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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How to handle AutoCAD Mechanical files on Design Automation API
Please tell me how to omit "Auditing Mechanical Data" process or call correct commands after auditing.
I'm evaluating autocad addon program on Design automation API. My addon works correct for Autocad dwg, but It doesn't work for ACM dwg . (Please…
Hiroyuki Abe
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How to set download expiration to output URN on Design Automation API
Please tell me how to delete result content from S3, Or change the content expiration to short.
By security reasons, I don't want to keep the result content on S3 for one hour.
I try to delete Output files from…
Hiroyuki Abe
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Display output of the design automation API in Forge Viewer
Using the Inventor Design Automation API I would like to change several parameters in my model and display these changes in the Forge Viewer (web).
What would be the best solution to achieve this?
I was think of saving the to changed model as a new…
Johannes Heesterman
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What are engines available for Inventor Design Automation API? GET inventor.io/us-east/v2/Engines fails
I'm trying to retrieve the available engines with the following request:
curl
-H "Authorization: Bearer my_fresh_token"
https://developer.api.autodesk.com/inventor.io/us-east/v2/Engines
and I got: { "developerMessage":"The requested resource does…
is.cattabiani
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Programmatically populating data in Property Set Definitions assigned to objects
I'm writing an AutoCAD (MEP?) plugin that needs to populate a Property Set Data that has been assigned to objects.
I have the Entity Handle of the objects and the data to assign, but I cannot find any documentation on how to programmatically insert…
Broam
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Dwg comparison through design automation
I would like to know if it is possible, and if yes, how can I achieve dwg comparison through the design automation? I there a way to create a comparison activity accepting 2 dwg in input, and post a boolean as output?
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How can I create an activity for data conversion in Design Automation API?
I'm prototyping a web service to convert data using Design Automation API in Autodesk Forge.
My approach is to invoke an activity that executes a script to import a target data file (such as STEP, IGES format).
As an example, I created an activity…
K.H.
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Plot to PDF: text is rendered improperly
I'm trying to use Autodesk Forge platform's design automation service to compose some drawing on the fly, and output it as PDF. The composition part is working well, but when it is converted to PDF, the texts are not rendered properly. If I try to…
ananda
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Autodesk Design Automation API define Plot Settings e.g. greyscale/linewidth
I am searching for an option to define the Plot Settings when converting a .dwg file to a .pdf file. I want to have the converted PDF in greyscale and the linewidth of the Elements is too big. How can I define the Plotsettings in my API call to…
Kaliph
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Autodesk Design Automation API extract Text from DWG file
I would like to use the Autodesk Design Automation API to extract all Text and Header information from a .dwg file into a json object. Is this possible with the Design Automation API?
Any example would help.
Thankyou
Kaliph
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Autodesk Forge Design Automation API and Vault
I'm trying to figure out the best workflow to generate a PDF from a file in the Vault. I first tried referencing the URL in the address bar when logged into the Thin Client, didn't work.
Is this best workflow to accomplish this:
Download the file…
Theodore
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Autodesk ObjectId and ElementId in dwg
I am use to develop one web app using Forge API. It's working well and good. At the same time am using design automation in forge. I can able to create Package and it's working fine.
I will process the dwg file using forge api preparing to viewer. I…
RAGU
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List of Predefined Activities
I am currently exploring forge design automation API's for extracting some text information from the 2D drawing file(DWG). In one of the example code provided in the Forge API samples, it is mentioned that 'PlotToPDF' as a predefined activity. Is…
Thangadurai
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Azure storage setup for Forge Design Automation API
For the last two days I've been trying to setup the Azure Storage blob to upload the output of 'PlotToPDF' workitem in the Tutorial of Forge Design Automation API and I failed. I always get the following result:
{
…
mustafa.salaheldin
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Exception (task was canceled) when uploading app packages
When I was uploading my custom app packages, it would take nearly 2 minutes and then display System. AggregateException which says “a task was canceled”.
However, I have tried uploading some packages with smaller size and they could be uploaded…
