The Building Coder

Forge for AEC and BIM360 Overview

I am participating in a Digital Construction Live event in the UK next week and presenting there on Forge for the BIM domain. In preparation, I'll jot down some notes here on what I learned about this myself lately – Forge for AEC in Five Minutes – What do the Forge APIs do? – BIM360 – Connect the Docs – Overview – Packages – Platform and Subscriptions – Subscription Entitlements – Docs – Design – Glue – Build – Summary... Read more →

Autodesk University, Q1, ADN Labs and Wizard Update

I submitted my yearly Autodesk University proposal for the Revit API expert panel. Time for you to submit yours as well. The call for proposals closes in one week – the deadline is May 26th. Besides that, here are some other things I want to point out: Titbits from the Q1 report Autodesk University proposals ADN Revit API labs training material for Revit 2016 Updated Visual Studio add-in wizards for Revit 2016 Titbits from the Q1 Report Autodesk posted a... 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 →

Updated SDK, DevTV, BIM 360 News and Viewer

A whole bunch of updates, with the last one mentioned being the most exciting by far: Revit SDK Update Release 2 DevTV Introduction to Revit 2015 API Programming DevDay Online – BIM 360 Glue DevDay Online – BIM 360 Field Sneak Peek at the New Autodesk 360 Viewer Revit SDK Update Release 2 The Revit SDK provided on the Revit Developer Centre has been updated again to include the complete add-in manager, which was lacking in the last update labelled... Read more →

The 360 View

There is a new kid on the block! The 360 View is a blog providing technical resources about BIM 360 product families, including Glue and Field, including API coverage, by Manu Venugopal, Integration Expert in Autodesk Consulting and our ADN API liaison to the BIM 360 Glue product team. Manu and Mikako Harada, ADN AEC technical lead, worked together closely on the BIM 360 Glue API. Manu is the behind the scenes 'brain' for ADN support in this area and... Read more →

Text File Driven Automatic Placement of Family Instances

My colleague Emmanuel Di Giacomo recently asked me for an application to automatically place Revit family instances in a project at a list of X, Y, Z coordinates read from a text file. A similar add-in was already published for Revit 2011 at Revit Today. The user interface is minimal: This form enables the following simple and effective workflow to achieve a lot of functionality in very few lines of code, significantly aided and abetted by the combo box DataSource... Read more →

BIM 360 Glue REST API Authentication Using Python

I provided an overview of the BIM 360 Glue REST API and SDK last Friday and hinted at upcoming further exploration. Well, here it is already. Due to Autodesk University and the world-wide developer conferences, I had to skip my last education day, but this stuff was too exciting to wait any longer :-) So, unwilling to go for any length of time without trying out something new, I played a bit with the Glue API anyway. For fun, I... Read more →

The BIM 360 Glue Viewer and REST API

As you certainly know by now, Autodesk provides a range of powerful cloud-based solutions, specifically Autodesk 360, PLM 360 and BIM 360 Glue (reference). Of special interest to AEC developers, the BIM 360 Glue platform includes support for programming interfaces and a software development kit, the BIM 360 Glue SDK, providing a set of tools for developers to interface with it. The programming support consists of two distinct components: Display component: embeddable 3D viewer to provide visual access to models... Read more →