Tips and Tricks

8 Feb 2023

Building a Simple React Wrapper for the Viewer

Is there an official {popular UI framework name} wrapper for the viewer? Every now and then this kind of question comes up, and the answer...

1 Feb 2023

New application types

Our developer portal has recently updated the UI for creating new APS applications. After hitting the Create application button, you're now...

1 Dec 2022

Custom Tree Views

Sometimes, when developing viewer-based applications, you may want to display some sort of a custom, hierarchical information in form of a...

21 Nov 2022

Viewer Selection Highlighting

When the viewer version 7 was released back in 2019, one of the first, very noticeable changes was the highlighting of selected elements in...

21 Nov 2022

Customizing Viewer Context Menus: Part 2

Couple years ago our colleague Eason blogged about customizing viewer context menus. In this blog post let's take a closer look at the...

6 Sep 2022

FAQ and Tips for IFC translation of Model Derivative API

Follow @yiskang More recently, more customers asked similar Model Derivative questions related to IFC. So, I tried collecting the IFC...

23 May 2022

Make composite Revit design work with Design Automation API for Revit

Follow @yiskang Recently, a few questions came from our customers more frequently like the following. So, here we are! "How can we send...

27 Apr 2022

Share your thoughts with the Forge team!

The Forge Developer Experience Research team would like to learn more about your use of the Forge platform and your experience with other...

9 Mar 2022

Use webhooks in Power Automate

There are two ways to handle callbacks from a webhook in Power Automate: 1) Create a custom connector that implements the trigger that would...

8 Mar 2022

Disable iLogic Rules

Sometimes you might work with models whose iLogic Rules have not been prepared for Design Automation. As a result they may throw exceptions...

25 Feb 2022

SharePoint Online integration

I wrote a while back (8 years ago already 😬) about integrating the Forger Viewer into a SharePoint page. I was using SharePoint 2010 back...

31 Jan 2022

Join the Autodesk Research Community

Interested in influencing the future of the Forge platform? Join the Autodesk Research Community! Interact directly with the Forge platform...

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