What’s New for Structures in AEC Collection 2023

Pawel Piechnik Pawel Piechnik April 11, 2022

28 min read

We’re pleased to share this holistic overview of new features, workflows and benefits for structural professionals in the new 2023 releases of Autodesk® Revit®, Robot Structural Analysis Professional® and Advance Steel®, all available in the AEC Collection.

As the industry moves from CAD to BIM, structural professionals have the opportunity to capitalize on more effective project delivery workflows, to increase their productivity, and to reduce rework, waste and cost. In response, we at Autodesk are prioritizing workflows and capabilities that prepare structural professionals both for the challenges of today and the buildings of tomorrow. With that in mind, we are pleased to introduce What’s New for Structures. In this article, you can find four themed groupings for presenting new features and enhancements: 

Before a comprehensive review of the new features, here are what we view as the highlights: 

Remember to join us for an Ask Me Anything session with AEC product managers to learn more about what’s on the roadmap for structures. With that, let’s dig into what’s new!

Structural Modeling and Documentation 

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For Revit 2023, there are several improvements that improve structural workflows and deliverables.  

Tag All Displaced Elements in 3D Views ★ 

A much sought after Revit Idea available in Revit 2023 is the ability to tag all displaced elements in 3D views. Once the view is locked, accurate fabrication and installation instructions can be created, by showing the different components in slight offset from each other, similar to furniture assembly guides. 

Displace Elements in 2D Views ★ 

Structural engineers, technicians, and detailers all need to make their drawings easy to interpret by anyone, whether by a worker in a precast factory, a steel mill, or a construction site. To aid document clarity, you can now displace any element in 2D views,. slightly shifting the representation of structural elements for tagging and to provide more precise assembly instructions in drawing sets. 

Multi-Leader Tag Leader Enhancements​ 

Following the Revit 2022 release, we made multi-leader tags more versatile and easier to customize. Elements that need to be tagged can be selected using multi-selection, either using the Tab key or the window selection. The leaders can now be easily merged and there are several new options controlling their visibility. All of these enhancements speed up the creation of structural plans.  

Revit Performance improvements 

Overall performance of navigation in all views has been improved and our benchmark tests report  an average improvement of 35% for more than 100 affected test cases. 

Moreover, as you will read later in this post, Analytical Model in Revit is now created on demand when needed which significantly increases performance for Structural Models:  

Overall, Revit is now much better at handling very large structural models with less negative impact on overall performance across model LODs.  


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Rebar Detailing 

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Rebar detailing has been one of our focus areas for the past couple of releases, as we strive to equip the structural concrete community with a highly productive and innovative BIM platform. On one hand, we must deliver on the industry’s expectations today around productivity, while responding to our customer’s more visionary goals to go fully paperless. To that end, this new round of enhancements in Revit 2023 offers more built-in intelligence in rebar placement and propagation, reducing tedium and rework today, while pointing the way to more model-driven automation in the future.  

Adaptive Rebar Propagation 

Revit 2023 introduces adaptive propagation features for rebar to increase your productivity in detailing concrete structures. 

When you are working on a design that has similar concrete elements, you can quickly and accurately copy shape driven rebar from one concrete host to another. These concrete host elements need not to be identical for the newly created bars to match their new host. That’s the power of adaptive propagation. 

To use this feature, simply select a concrete element that hosts rebar and click the Propagate Rebar command. Next, choose the alignment method—by host or by face. 

Moreover, you can copy individual bars by making a rebar selection. Simply select one or more rebars in a host and propagate them aligned to a face in the same host or in a similar concrete element. For example, you can view the bars that reinforce a cast-in-place concrete stair, aligned with every tread. 

Adaptive Free Form Rebar Propagation 

When modeling complex structures such as civil infrastructure or curved buildings, you might use free form rebars instead of shape driven rebars. You can place free form rebars in virtually any concrete host. The new adaptive propagation features work for free form rebars, too. Free form rebars can be propagated in a similar fashion to shape driven rebars. 

The new adaptive propagation for rebar will help you do faster and easier modeling, increasing your productivity in detailing concrete structures, regardless of their nature, cast-in-place or precast. And it will help you to save time when generating bills of materials, which can be especially important when tendering for a new project. 

