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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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Autodesk Forge Design Automation quota

What are the structures/contents of the err messages from Design Automation API when it reaches quota? The main concern is about 'Five requests per minute'. I need to figure out a way to catch/handle err, so the web users won't experience too bad…
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How can I include a custom data file with each design automation job?

We have a drawing creation task that we'd like to offload to the design automation API. Every time the task runs, it will need as input a bunch of data that will affect what it creates in the DWG. What's the best way to make this job-specific data…
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Is possible to map the design automation API result data to the viewer API objects by objectId?

Using Design automation API, I am extracting the data from 2d DWG file. Extracted data contains circles, lines, polylines and so. Question: Objects in viewer API and data extracted from design API for the same 2d DWG file. So, can we able to…
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AutoDesk Forge Design Automation API Quota

Do these quotas only apply to trial accounts? When I exceed the 5 requests per minute limitation, the error message says: You reached Quota limit. Your total free Quota is 5 requests per minute. Please try again soon. Which sounds specific to trial…
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Issue with the AutoDesk Forge Design Automation API

I tried using this tutorial, to convert this dwg to pdf, but it just gave me an empty pdf. Convertors online are not helping because the pdf is just an image of the drawing, same is happening when exporting as pdf from Autocad. Is there any way to…
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Autodesk Forge + design automation

I need some help with building a component that can take two dwg files as an input and produce one output file, in other words combine two files. my plan is to use web service to send and receive files. Is this possible? if yes then how?
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DWG export to pdf in autodesk designautomation

Hi I am using a custom app to generate drawings and export dwg/png/pdf. Local test on Autocad 2016 is good, but when uploading activity, server can't export pdf. db.SaveAs(dwgOut, DwgVersion.Current); ed.Command("_pngout", pngOut,…
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Get output of InventorServer Engine as stp file or should I use ModelDerivative API?

Referring to the attached image taken from today's webinar: (could someone with at least 10 reputation post this image: https://i.stack.imgur.com/6dzgp.png) Once, for example, changed parameters, could my appPackage (i.e. changeParamsPlugin) do…
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Autodesk Forge API - How can I convert DWG files?

I am an App developer with no experience with AutoCAD at all, and for my current project I need to convert DWG files into Spatial Data - ESRI Shapefile / GeoJSON, etc. Given that DWG is a proprietary format owned by Autodesk, the Autodesk Forge API…
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Is it possible to insert multiple blocks into a drawing using the Forge Design Automation API?

As the title says I am looking to use the Design Automation API to upload an archive of blocks, then insert them all into a drawing with a border. The positioning of the blocks does not matter they just need to be inserted into the drawing ready to…
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AutoCAD script: Find drawing position

Forgive my ignorance. I'm a web developer tasked with integrating an app with AutoCAD and I have no experience with the software or CAD files in general. I have hooked it up to A360 and the Forge APIs and now I'm looking to modify drawings using…
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Creating a single package for Design Automation WorkItem

My script for Forge Design Automation API will produce a couple of outputs such as dxf, png, PDF. Can I package them to an zip with WorkItem? The below is the code snippet of the WorkItem I created. It will fail because in default, it can only…
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Is it possible to work around CORS while trying to Authenticate on Forge?

We are building a WebGL application in Unity, and we want to use Forge's Design Automation API in it. As most of the Design Automation API is using a Websocket API, it's pretty straightforward. BUT, Authentication is being done with a HTTP request,…
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Design Automation for Revit (DA4R)

Is it possible to use dynamo scripts within Forge? I want a user to be able to create a dynamo script, upload this and execute the script on revit models in Forge.
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Why is my Forge Design Automation Activity iLogic Failing?

I'm running a DA job based on a code sample, and some of my ilogic rules seem to be causing it to fail. Originally, these were running fine, but when I translated the results on the MD API, some components were still visible despite being suppressed…
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