It has come a long way in connecting the office to the field.
It is a smash hit with construction companies around the world and remains the fastest growing product in Autodesk history.
At the same time,
Collaboration for Revit (C4R) is
bringing collaboration to the design and engineering office and connecting BIM teams around the world.
We continue to see enterprise wide adoption of C4R with customer quotes saying things like, 'C4R has connected our design offices like no other tool has before. It has transformed how we workshare, for the better'.
Autodesk is working on bringing these two technologies together to form a common data environment that spans the entire project from concept to commissioning to building operations and beyond.
The common data environment can be programmatically accessed and driven through the Forge web services.
Forge Web Services
Here are the main groups Forge web service endpoints as of today – please always refer
to developer.autodesk.com for the most up-to-date list:
General Availability
Authentication (OAuth)
Data Management API
Design Automation API
Model Derivative API
Viewer
Beta
3D Print API (deprecated)
BIM 360 API
Reality Capture API
BIM 360 Docs
BIM 360 Docs provides real-time access to the most recent versions of digital plans and documents, so contractors, foremen, document managers, architects, and other key personnel can spend less time struggling with files and more time building. From concept to completion, BIM 360 software helps the entire team stay on-schedule.
This session introduces the Issues Service, one of the first BIM 360 APIs to be made available in Forge.
It allows users to create issues related to documents that are stored either in BIM 360 Docs, or more broadly within the Forge ecosystem. It walks you step-by-step through using the Issues API and showing what is possible through a series of demonstrations of practical examples.
One really good aspect of the collection of Forge web services is that the Autodesk development teams and external developers have the exact same glueing and connecting tools at hand.
In other words, so do you!
For your convenience, here is a table of contents:
Introduction to WebVR – Tony Parisi
Building a Drone Imagery Service – Jia Huang, Software Engineer @ 3DRobotics
From Desktop to the Cloud with Forge – Fernando Malard, CTO, ofcdesk, llc
10 Great Fusion 360 Apps – Brian Ekins and Patrick Rainsberry
Forecast for Design, Make, and Use is Cloudy – Justin Berger, Open Innovation Strategist
Introduction to Forge 3D Print API with Sample Applications – Tomer Galon, Product Manager, and Ania Lipka, Principal Developer
You Had Me at HoloWorld – Introduction to Building for HoloLens – Dona Sarkar, Principal Product Person
Creating your next VR Walkthrough with Cloud Rendered Stereo Panoramas – Michael Beale, Autodesk Developer
Collaborative VR using Google Cardboard and the Forge Viewer – Kean Walmsley, Platform Architect & Evangelist, Autodesk Research
Building Data Centric Applications on Forge – Oleg Shilovitsky, openBoM CEO and co-founder, and Boris Shoov, AMC Bridge, Executive VP
Drawings! Drawings! Everywhere! – Albert Szilvasy, Autodesk, Abhishek Singhal, Risersoft, Ben O'Donnell, BIMobject
Bringing BIM to Facility Management with Forge – Collaboration in the Cloud – Autodesk
Dancing with Elephants, Leveraging Market Leaders to Grow your Startup – Jim Quanci, Senior Director, Autodesk Developer Network
Free your design data – Shiya Luo and Adam Nagy, Developer Advocates
Building Value-Added Integrations with Autodesk IoT APIs – Brian Sherman, Senior Developer, Allan O'Leary, Product Manager
Implementing Rich Applications in the Browser – Sebastian Dunkel, Software Engineer
The Future of Making Buildings Forms Follow Formulae – Anthony A. Hauck, Director of Product Strategy, AEC Generative Design
Collaborating with Design Data – Augusto Goncalves, Forge Partner Development, Phaneendra Kumar Divi, A360 Development Manager
Extend BIM 360 Docs with the Issues Service API – Galia Traub, BIM 360 Senior Software Engineer, Mikako Harada, AEC Technical Lead and Americas Manager, Developer Technical Services, Autodesk
Developing & Deploying Secure, Scalable Applications on Amazon Web Services – Tom Jones, Solution Architect, Amazon Web Services
Visual Reporting with Connected Design Data – Philippe Leefsma, Forge Partner Development
IoT is also for existing things – Pat Chartrand, CEO, DASBOX Inc.
Cloud PDM Demystified – The Future of File Management – William Sterbenz and Hagay Dvir
Free your BIM data – Jeremy Tammik, Forge Program Development, Autodesk
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.
