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 →

Roomedit CouchDB Database Definition

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 →

Towards a CompHound Mongo Database Table View

We are already more than halfway through the Cloud Accelerator in Prague. – Steps towards the CompHound Mongo database table view – Express, ES6, React and more crash courses and best practices – A real scalable server side mongo database table view – CompHound road map... Read more →

C# DoorData and Node.js DoorService Classes

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 →

Using RestSharp for Rest API GET

I arrived safe and sound in Prague for the Autodesk cloud accelerator. During the trip, I continued to convert my C# REST API client from HttpWebRequest to RestSharp. I implemented the RestSharp PUT call last week; now, let's address the GET call, and remove all traces of the use of HttpWebRequest. The REST GET call implementation... 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 →

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 →

FireRatingCloud Round Trip and on Mongolab

I completed the initial FireRating conversion to the cloud. Here are the steps it took to reach that point: Revit project identification Complete Revit Add-in Implementation Demo Run Log Demo Video Mongolab – really in the cloud Postman does more than cURL Wrap-up, Download and Outlook It now runs full circle, storing Revit building model door instance fire rating values for multiple projects in a cloud-based mongo database. It implements the same three commands as the original FireRating SDK sample... 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 →