Automating user creation for a given project seems to be one common task using Glue API. Q. We want to create users for a certain Glue project programmatically. I looked at User Service APIs. But I cannot find a web service call to do this. Is it possible to create... 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 →

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 →

With the release of Google Chrome version 42, you can no longer run plugins, such Java and Silverlight by default. This is due to the Google’s decision to drop so-called NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface). At a moment, you can still turn on the support if you wish. But... Read more →

“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 →

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 →

Here are some of questions that we receive when giving an access to Glue ADN sandbox for the first time: Glue login problem Downloading API key and secret Sign-in using API Trouble with display component The most frequently asked by the first time Glue API user is about login. Although... 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 →