Revit 2023: Adaptive propagation for rebar

Displaced Rebar Representation ★ 

Shop drawings are used by rebar detailers to clearly communicate their design intent and fabrication instructions to fabricators and contractors.  

Revit 2023 offers you the ability to displace rebar elements. This means that you can offset bars slightly from their actual positions in concrete shop drawing views to help collaborators see these elements more clearly and understand your design intent more easily. It also enables an easier verification of a reinforcement drawing, as it’s easier to spot inconsistencies between the design specifications and the actual model. 

When rebars are displaced in a view, their positions are changed in that view only. The displaced bars may still be tagged as usual. 

This new feature streamlines coordination between designers and fabricators by improving the clarity of shop drawings in Revit. 

Revit 2023: Displaced rebar representation

Multi-Leader Tags for Rebar ★ 

Still referring to rebar documentation, you will also be able to use multi-leader tags to annotate rebar sets or just selected bars from different sets. This offers a simple way to create less cluttered drawings, while respecting a common detailing practice. 

All the platform improvements for multi-leader tags are applicable for rebar, so you can easily tag bars using multi-selection, you can show just some leaders (e.g. tagging every other bar) or adjusting all leaders at once. 

Revit 2023: Multi-leader tag enhancements

Filter Rebar by Sheet in Bending Schedules 

In Revit 2023 you can include in your schedules only elements visible on the same sheet, without needing to create additional filters by type, category etc. This is helping rebar documentation, too, by enabling the creation of bar bending schedules placed on a sheet that refer only to the bars included in the Revit sheet viewports. 

You can create a reinforcement drawing for a column or a beam and quickly filter just the relevant bars in its schedule 

Improved Performance of Rebar in the Cloud 

Starting with Revit 2023, cloud collaboration for rebar models becomes much smoother, thanks to a significant code refactoring. We made model navigation faster in all applications relying on the Forge viewer, like Autodesk Docs and BIM Collaborate. New model versions are also uploaded significantly quicker, due to reduced size of the package of data sent from Revit to our cloud platform. 

To be more specific, for one of our sample models containing 4903 bars, the processing of a new model version in the cloud can be approximately 5.8 times faster, and the view showing all the bars as solids opens approximately 62 times faster. 

Effective Solid Visualization of Rebar in 3D Views 

The code refactoring previously mentioned also allowed us to implement the ability to see all rebar as solids by default in 3D fine detail views. This makes rebar modelling with clash prevention easier, as you will see  the rebar in the surrounding context. For the situations where bars are very cluttered, you can always go one step forward in terms of precision and model the bars using the real bar diameter

Revit 2023: Effective solid rebar visualization in 3D views

Show Rebar as Solids in 3D Views of Linked Models ★ 

When structural engineers or BIM coordinators want to review or coordinate their model with a linked model containing the reinforcement, Revit 2023 comes with the ability to show those bars as solids in 3D views.  

It’s also much easier to model other elements while avoiding clashes with rebar. A typical example is when column base plates need to have their anchoring bolts placed so that they don’t interfere with the existing reinforcement from the foundations. 

Align Couplers to Create Post-Tensioning Anchors 

For projects relying on post-tensioned concrete, you will be able to use rebar couplers in a more precise way, when they need to replicate anchoring devices for the tendons, as they have a rotation parameter.  

By default, for shape driven bars, the couplers are now aligned to the end of the bar. For free form rebar, the default position of the coupler is parallel to the host surface. You can fine tune their orientation by adjusting their rotation angle, to mitigate any clashes with other bars or nearby embedded elements. 

Reinforced Concrete Non-Bearing Partition Walls 

There are cases when partition walls are made of reinforced concrete, either cast-in-place or precast. They don’t play a structural role, so when exporting the model to IFC, this information must be accurately transmitted. That is why Revit 2023 lets you define structural concrete walls with a non-bearing structural usage. 

This helps contractors build these walls according to the design intent, a bit shorter than the clear level height, to avoid them becoming supports for the slab. 

Rebar Cover in Schedules & Tags 

To create more comprehensive design documentation, you can now show the rebar cover in schedules or in tags. This enables a more precise quality check process, important for both structural engineers and rebar detailers, who need to easily check that the bars respect the required concrete covers. You may find this particularly useful when the structure faces some special conditions, like corrosion induced by chlorides or by sea water, so the covers are a very important check point fore durability. 

