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Blender doesn't open .obj model with textures
I have a model in .obj format made by Autodesk Recap 360. It has textures and .mtl file. I can open this model in MeshLab with textures, but not in Blender.
This is how it looks when selected "Textured":
and this is how it looks when selected…

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Converting a CAD file to a shape file
Thanks for the assist on my previous question.... I was able to complete my project
This time I have a CAD file created with Autodesk that I need to convert to a shape file.
Couple of questons:
An open source application (can't afford ESRI) that…

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Navisworks COM API for Exporting geometry and calculating faces and vertices
I am trying to export the vertices, faces and colors of a selected object in the Navis. After a bit of research I found that we can do it using the COM API provided by the Navisworks. I used getprimitives to find the triangles. which looks is…

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How do you get Maya to communicate through the localhost IP?
What I have been researching with no luck, is how to get Autodesk Maya to communicate though the web on the localhost ip (preferably TCP). My goal is to control maya with a quick java application I wrote to manipulate curve selecting and such. If…

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how to connect to maya's commandport with node webkit?
I'm building a tool to control maya with it and I'm trying to connect to maya's commandport through node webkit to send commands but with no success. I opened the port from maya with
mel:
commandPort -n "127.0.0.1:6000";
string $p = `commandPort -q…

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Dictionary Says Key Doesn't Exist When It Does
I have a dictionary where the keys are XYZ objects and the values are boolean. The XYZ class is from Autodesks API, so its not a class I made. I am attempting to check if a key exists in the dictionary.
My Problem: If the dictionary contains the key…

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Programmatically create models
I want to create a CAD model for the purpose of finding its properties like mass, CG, inertia etc.
I want to do this programmatically because I have to vary the model slightly and get the new properties many times
What CAD software should I look…

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Difference between Process.Start and manually running exe
Big picture: I wrote an Autodesk inventor addin. On the close event of Inventor it launches another program I'll call purgeworkspace.exe. purgeworkspace.exe waits until Inventor is closed, then deletes files that Inventor was using.
Here is the…

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maya python api - render camera and store in variable
I'm working with Maya 2012 and what I want to do is render a camera view. I have found that it's possible to do this using the MEL command 'render' (calling it through python). However, as far as I know, this command renders the image and saves it…

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Persistent Cache Memory Growth Issue in Forge Viewer
I am currently encountering a persistent cache memory growth issue within our Forge Viewer implementation and need assistance in resolving this matter. The problem at hand is that the cache memory utilization keeps expanding while using the…

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Autodesk Forge viewer PDF extension
Currently, I am working on an app that utilizes the Forge Viewer PDF extension to view PDF drawings in a local environment. Everything works great if the files are stored in local storage. However, I have created an AWS S3 bucket to store the files…

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System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFile(), AssemblyResolve event and handling 3rd party dependencies
I have this class which will hopefully let me essentially hot-load my .dll's, so that I can push changes to them while my coworkers are using them, without needing them to totally restart the application to begin seeing the effects.
I had been using…

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Revit 2021 viewer in WPF application
I'm looking to integrate revit viewer in wpf C# application.
Any reference with example will help.

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Some MarkupsCore event not firing
The event EVENT_MARKUP_DRAGGING for MarkupsCore, as documented here is not working when I do ext.addEventListener('EVENT_MARKUP_DRAGGING', function(ev){console.log('run')});
I have other events working such as EVENT_EDITMODE_CHANGED and…

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Autodesk React Forge problem with forge-dataviz-iot-react-components in a empty project
If you install the official npm package, it works.
But according to the official documentation and simply including import { Viewer } from "forge-dataviz-iot-react-components" (like in this example) in a empty new react project (using npx…

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