Autodesk® Seek

With Autodesk® Seek you can find and share product design information with the online design community to enhance designs and to meet specific customer needs. It allows designers to search for, download, and integrate generic or manufacturer-specific building products or components and associated design information.

When you are working in a design program, you may want to include products that, for example, meet design standards for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) or the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Autodesk Seek can help you locate such information and products, and get them into your design.

• For more information about LEED green building certification, visit the U.S. Green Building Council website: http://www.usgbc.org.
• For more information about ADA standards for accessible design, visit U.S. Department of Justice website: http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/.

The design and product information available on Autodesk Seek depends on what content providers, both corporate partners and individual contributors, publish to Autodesk Seek. Such content could include 3D models, 2D drawings, specifications, brochures, or descriptions of products or components.

Autodesk has partnered with content aggregators such as BIMWorld™ and the McGraw-Hill Construction Sweets Network®, who maintain relationships with manufacturers, to provide and maintain product and design information within Autodesk Seek.

Autodesk® Seek also contains all files from the content libraries provided with the 2008 and later releases of the following products:

• AutoCAD®
• AutoCAD® Architecture
• AutoCAD® MEP
• Revit® Structure
• Revit® Architecture
• Revit® MEP

Currently, Autodesk Seek is intended primarily for the AEC/building industry. In the future, Autodesk Seek will expand to include product information that is more typically used in other industries.

The following list includes file types currently supported by Autodesk Seek.