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Now that registration is open for Autodesk University 2014, people are busy signing up for classes. For those of you who are curious about the classes I'm delivering/hosting/attending at this year's event, here they are. I'll break things down day-by-day, in case you're interested in finding an opportunity to meet up but can't attend one of my sessions. Monday (Dec 1st) I'll be attending the ADN DevDay, all day. Always lots of great information to absorb there, of course (jetlag permitting ;-). Tuesday (Dec 2nd) I'll be hanging out at the ADN DevHack for most of the afternoon, although I…
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In the last post we saw the process for getting content uploaded to Autodesk storage and translated into the format required by the Autodesk 360 viewer. In this post we're going to show the steps to take that data and embed it in a "simple" HTML page. (Any complex capability in this page it's due to the UI code that Dan Wellman kindly allowed me to borrow for the sample: otherwise what it does is very simple indeed.) There are, of course, more complex samples that the ADN team has developed to demonstrate the richness of the new View &…
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Over the next few posts we're going to take a look at the steps needed to build the Steampunk Morgan Viewer, my first sample using Autodesk's new View & Data API. In today's post we're going to look at the steps needed to host content to be served up to instances of the viewer. In a subsequent post we'll look at the client-side implementation, connecting to and streaming down content and controlling how it gets viewed. So let's start with some basics. The first thing you need to do when working with the new View & Data API is to…
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As mentioned last week, I've been having fun with Fusion 360 to prepare a model to be displayed in the new Autodesk 360 viewer. The sample is now ready to view, although I'm not yet quite ready to post the code directly here, mainly because the API isn't yet publicly usable. Here's the app for you to take for a spin, as it were. The Autodesk 360 Viewing & Data API is currently being piloted by a few key partners, and hopefully we'll soon be broadening the scope to allow others to get involved (we first have to iron out…
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My friends in the Autodesk Developer Network team asked me to get involved with creating a sample for the API we're planning to launch soon for the new Autodesk 360 viewer. They were quite specific about the requirements, which was very helpful: something fun, perhaps with a steampunk theme, that shows some interesting possibilities around both the HTML5 container and the embedded viewer. I was also suggested the Morgan 3 Wheeler as a possible model to look into hosting, so I really didn't need to be asked twice. ๐ I started by tracking down a model: I ended up using…
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Most of this week I've been heads-down trying to finish a sample demonstrating the API that's coming for the new Autodesk 360 viewer (of which we saw a sneak peek in this recent post), so today I don't have much to talk about. The sample is pretty cool and involves my favourite car. But hopefully you'll be able to see it in action before too long, so there's really no need to say more about it, for now. ๐ A good portion of this blog's readership is currently grilling meat and celebrating the 4th of July, so I won't beat…
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Just a quick post to finish up the week: over on ProgrammableWeb, there's a nice article talking about the new ReCap Photo Web API and how a number of developers are making use of it to drive interesting new categories of application, such as products creating designs for custom hearing aids or automating the 4D capture of construction sites. Really cool stuff. We'll be talking more about web APIs over the coming weeks. Watch this space!
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For those of you who have signed up for the Autodesk 360 Technical Preview, you may well have already gotten a taste for its new viewing capability. Upload a 3D model of pretty much any format (the list is pretty exhaustive and goes well beyond Autodesk's own formats, but you might try with DWG, RVT, IAM, IPT, NWD and DWF, to name a few to get you started) and you'll see the viewer enabled for that model: Before we go on, please bear in mind that this is very much still in Beta: it's early days and the team is…
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This was a fun one. It was really only a single line of code but I decided to embellish it a bit to make it a bit more useful. The "task" I set myself was to open a web-page โ this blog, in fact โ inside AutoCAD as an MDI child. AutoCAD can now host web-pages directly inside its MDI frame โ the New Tab Page is a great example of that โ and this mechanism can be used for external applications, too. You can also load non-HTML documents into the frame, but it's quick and easy to use HTML.…
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I've been looking for an interesting problem to solve using MapReduce for some time now. I've been curious about the paradigm and how it can be applied to churn through large sets of data across multiple processing cores: something that's especially relevant as we need to distribute processing โ whether to cores that are local or up in the cloud โ in order to improve software performance. I talked about much of this when I looked at F#'s Asynchronous Workflows way back when (nearly 6 years ago โ ouch). MapReduce frameworks โ and there are a number out there: in…