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CadSol
CadSol

Reputation: 11

Autodesk Forge - Best training for transitioning from desktop .Net coding

I have background in Inventor/Revit API development only, and need to learn enough JS to be able to work comfortably with the Forge APIs. I'll be booking myself into a JS training course to learn general skills, but what topics/modules must I definitely cover to have a solid foundation for Forge API development. I'll be working with BOM data, viewers and possibly web configurators.

Many thanks for your help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 579

Answers (2)

modernmarvel528
modernmarvel528

Reputation: 13

We're a .Net shop that recently implemented the Forge Viewer for a client with Inventor Files. We built our service on top of Azure Functions and utilized as much .Net C# code as possible, as it is where we have the most experience and comfortability. The provided .Net SDK is very helpful: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Autodesk.Forge/.

The only API that you can't do entirely in .Net is the Viewer API. However, to get started I was able to use boilerplate code from the provided examples and get the models loading. From there I had our web developers get involved to handle the more extensive javascript programming for me.

Feel free to bounce any questions you may have off of me. We've just finished going down this road and it is very rewarding, but somewhat challenging at times for us .Net developers.

Upvotes: 1

Augusto Goncalves
Augusto Goncalves

Reputation: 8574

You need the JavaScript, as you already know. Take some time to improve security and OAuth authentication workflow. This sample includes most of it.

In most cases, you'll need a hybrid desktop app that can connect to the cloud, the image below (from the blog post) shows a generic approach for the architecture using Autodesk Forge (or any other cloud APIs).

Upvotes: 0

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