Autodesk View and Data API is a platform technology that allows the user to upload a model in the Autodesk cloud storage and to view it in a modern Web browser. This is the technology that Autodesk is using internally as well. For example, A360 Collaboration for Revit (C4R) has... Read more →
I switched to an Apple Macbook Pro three years back and has been using it ever since at work and home. Running BIM 360 Glue or Navisworks in a Windows virtual machine using Parallels has become such a breeze that I barely have to pause. It took me a while... Read more →
I have posted existing materials about Glue API to this blog for the last several weeks. Trying to point to those while replying to inquiries, I realize that it is getting a little difficult to tell where to start. So here it is, I’m putting them together here as an... Read more →
I had a lot of fun today. I participated an introductory workshop for Arduino. Rick Rundell, Senior Director from the CTO office, was sympathetic to the employees who are stuck in the snow in the area and organized the event at Autodesk Waltham office. We had a pleasure to have... Read more →
A few weeks ago, we wrote about the event called "CITA Smart Collaboration Challenge" in Dublin, Ireland. Ralph Montague of ArcDox kindly sent us a list of links to the recordings from the event on youtube. In case you are interested in, here is the list: Keynote: Chuck Eastman Keynote:... Read more →
There are many forms of love in our world. Here is one in the form of mathematical equation (*1): x = 16 (sin ^ 3)(t) y = 13 cos t - 5 cos (2 t) - 2 cos (3 t) - cos (4 t). Happy Valentine's Day! Mikako *1) Weisstein,... Read more →
Every Revit element has a property called UniqueId. As the name suggests, it’s an unique identifier of an element in Revit. At glance, it looks like GUID. But it actually has additional eight (8) characters at the end. It was added for API users in order to uniquely identify each... Read more →
Last week, I mentioned about Glue API versioning and pointed out a small number of deprecated calls. As I see two of our older samples are still using those deprecated calls, I updated them to use the newer ones: BIM 360 Glue SDK Test Harness BIM 360 Glue SDK Sample... Read more →
If you are planning a BIM pilot project or looking to review your current workflows, and practices, here are two great resources for you. Happy reading! 1. BIM Deployment Workbook Get the Autodesk® BIM Pilot Deployment Workbook. It’s a step-by-step guide to launching a BIM pilot for construction professionals. 2.... Read more →
The document library in BIM 360 Field has seen a lot of improvements in recent times including mark up improvements and linking documents, etc. and according to the team - we're not done yet! Last week saw updates to how Document versions are managed in Library and this update also improved the Publish API for importing documents to the library. Let us take a quick look at the most recent updates. Read more →