file extension FLM

AutoCAD® is a CAD development platform that provides tools to build custom AutoCAD-based software products for specific markets and extend design information to users outside the traditional CAD community. You can easily create industry-specific products that offer only the features, commands, menus, and design data that your customers require.

AutoCAD OEM is licensed to independent software developers, corporate developers, and system integrators who need to

• Deliver a product that requires CAD functionality but is not targeted at traditional CAD users
• Build products that can read and create DWG files that are fully compatible with AutoCAD DWG files
• Create host programs that run an application in a child window or through a web page
• Deliver products with scaled feature sets at scaled price points Provide an AutoCAD-based platform that cannot be customized or extended by end users
• Replace an aging CAD system and take advantage of new AutoCAD software technologies

Autodesk Animator was a 2D animation and painting program created in 1989 by Yost Group for Autodesk (makers of AutoCAD and 3D Studio Max) and ran on a PC under MS-DOS.

The program was considered to be ground breaking in the field of computer animation when it was initially released and was very popular in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. eventually the development on the product ended and it became no longer supported by Autodesk.

Animator gave the ability to do cel animation (creating each frame as an individual picture, much like traditional Disney animation), "Animator Studio" also had tweening features (transforming one shape into another by letting the computer draw each in-between shape onto a separate frame).

While "Animator" and "Animator Pro" supported only the input and output of FLI and FLC animation files, "Animator Studio" supported also the input and output of the AVI animation format.

AutoShade was an MS DOS application developed by Autodesk to produce realistic shaded renderings of AutoCAD Drawings using 3D Faces. It simulated various types of lights such as Spot, Point and Infinite Directional. To create a rendering you first had to create an AutoCAD Drawing file containing 3D faces. The Next step is placing lights and cameras in the drawing (as blocks, supplied with the AutoShade package for use in AutoCAD). Then, running an AutoLISP application provided by AutoShade, the 3D faces, Camera blocks and lighting blocks were saved out to a "Scene" file. This "Scene" file is then opened from within AutoShade and contains all the information needed to render the image.