This years Autodesk North American Construction Customer council meetings were held last week on June 23-24. DAQRI hosted the council meeting at their facilities in Los Angeles, CA. This years meetings focused on the latest developments with initiatives and trends such as production planning, collaboration, building operations, the internet of things, wearable technology in the field and more. I was thrilled at the chance to experience the Smart Helmet being developed by DAQRI. Setting a new standard for industrial, professional-grade wearables, DAQRI Smart Helmet realizes the true potential of augmented reality and 4D in the enterprise space. Read more →

While updating to the latest Field iPad app, I've noticed this: Indeed, BiM 360 Field iPad app shows in German when your language setting of your iPad is German: This is certainly a big productivity help for those whose native language is German. Personally, this also gives me a high... Read more →

The second Autodesk Cloud Accelerator program was held from June 1 - June 12 in Autodesk San Francisco Office. Around 10 partners from around the world spend two weeks developing their applications on Autodesk Cloud Platform. I had the opportunity to attend the kick off and spend time with some of them discussing the BIM 360 APIs and the potential for integrations using the same.Developers from these partner companies got a chance to work intensively on their chosen project with the help, support and training of the Autodesk Cloud Engineering teams. The projects involved the use of any Autodesk cloud technology API – View and Data, Autodesk BIM 360, AutoCAD I/O, Autodesk InfraWorks 360 or Autodesk ReCap. It is such a great opportunity to accelerate your development with face-to-face advice and support from Autodesk cloud technology experts. Read more →

Here is another form of mathematical equation (polar equation) on canvas, a five-leaved rose: r = sin ( 5 * θ ) Happy Father's Day! Mikako Read more →

Here is the first question that I received about Point Layout API. Q. In the Glue API reference document, I see there are APIs for Point Layout. But it looks to me that they are points of a model only. Do we have any API to get point data coming... Read more →

Q. I’m a project admin for a Glue project. Using company_roster REST call, I can get a list of users who are in other projects and not necessarily in my project. Is this intended behavior? A. Yes, this is the way it is designed. The primary reason is that the... Read more →

There was a big festival-like atmosphere at City Hall Plaza in Boston on Thursday evening. There was the event called Boston TechJam. It’s a networking event for tech companies with the goal of fostering startups and innovators, allowing them to showcase their latest technologies. There was food, beers, music, and... Read more →

Here is another question I got today. Q. I’m using Field Checklists API to retrieve Checklists. But I cannot seem to distinguish items under different sections. A. First, please make sure you use APIs under /fieldapi/. /api/get_checklists is deprecated. You can use the following two REST calls to retrieve checklists... Read more →

Back in February, I pointed out four deprecated Glue REST API calls in the following blog post: http://the360view.typepad.com/blog/2015/02/glue-api-versioning-and-deprecated-calls.html Namely, the following are deprecated calls: model/v1/info model/v1/markups model/v1/view_tree model/v1/view_info I hope you have migrated to /v2/ by now. If not, please make sure you migrate them as soon as possible. Deprecated... Read more →