APS (Forge)
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Autodesk has maintained a health dashboard for its cloud products for quite some time. The good news for Forge developers is that – just in time for next week's Accelerator in Barcelona – Forge has been added as a line item: Given the internal response to the technical issues we experienced during the last Accelerator I attended in Munich, I'm pretty sure we'll be green through the week in Barcelona. Let's hope so, anyway! One great feature of the dashboard is the ability to subscribe to notifications: once you've signed in you'll have the option to do so via the…
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OK, so that was perhaps a little mad. Earlier today I spent 5 hours on the train – going from Neuchatel to Zurich and then on the new SBB service via the Gotthard Base Tunnel – to get to Milan, had a coffee with my uncle (who lives and works nearby), gave a 30-minute presentation on Forge and AR/VR at a Meetup, and then spent 4.5 hours on more trains – this time going towards Geneva on the EuroCity (formerly Cisalpino), and then changing at Brig to head via Bern – to get home. This was the main train there…
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On Tuesday, I'll be travelling to Milan and back (on the same day, by train) to present at a "3D / Mixed Reality" Meetup hosted at the beautiful new Microsoft House, headquarters of Microsoft Italia. I'll be talking about Forge and AR/VR, and I'll no doubt include a Dancing Robot or two, I expect. It's pretty cool to be visiting Microsoft House: it was designed by Swiss architect Herzog & De Meuron (a good customer of Autodesk's who I visited earlier this year in Basel) and it looks absolutely stunning. Many thanks to Giorgio Mazzucchelli for extending the invitation to…
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I was asked recently by Bill Debevc to talk about Dasher 360 during an interview for the BIM Thoughts podcast series. It was certainly fun chatting about the project with Bill. I'm happy to see that the podcast is now live on the BIM Thoughts site. Enjoy!
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Most of my team has been 100% focused on an event taking place in Toronto, this week, the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (or SimAUD). This is a really interesting conference for people working in our space: I'm looking forward to attending myself, at some point. As the only non-Toronto based member of the team, it made sense for me to skip it (and given the fact I'm about to embark on a 6-month trip – including some time in Toronto – I didn't even suggest that I attend). This meant that I ended up spending the…
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We've been busy working on a number of interesting features for Dasher 360 over the last few weeks. The main focus – at least from my side – has been to extend the filtering capability to allow people to filter sensors based on type and their location in the model. Not only that, but the filtering is reflected in realtime in the list of sensors, even when highlighting different areas of the model via the site's breadcrumbs. I wasn't sure if this was going to be viable – mainly for performance reasons – but for now it seems to work…
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We're now in the last few days before the AU2017 – and Forge DevCon 2017 – CFP deadline on May 17th, 2017. Submit your class today! I'm particularly interested in your proposals related to Virtual, Mixed or Augmented Reality: despite not being able to attend the event, myself, I'm still running the AR/VR track. So – if you have a cool project that involves software development for AR/VR, ideally involving the Forge platform in some way – then submit your proposal with "Software Development" as a relevant topic and "Forge DevCon" as a pre-conference event. I'll be involved in the…
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The AU2017 call for proposals is now open. The event is being held from November 14-16 in Las Vegas. Being accepted as a presenter is a great way to get exposure within the Autodesk community, as well as being a sure-fire way of attending the conference itself. Something that's likely to be of interest to this blog's readers: this year's Forge DevCon is now sharing the same CFP process as AU2017 (as some of you may be aware, the DevCon has shifted from its original June date in SF to being held on the Monday before AU starts). So if…
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One year ago today, on April 20th, 2016, Dasher 360 was born. Here's the email I sent one year ago to Simon – the other developer working on the project – on creation of the Git repo. For the first day of its life, Dasher 360 didn't even embed the Forge viewer. 🙂 Things have come a long way over the last 12 months: Dasher 360 now has a significant number of the features originally found in the desktop version of Dasher, plus a few extra besides. Of course there's always more to do, but it feels as though we've…
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To follow up on the last post – where we talked about adding a custom tool to provide better support for pinch gestures – today we're going to talk about some other possibilities for supporting touch in the Forge viewer. Once again we're using Autodesk.Viewing.ToolController & ToolInterface. The Forge viewer uses Hammer.js internally to support touch, so that's one good place to look for clues on how things work. (Groan – I've just realised why it's called "Hammer"… "you CAN touch this!" 🙂 I was looking into how to support both "touch-capable" (i.e. they also have mouse & keyboard input)…