Use Design Automation to extract custom properties and show on the Viewer
Generate images for Inventor models
You may want to generate images for your models from different angles automatically, so that they could be used e.g. on your website. The Model Derivative API enables you to get a model's thumbnail in
Introducing self-contained Forge extensions
As a forge developer do you want a technical feature as an extension out of the box which is easy to plugin into any forge project? We got a solution, we have creating self contained, loosely coupled
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GET Project Users (BIM 360) is Finally Here
We are pleased to inform you about the availability of a long-awaited GET Project Users BIM 360 Admin API as public beta. This has been one of highly demanded features as this has a few different use
BIM 360 Viewer vs Forge Viewer
Many apps are using the Forge Viewer, including Fusion Team, BIM 360 Docs and 3rd party apps. In case of certain models, there can be clear differences in the way the model is presented in BIM 360
Migrate Inventor add-in to Automation
Many people might have existing Inventor add-ins that they plan to migrate to Automation API for Inventor. Instead of trying to modify your existing add-in's code to use InventorServer, implement the
Run() vs RunWithArguments()
In case of AppBundles for Automation API for Inventor there are two entry points depending on the arguments in the commandLine parameter of the Activity that is using the AppBundle. - Run(Document doc
Handle command line arguments
The commandLine property of an Activity specifies what executable should be run on the Automation server and what arguments should be passed to it. It tends to include the headless server of one of