The 3D Web Coder

Happy New Autodesk Forge Accelerator!

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 →

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 →

Autodesk Uni Cloud and Mobile Expert Panel

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 →

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 →

The Responsive 3D Web Coder

Nowadays, web pages should be based on a responsive web design, or their Google search ranking will suffer. Today, I finally got around to converting my other blog, launching The Responsive Building Coder, followed by this. I was prompted by Kean Walmsley's explanation of growing usage of mobile devices, leading to his own recent responsive blog redesign. The new look is based on the Typepad Snap template. To complete the switch, I had to fix the banner image and translation... Read more →