Michael Beale

Autodesk

Michael Beale is a senior software engineer at Autodesk, where he has been a globe-trotting technical advocate for Autodesk Platform Services (formally Forge). Reach out to him about the Sydney Accelerator. Michael focuses on helping customers bring APS cloud services and data to supercharge the browser. He’s also contributed to Autodesk Homestyler, the Viewer SDK ( Large Model Viewer - LMV), Autodesk Prooflab, Cloud Rendering Service, Stereo-Panorama's with webXR and recently open formats like openAPI spec, LLMS.txt, glTF and OGC formats (i3s and 3D-Tiles).
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Posts by Michael Beale

14 Jul 2025

The Power of BIM & GIS combined: join the Developer Accelerator in collaboration with Esri

Are you ready to fuel your creativity and take your development skills to new heights? Join us for the Esri and Autodesk Platform Services...

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7 Jul 2025

Applying Stable Diffusion to Viewer scenes through Comfy UI: Desktop

Introduction Rendering is a required and sometimes painful part of the process for designers. With a quick search using the words AI and...

Viewer
Tips and Tricks
AI

16 Jun 2025

Unlock AI-Driven Development for APS with LLMS.txt

Exciting News from Autodesk Platform Services (APS)! We’re thrilled to announce that the APS team is working on a llms.txt file to help with...

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Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) APIs

15 May 2025

DevCon Amsterdam: SSA workshops, X-Grids Gaussian Splats Meetup

🔒📡 Splats & SSA Security: Join Me at Autodesk DevCon 2025 I’ll be at Autodesk DevCon in Amsterdam this May, and I’m excited to invite you to...

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Viewer
Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) APIs
AI

13 May 2025

Talk to Your BIM: Exploring the AEC Data Model with MCP Server + Claude

This post is divided into three sections, all centered around using MCP Servers with Claude Desktop. We’ll start with a minimal example...

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AEC Data Model API

16 Apr 2025

Tandem now supports EMEA region

When creating new facility user can decide where data for the facility will be stored – in addition to default location (US) user can now...

Tandem Data API
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10 Apr 2025

ACC Admin API: new API to list all projects for a specified user

We’re excited to announce a new API enhancement that allows you to retrieve all projects associated with a specific user in a more efficient...

Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) APIs
Announcements
SSA

28 Mar 2025

Tandem Data API - Create asset link

We recently added option to locate select an element in the facility using URL. This allows to store reference to an asset in other systems...

Tandem Data API
Code Samples

25 Mar 2025

Introducing Secure Service Accounts (SSA) – Now in Public Beta!

We’re excited to announce the public beta release of the new Secure Service Accounts (SSA) API — a more secure, flexible, and modern way to...

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SSA