British Rebar Shapes Update 

For our community following the British standards, we have updated our rebar shape library based on the latest edition of BS 8666 from 2020. These new families help detailers create precise fabrication instructions following the current industry specifications. 

Structural Analysis and Design

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As more and more structural engineers connect to and embrace BIM workflows, Analytical Collaboration in BIM has become an important  industry demand driving  new users requirements for analytical modeling productivity and model coordination.  Not only should BIM foster engineering productivity and more freedom and flexibility in capturing design decisions in the model, it should also help engineers work with broader design teams in a modern and effective manner.  

For many years now, Autodesk Revit has offered features for structural analytical modeling. However, structural engineers are looking for more flexibility and control over their analytical modeling, particularly for complex structures, and therefore enabling fully bidirectional workflows between Revit and Analysis software. To that end, Revit 2023 introduces a completely new approach to structural analytical modeling.  

We are reimagining Analytical Modeling within Revit so that it provides the following benefits: 

Structural Analytical Modeling in Physical BIM Model Context ★ 

You can leverage existing physical geometry in 2D and 3D views as context for your analytical model. The analytical model remains associated but independent, providing you with the benefits of speed and accuracy in model creation while protecting the analytical model from unexpected changes.  

Structural engineers can now create a model with analytical members and panels in the context of the physical model , and then decide what the physical-analytical relation should be as they go, element by element, with a view to the representation of the analytical model to the entirety of the building.  

Modeling Versatility for Diverse Project Types ★  

This new approach to structural analytical modeling enables you to create representations for any type of structure—buildings, frames, pavilions, bridges, stairs and more. You can create consistent analytical models that align with your preferred engineering approach.  

With the modeling autonomy enabled by Member and Panel objects, the analytical model can represent objects of structural categories but also generic objects, roofing structures, compound geometries, etc. 

Accuracy of Analytical Modeling Automation 

Revit 2023 also introduces new, rules based Structural Analytical Model Automation. The new solution ensures that automatically created model should always be consistent and connected, eliminating the need for tedious corrections and rework.  

Extended Scope of the Automation 

This feature offers many options for customization, including analytical adjustments prioritization per structural category and connectivity tolerances. It also creates associations between analytical and physical objects, which aids the assessment of model quality and completeness.  

Customizable Automation Rules  

The automation logic can be customized to specific project types, whether those are buildings, pre-engineered metal building, roofing structures, bridges, etc.  Optionally, those who are skilled to use computational automation techniques can open up the automation logic and edit it in the convenient visual scripting environment of Dynamo. 

Analytical Model Connectivity Inspection 

The recognition of analytical nodes status has been significantly improved and helps better determine analytical model quality. 

Physical & Analytical Consistency Inspection 

As far as the BIM model quality is considered, we can now control how analytical objects are associated to physical counterparts if needed. This helps track whether e.g.: load-bearing and other model elements are respectively represented or not by analytical objects, for example. 

Controlling Physical and Analytical Model changes ★ 

A new approach now is proposed to handle model changes. Just like for Architectural and Structural physical models, it is the model owner who decides whether analytical objects should follow the physical changes or not, and vice versa. The analytical model is subject to expected and authorized selective changes, or subject to more automated updates through the workflow automation explained earlier. 

BIM Coordination & Worksharing 

Speaking of model coordination, autonomous, analytical objects are now available to Autodesk Cloud Worksharing in Autodesk Docs and the Autodesk Construction Cloud, and can also be modeled or referenced from linked project files. 

Multiple Analytical Models 

You can set up structural analysis jobs from Revit models with analytical geometrical consistency. You can even create multiple analytical models linked to a single physical representation, enabling you to consider various analysis approaches simultaneously. Maintain analytical models for different analysis runs to compare results, and create Analytical Models supporting different analysis types or tools 

When modeling analytical elements, you can now assign their Structural Role, Type and (profile) Shape, define their Cross-Section Rotation, and specify how these elements should be analyzed.   

Bidirectional Interoperability with Analysis Software 

Now, with the unleashed versatility for analytical model geometries in Revit, principles of truly bidirectional workflows with analysis software are enabled as Revit eliminates its own modeling limitations and can capture geometrical edits made in analysis software. The Robot Structural Analysis and Revit interoperability is therefore updated. 

