# Autodesk Platform Services (slim)

> Autodesk Platform Services (APS, formerly Forge) is Autodesk's cloud API set. Its Automation API runs AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, 3ds Max and Fusion headlessly on design files, beside Model Derivative, Data Management, OSS and Webhooks APIs under OAuth 2.0.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autodesk-platform-services.md (~7,200 tokens) · this version ~1,730 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autodesk-platform-services.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autodesk-platform-services
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-11-04 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autodesk-platform-services#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autodesk-platform-services#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

**E · 44.3/100 · rank #1154 of 1349 · #5 in CAD, engineering & fabrication · not agent-ready · confidence low**


Assessment: OAuth 2.0 with scopes, public OpenAPI specs for six APIs and a status page with APS components make the platform callable by an agent that holds an app's credentials. The Automation API's own docs, quotas, pricing and terms sit on pages our reader could not load, so an agent must plan without published limits or rates.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Autodesk · category: CAD, engineering & fabrication · legal entity: Autodesk, Inc. · provenance 58/100
- Packages: npm `@aps_sdk/model-derivative`, npm `@aps_sdk/data-management`
- Auth: OAuth · pricing: Pay per use · x402: no · licence: unknown
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Surface listed: The Automation API (Design Automation v3) and the APIs around it, read from the aps.autodesk.com product pages, the support page, the aps-sdk-openapi and aps-sdk-node repositories, health.autodesk.com and its history feed on 3 November 2026. The docs under /en/docs rendered as empty shells and www.autodesk.com refused robots.txt, so those pages are unread. No app was created and no call was made
- Where it runs: Autodesk's cloud; the status page lists regional variants for the data APIs (for example Data Management and AEC Data Model by region). The engines run server-side; add-ins are built on the desktop product's SDK
- Automation API engines: AutoCAD (DWG), Inventor (IAM, IPT, IDW), Revit (RVT, RTE, RFA), 3ds Max (MAX files, MAXScript and Python) and Fusion (API scripts, Fusion team data). Example jobs named by Autodesk include title block updates, iLogic rules, BOM export, family creation, drawing generation, bulk migration
- Other APIs: Model Derivative (translation to SVF and SVF2, properties, hierarchy, thumbnails), Data Management (hubs, projects, folders, items, versions), OSS buckets and signed uploads, Webhooks, Construction Cloud account admin and issues
- OpenAPI specs read: datamanagement.yaml 41 operations, oss.yaml 21, secureServiceAccount.yaml 10, webhooks.yaml 12, authentication.yaml 8, modelderivative.yaml 11, construction accountadmin 30 and issues 14, all with descriptions and 2-legged and 3-legged security schemes. Last commit 16 September 2026
- Support: Stack Overflow with the autodesk-platform-services tag, a 30-minute onboarding call booked with the APS business development team, the Autodesk Developer Network for direct engineering support (paid membership), and the Ask the APS Expert call every other Wednesday
- Legal entity: Autodesk, Inc., Nasdaq ADSK. The APS terms of service are on www.autodesk.com, which was not read

- Scores: Reliability 52, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 59, Agent ergonomics 52, Security & auth 47, Payments & pricing 0, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 53, Transparency & trust 34 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Read with the hosted lines. · Schema & documentation, OpenAPI 3.0 specs for Authentication v2, Data Management, Model Derivative v2, OSS, Webhooks, Secure Service Accounts and Construction are p… · Agent ergonomics, Data Management lists support filter and page parameters and Model Derivative returns per-object properties, so responses can be narrowed on… · Security & auth, OAuth 2.0 with client credentials and authorisation code flows and named scopes (data:read, data:write, data:create, bucket scopes, code:all… · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 in the specs or pages read (0). · Maintenance & community, Read for a closed service with open SDK sources. · Transparency & trust, Closed service.
- Sources: 17, open questions: 7, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: cad.generate, cad.edit, cad.export
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/autodesk-platform-services.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/autodesk-platform-services.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autodesk-platform-services from a page on aps.autodesk.com or one of its subdomains, or the README at the root of github.com/autodesk-platform-services/aps-sdk-openapi, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.
- Support: https://aps.autodesk.com/en/support/get-help; https://aps.autodesk.com/adn; more in the full twin

## Before you call it

1. Expect to hold an APS app's client id and secret, mint a two-legged token with the scopes the call needs, and refresh it; a person creates the app in the developer portal
2. For the Automation API, the AppBundle (compiled add-in or script), Activity and WorkItem must exist before a job runs; the engine runs the add-in, so geometry edits are written in the desktop product's API, not in a request body
3. Back off exponentially on 429, as the OSS spec asks, since no numeric limits were readable; check health.autodesk.com for the Automation API component before retrying failures
4. Do not assume a price per job or translation; have the owner read the pricing page, which our reader could not
5. Use data:read and read-only scopes for inspection tasks and ask the owner before data:write or bucket:delete, since no confirmation step is documented

## Connect

```bash
curl -X POST https://developer.api.autodesk.com/authentication/v2/token -H "Authorization: Basic $(printf '%s:%s' "$APS_CLIENT_ID" "$APS_CLIENT_SECRET" | base64)" -d 'grant_type=client_credentials&scope=data:read'
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/autodesk-platform-services

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