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Publishing on the Autodesk Exchange store

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By Stephen Preston

I’m pleased to announce that the Autodesk Exchange store is now open to all for app submissions. Its taken a while since the store opened to launch this because we were missing some essential backend infrastructure for managing the app submissions. That’s in place now, so its time to open the floodgates. Click on the link below to visit the store.

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Once you’re in the store of your choice, sign in using your Autodesk Single-Sign-On account and click on the ‘publisher’ link to start submitting your app:

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But please read the requirements and guidelines we’ll be posting to DevBlog following this post before you submit your apps. We’ll be updating the Exchange Developer Center with the same information in due course, but that will take a few days. Once they’re posted, we’ll be keeping the Developer Center versions of this information up to date, so please use those in preference to the information posted here.

Here's a link to the post summarizing all the posted information.

UPDATE 7/30/12:

The Exchange Developer Center has now been updated with this information. From now on, please go there for the most up to date version of this information.

Comments

7 responses to “Publishing on the Autodesk Exchange store”

  1. AlexFielder Avatar
    AlexFielder

    Hi Stephen,
    It would be really useful if you (or someone over at the ADN) could post a (clearly annotated) sample Autoloader file for people to follow; I’ve managed to get it working for my needs, thanks in no small part to posts by Kean here, and if Autodesk are wanting more people to post their applications to the Exchange store, making it as easy as possible to do so (with easy to follow/copy example files) seems like the best way forward I think you’ll agree.
    Thanks,
    Alex.

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  2. James Maeding Avatar
    James Maeding

    Hi Stephen,
    I think Autodesk may be missing a large issue here, which is that companies generally do not want users installing their own tools. The more organized ones want users to tell some cad manager about a tool, then he would say “yep, and all users here need it.” and then download it and put in a central place, or have some util distrib it to users. Can you explain how Autodesk sees this happening with the app store? This theme of supporting users as opposed to “enterprises” will be a major roadblock to just about anything autodesk tries to do. The 360 cloud thing is a perfect example. The cloud space should be pooled and only split up into separate user accounts if requested. Even Civil 3D suffers from the “how can I share this one thing” approach, instead of saying, “how can I share tons of stuff at once to lots of people”. thanks

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  3. Stephen Preston Avatar
    Stephen Preston

    Yes James – Supporting bulk purchasing, network deployments etc. from the Exchange store are extremely important. We already know this. But the beauty of a website is that you don’t have to implement every feature you want to have before you launch it.

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  4. KiJung Avatar
    KiJung

    Hi Stephen,
    It’s a good site for developers and End Users.
    I was wondering if you be willing to support the country’s language.
    Thanks

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  5. Stephen Preston Avatar
    Stephen Preston

    Right now, the Exchange store is English only. The app itself can support as many languages as you like (as long as that includes English), but the description must be in English. Once the store is running smoothly in English, I’m sure we’ll be adding support for other languages.

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  6. James Maeding Avatar
    James Maeding

    up to you on timing, just wanted to clarify one thing. If I downloaded an app, I would not install it on a bunch of machines. What we do is robocopy the program files to each machine, then a command in acad would load whatever and run it.
    So I guess I am saying it would be good to be able to download just the files needed, and a readme explaining what must be loaded for the prog to work. Others may install and treat each app like a little program, I find it a pain though.

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  7. Andrey Avatar
    Andrey

    Hi Stephen,
    I think many questions will disappear, if Autodesk will provides the XSD schema for the PackageContents.xml file.
    Stephen, answer at my questions about Autodesk Exchange, please, here: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-2013/Autodesk-Exchange/td-p/3644150
    Best Regards,
    Andrey

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