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Daan_M
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Implementation of Inventor in APS (Forge)

Sorry if this is the wrong place for this post but i can't find a Autodesk Forge community, and since my question is also for a big part about Inventor, this seemed like the best place to post it. My questions are about implementing an automated Inventor model into APS (formerly called Forge). 

 

I will summarize my situation:

I have an online configuration platform, in which a user can give inputs and when this is finalized a 3D STP model will be generated in Inventor and send back to the user. It works as following:

 

Diagram current 3D.drawio.png

This works fine, but lacks a live 3D viewer that updates with every input given by the user.  While looking for 3D viewer solutions i came across APS, which is a cloud based platform that runs Autodesk services and has a 3D viewer available. This seemed like a fitting solution, since i assumed minor changes to the 3D model itself, and the main changes that are needed are the restructioning data flows.

 

I see the new situation as following:

 

Diagram forge.drawio (1).png

APS is new to me and i'm unsure how to go about this, right now APS seems like a black box to me. If anyone can answer some of the questions below, or give me directions to the information / contacts i need to proceed, it will be greatly appreciated.

 

  • Can i upload Inventor models with iLogic into the Forge platform? Structered as displayed (.iam with .ipts & iLogic)
  • If so, can i upload Inventor models with iLogic into the Forge platform myself? I want to minimalize my depency on 3rd parties
  • I have data packages with parameters that are pushed from the online platform, which will be used for generating a 3D model. How do i communicate these data packages to APS? For example I have seen that APS has a viewer with a UI you can give input to in order to change a model, but i want the Input to be API driven instead. Do i need something like an intermediate server with some script that recieves the data packages and translates it to an input that APS can handle?
  • I assume Embedding the viewer into the online platform is no problem using something like an i-frame.

Thank you!