Analysis-first Modeling ★ 

Probably the most revolutionary capability in this area is how we can start modeling with analytical intent first. As, the analytical model is now completely autonomous, it allows you to initiate structural analysis workflows from Revit with focus on the analytical model itself. This means you can now develop your analytical models in a fully independent process.  For example, if you start a new model from scratch, you can focus exclusively on the structural analysis aspects.  

Start modeling with an analytical geometry first and simply follow up later with its physical counterpart during modeling for construction, documentation, and detailing phases. This workflow is especially well suited and applicable for  projects and structures where engineering requirements dictate the design. 

Parametric Analytical Modeling 

Analytical elements are parametric and associated with grids and levels, enabling you to control analytical model positioning using these datums and others. You can also Control Analytical Layouts Through Global Parameters, Combine Analytical Objects with Groups, Define Analytical Objects Dependencies Through Parameters (Constraints, Shared Parameters, Global Parameters, etc.) 

More Analytical Model Data to Document 

This update follows a key Revit value: clear design to documentation between model objects and drawings and schedules. With autonomous analytical objects, new documentation capabilities stand out, for example: analytical openings in schedules, associated to analytical objects grids and levels marks, Document analytical-physical Association, early-stage Bill-Of-Materials based on Analytical Model Data, etc.  
Revit 2023: New workflow for structural analysis

So, what are the impacts of this new analytical modeling workflow to pre-existing workflows with Revit, Robot and other analysis tools? The answer is: more flexibility in the selection of tools you use for analytical modeling. Depending on your project type, whether you’re working as part of a BIM team or in a typical CAD manner, reimagined analytical modeling in Revit 2023 makes it now possible to interchangeably use or Robot (and other analysis tools connected to Revit), or Revit to create  the analytical model so that it could be put to use for analysis, design, and coordination.  

Using Revit for all modeling helps keep the analytical data as part of the work-sharing and common data environments. It makes it easier as well to use analysis and design outputs to annotate engineering documentation and to hand-over final design intent as input data for further phases of the process, especially detailing (e.g. rebar or steel connections) that take place Revit. 

Gravity Analysis with Load Takedown method 

Analysis solvers are essential enablers for the overall Analysis & Design process. Robot Structural Analysis Professional has been renowned for its versatility and performance for meshing and analysis and we have now added a new analysis capability that is mostly oriented on fast, yet informative analysis in early design stages and where gravity loads are essential for building design decisions. 

The three primary objectives for this new capability are to enable engineers to: 

Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2023: Gravity analysis with Load Takedown Method

Support for Country Specific Workflow and Regulations has been added as follows: 

Robot Structural Analysis 2023 will include new or updated design codes or other country-specific content and documentation.  

See details below grouped by country: 

Brazil: 

Canada: 

Denmark: 

Finland: 

France: 

Portugal: 

Spanish speaking countries: 

US: 

In the area of productivity enhancements for Robot Structural Analysis 2023 we are capturing and responding to users’ feedback related to overall productivity and ease of use for Robot:  

Automatic Groups Creation from DWG/DXF Layers 

When you import DXF or DWG files with elements assigned to layers then groups are created in Robot Structural Analysis model for each layer and members are automatically assign to groups based on layer assignment. 

This enhancement allows for easier navigation and selection of elements in Robot Structural Analysis. 

Loads on Cladding Quality Enhancements 

Ability to Display Displacement Individually for XYZ Directions  

 To help users better understand and measure displacement impact in the context of a given coordinate system’s axes, we enabled assessment of structural behavior in terms of displacements in separate directions or the total value.   

You can display displacement values in a selected global direction X, Y, Z, or the total value U.  Go to the Parameters tab, turn on Diagram Description in the form of labels or text and choose Nodal displacement direction to be displayed. 

Usability improvements for Results exploration and diagrams/maps display in the areas of: 

Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2023: Results exploration enhancements

Robot – Revit Interoperability  

As Revit can be now central to physical and analytical model coordination and its analytical model geometry can be accurate and fully versatile, the nature of the Revit-Robot interoperability is adjusting. A truly bidirectional geometrical exchange is focused on the analytical model and its material and sectional properties. 

