I would like to first start by saying THANK YOU to all the attendees we had during the live webinar on May 7th about the Forge Automation API for Inventor. It was a great turnout. If you missed the
Consume AEC Data which are from Model Derivative API
Model Derivative API has been able to extract AEC data of Revit model such as level, grid, views, phase, linked documents etc. And Forge Viewer also provides the corresponding methods
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Basic point clouds in Forge Viewer
Developers often ask us whether point clouds are supported in Forge Viewer. Unfortunately, the official answer is "no". The focus of Forge Viewer has always been line and mesh geometry, and that is
Changes on OSS upload and download for scriptable plain text files [security improvement]
Starting June 12 , the OSS upload PUT endpoints will return an HTTP 400 status code if content disposition inline and content types is one of the following: text/html, text/javascript, text/x
Quick deployment of Forge applications to Azure
Microsoft Azure has recently introduced Azure Resource Manager (or ARM) - a service for centralized deployment and management of resources such as virtual machines, databases, or web applications
Translate composite models (files with references)
This article is to summarise the ways you can translate a composite / multi-file model. 1) Upload a zip file You can upload the main file and all the referenced files in a single zip to both your
Properties shown in case of multiple selection
When selecting multiple objects in the UI then the behaviour of the Property Palette (i.e. which object's properties the palette is showing) can seem a bit random. As mentioned here as well, you have
.NET Core joining Learn Forge tutorials
.NET Core tutorial to create View Models sample app. Runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS
Improve efficiency and scale with the Inventor Automation API
When elementary school coding class students ask me if they should be computer programmers (like me) when they grow up, I tell them "No." In the future, programming is not going to be a specialized