colorado, Texas, Michigan, New England, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Autodesk is headquartered in San Rafael, California, and features a gallery of its customers' work in its San Francisco building. is an American multinationalsoftware corporation that makes software services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries.