Robot – InfraWorks Interoperability  

For structural engineers working on bridge projects, refined bridge analysis models can now be extracted from the parametric physical bridge model in InfraWorks and opened directly in Robot. These refined bridge analysis models can be specified to be in the form of grillage, offset girder or full shell element models. Read more about structural bridge design enhancements in InfraWorks here.

Steel Design Modeling and Detailing 

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Library-Based Connections Design Automation 

Revit 2023 offers a brand-new workflow dedicated to steel connections modeling automation from libraries. It isan easy to use tool for structural engineers who want to quickly and accurately convert an LOD300 steel model to an LOD 350 or LOD400 state. It sums up several new enhancements, as well as some previously released capabilities, all in the spirit of empowering you to integrate and blend your design intent criteria and the fabrication specifications into the model and into the libraries that feed this automated process. This helps reduce iterations with other project stakeholders.  

All the rules are customizable, to accommodate the bespoke nature of your engineering office’s workflows. Thus, you can estimate earlier and more accurately the cost and the constructability of steel buildings. 

Revit 2023: Library-based connections design automation – YouTube 

Steel Connections Library Content 

To help our engineering community get onboarded with the new automation workflow, Revit 2023 also delivers sample libraries of connections based on three of the most used catalogues of connections, namely: 

Starting with these pre-defined connections, you can try the newly proposed automation as soon as you install Revit 2023 and then further expand or customize them based on your needs. 

AISC Shape Type Tables Updated to 15th Edition 

Revit 2023 includes the updated US steel profile families, based on the AISC Steel Construction Manual 15th Edition. You can use them to create main structural elements, like beams and columns, and to define steel connections that contain such profiles, like clip angles. 

Engineers and detailers creating more detailed models in Revit can leverage them downstream to deliver fabrication deliverables with the powerful capabilities of Advance Steel, which we want to talk about next. 

Advance Steel 2023 introduces several new features to improve structural detailing and document production workflows.  Let’s review the highlights: 

Grid Display Enhancements in Model Views  

In Advance Steel 2023, grids can be made visible in a model view even when the grids are not actually enclosed in it.  

Navigate to the model grid properties and enable the Project grid vertically for GA and Camera drawings option on the Drawing tab.  You will then see grids on the horizontal plane of the model view. 

Advance Steel 2023: Grid display enhancements

Search Queries for Camera Object Selection ★ 

Advance Steel offers a Camera feature that enables you to isolate objects within a specified bounding box and automatically generate views corresponding to these cameras on your 2D drawings. 

In Advance Steel 2023, the new “Search Query” option enables you to quickly select objects for inclusion in your camera views using one or more predefined queries from the Project Explorer. 

This enhancement makes it easier and faster to create 2D camera views from your 3D model in Advance Steel. 

Advance Steel 2023: Search queries for camera object selection

Independent Grips for Camera Viewport ★ 

In previous releases of Advance Steel, a camera’s XY viewport could be resized using grips.  However, these adjustments were symmetric; if you stretched the right side of the viewport, for example, the left side would move an equal distance. 

Advance Steel 2023 allows the grips to function independently.  This means that a user may adjust each side of a camera’s viewport without affecting the other. 

This enhancement offers users better control when modifying the size of a camera’s XY viewport in Advance Steel. 

Advance Steel 2023: Independent grips for camera viewports

Create Beams from Single Segment Polylines 

In Advance Steel, creating a beam is as simple as drawing a line in AutoCAD.  You can also convert existing AutoCAD entities such as lines, arcs, polylines and splines to intelligent Advance Steel objects, enabling additional capabilities. 

With Advance Steel 2023, single segment polylines may now be automatically converted to single straight or curved beams. 

Dedicated drawing templates for single beams may then be used with these objects to quickly create accurate, easy-to-understand shop drawings. 

Advance Steel 2023: Create beams from single segment polylines

Modeless Document Manager ★ 

The Document Manager—the main interface for accessing and controlling the documents you create from your model—adopts a “modeless” behavior, meaning that it remains open onscreen and available for use at any time during an Advance Steel session. 

