APS (Forge)
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During last week's Forge Accelerator, a developer wanted to strip the standard items from the context menu in his Forge Viewer application. We both searched for a while, until we found the answer: he'd been using this approach to add his own menu items – of course – but it turns out the exact same approach can be used to strip out unwanted items, too. The "context menu callback" receives a menu object that contains its various items: you can inspect them and remove the ones you don't want, or even adopt a more brute-force approach as we've done below and…
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Halloween nearly passed me by completely, this year: the kids did dress up on Friday night – and we had some trick-or-treaters come by over the weekend and this evening – but things have been so hectic, lately, that we didn't hold our (in recent years) annual Halloween party. Next year we'll hopefully have the energy to do another one. To celebrate the occasion in a modest way, at least, I found a nice pumpkin model on the Fusion 360 gallery and uploaded it to Vrok-It: You'll find it on the left-sash at the top of the list (for now,…
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This is the second time I've been at a Forge Accelerator this year in Munich, and it seems it won't be the last: there'll be another one in early December, adjacent to the European DevDay being held here, and I'm pretty certain I'll be back across for that. It was a fun, whirlwind three days. The weather was nice when I arrived at the office on Monday morning – here's a view across towards one of the nearby buildings. We had lots of participants, which was great. Here's one of the rooms we occupied: The weather was nice enough on…
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Over the weekend I managed to wind down nicely after giving 10+ hours of HoloLens demos on Thursday and Friday at our Design Night events (it may well have been less, but feels like it was much more). In advance of the Design Night, I'd recorded a video that I ended up putting on a loop during the event. It was an effective way for people coming near the HoloLens exhibit to understand what it was all about. What was particularly interesting to me was whether people understood – or even thought to question – how this video was made.…
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The Autodesk App Store Forge and Fusion 360 Hackathon is in full swing. It's running for another month (until October 31st), so if you're interested in earning some money for publishing apps to the Autodesk App Store, there's still time to register. The webcasts being broadcast as part of the Hackathon are of value to people who aren't interested in participating, this time around, of course. Here are the first three – there's another on the Forge Viewer API scheduled for later today. Happy viewing!
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Hot on the heels of our own, internal Hackathon (although, strictly speaking, this one started before it) there's another external Hackathon running until the end of October. This one's about developing apps using Forge or Fusion 360 and submitting said apps to the Autodesk App Store. The event really has two distinct parts: A series of webinars and Q&A sessions where you can learn about Forge and Fusion 360 development These are free and open to all: there's absolutely no commitment needed to attend An online Hackathon with a financial incentive for you to submit your Forge or Fusion 360…
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This week has been a little hectic, once again. Yesterday I spent the morning back across at ETH Zurich, speaking with members of the Block Research Group about Forge, Dynamo and HoloLens. They've just moved into a brand new building labelled HIB – where the various schools at ETH focusing on architecture from a technological perspective will be co-located – but as it's so new it's yet to be sign-posted. I eventually did find it, but not without asking for directions from 5 different people. Inside the ceiling is pretty cool: they've used a combination of skylights for natural light…
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In the IoT-related (and Forge Viewer-based) prototype I'm spending most of my time working on, we have a long startup operation that instantiates a number of arrays of data with information derived from the BIM. This operation only really needs to be done once per model – every user will get exactly the same information from the model that's loaded in their own browser instance – but we were calculating it on every load of the model in the Forge Viewer. The question I'd like to look at in this post is the appropriate method for memoization of this function…
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I've been spending quite a bit of time working on our "Dasher 360" prototype, recently. Which is, of course, based on the Forge Viewer. A simple – but handy – feature I added today is to add a context menu item to be displayed when objects are selected – and right-clicked – inside the Viewer. In my case I wanted to prototype a possible workflow for a "Send to HoloLens" capability: the feature itself isn't ready (that's what you might call an extreme understatement), but I thought I'd add the menu item in preparation for something being implemented. Here's a…
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I'm happy to report that a HoloLens device has arrived in the Neuchâtel office. I'm meant to be on holiday, next week, but as the kids are signed up for various fun activities of their own I foresee some amount of fooling around with HoloLens in my immediate future. 🙂 I was pleased to see a few HoloLens devices floating around at the recent Forge DevCon. In some cases it was inevitable – in that one of our speakers, Dona Sarkar, comes from the HoloLens team and also participated in the SFVR Meetup at the DevCon – but a nice…