Autodesk consolidates Bay Area offices while expanding its 3D and AI product offerings.
San Rafael, California, August 19, 2025
Autodesk announced expansions to its 3D modeling and AI-driven toolset, including new pricing tiers and a freemium option for Flow Studio and environmental design insights for Autodesk Forma. The company highlighted partnerships with more than 50 sustainability partners and product integrations that support supplier workflows and cloud-based construction tools. At the same time, Autodesk is consolidating Bay Area office space by closing its San Rafael site at 111 McInnis Parkway and reassigning about 578 employees to the One Market office in San Francisco. The moves reflect a strategic shift toward cloud, AI and hybrid work while trimming real estate globally.
Autodesk shares rose 1.02% on August 18, 2025, as the software company moved forward with new 3D and AI offerings and announced a consolidation of Bay Area office space. On that day, the stock traded with a daily volume of about $270 million, placing it near the middle of market activity rankings.
The company is pushing deeper into 3D modeling and AI-driven tools for design, construction and visual effects. New pricing tiers and a freemium option for Flow Studio aim to broaden access to VFX tooling for creators. The firm also added design insights to Autodesk Forma to help teams improve environmental performance and highlighted partnerships with more than 50 companies in a sustainability partner program.
Product integrations and ecosystem moves underline the strategic shift. A parts-data integration that links QIF and STEP formats highlights support for digital workflows for suppliers, while a construction AI provider widened its connection to Autodesk’s cloud platform, signaling growing use of cloud-based tools in infrastructure projects. Analysts note that the broader simulation software market is projected to hit $36.22 billion by 2030, putting the company alongside other major vendors in a fast-growing field.
The company filed notice that it will close its former San Rafael headquarters at 111 McInnis Parkway effective October 14. The closing affects about 578 Marin employees, who will be reassigned to the company’s San Francisco office at One Market. The San Rafael space totals roughly 116,000 square feet under leases that are set to expire in December 2024.
Employees have been categorized into three workplace types: office-based, hybrid, and home-based. The company says the majority fall into the hybrid group, meaning staff split time between home and commutable local offices. Most reassigned workers will not have mandatory weekly in-office days, although a small number of employees who are assigned as office-based will be expected to work from the San Francisco office under internal guidelines.
Over recent years the company has adjusted its real estate footprint, giving up leases on other Bay Area locations and opening or exiting sizable office blocks. A recent SEC filing showed roughly 1.8 million square feet across about 101 locations worldwide, with plans to trim the portfolio by around 20%. The company has previously recorded impairment charges related to office leases and has shed hundreds of thousands of square feet as part of the shift to hybrid work.
In the local market, commercial brokers expect the vacated space to be backfilled over time, based on past patterns of demand for Marin office and industrial properties. Economic representatives said losing a company that began locally and grew into a major software firm is significant for the community, but noted the area has other strong firms and a track record of attracting new occupants to vacated space.
The company reported $4.39 billion in revenue in the last fiscal year and showed growth in recent quarters, with second-quarter revenue of about $1.24 billion, up roughly 17% from a year earlier. Institutional holders increased positions in the stock, and some trading-period analyses have highlighted short-term strategies that leaned on daily volume as a metric for returns.
Market interest in the company’s product expansions and business moves adds to its profile as a supplier of tools used in manufacturing, architecture, construction, media and entertainment, and technologies such as robotics, VR and 3D printing.
The combination of product launches, platform integrations, and a tighter Bay Area office footprint shows the company balancing growth in cloud and AI products with reduced and reconfigured physical space. That mix matters for customers, local office markets and employees who will see changes in where and how they work.
Yes. The San Rafael site at 111 McInnis Parkway is scheduled to close on October 14, with staff reassigned to the San Francisco One Market office.
About 578 employees currently assigned to the San Rafael office will be reassigned to the San Francisco location. Most are classified as hybrid and will not have mandatory weekly in-office days.
The company retains significant space in San Francisco and said it will not give up all local facilities. It has reduced and reshaped its footprint over recent years and continues to manage leases and subleases to fit new workplace models.
The company expanded 3D and AI tooling, introduced more accessible pricing and a freemium model for a VFX product called Flow Studio, and added environmental design insights to its Forma product. It also reported partnerships in a sustainability program and integrations that support supplier workflows.
Recent reported revenue was about $4.39 billion for the most recent fiscal year, with second-quarter revenue rising to about $1.24 billion, up 17% from a year earlier.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Stock movement (Aug 18, 2025) | Up 1.02%; daily volume ~ $270 million |
| Office change | 111 McInnis Parkway (San Rafael) closing Oct 14; 578 employees reassigned to One Market (San Francisco) |
| Workspace categories | Office-based, hybrid, home-based; majority hybrid |
| Key product moves | Flow Studio pricing tiers and freemium model; Autodesk Forma environmental design insights |
| Market context | Simulation market projected to $36.22B by 2030; growing cloud and AI adoption |
| Financials | Last fiscal year revenue ~ $4.39B; recent quarter revenue ~ $1.24B (+17% YoY) |
| Global staff | Reported around 12,600 employees worldwide (company statement); regional counts vary by source |
| Office footprint | About 1.8M sq ft across ~101 locations (SEC filing); plans to reduce space by ~20% |
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