For questions related to Autodesk Forge Design Automation, including the REST web service and engine specific questions (AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit or 3dsMax).
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Is there a posibility to export a SVF from a DWG in an InventorPlugin
I am currently triying to use an Inventor Automation to modify a drawing and then export it to the SVF Format for the Viewer. Therefore I used this sample project from an Autodesk developer:
https://github.com/akenson/da-extract-params
I tried the…

Sebastian König
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Autodesk Design Automation deployed to AWS
Another question regarding design automation.
I am trying to deploy the app to AWS but it seems that the appsettings.json file is not coming throug and the result is that I receive an error saying that the cliendid parameter is null.
Can someone…

Cesare Caoduro
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Autodesk.DesignAutomation returning Unexpected token S in JSON at position 0 when calling the workitem api
I am facing a new issue with a fetch
handleSendToForge(e) {
e.preventDefault();
let formData = new FormData();
formData.append('data', JSON.stringify({
Width: this.state.Width,
Length:…

Cesare Caoduro
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Getting error message while following Revit Design Automation tutorial
I am following Autodesk Forge Design Automation tutorial for Revit from here.
I completed all steps but the last 7th step returns follwoing error -
{
"appbundles": [
"The App V0XRbvF7fj6glAh1PFwcG0s2680gZmTL.DeleteWallsApp+test could not be…

Santrro
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How to change the name of the input and output file dynamically in workitem method in design automation api for Revit
I am working on a project where I need to generate output Revit file based on the input json file in the Design automation API for Revit.
Since my input json string was large, I create a json file example "InputFile.json" and upload it to the cloud …

JPais
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Autodesk Forge Design Automation - Inventor - failedInstructions (FailedMissingOutput)
I am trying to use the WorkItems API to extract key paramaters of a part to a text file. The work item fails with FailedMissingOutput [KeyParameters.txt] which is the file my plugin creates in the working folder. Debugging locally the file is…

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Issue with getting Access token using forge DA
I am trying to get an access token using Forge DA using the code below. But it throws the following exception:
An exception of type 'Autodesk.Forge.Client.ApiException' occurred in mscorlib.dll but was not handled in user code. Additional…

sruthi T
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Is there an option for translate to SVF viewer using Design Automation API
Im just looking if is possible to create an SVF Viewer using Design Automation API and avoiding Model Derivative API.
Months ago I had a talk with the Forge support team and they told me that due to the amount of translates, for an economic issue it…

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Cannot parse id for appbundles using Design Automation SDK
Here I am again trying to use the Design Automation SDK and I get this error when I try to retrieve bundle aliases, versions or other information that require the id.
I am testing that using one of the existing appbundles available...
public static…

Cesare Caoduro
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Forge Design Automation showing deprecated
Good morning,
I am writing a console app that uses Design Automation and it seems that some of the classes like AppBundlesApi, WorkItemsApi and ActivitiesApi are listed as deprecated.
Is that correct? Should I implement my own version using…

Cesare Caoduro
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Error saving workshared model using Design Automation API
I am currently facing issues while saving the work shared model(C4R model) when the changes are made using the Design Automation API. Error Snapshot
However, the same issue does not arise when the model is not work-shared.
Any help on this would be…

Amit Kumar Aman
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Recovering files after processing
Before the October eve, the information provided in the Revit console log allowed us to recover the return files.
Now this is not possible anymore!
Before:
"outputFile": {
"optional": true,
"localName": "OutputRvtFile.rvt",
"url":…

FISA - Olivier
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Pass multiple files to AutodeskForge Design Automation API
If i use just 1 file it works perfectly, but with more than 1 it fails
This is my request
{
"Arguments":{
"InputArguments":[
{
"Resource":"https://s3url.com",
"Name":"HostDwg1-050A-014"
},
…

Fabio Zafferi
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create viewer SVF in design automation
So I've been looking into whether it's possible to create an SVF file straight out of design automation so whenever you update the model, you don't have to do another roundtrip through model derivative to view it. It looks like it is possible from…

jorisjh
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Autocad AEC property set formulas in Forge
When processing a DWG file that has property sets (an AEC feature) in Forge model derivative or in Forge design automation. If there are formulas in there, instead of the output of that formula, you get the plaintext of the formula itself. I think…

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