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How to create public Forge Design Automation Activity and Package?
I would like to create a public Design Automation Activity and Package so other Forge apps with unknown ClientId & Secret can use our corporate DA tools. So I am setting the isPublic: true flag on the payload but, to my great despair, isn't…

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"failedLimitProcessingTime" on Design Automation Workitem
I wrote a Design Automation Revit addin to export 3d geometry and material data from a RVT file. It has been working 100% in prod until last weekend.
Now when I POST a workitem, the workitem dont continue past below:
[03/15/2021 11:24:29] End…
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compress in UTF-8 so that it respects all characters. Zip = True in Activity
I am downloading the result of a configurator in .zip. And what my surprise, since it has changed the name of all the files with accents to "weird" characters. Zip = True when defining the Activity.
Is there a way to tell it to compress in UTF-8 so…
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Design Automation for Inventor. Export to SVF
I am making a configurator that uses various Add-in's in Inventor to perform tasks: Change parameters, Export IDW to PDF and I would need to Export from Inventor to SVF format (So as not to have to do it with Model Derivate)
I have seen the example…
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AutoDesk Forge Inventor - Unspecified error (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004005 (E_FAIL))
[03/07/2021 07:14:00] InventorCoreConsole.exe Information: 0 : InventorCoreConsole.exe: 25.0.18300.0
[03/07/2021 07:14:01] InventorCoreConsole.exe Information: 0 : Starting Inventor Server.
[03/07/2021 07:14:01] InventorCoreConsole.exe Information:…

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Errors Design Automation For Revit
I am getting 2 kinds of different errors while trying to export some 3d views from the Revit model to the IFC. Here is my log:
[02/15/2021 19:22:52] Log IFC-eksport RØR exported:False
[02/15/2021 19:22:57] Log IFC-eksport VENT exported:True…
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Error: Application revitcoreconsole.exe exits with code -1073740791 which indicates an error
I am getting this error while trying to export some 3d views from the Revit model to the IFC. This error happens only with big models.
Here is my log:
[02/11/2021 17:37:33] Log: Total amount of 3d Views in the Autodesk.Revit.DB.FilePath :…
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Design Automation API - Token Refresh
Am trying to access forge api endpoint using 2- legged authentication token, but at certain point of time my token becomes invalid or expired. Is that any option to refresh/ increase token expire time in 2- legged authentication process?
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Design Automation for Revit output zipped file is empty
I am trying to export 3d views from the Revit model to IFC.
When I run my plugin locally, it works perfectly, and logs in DA4R are correct too, but the result of exporting is 22bytes(empty zip).
I've used this article as an example:…
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Forge error if using SendStringtoExecute (Command ^C^C)
Actually, the error doesn't raise if I just run (Command ^C^C) from a lisp script.
The case is, my app is a .NET app, and I call some SendStringToExecute to use some lisp code.
To be sure to end the lisp routine, I put at the…
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How to open .rvt file from zip?
I am trying to open the Revit file from the zip folder in Design Automation for Revit, and getting an error:
> Autodesk.Revit.Exceptions.FileNotFoundException: The filePath:T:\Aces\Jobs\1532f21bb19d4605b941472d4961ed96\input.rvt to be opened…
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Export to SVF format from IDW files with an Inventor Plugin
I've built a Inventor Addin in order to export IAM und IPT files to SVF: all works fine ;)
When I try to generate SVF from IDW files, the Inventor gives no output.
In StackOverflow I've found this topic: Is there a posibility to export a SVF from a…

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Autodesk Forge third party updater dialog issue
We can open Revit files on Autodesk forge but recently we have run into a Revit file that have content from a third party plugin. When you open the file manually you get this dialog:
We think this dialog is causing this file to stop from loading…

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Inventor assembly not displaying appearances correctly in Forge Viewer
I have an Inventor assembly using one standard Inventor Appearance Library appearance and one custom appearance, saved to a local material library. When I load the viewable in Forge the standard appearance displays correctly but the custom…

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How do I load the bubble.json from aws s3 bucket
Following adams blog post for speeding up viewables generated from design automation for inventor, instead of storing the resulting files on a forge bucket, i would like to store them on my aws s3 bucket. I am redirecting to the aws bucket…

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