Further enhancing its portfolio of solutions for (BIM), Autodesk, a leader of software and technologies, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of BIMWorld, a privately-owned business specializing in the production and distribution of branded BIM content for building product manufacturers. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Autodesk plans to combine BIMWorld with , its online source for building product design information that allows architects and engineers to search, select and specify building products directly from their design applications. Autodesk Seek is a search-based Web service available in the 2009 U.S. versions of Autodesk’s software applications for BIM, as well as , and software. Autodesk Seek is also available through standard browsers at http://seek.autodesk.com.

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