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 Query Retrieving Updated Docs

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... Read more →

FireRatingCloud REST API Batch Upload and Windows Client

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →