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Welcome to our community! Autodesk is committed to participating in the open source community as we accelerate design and make to serve customers today and tomorrow...and that's why we welcome innovators with opportunities to learn, contribute and grow through open collaboration.

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Featured Projects

Media & Entertainment

Maya USD

A common USD (Universal Scene Description) plugin for Autodesk Maya


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Robotics Simulator

Synthesis

Synthesis is a robotics simulator designed to help FIRST Robotics teams design, strategize, test, and practice.


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Reference Renderer

Aurora

A real-time path tracing USD render delegate that leverages GPU hardware ray tracing.


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Visual programming

Dynamo

Dynamo is a visual programming tool that aims to be accessible to both non-programmers and programmers alike. It gives users the ability to visually script behavior, define custom pieces of logic, and script using various textual programming languages.


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ASWF - Open Review Initiative

Open RV

Customizable high-performance image and sequence playback and review tool.


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Geometry plug-in

3dsMax-Explode-Geometry

This is 3ds Max Explode Geometry plug-in. This provide useful functionality to split model into individual faces that include thickness and includes a detailed 3ds Max .NET API sample.


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Autodesk Fusion 360 post editing extension for Visual Studio Code

cam-posteditor

This extension adds several functions that will aid the post-author when working on post development specifically for Fusion 360, Inventor HSM, Inventor HSM Express, HSMWorks, and HSMXpress.


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Scheduled conversions from Revit files to IFC files

Revit to IFC Scheduler

Scheduled conversions from Revit files to IFC files, using the Forge Model Derivative service


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Deployment Pipelines

Shore

Shore enables a developer-centric approach to designing and developing deployment pipelines


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Autodesk Open Source Contributions
MaterialX

MaterialX

MaterialX is an open standard for representing rich material and look-development content in computer graphics, enabling its platform-independent description and exchange across applications and renderers.


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OpenColorIO

OpenColorIO

OpenColorIO (OCIO) is a complete color management solution geared towards motion picture production with an emphasis on visual effects and computer animation.


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Universal Scene Description

Universal Scene Description

Universal Scene Description (USD) is an efficient, scalable system for authoring, reading, and streaming time-sampled scene description for interchange between graphics applications.


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OpenTimelineIO

OpenTimelineIO

OpenTimelineIO is an interchange format and API for editorial cut information. OTIO contains information about the order and length of cuts and references to external media.


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OpenImageIO

OpenImageIO

OpenImageIO (OIIO) is a free, open source library for reading, writing, and processing images in a wide variety of file formats. It is used by many VFX studios and developers of tools such as renderers, compositors, viewers, and other image-related software. 


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OpenVDB

OpenVDB

OpenVDB is an open source C++ library comprising a novel hierarchical data structure and a large suite of tools for the efficient storage and manipulation of sparse volumetric data discretized on three-dimensional grids. It was developed by DreamWorks Animation for use in volumetric applications typically encountered in feature film production.


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Outerbounds

Outerbounds

Metaflow is an open-source framework that was started at Netflix and helps data scientists and ML engineers develop and deliver real-life ML projects. metaflow-ray is an extension for Metaflow that enables seamless integration with Ray, allowing users to easily leverage Ray's powerful distributed computing capabilities within their Metaflow flows.


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CNOE

CNOE

CNOE aims at helping platform engineers build their IDP platforms faster and in a more secure way with best practices built in. The vision of CNOE is to be the goto framework for leading software companies to build their cloud-native internal developer platform


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Backstage

Backstage

Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals and is the foundation for Autodesk's internal developer portal. This use case provides an opportunity to contribute improvements and bug fixes that satisfy internal requirements


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OpenPBR (ASWF)

OpenPBR (ASWF)

OpenPBR, a new subproject of MaterialX. Initially created by Autodesk and Adobe with guidance from the MaterialX Technical Steering Committee, OpenPBR (which stands for Open Physically-Based Rendering) is a new open source shading model that will be the successor to Autodesk Standard Surface and Adobe Standard Material.


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January 7, 2022

Open Source Community Accelerates Innovation for Customers

Raji Arasu

Autodesk CTO

An interview with Raji Arasu, Autodesk's CTO, on her thoughts about open source and how working as a community, we can make big impact for our customers at global scale. 

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January 31, 2024

Autodesk joins W3C, World Wide Web Consortium

Henrik Edstrom

Distinguished Architect

Aliza Carpio

Tech Evangelist


December 5, 2023

From Consumer to Contributor: The Autodesk Developer Enablement Team Focuses on Open Source Contributions in Backstage

Lily Becerra

Senior Engineering Manager

Larry Knott

Senior Principal Engineer

Reyna Nikolayev

Software Development Engineer


August 16, 2023

An Open Source Backstory: Central64

Rhys Goldstein

Senior principal research scientist

Kean Walmsley

Senior manager/software architect


February 5, 2023

Security best practices in open source

Alexis Womble

Cyber Threat Intelligence Engineer


January 6, 2022

Open Source in the Entertainment Industry

Doug Walker

Sr Principal Software Engineer


Lily Becerra

Senior software development manager

Open source encourages transparency, it gives us the opportunity to learn from the different perspectives of the communities and it helps to create a more robust solution for our products. It allows us to collaborate as community and tackle challenges that each of the developers and companies are trying to solve individually.

Stella Kislyuk

Senior software engineering manager, product delivery platform

Open source promotes innovation by allowing developers to build on the success of others, taking innovation further than originally considered or intended.

Sol Amour

Product Manager for Dynamo

Embrace open source because you will get out so much more than what you put in. Collectively, as a community, we will all grow and be better versions of our selves.

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Our Pledge

We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our community a safe, inclusive and harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation. We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive and healthy community.

Our Standards

Our Open Source Community works to:

  • Be kind towards other people which enables us to be empathic to each other
  • Be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
  • Give and gracefully accept constructive feedback
  • Accept responsibility and apologize to those affected by our mistakes, and learning from the experience
  • Focus on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall community
We will not tolerate the following behaviors:
  • Violent threats or language
  • The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind
  • Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
  • Public or private harassment
  • Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission
  • Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

FAQ

We Support and Invest in the Open Source Community

Autodesk is a member and contributor of the following organizations​

The Linux Foundation
ASWF
KHRONOS
3MF Consortium
W3C, World Wide Web Consortium
AOUSD, Alliance for OpenUSD
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