The 3D Web Coder

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 →

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 →

Displaying 2D Graphics via a Node Server

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 →