Forge Webinars on Design Automation and BIM360

The Forge webinar series continues.

The recording of session 5 on the Design Automation API held by Albert Szilvasy is now available:

• September 20
  – Introduction to Autodesk Forge and the Autodesk App Store
• September 22
  – Introduction to OAuth and Data Management API
  – on OAuth
  and Data Management API, providing token-based authentication, authorization and a unified and consistent way to access data across A360, Fusion 360, and the Object Storage Service.
• September 27
  – Introduction to Model Derivative API
  – on the Model Derivative API that enables users to represent and share their designs in different formats and extract metadata.
• September 29
  – Introduction to Viewer
  – the Viewer, formerly part of the ‘View and Data API’, is a WebGL-based JavaScript library for 3D and 2D model rendering of CAD models from seed files, e.g., AutoCAD, Fusion 360, Revit and many other formats.
• October 4
  – Introduction to Design Automation
  – the Design Automation API, formerly known as ‘AutoCAD I/O’, enables running scripts on native CAD design files such as DWG.

For code samples on Design Automation, please
refer to Albert’s tutorials
at szilvaa/acadio-tutorials
and the Developer-Autodesk
Forge Platform samples on GitHub, filtering for Design.automation.

Upcoming sessions continue during the remainder of
the Autodesk App Store Forge and Fusion 360 Hackathon until the end of October.

Next is session 6, an Introduction to BIM360, coming up tomorrow, held by Mikako Harada:

• October 6 – BIM360 – develop apps that integrate with BIM 360 to extend its capabilities in the construction ecosystem.
• October 11 – Fusion 360 Client API – an integrated CAD, CAM, and CAE tool for product development, built for the new ways products are designed and made.
• October 13 – Q&A on all APIs.
• October 20 – Q&A on all APIs.
• October 27 – Submitting a web service app to Autodesk App store.

Quick access links:

• For API keys, go to developer.autodesk.com
• For code samples, go to github.com/Developer-Autodesk

Feel free to contact us at forgehackathon@autodesk.com at any time with any questions.