I have been quiet for a while, completely focused on BIM, plus a week off, terminated with a nice ski tour climbing the Albristhorn. Here are some topics to get going again – Forge DevCon and web site – Jim on the future of making things, Iot, Forge and more – The Future of Making Things – Some Supporting Data – The Future of Making Code – The Future of the Business – Forge... Read more →
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We successfully completed the European Munich DevDay conference and the subsequent four-day abbreviated Autodesk Cloud Accelerator. Here is the last snapshot of the frosted trees and blue sky from the train station platform in Harras. The most exciting project there for me personally was the implementation of the Revit BIM database and element modification tracker. Next on my rather busy January agenda is the BIM Programming Workshop in Madrid – Jaime's presentations and samples – View and Data API demo sites – Slack team collaborations... Read more →
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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 →
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The Revit Technology Conference RTC Europe in Budapest is just wrapping up. Happy Halloween! Read more →
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Autodesk announced its intention to acquire SeeControl, a San Francisco-based developer of an enterprise Internet of Things or IoT cloud service platform. Every day we hear an IoT story about a new factory, product, building or highway enabled with sensors to give it smarts. There will be several billion connected devices within the next few years. The growth of this technology may fundamentally change how consumers interact with their physical environment in much the same way that tablets and smart phones have. As Autodesk is moving from a product to a service company, customers are interested in moving from the delivery and installation of machines, factories and buildings to optimizing their performance and availability... Read more →
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I returned happily from the successful fourth and last day of the Milano WebGL workshop, which we concluded with a group session guiding through the View and Data API tutorial. Here is a short report on that and a few other current topics: WebGL workshop report Working at Autodesk Resolving the link offset error caused by the Snap responsive design menu bar Functional JavaScript workshop I took a break in the middle of the train trip from Milano back home... Read more →
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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 →
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Back from a very relaxing workshop in the beautiful Swiss Emmental region, I am now faced with various interesting news items and tasks: Vrok-It using collaborative VR! WebGL workshop report – day one EMEA Autodesk cloud accelerator extension Vrok-It Using Collaborative VR! Would you like to have a quick play around with collaborative stereoscopic 3D VR using the simple, fun, and affordable Google cardboard? Check out vrok.it! 'Vrok' is a combination of 'Virtual Reality Online Collaboration' and the verb to... Read more →
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Well, actually just one way, and a very simple one at that, but over fifty different model file formats... (thanks anyway, Paul)... Instantly view your designs online – no software required. I pointed out repeatedly how easy the Autodesk View and Data API makes it to interactively view and explore a 3D model in the browser without any further software whatsoever. Now the new A360 Viewer Widget simplifies it further still, using a widget that can be embedded in web... Read more →
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It is high time for me to get back here to explore new web related areas after the excursions looking at the journey to the cloud for a desktop oriented development team and the recent Dubai hackathon. I've been overly busy with the The Building Coder, the Revit API community and the new release of Revit since then. Here are my topics for today, both backward-looking to an exciting event held last week and forward-looking regarding my own plans for... Read more →
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Now that our node.js web server is hosted by Heroku, running live on the web, and even generating nonsensical source code in six different programming languages for April 1st, let's move on to something more interesting and graphical. First, briefly, a couple of other short news items and topics of general and personal interest: WebGL 3D model viewing on mobile devices A360 drag and drop viewer View and Data API design file formats Useful JavaScript resources Augmented reality Is Angular... Read more →
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Now that our node.js web server is hosted by Heroku and up and running live on the web, let's start talking with it. As I already hinted, I would like to move into graphical topics as quickly as possible, e.g., by sending a string of polygon coordinate values and asking it to render them as a 2D polygon. Before getting to that, though, a very exciting non-graphical usage is offered by the new Autodesk ProgGen Web Service. ProgGen is a... Read more →
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The first Autodesk Cloud Accelerator completed last week with great success. As a result, the Autodesk Cloud Accelerator v2 has already been announced, in quick succession, on June 1-12, 2015. What is this cloud accelerator thing? Simply put, a two-week intensive workshop for creative developers, hosted by Autodesk in San Francisco, to expand your business in the cloud. Read more about it on the web site and in my announcement of the first Autodesk Cloud Accelerator two months ago. Apply... Read more →
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The topics covered here are all things related to handling model and design data in the web. My name is Jeremy Tammik. I work in the Autodesk DevTech team, providing developer support and technical services all Autodesk API users. This includes programming support, consulting, training, conferences and evangelism. For the past years, I have been focussing mainly on the Revit API making use of .NET and C# on the desktop, and sharing those experiences via The Building Coder blog and... Read more →
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