The 3D Web Coder

Roomedit3d Viewer Extension, POST and Socket

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 →

FireRatingCloud Doc Modification Timestamp

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 →

CompHound, RestSharp, Mongo PUT and POST

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 →

Adding GCal Entries Using Google Calendar API

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 →

Populate GCal Using Google Calendar API

Today I present a Python script using the Google Calendar API to read events from my text-based desktop calendar and push them to the cloud for global access. I was busy last week with the Revit API and The Building Coder, after returning from my vacation and lots of nice places and activities in Ticino, Mont Blanc, and the French Jura. Now I finally got to look at something not related to the Revit API, or to any other CAD... Read more →

FireRatingCloud Heroku + Mongolab Deployed

Fully and completely deploying the FireRatingCloud support database on the cloud was much easier than expected. Please refer to the fireratingdb node.js web server and FireRatingCloud Revit add-in GitHub repositories for an overview of the exploration and project evolution. I already moved the database off-site to the mongolab host yesterday, but I still had the node web server running locally. To do so, I created a new Heroku app and linked it to the existing fireratingdb GitHub repo. I asked... Read more →

C# .NET REST API GET and PUT MongoDB Storage

Yesterday, I set up MongoDB and the fireratingdb node.js web server driving it on Windows and started populating the database from a desktop C# .NET add-in via its REST API. Today, let's complete that, adding the door instance documents to the project data: Adding a JSON parser module Storing door instance documents in mongo Using PUT instead of POST when the database id is known Checking for project existence before adding new Adding a JSON parser module Once a project... Read more →

Populating MongoDB via C# .NET REST API

I discussed some manual testing of the REST API and the PUT, POST and Delete HTTP action implementations. I also promised some live testing from a C# .NET desktop app. In this case, it means adding documents to the fireratingdb node.js mongo web server via the REST API. We'll take a look at that today: Installing MongoDB on Windows Running MongoDB and the node.js web server on Windows Storing a document in mongo via REST API from C# .NET Generating... Read more →

Journey to the Cloud – Development Team Transitioning

Today, let me pass on to you some observations on how to transition a desktop oriented development team to the cloud. Today is Ascension Day and a holiday in Neuchâtel, giving me a bit of time to clear some of my todo list items, and this article was one of them. Before getting to that, I'll just briefly mention that I returned safe and sound from the Dubai hackathon and have been pretty busy with Revit stuff since, e.g., how... Read more →

Driving the SVG Node Server from a Desktop Application

Yesterday, I implemented a pretty minimal Heroku-hosted node.js web server and used it to display some SVG graphics. I implemented a little interactive form and used the following JavaScript snippet to invoke the server and submit the data entered to it: function submit_form_svg_01(path_data) { var local = false; var base_url = local ? 'http://127.0.0.1:5000' : 'https://shielded-hamlet-1585.herokuapp.com'; var w = 400; var h = 400; var d = path_data.replace(' ','+'); var query_string = 'w='+w+'&h='+h+'&d='+d; window.open(base_url + '?' + query_string, 'node_server', 'width='... Read more →