Does autodesk construction cloud useful for planning engineer only?
What can he do?
Give me examples please.
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we have developed a designed automation tool using Forge and VB.net to automate several tasks in the manufacturing/oil and gas industry, that makes the designing of pressure vessels take about a fourth of the time and steps required than without our tool. This is to say that we are familiar with the Forge and Inventor interfaces, but require your assistance in determining where to begin with for creating Digital Twins in the AEC industry and capitalize the platform for Asset Management.
I understand that Forge web service uses APIs such as - Data management, BIM 360, Model derivative and viewer, etc. We are looking to start with a sample project to get started in this direction.
Please refer to this getting started tutorial. And this sample (GitHub)
We want to use Autodesk Forge for developing parametric modellers for the Maritime industry using T-spline technology. We are wondering if there API in Forge for the usage of T-spline surfaces.
Many thanks!
Today, the only Forge service which uses T-Spline is Design Automation for Inventor.
Design Automation for Inventor is a service which allows you to run Autodesk Inventor kernel on the cloud. Your Inventor plug-in running on Inventor will be able to use Nurbs, T-Spline, Brep, iLogic, ... APIs.
I have found a plug-in to manually export schedules (rebar, production bom, material lists) from Revit models. However, our company is looking to automate this and take out the human required element of exporting these schedules.
I have not, so far, found a way in the Forge API (Revit Design Automation API) to access these schedules like a can with a custom plug in.
Is this support coming or is there a place to vote on this capability?
Thanks,
Chris
The Forge Design Automation API for Revit enables you to run the same .NET Revit API code as the Revit.exe executable on the Windows desktop. Therefore, you can probably convert the existing desktop add-in to run within the Forge environment. There is no missing capability, not additional support needed, and no need to vote for anything. The Building Coder has explored and documented how to migrate and convert existing desktop Revit API add-in code to run in the Forge design automation environment in the topic group on DA4R – Design Automation for Revit.
I have background in Inventor/Revit API development only, and need to learn enough JS to be able to work comfortably with the Forge APIs. I'll be booking myself into a JS training course to learn general skills, but what topics/modules must I definitely cover to have a solid foundation for Forge API development. I'll be working with BOM data, viewers and possibly web configurators.
Many thanks for your help.
We're a .Net shop that recently implemented the Forge Viewer for a client with Inventor Files. We built our service on top of Azure Functions and utilized as much .Net C# code as possible, as it is where we have the most experience and comfortability. The provided .Net SDK is very helpful: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Autodesk.Forge/.
The only API that you can't do entirely in .Net is the Viewer API. However, to get started I was able to use boilerplate code from the provided examples and get the models loading. From there I had our web developers get involved to handle the more extensive javascript programming for me.
Feel free to bounce any questions you may have off of me. We've just finished going down this road and it is very rewarding, but somewhat challenging at times for us .Net developers.
You need the JavaScript, as you already know. Take some time to improve security and OAuth authentication workflow. This sample includes most of it.
In most cases, you'll need a hybrid desktop app that can connect to the cloud, the image below (from the blog post) shows a generic approach for the architecture using Autodesk Forge (or any other cloud APIs).
BIM 360 Team has a nice built-in commenting tool that tracks issues. Is it possible if we can use the exact same feature inside Forge Viewer API? (my question may sound convoluted because I'm not a software engineer..) For any one who doesn't know the feature, please see below article. Any help is much appreciated.
https://blog.a360.autodesk.com/a360-release-enhanced-commenting-and-markup-tools/
Thanks!
Yes, it is definitely possible. The Autodesk development teams make use of Forge web services to implement A360 features. You have access to the same web services. You may even be able to peruse and analyse their code in the JavaScript debugger to see how they implement the client side user interface on top of the server side web service. In this case, the web service being used is the Issues API. More on that topic here:
http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2016/11/bim-360-docs-issues-forge-devday-and-accelerator.html#5