The 3D Web Coder

RTC Report LMV Model Upload and Translation

I presented the CompHound component tracker project as work in progress at the Revit Technology Conference RTC Europe in Budapest last week – RTC Conference and Connecting Desktop and Cloud – Driving the View and Data API Upload and Translation from a C# Add-In – Current CompHound Versions and To Do – Meanwhile, autumn is well advanced here in Switzerland... Read more →

CompHound LMV User Interface and Inventor

I completed another little enhancement to the CompHound component tracker project, and Adam Nagy added something as well – Use GuiViewer3D to display LMV user interface – CompHound Inventor add-in – To do... Read more →

CompHound on iPad Chrome and Node Env

I returned from my vacation in Andalusia. So far, I spent much too much time this week working on Revit API issues and getting ready for the Revit Technology Conference. I managed to squeeze in a few enhancements to the CompHound component tracker project as well – Cyrille's error handling and handlebars fixes – Report the NODE_ENV setting – Heroku NODE_ENV defaults to production – Updating the LMV viewer version – Obsolete iPad hardware – CompHound running on iPad in Chrome – Regular ordinary Swedish meal time... Read more →

Single Column CompHound Viewer on iPad

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 →

CompHound Viewer and Authorisation Service

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 →

CompHound Instance View

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 →

Lunar Eclipse, CORS Workaround, CompHound

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 →

Tutorials, Hackergarten, CompHound React.js

Yesterday I participated in the Hackergarten Basel and worked with Lukas @syzer Gintowt on integrating a Reactjs component into the CompHound node.js mongodb web server. Besides that, let me mention tutorialspoint... Read more →

CompHound Heroku Deployment, Urban Farming

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 →

The CompHound Mongoose DataTable

I continued working on the CompHound component tracker project. To-do: – Implement a datatable view – Post the server live to Heroku – Add a View and Data API viewing component – Reroute the comphound.net domain... The solution was easy – Hooking up the mongoose-datatable – Implementing a row clicked event handler... Read more →