The Forge DevCon launches today. I am putting the final touches to my presentation. One of them was the migration of the roomedit3d viewer extension and web app to the new Forge structure – Forge platform components – Setting up a specific Roomedit3d model – Roomedit3dV2 using OAuth2 to edit any model – Download and installation... Read more →
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I returned from the Barcelona Forge Accelerator, where I started an exciting new project connecting BIM and the cloud demonstrating two cool possibilities to enhance interaction with the View and Data API, a viewer extension enabling interactive model modification, i.e., translation of selected elements, and a real-time communication of the modification back to the source CAD system – It's Read-Only! How can it be Read-Write? – Genealogy or Where to Start? – Capturing the TransformTool Selection – Determining the TransformTool Translation Vector – POST From Viewer to Server – Broadcast via Socket.io – Desktop Notification Connection and Subscription – Demo Recording – Download and Diff – To Do... Read more →
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Yesterday, I added a timestamp to my FireRatingCloud mongodb documents with the intention of retrieving only documents modified after a specific moment. Today, let's look at filtering for and retrieving just those. Here are the steps to achieve that
– A MongoDB query and express route using $gt
– C# REST API client accessing the new route
– Download and diff...
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The last task I discussed here was the FireRatingCloud batch upload functionality. FireRatingCloud is a C# .NET Revit API add-in REST API MongoDB client of the fireratingdb node.js MongoDB web server. The details of the research and development for this project is extensively documented in the FireRatingCloud GitHub repository. The batch upload vastly improves the upload speed, since an upload of N records is reduced from N separate REST API calls to a constant 2... Read more →
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Before getting technical, let me mention that I had a great time with Markus and Wolfgang on ski tours climbing a couple of mountains around the Gemmipass last weekend. Back to the technical stuff, I implemented a batch upload functionality for the FireRatingCloud C# .NET Revit API add-in REST API MongoDB client over a month ago, in Madrid, during the BIM Programming workshop, together with Jose Ignacio Montes of Avatar BIM. Jose noted that uploading the data for all doors in a large building model to the cloud database consumed a significant amount of time, whereas downloading the modified data for the same doors is almost instantaneous... Read more →
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I am in London for an internal meeting with my European ADN DevTech colleagues today. As you might guess from the pictures, we are in Broad Court, right next to Bow Street and beside the nice bronze statue Young Dancer by Enzo Plazotta. During the meeting, Cyrille mentioned the possibility to add a 'deploy to Heroku' button to a GitHub repository readme to automate the installation and testing a cloud-based app. I use Heroku to run all my cloud-based apps, so I decided to test that right away... Read more →
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I have been quiet for a while, completely focused on BIM, plus a week off, terminated with a nice ski tour climbing the Albristhorn. Here are some topics to get going again – Forge DevCon and web site – Jim on the future of making things, Iot, Forge and more – The Future of Making Things – Some Supporting Data – The Future of Making Code – The Future of the Business – Forge... Read more →
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We successfully completed the European Munich DevDay conference and the subsequent four-day abbreviated Autodesk Cloud Accelerator. Here is the last snapshot of the frosted trees and blue sky from the train station platform in Harras. The most exciting project there for me personally was the implementation of the Revit BIM database and element modification tracker. Next on my rather busy January agenda is the BIM Programming Workshop in Madrid – Jaime's presentations and samples – View and Data API demo sites – Slack team collaborations... Read more →
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Happy New Year! I had a really good break, although I spent the last ten days being ill and coming to grips with a serious sinusitis. I am getting better again now, though. I also learned the nice card game Tichu :-) Meanwhile, Autodesk announced the Forge platform at Autodesk University in the beginning of December to power a connected ecosystem for product development, inviting developers and innovators to join in to integrate design, engineering, and manufacturing and build the future of making things together... Read more →
