Create a New Company
The BIM 360 API allows developers to create and add companies to the master company directory in BIM 360. Once added, these companies will be available for all BIM 360 projects and services. You need to specify the company information in the form of “company” attribute when adding a Project Admin to a project while Activating a Service. This tutorial explains how to create a new company in BIM 360 company directory.
Before You Begin
Make sure that you have registered an app. and successfully acquired an OAuth token with the account:write
scope.
Make sure that you have access to the BIM 360 account that you want to create the company in and have acquired the account_id
. In order to access a specific BIM 360 account, you need to have completed the steps detailed in the Get Access to an Account tutorial.
Step 1: Create a New Company
The BIM 360 API exposes a POST companies endpoint that allows creation of a new company and populating company profile information.
Example Request
curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer AuIPTf4KYLTYGVnOHQ0cuolwCW2a" -H "Content-Type: application/json" "https://developer.api.autodesk.com/hq/v1/accounts/80793a28-f9b1-4888-9533-5f00cddcd6fb/companies" -d '
{
"name": "Jaguars",
"trade": "Concrete",
"address_line_1": "The Fifth Avenue",
"address_line_2": "#303",
"city": "New York",
"postal_code": "10011",
"state_or_province": "New York",
"country": "United States",
"phone": "(634)329-2353",
"website_url": "http://www.autodesk.com"
"description":"Jaguars is the world\"s largest concrete company."
"erp_id":"c79bf096-5a3e-41a4-aaf8-a771ed329047",
"tax_id":"413-07-5767"
}'