Graphics system
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In the last post we saw how we could integrate an HTML and JavaScript palette hosting Cytoscape.js into AutoCAD to map progress made in a text adventure. In today's post we take the additional step of converting the graph data into AutoCAD geometry. To be clear, there's a bit more to this post than having […]
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I mostly despise jetlag but once in a while manage to harness it for something positive. I remember some great trips to Asia, waking up at strange times to experience the dawn, walking the streets and seeing everyday life starting up around me. These days I typically find jetlag to be a bit of a […]
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This is a problem that developers have been struggling with for some time, and it came up again at the recent Cloud Accelerator: how to control the display of AutoCAD geometry at a per-viewport level, perhaps to implement your own "isolate in a viewport" command. It's certainly possible to control layer visibility at the viewport […]
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Happy Friday! It's time to unveil the completed Star Wars opening crawl inside AutoCAD… After an intro and seeing various pieces implemented, in today's post we're going to add the crawl text and animate its movement into the distance. The initial blue text The theme music The star field The disappearing Star Wars logo The […]
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Now that we've introduced the series and seen how to add some introductory text, theme music and a field of stars, it's time for the Star Wars logo. The initial blue text The theme music The star field The disappearing Star Wars logo The crawling text The logo came, once again, from the HTML opening […]
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After introducing this series in the last post, today we're going to address the first 3 items on our TODO list: The initial blue text The theme music The star field The disappearing Star Wars logo The crawling text The following two items are fairly significant, in their own right, so they'll each take a […]
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Happy New Year, everyone! As mentioned in the last post, I took a couple of weeks off over the holiday period, extending Autodesk's annual "week of rest" between Christmas and New Year to a full fortnight. This time of year clearly has religious significance for many. Some go to church, to temple or even to […]
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After introducing the topic, showing a basic stereoscopic viewer using the Autodesk 360 viewer and then adding full-screen and device-tilt navigation, today we're going to extend our UI to allow viewing of multiple models. Firstly it's worth pointing out that for models to be accessible by the viewer that makes use of my client credentials, […]
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I'm heading out the door in a few minutes to take the train to Zurich and a (thankfully direct) flight from there to San Francisco. I'll have time on the flight to write up the next part in the series, so all will be in place for this weekend's VR Hackathon. In today's post we're […]
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After yesterday's introduction to this series of posts, today we're going to dive into some specifics, implementing a basic, web-based, stereoscopic viewer. While this series of posts is really about using Google Cardboard to view Autodesk 360 models in 3D (an interesting topic, I hope you'll agree ;-), it's also about how easily you can […]