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Media & Entertainment
Maya USD
A common USD (Universal Scene Description) plugin for Autodesk Maya
Robotics Simulator
Synthesis
Synthesis is a robotics simulator designed to help FIRST Robotics teams design, strategize, test, and practice.
Reference Renderer
Aurora
A real-time path tracing USD render delegate that leverages GPU hardware ray tracing.
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.
ASWF - Open Review Initiative
Open RV
Customizable high-performance image and sequence playback and review tool.
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.
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.
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
Deployment Pipelines
Shore
Shore enables a developer-centric approach to designing and developing deployment pipelines
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.
OpenColorIO
OpenColorIO (OCIO) is a complete color management solution geared towards motion picture production with an emphasis on visual effects and computer animation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
October 3, 2023
Cloud Native Operational Excellence (CNOE): A Joint Effort to Share Internal Developer Platform Tools and Best Practices
Brandon Leach
Senior Director, Systems Design/Architecture
September 22, 2023
Autodesk and Outerbounds Partner to Open Source Ray and HPC Integration in Metaflow
Riley Hun
Senior ML Platform Engineer
August 16, 2023
An Open Source Backstory: Central64
Rhys Goldstein
Senior principal research scientist
Kean Walmsley
Senior manager/software architect
April 4, 2023
A Maintainer’s Point of View: How Effective Communication and Contributing Beyond the Code Fosters Community
Dylan Page
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
February 5, 2023
Security best practices in open source
Alexis Womble
Cyber Threat Intelligence 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.
Code of Conduct
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.
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