APS (Forge)
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Registration is now open for this year's AU: the first time it's been held in-person since 2019, and in a brand new city (for AU, at least), New Orleans. It's being held from September 27th to 29th, which will be here really soon! The early-bird pricing of $1,750 is available until July 23rd, at which point it slides upwards to $1,999 until August 12th and then on up to the full price of $2,250 from there. And if you can't make it in person to the event, there's still the option to attend virtually for free. Registration for the "digital…
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Back in September I talked a bit about using a plugin for Rollup – the package bundler we use for Project Dasher – to start optimizing the bundling and delivery of JavaScript code. Over the last few days I've come back to this topic, as I felt it was time to dig into some issues. Dasher has three primary pages: The index page, where you arrive when you visit the site. The projects dashboard, which you can access if you have login credentials for the site. The Dasher viewer page itself, which most of you will have accessed via the…
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If you've visited the Tandem website, this week, you may have seen a little footer saying "Unleash the power of digital twins with Tandem APIs | Now in Beta". This is interesting news for the many (100+, at the last count) developers using Forge to build digital twins. Those using Revit or IFC as a data-source will most probably find the possibility of building on Tandem to be of significant interest. If you click on the "Learn more about APIs" link to the right of the footer, you'll end up on a page that describes the API and SDK available…
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Today I've been in Munich for the inaugural event in the Forge Data Days tour. As I decided to attend at fairly short notice, I didn't even look into flights: flying from Geneva or Zurich to Munich is expensive at the best of times (considering the distance), and with less than a week of advance notice it would have been ridiculous. So I took the bus, which cost about $20 each way. It's an hour and half to get to Zurich from my place, and the direct bus to the centre of Munich took another four hours. Not bad, really.…
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I talked recently about the first in-person event tour that's been held for Forge developers in at least a few years, this time focused on the new Forge Data offering (including the Data Exchange API that's now in public beta). At the time I wasn't sure which event I'd attend: there's an in-person (finally!) Forge Accelerator next to the Barcelona event, which made that one especially interesting, for instance. In the end the timing for the Munich event worked best. I've now booked my hotel and bus ticket, and I'll be there for the first event in the global tour…
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The Autodesk Construction Cloud team kindly shared a post on LinkedIn, last week, about a project I participated in. There's a new book from Springer on "Innovation in Construction" for which I contributed a chapter called "Cutting-Edge Practical Research on Generative Design, IoT and Digital Twins". This chapter weighs in at 29 pages – of an overall 454 for the book – and here's its abstract: This chapter explores two areas of research undertaken by Autodesk over the last decade and how they both have the potential to impact the construction industry. The first area relates to the Internet of…
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A few events have happened over the last few weeks that I would have loved to have attended, had I had the energy (and been in better shape). The first was the grand opening of the Autodesk Gallery on May 11th. I received an invite – because of my participation in the NEST project – but as I was planning on actually being at the NEST building that day I declined. And I ended up being home with Covid, so there's that. The gallery was opened by SF Mayor London Breed. Here's a snap of Andrew Anagnost showing the NEST…
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The amazing Mike Lee – who has been doing a great job of driving the timeline project for Dasher – has used his sleuthing skills to figure out a way around the bug affecting Intel-based Macs running Chrome v100 on Monterey. He was about to submit a bug when he discovered this ticket filed against Chromium, and a workaround buried within in. (Mike has since gone ahead and submitted his own report tracking this.) You need to go to chrome://flags and disable "Use passthrough command decoder". After restarting Chrome and launching Dasher, you should now see the timeline is back.…
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This week we've updated the Project Dasher site with a new build – the first update we've made in nearly a year. (I've talked about some of the rewrite work in a previous post, but it's taken a while to get around to making it all available.) One of the major improvements has been with the timeline component. At some point in the future I'll spend some time talking more about the timeline's features – it's available publicly via NPM and is integrated into the Forge viewer's Data Visualization extension reference application – but for now I just wanted to…
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Back in September we started the work to integrate the (currently still internal) SDK for Autodesk Tandem into Project Dasher. This is what I've referred to, in the past, as "Tandem inside Dasher" (as opposed to "Dasher inside Tandem"). The work hasn't been happening constantly: it's been intermittent, as changes were needed to both Tandem and the core Forge viewer to support certain workflows. I'm happy to say that, as of this week, the integration is pretty close to having parity with the version based on the traditional Forge viewer, with a few gaps that should be filled in over…