autodesk-forgerevit-apiautodesk-navisworks

Use a Local Model file for Online Viewer

I would like to be able to use a local navisworks or revit file to be available when using an online viewer app on forge.

I have so far followed the tutorial here - https://learnforge.autodesk.io/#/datamanagement/oss/ that allows me to upload a file for viewing from the client side. I would like to remove the ability to upload from the client side and choose a local file to be viewed instead.

I would also like to know how to remove additional buckets / objects placed from the client side from the side menu (circled in the image)

Thank you in advance!

Solution

  • All our sample apps work like this (e.g. https://github.com/Autodesk-Forge/learn.forge.viewmodels/tree/nodejs):

    When the page is opened then the browser fetches the client-side components (1) - i.e. html, css, js files
    When needed, the client-side code calls an endpoint on the server (2) which in turn reaches out to Forge (3) and passes back the result to the client
    The only client-side part that communicates directly with Forge is the Viewer (4)

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    If you want to remove some of the functionality presented to the user, you can just remove them from the client-side part (e.g. from the html file)

    In the server-side code, you can also combine multiple Forge calls: e.g. create a bucket, upload model file into it from the server, translate the model to SVF

    If there are operations you only want to do just once (e.g. delete a bucket), you can also use utilities like https://oss-manager.autodesk.io/ or use this Visual Studio Code Extension: https://forge.autodesk.com/blog/forge-visual-studio-code

    If you want to add controls to the toolbar this should be of help: https://learnforge.autodesk.io/#/tutorials/extensions
    If you want to add something custom then you can use HTML/CSS/JS in your client-side code to implement those