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Last week David Falck, over at the Autodesk Labs team, provided me with an API key to have a play with the API to Project Draw. This post documents what I did, and how it all worked. Note: I'm not actually doing any coding whatsoever in this post: I used the handy API test page provided by the Autodesk Labs team, and so didn't need to write a single line of code. So, first of all, you'll need an API key. Here's the one I got from the Draw team: th1SIsnOTreAlLyMyapIkeyOfCourSE Just kidding. I've changed the above key for the…
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Over on It's Alive in the Lab, Scott Sheppard is looking for developers interested in working with the API to Project Draw. If you're interested, send an email.
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I touched on this subject a few weeks ago in part 2 of my DWF-related AU handout, but thought I'd come back and describe in more depth some of the fun (although a more accurate word might be "difficulty" 🙂 I had solving this problem. I've been playing around with web services and XML since SaaS was still known as ASP, and have tried to stay up-to-date with the technology as best I can. I'm really a client-side programmer, all things considered: I've created some server-side code, but have mostly involved myself with desktop-oriented programming and creation of samples that…
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[This post continues from part 1 of this series. The source for the below applications is available here: DWF Toolkit application source, Design Review application source & Freewheel application source.] Mining the data with the DWF Toolkit Now we're going to look at using the DWF Toolkit – the freely available, cross platform toolkit for creating and reading DWF files – to extract the "identity" and "material" metadata associated with our geometry. The DWF Toolkit is a C++ toolkit, so we have two components to our project: A C++ DLL that uses the DWF Toolkit to read a DWF, storing…