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You may be aware of the roomedit CouchDB app that I implemented for my 2D real-time round-trip cloud-based RoomEditorApp. Originally implemented in 2013, I migrated it to Revit 2016 for my class on connecting desktop and cloud at the Revit Technology Conference RTC Europe, and created a recording of it preparing to set up the AEC booth for Autodesk University. We were unable to find an easy way to upload the roomedit database definition files to CouchDB... Read more →
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Here are the notes I took at the Autodesk University 2015 panel discussion SD9731 – Autodesk Cloud and Mobile API and Technologies: Meet the Experts, led by Cyrille Fauvel, Senior Manager, ADN M&E, Autodesk Inc. – Learning Objectives – Description – Your AU Expert – Overview – Panellists – Questions and Answers... Read more →
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I am leaving for two weeks vacation in Andalusia tomorrow. I continued working on the CompHound component tracker in the past hours to leave it in a moderately cleaned-up state for Cyrille – Single column layout – Enable pick on iPad – CompHound CSS – To do – Vacation... Read more →
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I continued working on my CompHound component tracker and now successfully integrated the viewer – CompHound updates and the LMV viewer – Authorisation token server – LMV consumer key and secret environment variables – Client-side auth code provider – Viewer set-up – Wrap-up and next steps... Read more →
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I worked through parts of the nice comprehensive beginner’s guide to ReactJS. When I tried to implement selecting a database row to populate the react component from outside, I discovered that "You're never supposed to set a component's state outside of the component." That turned me off any further investigation and I took resort to jQuery instead, where I made much faster progress... Read more →
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This weekend, I wanted to add an additional field to the component occurrences in the CompHoundWeb database, which led me to discover and fix a trivial yet serious error in my C# client. Also, let me mention a CORS workaround pointed out by my colleague Cyrille Fauvel and my night out to watch the lunar eclipse: – Lunar eclipse – Fed up with CORS? – CompHound Updates... Read more →
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Yesterday, I discussed the CompHound datatable implementation. Today, let's deploy to Heroku for you to try it out right away – Cloud9 – Easy github.io domain rerouting – CompHound deployment to Heroku – Heroku requires HTTPS – Recent CompHound commits – Try it out live – CompHound road map – Self-sufficient urban farming on 1/10 of an acre... Read more →
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I continued improving my REST API node.js web server, mongo database and C# REST API client, and also set up a Google domain rerouting – CompHound domain, organisation web site and rerouting – Implementing a DoorData container class – Updating Get to return a list of deserialised DoorData instances – Passing a DoorData instance to the Put method – Implementing a REST API router DoorService class... Read more →
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I spent a few exciting and satisfying hours last night cleaning up my C# REST API client to use RestSharp instead of HttpWebRequest and the node.js mongo web server to enable PUT to create as well as update a record – Use percent for CSS font-size font sizing – The CompHound component tracker – GET, PUT and POST stupidity creating versus updating a record – Enabling PUT to create as well as update – Using RestSharp instead of HttpWebRequest – No need to format data as JSON... Read more →
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Autodesk announced its intention to acquire SeeControl, a San Francisco-based developer of an enterprise Internet of Things or IoT cloud service platform. Every day we hear an IoT story about a new factory, product, building or highway enabled with sensors to give it smarts. There will be several billion connected devices within the next few years. The growth of this technology may fundamentally change how consumers interact with their physical environment in much the same way that tablets and smart phones have. As Autodesk is moving from a product to a service company, customers are interested in moving from the delivery and installation of machines, factories and buildings to optimizing their performance and availability... Read more →
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Today I complete my discussion of a Python script using the Google Calendar API to parse events from a text-based desktop calendar file and push them to the cloud for global access. Google OAuth credential handling. Date and time parsing and formatting. Adding a calendar event. Mainline. GitHub pages. GitHub repository. Google OAuth Credential Handling Pretty interesting system... The following code snippets take you to a login page in your browser, prompting you to identify yourself manually in the user... Read more →
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