For example, while editing a drawing, you can now open a different drawing or review information about other documents already created, while Document Manager remains open. This enhancement to the Document Manager will improve your user experience by reducing the time spent navigating between models and documentation in Advance Steel

Advance Steel 2023: Modeless document manager

Grid Display Enhancements on Drawings  

You can also control the display of grids on your drawings when you use camera views generated from your model views. 

Grids that have the “Project grid vertically for model views and drawings” option checked can be detailed on general arrangement drawings—even when the grids are not included in the viewport.  

The resulting drawings will display grids in plan and elevation views, regardless of whether the horizontal grids are within the depth of the model view, helping to improve the quality of your drawings. 

Bolt Leader Label Enhancement ★ 

Past releases of Advance Steel have offered flexible labeling for holes.  Now, that same flexibility extends to bolt labels. 

If you move a label around a group of bolts, the arrow of the label leader line automatically jumps to the closest labeled bolt—creating a shorter leader line and making the drawing more readable. 

In addition, the arrowhead of the label leader line now remains outside of the bolt, improving drawing clarity. 

These enhancements will help you produce better documentation for bolts in Advance Steel. 

Advance Steel 2023: Bolt label leader enhancement

Support for AutoCAD Graphics System Fabric (GSF) 

Introduced in AutoCAD 2022, Graphics System Fabric (GSF) is a cross platform 3D graphics system designed to harness the power of modern GPUs and multi-core CPUs. 

Advance Steel 2023 adds support for GSF, thus enabling a smoother navigation experience with much larger 3D models. 

This functionality is enabled by default for the Shaded and Shaded with Edges visual styles. 

The addition of GSF support to Advance Steel 2023 will offer users better visual performance when navigating large, complex projects. 

AISC Shape Type Tables Updated to 15th Edition 

Advance Steel 2023 contains updated steel profiles in accordance with the 15th edition of the AISC shapes database.  

Connection defaults used in parametric steel connections have been updated accordingly. 

The mapping tables have also been updated to provide a smoother experience when transferring a model between Advance Steel 2023 and Revit 2023 using the Advance Steel Extension for Revit 2023. 

Improvements to Drawing Styles for DACH 

The drawing styles and drawing processes have been enhanced so that automatic dimensions, labels and object representations on drawings more closely match the standards typically used across the DACH market. 

Advance Steel 2023 also includes new and enhanced BOM templates, making it easier to create bills-of-materials from your 3D models. 

These enhancements will help reduce cleanup efforts and improve ease of use for Advance Steel users in the DACH region. 

Advance Steel 2023: Improvements to drawing styles for DACH 

Quality improvements 

Last, but not least: there is more that has been updated in the software based on the problem reports you sent us. Please see the full list of fixes, and release notes for Revit, Robot Structural Analysis, Advance Steel 

Partner ecosystem 

While acknowledging the existing and the currently added value to structural workflows and products of the AEC Collection, please also mind the whole ecosystem that has been built around it. 

Regional or domain-specific technology experts are enriching BIM centric workflows with technologies built on the products of Autodesk. Those tools and added capabilities add more structural productivity, region or country-specific features that contribute to the overall solution and make it tailored to specific workflows where needed. 

The technology partners we are working closely with are important contributors to the maturity of the AEC Collection workflows for Structures. Many can be found via the AEC Partner page

Staying Connected 

For everything we have released and for what we plan to do next, we would like to encourage you – as the user community – to stay informed, connected and share your feedback through: 


More on Autodesk’s 2023 AEC releases:

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We use Wistia to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, and your Autodesk ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. Wistia Privacy Policy
Tealium
We use Tealium to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. Tealium Privacy Policy
Upsellit
We use Upsellit to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. Upsellit Privacy Policy
CJ Affiliates
We use CJ Affiliates to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. CJ Affiliates Privacy Policy
Commission Factory
We use Commission Factory to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. Commission Factory Privacy Policy
Google Analytics (Strictly Necessary)
We use Google Analytics (Strictly Necessary) to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, and your Autodesk ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. Google Analytics (Strictly Necessary) Privacy Policy
Typepad Stats
We use Typepad Stats to collect data about your behaviour on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our platform to provide the most relevant content. This allows us to enhance your overall user experience. Typepad Stats Privacy Policy
Geo Targetly
We use Geo Targetly to direct website visitors to the most appropriate web page and/or serve tailored content based on their location. Geo Targetly uses the IP address of a website visitor to determine the approximate location of the visitor’s device. This helps ensure that the visitor views content in their (most likely) local language.Geo Targetly Privacy Policy
SpeedCurve
We use SpeedCurve to monitor and measure the performance of your website experience by measuring web page load times as well as the responsiveness of subsequent elements such as images, scripts, and text.SpeedCurve Privacy Policy
Qualified
Qualified is the Autodesk Live Chat agent platform. This platform provides services to allow our customers to communicate in real-time with Autodesk support. We may collect unique ID for specific browser sessions during a chat. Qualified Privacy Policy

