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revenue from sales of licenses of Autodesk’s design products, AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, as well as the Autodesk Design
Suite and many other design products, including consumer design products.
AEC software products help to improve the way building, civil infrastructure, process plant and construction projects are
designed, built and managed. A broad portfolio of solutions enables greater efficiency, accuracy and sustainability across the
entire project lifecycle. Autodesk AEC solutions include advanced technology for building information modeling (“BIM”),
AutoCAD-based design and documentation productivity software, sustainable design analysis applications, and collaborative
project management solutions. BIM, an integrated process for building and infrastructure design, analysis, documentation and
construction, uses consistent, coordination information to improve communication and collaboration between the extended
project team. AEC provides a comprehensive portfolio of BIM solutions that help customers deliver projects faster and more
economically, while minimizing environmental impact. AEC’s revenue primarily includes revenue from the sales of licenses of
Autodesk Building Design Suites, Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD Civil 3D and AutoCAD Map 3D.
MFG provides the manufacturers in automotive and transportation, industrial machinery, consumer products and building
products with comprehensive digital prototyping solutions that brings together design data from all phases of the product
development process to develop a single digital model created in Autodesk Inventor software. Autodesk’s solutions for digital
prototyping enable a broad group of manufacturers to realize benefits with minimal disruption to existing workflows. MFG’s
revenue primarily includes revenue from the sales of licenses of Autodesk Product Design Suites, AutoCAD Mechanical
Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Moldflow products.
M&E is comprised of two product groups: Animation, including design visualization, and Creative Finishing. Animation
products, such as Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, and the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites, provide tools for digital
sculpting, modeling, animation, effects, rendering and compositing, for design visualization, visual effects and games
production. Creative Finishing products provide editing, finishing and visual effects design and color grading.
All of Autodesk’s reportable segments distribute their respective products primarily through authorized resellers and
distributors and, to a lesser extent, through direct sales to end-users.
The accounting policies of the reportable segments are the same as those described in Note 1, “Business and Summary of
Significant Accounting Policies.” Autodesk evaluates each segment’s performance on the basis of gross profit. Autodesk
currently does not separately accumulate and report asset information by segment, except for goodwill, which is disclosed in
Note 1, “Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies.”
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