just wonder if it's doable to have app w/ functions like discussion forum so every project member can discuss project related stuff? i don't think BIM 360 already have such function, does it?
any Forge sample w/ similar function will be greatly appreciated
You are correct - there is no "chat" or "discussion" functionality in BIM 360. Collaboration for Revit used to have "chat features". But it was dropped. I assume that the product team still have plenty of design/construction specific features to prioritize. If our partners can do, it will be wonderful. I don't think there is any samples.
I remember one partner who joined the accelerator, (last year?), who had a project to integrating his chat features with some of forge functionality.
Are you looking to develop yourself? Or potentially looking for integration partner? If the latter, I may be able to dig out old e-mails find out a contact for you.
Just 4fun, script for creating folders in BIM360 http://project4871511.tilda.ws/ U can download this JS and using in your Forge APP
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Anybody recommend any backends or frameworks for Forge?
I'm seeing resources for Nodejs, PHP, .Net Core and others which are for the backend.
Are any of these any more convenient or dependable with Forge than the others?
I also know Python and thought Django would be another option but I don't see too many resources on the Python side of things.
Any perspectives on the tools (pro or con) would be great.
The more I understand the kinds of tech stacks, user projects and ways people use Forge to expand on BIM 360 and other APIs the more it can help me and the community get familiar with the service.
This relies completely on the excisting stack used by your company. Forge is a collection of API's accessible via endpoints.
Any library just abstracts the calls away in a accesible way. I've had moderate succes with the dotnet core Forge package, it works very well but you are giving away some strict typing.
If you dont wanna be bound by abstractions made by other people, create your own ! This will ultimately lead to the most lightweight solution since you are only creating what you need.
Cheers
I am working on a training a translation system using the Microsoft Custom Translator. However, I need to be able to share it with other members of my organization. How would I go about sharing a project with another member of my organization?
Thanks,
Tymoore Jamal
Currently, we do not support project sharing with other users. This is a feature we are working on and plan to ship when Custom Translator comes out of preview and is released.
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
With the launch of Google Drive, i have been looking over the API and information available. I failed to find example or information that its even possible.
I would like to create a editor that two users can collaborate within at the same time. We all seen how google's own editor can do this.
The idea is for creating a demo where two programmers can work on the same project and work on the same files replacing subversion or other team solutions with a alternative solution.
Anyone able to find any examples in the google api or elsewhere, or better yet able to share some experience/code.
I assume its possible as WeVideo release an app for collaborate video editing.
Currently, the Drive SDK doesn't offer this feature, sorry. Those apps that are achieving this are performing the collaborative aspects by themselves.
The SDK does support ETags so that your app can check that the file content has not been changed since it loaded the data, which will help.
Google Drive now has the Realtime API (as of 2013, I think).