The Building Coder

Flipping a Section View and Forge Webinar 3

I already created a starting point for the new roomedit3d incarnation last week, in its own repository. This week, I agreed with Philippe to retain the new project in an own branch within the Forge boilerplate code sample collection. Hopefully, that will simplify keeping my BIM sample synchronised with any future updates make to that. Now I need to get started implementing and testing the actual viewer extension functionality itself. My main topic today is something different and purely Revit API oriented, besides the next Forge session – Flipping a section view – Forge webinar series... Read more →

The Birth of Roomedit3dv3 and Forge Webinar 2

I made my choice on the starting point for the new roomedit3d incarnation, and the second Forge webinar was successfully held – The birth of Roomedit3dv3 – Forge webinar session 2 on OAuth and the Data Management API... Read more →

Forge Webinar Series and Roomedit Starting Points

I am still in the initial steps of preparing for my upcoming presentations on connecting the desktop and the cloud and exploring more Forge sample starting points. At the same time, we are in the midst of the Forge and AppStore online hackathon webinars, with one down and nine more to come – More Roomedit3dv3 starting points – Forge webinar series... Read more →

Self-Organising Architecture, Voxel-Based Energy Analysis

I had an interesting chat last week with a group of students from the University of Augsburg on how to perform energy analysis on a bunch of autonomously assembled small building blocks, such as a colony of ants might put together. How can the resulting small building blocks be converted to a valid Revit BIM that can be used for building performance analysis? – BPA is now Insight360 – Self-organising construction and architecture – Back to the ants – project summary – Q & A – Two different energy model types... Read more →

ADN Becomes Forge and Barcelona Accelerator

Our fearless leader Jim Quanci already explained the importance of our Forge platform and his vision of the future of making things. Now, after more than 20 years, the time has come to change the name of our team, ADN, the Autodesk Developer Network – It's time for a change – Forge and Cloud – Forge Accelerator in Barcelona – The Block Research Group at ETHZ... Read more →

BIM 360 Docs, Add-In Folders, Stallman and Abc

I am going to the University of Bern this afternoon to listen to Richard Stallman speak For A Free Digital Society. Here are some other recent and not-so-recent topics – BIM 360 Docs – Richard Stallman in Switzerland – Is the abc conjecture proven? – Add-In Folders – BIM 360 Docs is the new Autodesk platform for construction document management. It provides web services to ensure that the entire project team is always building from the correct version of documents, plans, and models... Read more →

What Can Revit on the Cloud Do For You?

Dear Revit API Add-in Developer Community, this is The Building Coder Post nr. 1400! 1400 is the number of different arrangements of four non-attacking queens on a 4×10 chessboard. I am using this happy special occasion to ask you an important and hopefully very popular question: What Can Revit on the Cloud Do For You? Would you like to run Revit on a Server? Are you looking for a Revit I/O, similar to AutoCAD I/O? What does Revit on the Cloud look like in your dreams? Could you make use of RealRVT, something similar to RealDWG, to programmatically access, create and modify a complete BIM without installing Revit? Read more →

BIM Programming Madrid and Spanish Connectivity

I spent this week in Madrid, presenting at the BIM Programming conference and teaching the subsequent two-day workshop on the Revit API and connecting the desktop and the cloud – BIM Programming mainstage presentation – The Spanish nature of connectivity – Castafiore – Zazen – Matins – AlphaGo, machine learning and intuition... Read more →

Era of Connection, Families and Data Handling

Let's end this week by taking a look at two new AEC and BIM related publications: a new Autodesk eBook, Era of Connection, and a Dutch architectural design student project exploring Revit families and data handling – Era of Connection – Revit Families and Data Handling... Read more →

Happy New Top CAD Blog, Public Models and Forge

Happy New Year! I had a really good break, although I spent the last ten days being ill and coming to grips with a serious sinusitis. I was still able to climb the Schafberg at Wildhaus once – Autodesk Forge Accelerator – Top CAD Blogs of 2015 – Public Revit models... Read more →

Markdown, Fusion Accelerator $$$, Revisions and Bulk Upgrade

Today, I discuss my new Markdown blog post format, Fusion 360, the Fusion accelerator and a couple of Revit issues: Using the Markdown blog post format; Fusion 360; Fusion 360 for game artists; Fusion 360 accelerator; The Revit Revision API; Running a background bulk upgrade batch, Banksy's Dismaland bemusement park... Read more →

A360 Viewer Widget and Selecting a DWG Export Setup

Today, let's look at the new A360 embeddable viewer widget and selecting a DWG export setup. A360 Embeddable Viewer Widget The Autodesk View and Data API makes easy it to interactively view and explore a 3D model in the browser without any further software whatsoever. As I just mentioned in the discussion on 50 ways to view your model, the new A360 Viewer Widget simplifies it further still, using a widget that can be embedded in web pages to view... Read more →

First Cloud Accelerator Success – Second Coming Up

The first Autodesk Cloud Accelerator completed last week with great success. As a result, the Autodesk Cloud Accelerator v2 has already been announced, in quick succession, on June 1-12, 2015. What is this cloud accelerator thing? Simply put, a two-week intensive workshop for creative developers, hosted by Autodesk in San Francisco, to expand your business in the cloud. Read more about it on the web site and in my announcement of the first Autodesk Cloud Accelerator two months ago. Apply... Read more →

Handling Transaction Status and Errors

Today, let's discuss how to handle transaction status and errors, quickly, before Autodesk University and my stint of DevDays conferences begins on Monday. I also briefly touch on programmatic file upload to A360, my arrival in Las Vegas and current reading. By the way, this is a special post for me, being the number 1250. In the olden days, every new century of posts was important... now it is five quarters of a millennium. So I have something to celebrate... Read more →

Autodesk View and Data API Webinar

I listed a whole bunch of upcoming events last week. Now I have yet another one to announce, a webinar introducing the Autodesk View and Data API, immediately preceding the exchange apps hackathon. Autodesk Exchange Apps Hackathon – September 20-21, 2014 There are less than two weeks left before the Autodesk Exchange Apps Hackathon, a two-day virtual web based coding 'festival' that will run from September 20 through to September 21, 2014. This year's event is bigger and better than... Read more →

View and Data API Presentation Material

I presented the Autodesk View and Data API at the Basel.js meetup yesterday evening. Now I would like to share the material that I showed with you as well: Appetiser demos Introduction Slide deck and notes Curl shell scripts for authorisation, model upload and translation Demo script Resources Holiday and vacation This should provide a handy snapshot and point of reference for my colleagues as well :-) Appetiser Demos Before we even start talking about this, let's take a really... Read more →

Basel.js Meetup View and Data API Demo

I am busy right now answering Revit API cases as usual, and preparing my Basel.js meetup View and Data API presentation for tomorrow evening. One of the cases caused me to add yet another iteration to last Friday's note on how to empower yourself to search for an answer on the Internet. Also, before I get to the technical stuff, let me mention that I went climbing again last weekend, after a long break, and in spite of the rather... Read more →

BIM 360 Growing Fast

I normally don't go and reprint press releases. They mostly don't have that much technical content, anyway :-) This one is important enough to warrant it, though, and may easily have slipped by you unnoticed if you are purely focussed on the Revit API and desktop applications. Let's look at: A press release on BIM 360 growth Conclusion Two reading recommendations Building and Infrastructure Industry Customers Surge to Autodesk in Fourth Quarter Autodesk BIM 360 Cloud Services for Construction Among... Read more →