PaaS
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Many of you have been using Forge services to good effect, whether the Forge viewer or the Data Management, Model Derivative and Design Automation APIs. There's lots of really cool stuff you can do with Forge – we use it heavily in Dasher 360, for instance – but the existing services are largely engineered to […]
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For most of the week – while at the Forge Accelerator in Barcelona – I sat next to an acquaintance (I'm happy to now call a friend) from Amazon Web Services: Tom "Elvis" Jones. Tom is a solution architect at AWS and has been to a number of Forge-related events over the last year or […]
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Over the last few days I've been working to improve support for touch devices in Dasher 360: the primary focus is on touch-enabled TVs and monitors, but I've been doing much of the testing for this on my mobile phone. Which means things are steadily getting better for people wanting to use phones and tablets […]
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It's been a challenging few days of "acceleration" in Munich. We've had a large, highly motivated crowd, which has definitely been a highlight. On the lowlight side, during the last 24 hours we've had our first major outage of the Forge platform. A core service, ACM – our Access Control Manager – went down early […]
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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 […]
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There's a new WebGL-based technology being developed by Autodesk and it's completely awesome. And you can request access to it today. Project Play has been in development for some time. It has some shared lineage with the Smithsonian X 3D Explorer – although I'm not sure to what extent, if any, they share code – […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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This question has come up more than a few times over the last year or so: I remember a number of Revit developers hitting it when creating Viewer applications at the accelerators in Munich and Prague, for instance. The problem appears to be that RVT files – when translated and loaded into the Viewer – […]
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With such a great first day at the Forge DevCon, how would the second (and final) day compare? Here it is, in pictures. 🙂 As for the first day, Jim Quanci, my long-time friend and former boss, acted as Master of Ceremonies. The first external presenter was Chris Anderson – who I mentioned yesterday. Chris […]