Follow @augustomaia Following up on Philippe's excellent review on AWS Lambda, let's use it for heavy duty task: transfer files from Autodesk Data Management to another online storage and vice-versa
Running Forge Viewer on AWS Lambda Server and API Gateway
Follow @F3lipek Here is a brief tutorial exposing my experience running the Forge Viewer on top of an Amazon Lambda Server: AWS Lambda is a compute service that lets you run code without provisioning
Viewer setCutPlanes
Follow @augustomaia The Viewer has a setCutPlanes method that, according to documentation, requires a " list of Vector4 plane representation: {x:a, y:b, z:c, w:d} Plane general equation: ax + by + cz
Viewer Release Notes: v2.16
CHANGED A) Default API calls to derivativeservice/v2/ Autodesk is deprecating viewingservice/v1/ API. To support this change, the Viewer will now fetch all model data from derivativeservice/v2/ by
BIM 360 Docs Provisioning for Forge Apps
Follow @augustomaia Get started with this business webinar from Jim Quanci: Integrate your apps and services with BIM 360. {"preview_thumbnail":"/prod/s3fs-public/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview
Forge SVF Extractor in Node.js
Follow @F3lipek Extracting SVF format to download viewer resources locally seems to be a pretty popular topic among Forge developers. Cyrille's extractor has been around for a while now: https:/
.search method performance
Follow @augustomaia The .search() method is quite useful to understand what you have on the model, but the response time can increase really fast! Imagine if you need to perform multiples searches
Securing your Forge Viewer token behind a proxy (.NET)
This is the .NET version of how to strengthen the security of your Forge Viewing Application by using a proxy to avoid passing a token to the client JavaScript code.
Navigating between 2D views
Let's review the __viewables_in__ property of elements and how it can be used to navigate between 2D views