# AutoCAD Model Derivative API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/autocad/model-derivative-api/  
**Provider:** AutoCAD — https://apis.io/providers/autocad/  
**Base URL:** https://developer.api.autodesk.com/modelderivative/v2  
**Documentation:** https://aps.autodesk.com/developer/overview/model-derivative-api

AutoCAD Model Derivative API is one of 6 APIs that [AutoCAD](https://apis.io/providers/autocad/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include File Conversion, Metadata, Model Derivative, Thumbnails, and Translation. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a changelog.

API for translating AutoCAD design files into formats like SVF and SVF2 for rendering in the Viewer SDK, extracting metadata, object hierarchy, properties, and generating thumbnails.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://aps.autodesk.com/en/docs/model-derivative/v2
- **ChangeLog** — https://aps.autodesk.com/en/docs/model-derivative/v2/change_history/changelog

## Other AutoCAD APIs (5)

- [AutoCAD API](https://apis.io/apis/autocad/autocad-api/)
- [AutoCAD Design Automation API](https://apis.io/apis/autocad/design-automation-api/)
- [AutoCAD Data Management API](https://apis.io/apis/autocad/data-management-api/)
- [AutoCAD Webhooks API](https://apis.io/apis/autocad/webhooks-api/)
- [AutoCAD Authentication API](https://apis.io/apis/autocad/authentication-api/)

## Tags

File Conversion, Metadata, Model Derivative, Thumbnails, Translation

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