“What is the difference between A360 viewer and Glue viewer?” This is a question that I receive every once in a while. (Here we are using word “A360 Viewer” as View and Data API, and will use both forms interchangeably in this post.) As a developer who is planning to... Read more →
Back in February, I wrote about the overview of View and Data API, followed by a series of “Intro Labs” as a way to learn how to get started with the API. Jim Quanci, the senior director of Autodesk Developer Network, was recently showing off a few interesting Web sites... Read more →
Here is yet another tool that you might find useful if you are working with REST API, serializing and deserializing a lot. json2csharp (http://json2csharp.com/) is an online tool which generates C# classes from a given JSON string. You can take any JSON string, copy and paste to the web page,... Read more →
This question came from Joe Augustino through a forum post. I finally managed to clean up a sample for a blog post. Q. I'm having trouble creating a merged model. I tried it using the Test Harness, but it is returning "Bad Request" each time. I can manually create it... Read more →
BIM 360 Glue and REST APIs are becoming very popular among our partners and customers who wants to interact with the project data in BIM 360 cloud. The Glue Viewer allows users to pass some of the parameters to an embeddable viewer to visualize live BIM data through 3rd party applications and browsers. A lesser known fact is BIM 360 Glue's Javascript APIs, that allows users to interact with the Model View for rich bi-directional workflows. Read more →
Earlier this month, DevTech Americas team got together at Autodesk San Francisco office and held an annual team meeting. In day-to-day interaction, our team is “virtual”, meaning that each member is based in a different geographically location, and our communication is always through the Internet. Having an opportunity to get... Read more →
(This is a continuation from the previous post: Lab3 "Field API Web Intro") The last piece of functionalities that we want to add to our Intro Labs app is a simple reporting feature. We will add a chart that shows the number of issues sorted by status (i.e., Open, Completed,... Read more →
(This is a continuation from the previous post: Lab2 "Field API Intro") So far, we have written a program that is a desktop client application. Next, we will write a simple ASP.NET web application. For now, we keep the basic functionality same as Lab2 (i.e., login, get a list of... Read more →
(This is a continuation from the previous post: Lab1 “Hello Field World”.) In Lab1, we learned how to obtain a ticket or authenticate, and got familiarized ourselves with the basics of REST call. In this lab, we retrieve a list of issues in a project. We then create a new... Read more →
How to extend BIM’s values from design and construction phase to facility operation and maintenance (O&M) phase? This is a question that many facility owners with pioneering spirits have been asking. All the valuable information captured in the design and construction process does not have to die after the handover – it can connect with existing Facilities Management (FM) applications and serve as digitized data repository to be used for O&M purposes. Read more →