ExtportToViewable

Description

This project uses APS Design Automation to export a drawing custom properties to SVF viewable

Demo

Setup

Prerequisites

1. APS Account: Learn how to create a APS Account, activate subscription and create an app at this tutorial.
2. Visual Studio: Either Community (Windows) or Code (Windows, MacOS).
3. .NET Core basic knowledge with C#
4. AutoCAD API knowledge with C#
5. Electron.js basic knowledge with Node.js

Project Stucture

There 3 projects, you need to setup them seperately as each project using a different technology.

git clone https://github.com/MadhukarMoogala/ExtportToViewable.git
cd ExtportToViewable
devenv ExtportToViewable.sln

Now, the solution file is opened in Visual Studio, let's understand each project and their role.

Plugin

    This is a .NET 4.8 AutoCAD plugin to export the XData to SVF bubble package and other properties also are hooked to Dwg extraction complex.

• Find LMVExtractor in the solution explorer, right click it and set it as the Startup Project.

• Set project configuration to Debug and x64.

• Rebuild, restores all nuget packages.

DAClient

    This is a .NET 6 console application to orchestrate Design Automation pipeline.

• Find DAClient in the solution explorer, right click it and set it as the Startup Project.

• Right-click on the project, then Add ---> New Item, select JSON file and name it appsettings.user.json , this is a user settings files required by Design Automation sdk to make authentication and run various API requests.

  {
    "Forge": {
      "ClientId": "your APS_CLIENT_ID",
      "ClientSecret": "your APS_CLIENT_SECRET"
    }
  }

• Set project configuration to Debug and x64.

• Rebuild, restores all nuget packages.

 To build both projects together,

cd ExtportToViewable
dotnet build

Build Output

MSBuild version 17.7.1+971bf70db for .NET
  Determining projects to restore...
  All projects are up-to-date for restore.
  LMVExtractor -> D:\OneDrive - Autodesk\APITeam\DevCon2023\Samples\ExtportToViewable\Plugin\bin\x64\Debug\TestLMVExtractor.dll
  DAClient -> D:\OneDrive - Autodesk\APITeam\DevCon2023\Samples\ExtportToViewable\DAClient\bin\x64\Debug\net6.0-windows\DAClient.dll

  7-Zip 19.00 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2018 Igor Pavlov : 2019-02-21

  Open archive: D:\OneDrive - Autodesk\APITeam\DevCon2023\Samples\ExtportToViewable\Bundles\LMVExporter.bundle.zip
  --
  Path = D:\OneDrive - Autodesk\APITeam\DevCon2023\Samples\ExtportToViewable\Bundles\LMVExporter.bundle.zip
  Type = zip
  Physical Size = 4622

  Scanning the drive:
  2 folders, 2 files, 8301 bytes (9 KiB)

  Updating archive: D:\OneDrive - Autodesk\APITeam\DevCon2023\Samples\ExtportToViewable\Bundles\LMVExporter.bundle.zip

  Add new data to archive: 2 folders, 2 files, 8301 bytes (9 KiB)


  Files read from disk: 2
  Archive size: 4622 bytes (5 KiB)
  Everything is Ok

Build succeeded.
    0 Warning(s)
    0 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:02.13

SvfViewer

    This is an electron application project to view the SVF package generated from the Design Automation pipeline.

cd SvfViewer
npm install
npm start

Further Reading

Documentation:

• Design Automation v3
• Data Management used to store input and output files.

Other APIs:

• [Electron](https://www.electronjs.org/)

Tips & Tricks

This sample uses .NET 6 and works fine on both Windows and MacOS, see this tutorial for MacOS. You still need Windows debug the AppBundle plugins.

Troubleshooting

1. error setting certificate verify locations error: may happen on Windows, use the following: git config --global http.sslverify "false"

License

This sample is licensed under the terms of the MIT License, refer License page for further details.

Written by

Madhukar Moogala @galakar, APS Partner Development