The 3D Web Coder

Flipping OBJ Axes and OBJ Texture for Forge

The Forge DevCon finished. I had a full body 3D scan created in the Shapify Booth there. The resulting OBJ model can be downloaded for $10 from shapify.me. It includes the material and texture files. Unfortunately, the initial model is lying down, not standing up – Flipping the OBJ Axes using sed... Read more →

Roomedit3d Thee-legged OAuth Access to Forge

The Forge DevCon launches today. I am putting the final touches to my presentation. One of them was the migration of the roomedit3d viewer extension and web app to the new Forge structure – Forge platform components – Setting up a specific Roomedit3d model – Roomedit3dV2 using OAuth2 to edit any model – Download and installation... Read more →

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 →

Future of Making Things, IoT, Forge DevCon

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 →

View and Data API Intro for BIM Programming

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 →

Viewing a Space and Exciting Times Ahead

Today, let's recapitulate a discussion on viewing architectural spaces in the View and Data API, plus take a look at all the exciting things happening both for myself in the next weeks and for Autodesk as a company as a whole, reinventing itself for the modern cloud-based collaborative sharing technoculture – The first annual Autodesk X summit – Jeremy's January – DevDay in Munich – Accelerator Workshop – BIM Workshop in Madrid – Viewing IFC spaces and models... Read more →

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 →

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 →

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 →

CompHound LMV User Interface and Inventor

I completed another little enhancement to the CompHound component tracker project, and Adam Nagy added something as well – Use GuiViewer3D to display LMV user interface – CompHound Inventor add-in – To do... Read more →

CompHound on iPad Chrome and Node Env

I returned from my vacation in Andalusia. So far, I spent much too much time this week working on Revit API issues and getting ready for the Revit Technology Conference. I managed to squeeze in a few enhancements to the CompHound component tracker project as well – Cyrille's error handling and handlebars fixes – Report the NODE_ENV setting – Heroku NODE_ENV defaults to production – Updating the LMV viewer version – Obsolete iPad hardware – CompHound running on iPad in Chrome – Regular ordinary Swedish meal time... Read more →

CompHound Viewer and Authorisation Service

I continued working on my CompHound component tracker and now successfully integrated the viewer – CompHound updates and the LMV viewer – Authorisation token server – LMV consumer key and secret environment variables – Client-side auth code provider – Viewer set-up – Wrap-up and next steps... Read more →

Comphound, JsFiddle and My First React Widget

Comphound, JsFiddle and My First React Component – prepare for conferences, RTC Europe in Budapest and Autodesk University in Las Vegas – implement a cloud-based universal component and asset usage analysis, visualisation and reporting, christened Comphound, for hounding out and tracking down those pesky components – looking at the React JavaScript library – implemented my first JsFiddle – taking a new look at the Autodesk View and Data API – prepare for the cloud accelerator in Prague... Read more →

WebGL Workshop, Jobs, Anchors and Functional JavaScript

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 →

Vrok-It, WebGL Workshop and Cloud Accelerator

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 →

Athens AngelHack Hackathon

I am in the middle of the Athens AngelHack Hackathon, after the View and Data workshop we held last night: Angel workshop I♥3D Athens AngelHack Hackathon Project pitches Angel Workshop I♥3D We held the second I love 3D – Athens meetup yesterday in The Cube, with 19 enthusiastic participants: Here are some of the main links for further exploration: Main entry point: developer.autodesk.com Play with it live Documentation, sample code, step-by-step guide, API reference Forum, community, discussion group Blog Live... Read more →

Node.js REST API Enhancement and VR Party

Let's get back to looking at node.js, a REST API implementation, and a recent San Francisco virtual reality hackathon project: Node.js REST API enhancement Top ten nodejs mistakes Kean's VR party Node.js REST API enhancement My colleagues Cyrille and Philippe were not very impressed with one aspect of my previous node WebGL viewer server REST API implementation. Both suggested that each API module implement and export its own router instead of just defining and exporting individual functions. The main reason... Read more →

50 Ways to View Your Model

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 →

Web Fest, Hackathons, AU and WebGL Workshops

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 →

Dubai, Hackathon Preparation and Viewer Workshop

I am in Dubai for the AngelHack Hackathon. We held a pre-hackathon workshop on using the View and Data API last night, and we've scheduled another one here at the hackathon itself at four o'clock this afternoon. I'll jot down my notes and the most up-to-date sexy links here to prepare. Here are some other important upcoming events and tips for getting prepared: 3D Web Festival in San Francisco AngelHack in Dubai AngelHack in Athens Autodesk University proposals Preparing for... Read more →