Cloud and Mobile

BIM 360 Glue SDK, REST API, and Authentication

By Jeremy Tammik.

Hi. I just published two articles related to BIM 360 Glue:

• An overview of the SDK components and the REST API.
• An example of manually authenticating in the REST API using Python.

I hope these prove useful not only for BIM 360 Glue specifically, but also to understand how to use REST in general, and what a powerful tool Python and its huge range of libraries can provide, especially for manual experimentation in this area.

Real Cross-Platform Interactive 2D Graphics Using SVG

By Jeremy Tammik.

Hi everybody.

This is my first post to the Cloud and Mobile DevBlog.

All I will do here is point out that I spent my education day last Friday exploring how to display and interact with 2D graphics in a browser using SVG and JavaScript by implementing a very simple room polygon and furniture picker in SVG.

The main goal was to enable picking and identifying objects and ensuring that the same code and interaction is supported on all mobile devices, in particular both Android and Safari on iOS.

The latter added an additional little challenge at the end.

Here is the final result:

Try it out on your phone or somewhere!

I hope you find it useful.