AutoCAD DevBlog

Forge Partner Talks: August Webinars

By Madhukar Moogala

Worried that the end of July also means the end of Forge Partner Talks? Don't worry - the series will be extended through August! With two brand new episodes featuring trusted Autodesk partners focused on the construction industry, you can easily stay in the loop on the latest Forge-powered design + make cloud innovations. Tune in to learn more about their solutions, and how they can help your business stay ahead of the competition and win more customers.

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Join host Emily Scherbenski, Senior Forge Marketing Manager, and top Forge partners who will share the innovative solutions they have built using Forge, insights they gained along the way, and any words of wisdom for others just starting out.

Forge Partner Talks: Remote Construction Site Management

August 5th 7 am PST/4 pm CET

Hear from featured partners:

• OpenSpace uses cutting-edge technology to allow people in the real world to efficiently capture, analyze, and get their work done
• HoloBuilder assists builders and engineers to create immersive 360° progress views of construction sites
• EarthCam empowers customers to manage jobsites remotely, document compliance and generate positive public relations

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Forge Partner Talks: Tracking Progress with Reality Capture

August 19th 7 am PST/4 pm CET

Hear from featured partners:

• VisualLive provides mixed reality tools to bring the power of BIM to construction sites
• Cintoo offers a comprehensive scan-BIM platform to compare a scan with a BIM model or another scan
• DroneDeploy is a drone data solution for construction helping companies capture their site and turn that data into meaningful information, such as validating work, verifying progress, and resolving issues.

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Check out previous Forge Partner Talks recordings here

How to Import Step (.stp) Files to AutoCAD

By Madhukar Moogala

Though there is not a direct API to import a Step file in to AutoCAD drawing unlike Body.AcisIn, we use Editor.Command API to invoke Import command

public void StepIn()
{
Document doc = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
Editor ed = doc.Editor;            
ed.Command(new object[] { "_.IMPORT",
	                 "D:\\Work\\CADFiles\\Scafolf_Bracket_Asy.stp"});
}

Using Entitlement API within ObjectARX C++

By Madhukar Moogala

We have .NET (C#) example on how to secure and protect your app on AutoCAD and other Autodesk products, for AutoCAD, Kean has written long back

For Revit – A blog from Mikako

For Fusion 360 – A C++ code, which I used most part of it and made few changes to best fit with AutoCAD

There is an introductory briefing on Entitlement API by Daniel.

For reading brevity, I will give simple statement what it brings to the table.

Entitlement API is a rest enabled API, allows you to check if the user is entitled to access your app i.e., user has bought the app from Autodesk App Store

To call Rest API with in ObjectARX, we need to use a Rest Client, for this I’m using restclient-cpp from mrtazz, a Json library to parse the response and make code more readable (this an optional not a must to run the sample)

Full instructions to build the sample is provided in Github

		if (getUserId()[0] == _T('\0')) {
			//User is not logged in, we will prompt to login!
			onlineUI();
		}
		//plumbing wide
		TCHAR buffer[512];
		acedGetString(0,_T("Enter AppId To Test CheckEntitlement:\t"), buffer);
		string userId = toNarrow(getUserId().kwszPtr());	 
		string appId = toNarrow(buffer);
		string url ="https://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/webservices/checkentitlement"+
					string("?userid=") + userId + string("&appid=") + appId;
		RestClient::Response response = RestClient::get(url);

		Json::Reader reader;
		Json::Value root;

		bool isparseSuccessful = reader.parse(response.body, root);
		if (!isparseSuccessful) {
			acutPrintf(_T("Error parsing URL"));
		}
		if ((root["IsValid"].asString()) == "true")
		{
			acutPrintf(_T("IsValid is True"));
		}
		else
		{
			acutPrintf(_T("IsValid is False"));
		}

Working Gif - https://pasteboard.co/JgZaD71.gif