Automation API

29 May 2024

The 2025 version of all engines are ready for Automation now!

I am happy to announce that the 2025 version of all engines are onboarded in APS Automation today, including AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor and...

2 Apr 2024

Introducing adskMask: Secure Debugging in Automation

2 Apr 2024

Extract physical information using Automation

If the Model Derivative API does not extract the information you need from the file type you are working with, you might be able to use one...

9 Jan 2024

Workitem Visibility at Your Fingertips: Introducing Two New APS Automation APIs for Effortless Tracking and Status Updates

We are introducing two new APIs for Automation service to improve the bookkeeping of logs and the status of work items. 1. Retrieve work...

5 Dec 2023

Check the version of a Revit file using Automation API

In a previous blog post, we discussed two methods to determine the version of a Revit file in https://aps.autodesk.com/blog/check-version...

10 Aug 2023

Automation: Introducing the New `adskZipMigration` Argument

Here, I would like to speak why we are introducing `adskZipMigration` and what problem this will solve. What is the problem ? The AutoCAD...

8 Aug 2023

New Release of Automation Engine for AutoCAD is Up and Running

In past month, we have released AutoCAD Engine 24.3 aka AutoCAD 2024 on pre-production URL, now we have promoted to the production URL...

14 Mar 2023

Automation: Engine Lifecycle Policy and Removal of Older Engines

Since the introduction of Automation API for AutoCAD in 2014 (FKA, AutoCAD I/O), the idea of batch processing design models by running core...

26 Feb 2023

Update on APS Automation Firewall Rules

Update on APS Automation Firewall Rules Followings IP's to allow behind Firewall, the same is update on APS Doc In order to process...

1 Dec 2022

Support multiple engine versions

There is a detailed answer from Rahul on StackOverflow about this that I wanted to highlight by blogging about it. There is also one thing...

7 Nov 2022

New feature to support Direct-to-S3 migration for input/output files of Automation

If you are working with Automation, and the input/output files are from Autodesk OSS(Object Storage Service) or Autodesk Docs, please READ...

13 Oct 2022

Create a configurator

It's a topic that comes up quite often so we'll provide a high level overview of what's possible using components of Autodesk Platform...

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