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. 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 the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta. locations are in the states/commonwealths of California, Oregon, Colorado, Texas, Michigan, 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 multinational software corporation that makes software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries.
