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From CLI to SaaS: How a Rust Monorepo Scales to Cloud
One Rust kernel. Three application targets. 12 crates. How RAPS scaled from CLI tool to SaaS platform without rewriting anything.
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114 MCP Tools: What AI-Assisted AEC Engineering Looks Like Today
RAPS exposes 114 MCP tools across 16 Autodesk APIs. No other CAD/PLM vendor has anything like it. Here's what it enables.
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1,700 Projects, Zero Automation: The Enterprise ACC Problem
An anonymized case study: a large enterprise with 1,700+ ACC projects and no way to manage them at scale. Until now.
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Permission Management at Scale: Clone, Export, Audit
How to clone permissions across ACC projects, bulk export to CSV, and audit user access β the features Autodesk should have built.
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BIM 360 to ACC: The Migration Nobody Planned For
Autodesk forced the BIM 360 to ACC migration with no bulk tooling. Thousands of teams were left to figure it out alone.
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How We Built a 230-Command Advocacy Layer for Autodesk in Rust
Chunked uploads, OAuth race conditions, failure classification, circuit breakers β the engineering behind RAPS's advocacy core.
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The API User Advocate: A Role That Doesn't Exist Yet
Between the vendor SDK and your production app, there should be a hardened client layer. We call this the API User Advocate.
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4,078 Apps and Zero Developer Tools: The Autodesk App Store Gap
We audited every app on the Autodesk App Store. Zero CLI tools. Zero auth helpers. Zero MCP integrations. Here's the full analysis.
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Why No CAD/PLM Vendor Has a CLI β And What That Tells You
Autodesk archived theirs. PTC, Dassault, Siemens never built one. Zero CLI tools across $200B+ of market cap. The absence is the signal.
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Same Bug, Four Vendors: Auth Failures Across CAD/PLM Platforms
OAuth implementation nightmares repeat identically across Autodesk, PTC, Dassault, and Siemens. We mapped the pattern.
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Safeguard: Undo Any APS Operation With Generated Rollback Scripts
RAPS 5.7 introduces raps safeguard β automatic rollback and backup script generation for 32 destructive operations across buckets, users, webhooks, projects, and more.
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Your Vendor's API Is Not Your Friend
Vendors design APIs for their own architecture, not for developers. The structural problem behind every integration nightmare.
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Intelligent Without AI: How RAPS 5.3 Thinks for You
A deep dive into the 25+ intelligence features shipped in RAPS 5.x β from fuzzy command corrections and rate-limit awareness to pipeline idempotency and archive inspection via Range requests.
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Pipeline v2: Retry, Parallelism, and Conditionals for APS Automation
RAPS Pipeline v2 adds retry policies, per-step timeouts, conditional execution, parallel steps, and for-each loops to YAML pipeline files
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DevCon 2026: ACC at Enterprise Scale
Automation patterns that transform hours of manual ACC administration into seconds of scripted operations. Bulk user management, issues, submittals, and more.
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DevCon 2026: AI Pair-Assistant for APS Operators
What if you could manage APS workflows by asking your AI assistant? This session explores how MCP connects Claude to live APS APIs for natural language operations.
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DevCon 2026: Zero to Production CLI Speedrun
In 30 minutes, go from zero tooling to a production-ready workflow with authentication, file management, model translation, and AI assistant integration.
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4,295 Feature Requests, 60 Delivered: Inside ACC's Feedback Black Hole
We analyzed every idea submitted to Autodesk Construction Cloud's feedback forum. The data reveals a 96.6% abandonment rate and years-old requests still waiting.
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The Permission Problem: When Basic Access Controls Are Missing
504 ideas, 3,251 votes, and a fundamental gap: ACC users can't control who sees what. Here's what the forum data reveals about permission management pain.
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The Bulk Operations Crisis: Why AEC Teams Waste Hours on Clicks
490 feature requests. 3,860 votes. One consistent theme: ACC users desperately need bulk operations. Here's the data and the solution.
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RAPS 4.0: Bulk Account Admin for ACC/BIM 360
Announcing RAPS v4.0 with a powerful new Account Admin module for bulk user management across hundreds of ACC/BIM 360 projects.
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Testing RAPS with raps-mock: Our Integration Test Strategy
How we use raps-mock to test raps-cli without hitting production APIs. A deep dive into our TestServer pattern and why we moved away from wiremock.
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raps-mock: Your Local APS Testing Environment
Stop waiting for rate limits, avoid hitting production APIs, and debug APS integrations offline. raps-mock brings the entire Autodesk Platform Services API to your local machine.
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Why We Rewrote the Toolchain: Rust vs. Node.js for 5GB Files
How Rust enables RAPS to process massive AEC data files that crash traditional JavaScript tooling
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Zero-Click Releases: Building a Revit Plugin Pipeline with GitHub Actions
Eliminate manual deployment pain with automated Revit add-in deployment to Design Automation using RAPS and GitHub Actions
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SDK Version Hell: Why CAD Developers Rebuild Everything, Every Year
The annual ritual of breaking changes that costs millions in developer hours. SDK versioning disasters across all CAD platforms.
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File Translation Disasters: When 7 Years Isn't Long Enough to Fix a Bug
The cross-platform translation crisis that makes developers question their career choices
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Authentication Chaos: The Universal Developer Pain Point Across CAD/PLM Platforms
The OAuth implementation nightmare that spans every major CAD platform and how RAPS solves it
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CI/CD 101 for AEC Professionals
A practical introduction to Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for architects, engineers, and BIM managers who've never touched a pipeline before.
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The Manual Tax: What AEC Loses Without CI/CD
The AEC industry has embraced sophisticated design technology but still operates with manual processes that software development abandoned decades ago. Here's what that costs us.
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