Problem with downloading RVT models from A360

[aleksei.melnikov]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to download revit file from BIM360 Team (%teamname%.autodesk360.com).

I'm using this reference https://developer.autodesk.com/en/docs/data/v2/tutorials/download-file/ and it works for dwg files but not for rvt.

I can't open revit models downloaded using "storage" endpoint, but with rvt it is okay.

What could be wrong?

I have also tried to use "POST downloads" endpoint - https://developer.autodesk.com/en/docs/data/v2/reference/http/projects-project_id-downloads-POST/

but docs there not so clear. Where should I put "version_id" there?

Thank you!

[aleksei.melnikov]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to download revit file from BIM360 Team (%teamname%.autodesk360.com).

I'm using this reference https://developer.autodesk.com/en/docs/data/v2/tutorials/download-file/ and it works for dwg files but not for rvt.

I can't open revit models downloaded using "storage" endpoint, but with rvt it is okay.

What could be wrong?

I have also tried to use "POST downloads" endpoint - https://developer.autodesk.com/en/docs/data/v2/reference/http/projects-project_id-downloads-POST/

but docs there not so clear. Where should I put "version_id" there?

Thank you!

[aleksei.melnikov · Accepted solution]

Sorry for panic. 

Accidentally I found a reason why I can't open it. It is a zip archive, not dwg!

But the question with "POST download" docs is still relevant. Any body know where to put version_id here?

[aleksei.melnikov · Accepted solution]

Sorry for panic. 

Accidentally I found a reason why I can't open it. It is a zip archive, not dwg!

But the question with "POST download" docs is still relevant. Any body know where to put version_id here?

[mikako_harada · Accepted solution]

Hi Alexsey, 

The example of body shows like this: 

{
	"jsonapi": {
		"version": "1.0"
	},
	"data": {
		"type": "downloads",
		"attributes": {
			"format": {
				"fileType": "dwf"
			}
		},
		"relationships": {
			"source": {
				"data": {
					"type": "versions",
					"id": "urn:adsk.wipprod:fs.file:vf.ooWjwAQJR0uEoPRyfEnvew?version=1"
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

Could you try it based on this request body JSON structure? 

[mikako_harada · Accepted solution]

Hi Alexsey, 

The example of body shows like this: 

{
	"jsonapi": {
		"version": "1.0"
	},
	"data": {
		"type": "downloads",
		"attributes": {
			"format": {
				"fileType": "dwf"
			}
		},
		"relationships": {
			"source": {
				"data": {
					"type": "versions",
					"id": "urn:adsk.wipprod:fs.file:vf.ooWjwAQJR0uEoPRyfEnvew?version=1"
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

Could you try it based on this request body JSON structure? 

[aleksei.melnikov]

One more question about Revit files downloading.

As I understand, if there are no linked files endpoint return only one RVT (unzipped). If there are some linked models, it returns several models zipped.

How could I know am I downloading zipped Revit models or one, not the archived model?

There are no differences in headers

{'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*', 'Content-Encoding': 'gzip', 'ETag': '"%%%"', 'Vary': 'Accept-Encoding', 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers': 'Authorization, Accept-Encoding, Range, Content-Type', 'Date': 'Thu, 22 Feb 2018 08:19:16 GMT', 'Content-Disposition': 'attachment; filename="%%%.rvt"', 'transfer-encoding': 'chunked', 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods': 'GET', 'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream', 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials': 'true', 'Connection': 'keep-alive'}

Is there any other way to know the format before opening the file in Revit?

[aleksei.melnikov]

One more question about Revit files downloading.

As I understand, if there are no linked files endpoint return only one RVT (unzipped). If there are some linked models, it returns several models zipped.

How could I know am I downloading zipped Revit models or one, not the archived model?

There are no differences in headers

{'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*', 'Content-Encoding': 'gzip', 'ETag': '"%%%"', 'Vary': 'Accept-Encoding', 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers': 'Authorization, Accept-Encoding, Range, Content-Type', 'Date': 'Thu, 22 Feb 2018 08:19:16 GMT', 'Content-Disposition': 'attachment; filename="%%%.rvt"', 'transfer-encoding': 'chunked', 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods': 'GET', 'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream', 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials': 'true', 'Connection': 'keep-alive'}

Is there any other way to know the format before opening the file in Revit?