This blog has now moved to become part of our Forge website. Please change your bookmark to:
We'll be posting the same types of programming tips and tricks in the new blog - along with additional items, such as events, case studies and Forge product roadmap updates.
See you over on the new site.
(No more posts will be published on this site, but we'll keep it active for a while to give everyone time to re-bookmark to the new site)
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By Adam Nagy (@AdamTheNagy)
Two of my colleagues and I will be attending IoT Tech Expo in London next Monday and Tuesday (23-24 January, 2017). We'll have a booth there where we'll show how Forge can be used in the IoT field, and also take part in panel discussions.
If you are attending the expo then do drop by to say hello :)
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By Stephen Preston (@_stephenpreston)
The Autodesk Forge DevCon conference, originally scheduled for June 27-28 in San Francisco, will now be held on November 13-14 in Las Vegas.
One time. One location. Two great conferences.
We received feedback from many of last year's Forge DevCon attendees that it was hard to travel to two Autodesk conferences in a year. This change will allow you to attend Forge DevCon and Autodesk University in Las Vegas in a single trip. There will be DevCon-only, AU-only, and AU+DevCon ticketing options available.
Because the conference will now be held five months later, we have postponed the Call For Proposals and attendee registration.
New Date. New Location. Same Great Experience.
Last year, our first Forge DevCon offered two-days of the most up-to-date training, technologies, news, and insights around design, simulation, reality capture, AR, VR, and IoT. It was an indispensable experience for anyone working with the Forge platform.
At this year's event you can expect more of the same. Only more so.
Stay tuned for updates and please visit the Forge DevCon 2017 site to learn more.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us at [email protected].
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By Stephen Preston (@_stephenpreston)
(Update 12/8/16 4.40pm Pacific Time)
We wanted to provide you with some additional information about this recent outage of the Forge Data Management and Model Derivative APIs. These services began experiencing slowdowns around 8pm PST on Tues 12/6. The service degradation gradually worsened, until, by 1am PST Wed 12/7 we decided that it was necessary to take the service off line in order to take remedial action.
The affected service was an internal system that controls access permissions to data in our storage layer. Without this service running, our Data Management and Model Derivative APIs were unable to store new data or access existing data. While addressing this issue, our priority was to take extreme care to ensure that no customer data was lost - even though this resulted in a longer resolution time.
By approximately 1am PST Thurs 12/8 we had fixed the problem, restored access to customer data and started processing a backlog of transactions. We continue to monitor this service and are confident the code changes we made will prevent this problem from happening again. As a result of this incident, we have also identified areas where we can improve our internal processed and how we can better communicate with you when we are having problems. One area we will be prioritizing is to enhance our API Health Dashboard to make it easier for you understand the health status of our APIs, and to receive more detailed information about any issues we are having.
The Forge Team
(Update 12/8/16 7am Pacific Time)
The Forge Data Management and Model Derivative APIs are now back online, including access to data via the API for Fusion Team, A360 and BIM 360 Docs. The Forge team apologizes for this outage and any problems it has caused for you and your customers.
We are now investigating all aspects of this outage to prevent it from happening in the future.
(Posted 12/7/16 12pm Pacific Time).
The Forge Data Management and Model Derivative APIs are currently unavailable. The Forge team apologizes for the current outage and any problems it has caused for you and your customers. Our team is working diligently on the problem and will fix it as soon as possible.
The outage was caused by a problem in our service that controls secure access to data that is stored in our storage services. This impacts access to data via Forge Data Management API and the Model Derivative API. This outage effects files created to view, translated to another format or for access to model meta data. Access to data via the API for Fusion Team, A360 and BIM 360 Docs is also effected. We will notify you as soon as the problem is fixed, and will follow up with information on what we are doing to prevent it from happening in the future.
The Forge Team
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By Stephen Preston (@_stephenpreston)
Update October 26th 2016:
Our engineering team has now patched v2.10 and v2.11 of the viewer to address this issue. You may need to clear your browser cache, or if you store a local copy of the .js file you'll need to replace it with the newer version.
Our development team has detected that, as of version 54, Chrome for Mac is failing to render 2D models loaded by the Forge Viewer. The problem occurs with all viewer versions up to and including version 2.11. Our engineering team are currently investigating the best way to fix this issue - either as a patch to v2.11 or in our next incremental release (v2.12).
In the meantime, we have identified the following workarounds:
This issue only affects 2D views. 3D views should continue to work without problem.
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For your delight and delectation, below is a list of all currently planned events involving the Forge team. Obviously, we're planning new events all the time, so we'll try to keep you informed of new events by blog and twitter as we arrange them ...
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We briefly moved to a new default version of the viewer today (v2.11). However, after receiving several reports of 401 errors by people using the new version, we're reverting back to v2.10 while we investigate those reports. Sorry if this affected your application :-(.
However, this provides a good opportunity to remind you again that we recommend you should always reference a specific viewer version from your production applications. This will prevent you being surprised by a new version of the viewer suddenly appearing in your application. A new version may have a changed UI or even a changed API. Versioning isn't required for your development and testing code of course, where you may prefer to always reference the newest version.
To reference a specific viewer version, you should reference the viewer JavaScript and CSS files like this:
You can find viewer version information here.
To always use the latest version, you just omit the version parameter, like this:
Once again, we strongly recommend that you DO NOT use the unversioned URL in your production code (unless you like surprises :-)).
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If you’ve been thinking about developing on the Autodesk® Forge Platform, Autodesk’s new cloud platform, or on Autodesk® Fusion 360™—or, if you’re just curious about learning more about these technologies and what they could do to help your business or your career—join us for our upcoming free online hackathon. This is our fourth online hackathon and you are welcome to participate in all or any part of it.
The Autodesk® App Store Forge and Fusion 360® Hackathon is an online event which consists of two segments:
We know that learning and implementing something new takes time and often gets put off so we’ve designed this event to give you the support you need - as well as a financial incentive - to motivate you to learn the APIs and publish your app on the Forge platform or on Fusion 360 in the Autodesk App Store. It will make taking action to publish apps simple and feasible.
The training webinars will help familiarize you with the Forge platform and in the open Q&A sessions you’ll have the opportunity to receive help in real-time from the Autodesk team answering your questions to help you develop your app(s). For all such new apps submitted to the Autodesk App Store by midnight on October 31, 2016 and accepted for publication in the store by November 30, 2016, each entrant of the Hackathon will receive US$ 500 for one eligible app per entrant.
You may attend the educational webinars without publishing an app. Click here for Webinar only registration or get full details and register for the Hackathon at http://autodeskforge.devpost.com. If you register for the Hackathon you will automatically be registered for the webinars. They will be recorded so that you can view them at your convenience.
Visit the pages on the Hackathon website to learn more about the opportunities and resources for developing on Forge, Fusion 360 and publishing in the Autodesk App Store and if you have questions send us an email.
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For your convenience, here are links to content from Forge DevCon 2016:
The breakout sessions weren't recorded, but the DevTech team who presented at DevCon have created screencasts of their presentations. Here are the links:
And - just for fun - here is the recording of the entire 3DWebFest show that was held on the Wednesday evening of the conference.
Enjoy!
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