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Google Optimize
We use Google Optimize to test new features on our sites and customize your experience of these features. To do this, we collect behavioral data while you’re on our sites. This data may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, your Autodesk ID, and others. You may experience a different version of our sites based on feature testing, or view personalized content based on your visitor attributes. Google Optimize Privacy Policy
ClickTale
We use ClickTale to better understand where you may encounter difficulties with our sites. We use session recording to help us see how you interact with our sites, including any elements on our pages. Your Personally Identifiable Information is masked and is not collected. ClickTale Privacy Policy
OneSignal
We use OneSignal to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by OneSignal. Ads are based on both OneSignal data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that OneSignal has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to OneSignal to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. OneSignal Privacy Policy
Optimizely
We use Optimizely to test new features on our sites and customize your experience of these features. To do this, we collect behavioral data while you’re on our sites. This data may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, your Autodesk ID, and others. You may experience a different version of our sites based on feature testing, or view personalized content based on your visitor attributes. Optimizely Privacy Policy
Amplitude
We use Amplitude to test new features on our sites and customize your experience of these features. To do this, we collect behavioral data while you’re on our sites. This data may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, your Autodesk ID, and others. You may experience a different version of our sites based on feature testing, or view personalized content based on your visitor attributes. Amplitude Privacy Policy
Snowplow
We use Snowplow to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, and your Autodesk ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. Snowplow Privacy Policy
UserVoice
We use UserVoice to collect data about your behaviour on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our platform to provide the most relevant content. This allows us to enhance your overall user experience. UserVoice Privacy Policy
Clearbit
Clearbit allows real-time data enrichment to provide a personalized and relevant experience to our customers. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID.Clearbit Privacy Policy
YouTube
YouTube is a video sharing platform which allows users to view and share embedded videos on our websites. YouTube provides viewership metrics on video performance. YouTube Privacy Policy

