Autodesk BIM 360 API
BIM 360 and ACC access runs through Autodesk Platform Services: broad REST APIs with OAuth 2.0 and official SDKs. Every customer's account admin must provision your client ID before the API returns data. The ongoing BIM 360 to ACC migration keeps deprecating endpoints in favor of ACC equivalents.
Frequently asked questions
Autodesk BIM 360 scores D on the API Report Card. BIM 360 and ACC access runs through Autodesk Platform Services: broad REST APIs with OAuth 2.0 and official SDKs. Every customer's account admin must provision your client ID before the API returns data. The ongoing BIM 360 to ACC migration keeps deprecating endpoints in favor of ACC equivalents.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
Autodesk BIM 360 is Autodesk's cloud construction management platform for design-build, general contracting, and owner project teams.
Vertical: Construction and AEC (architecture, engineering, construction). Design teams use BIM 360 / ACC Docs and Design Collaboration as the cloud common data environment (CDE) for Revit/Civil 3D models, sheets, and 2D drawings, with cross-firm coordination, markup, and version control.
BIM 360 / ACC is one of the two dominant cloud construction management platforms (the other being Procore). Autodesk reports 2M+ projects on the platform across builders globally, with availability in the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Germany, India, Japan, and Australia.
Yes, BIM 360 / ACC is the system of record for the design-and-build data set on a construction project.
Autodesk Inc. was founded 1982 (publicly traded on NASDAQ as ADSK, $6B+ revenue).
Provisioning is per-customer and admin-gated, every BIM 360 / ACC account admin must explicitly add the app's client ID before the API will return data, making portfolio rollouts slow and serial. Forge → APS rebrand (Sept 2022) plus the ongoing BIM 360 → ACC API migration has left documentation, SDKs, and community examples fragmented across old and new naming. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Procore Technologies, Oracle Aconex / Primavera, Trimble Viewpoint / ProjectSight / e-Builder, Bentley ProjectWise, Bluebeam Revu / Studio, Newforma. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.