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Adobe Analytics
We use Adobe Analytics to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, and your Autodesk ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. Adobe Analytics Privacy Policy
Google Analytics (Web Analytics)
We use Google Analytics (Web Analytics) to collect data about your behavior on our sites. This may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. We use this data to measure our site performance and evaluate the ease of your online experience, so we can enhance our features. We also use advanced analytics methods to optimize your experience with email, customer support, and sales. Google Analytics (Web Analytics) Privacy Policy
AdWords
We use AdWords to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by AdWords. Ads are based on both AdWords data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that AdWords has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to AdWords to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. AdWords Privacy Policy
Marketo
We use Marketo to send you more timely and relevant email content. To do this, we collect data about your online behavior and your interaction with the emails we send. Data collected may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, email open rates, links clicked, and others. We may combine this data with data collected from other sources to offer you improved sales or customer service experiences, as well as more relevant content based on advanced analytics processing. Marketo Privacy Policy
Doubleclick
We use Doubleclick to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Doubleclick. Ads are based on both Doubleclick data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Doubleclick has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Doubleclick to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Doubleclick Privacy Policy
HubSpot
We use HubSpot to send you more timely and relevant email content. To do this, we collect data about your online behavior and your interaction with the emails we send. Data collected may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, email open rates, links clicked, and others. HubSpot Privacy Policy
Twitter
We use Twitter to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Twitter. Ads are based on both Twitter data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Twitter has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Twitter to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Twitter Privacy Policy
Facebook
We use Facebook to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Facebook. Ads are based on both Facebook data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Facebook has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Facebook to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Facebook Privacy Policy
LinkedIn
We use LinkedIn to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by LinkedIn. Ads are based on both LinkedIn data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that LinkedIn has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to LinkedIn to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. LinkedIn Privacy Policy
Yahoo! Japan
We use Yahoo! Japan to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Yahoo! Japan. Ads are based on both Yahoo! Japan data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Yahoo! Japan has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Yahoo! Japan to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Yahoo! Japan Privacy Policy
Naver
We use Naver to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Naver. Ads are based on both Naver data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Naver has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Naver to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Naver Privacy Policy
Quantcast
We use Quantcast to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Quantcast. Ads are based on both Quantcast data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Quantcast has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Quantcast to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Quantcast Privacy Policy
Call Tracking
We use Call Tracking to provide customized phone numbers for our campaigns. This gives you faster access to our agents and helps us more accurately evaluate our performance. We may collect data about your behavior on our sites based on the phone number provided. Call Tracking Privacy Policy
Wunderkind
We use Wunderkind to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Wunderkind. Ads are based on both Wunderkind data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Wunderkind has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Wunderkind to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Wunderkind Privacy Policy
ADC Media
We use ADC Media to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by ADC Media. Ads are based on both ADC Media data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that ADC Media has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to ADC Media to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. ADC Media Privacy Policy
AgrantSEM
We use AgrantSEM to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by AgrantSEM. Ads are based on both AgrantSEM data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that AgrantSEM has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to AgrantSEM to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. AgrantSEM Privacy Policy
Bidtellect
We use Bidtellect to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Bidtellect. Ads are based on both Bidtellect data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Bidtellect has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Bidtellect to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Bidtellect Privacy Policy
Bing
We use Bing to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Bing. Ads are based on both Bing data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Bing has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Bing to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Bing Privacy Policy
G2Crowd
We use G2Crowd to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by G2Crowd. Ads are based on both G2Crowd data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that G2Crowd has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to G2Crowd to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. G2Crowd Privacy Policy
NMPI Display
We use NMPI Display to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by NMPI Display. Ads are based on both NMPI Display data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that NMPI Display has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to NMPI Display to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. NMPI Display Privacy Policy
VK
We use VK to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by VK. Ads are based on both VK data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that VK has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to VK to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. VK Privacy Policy
Adobe Target
We use Adobe Target to test new features on our sites and customize your experience of these features. To do this, we collect behavioral data while you’re on our sites. This data may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, your IP address or device ID, your Autodesk ID, and others. You may experience a different version of our sites based on feature testing, or view personalized content based on your visitor attributes. Adobe Target Privacy Policy
Google Analytics (Advertising)
We use Google Analytics (Advertising) to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Google Analytics (Advertising). Ads are based on both Google Analytics (Advertising) data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Google Analytics (Advertising) has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Google Analytics (Advertising) to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Google Analytics (Advertising) Privacy Policy
Trendkite
We use Trendkite to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Trendkite. Ads are based on both Trendkite data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Trendkite has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Trendkite to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Trendkite Privacy Policy
Hotjar
We use Hotjar to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Hotjar. Ads are based on both Hotjar data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Hotjar has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Hotjar to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Hotjar Privacy Policy
6 Sense
We use 6 Sense to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by 6 Sense. Ads are based on both 6 Sense data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that 6 Sense has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to 6 Sense to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. 6 Sense Privacy Policy
Terminus
We use Terminus to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by Terminus. Ads are based on both Terminus data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that Terminus has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to Terminus to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. Terminus Privacy Policy
StackAdapt
We use StackAdapt to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by StackAdapt. Ads are based on both StackAdapt data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that StackAdapt has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to StackAdapt to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. StackAdapt Privacy Policy
The Trade Desk
We use The Trade Desk to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by The Trade Desk. Ads are based on both The Trade Desk data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that The Trade Desk has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to The Trade Desk to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. The Trade Desk Privacy Policy
RollWorks
We use RollWorks to deploy digital advertising on sites supported by RollWorks. Ads are based on both RollWorks data and behavioral data that we collect while you’re on our sites. The data we collect may include pages you’ve visited, trials you’ve initiated, videos you’ve played, purchases you’ve made, and your IP address or device ID. This information may be combined with data that RollWorks has collected from you. We use the data that we provide to RollWorks to better customize your digital advertising experience and present you with more relevant ads. RollWorks Privacy Policy

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