Implementation of Inventor in APS (Forge)

[Daan_M]

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:

 

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:

 

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!

[abdullah_elq]

This is the best place to get answers regarding APS-related questions: https://aps.autodesk.com/get-help

If you want to book a meeting with an expert, I recommend speaking to @adam.nagy . 

[adam.nagy]

First of all please have a look at this to set your expectations regarding what's possible:

https://aps.autodesk.com/blog/create-configurator 

[JelteDeJong]

I'm not an expert on this topic but this is what I Understand from the Developer's Guide.

you need to go through these steps:

I guess that iLogic is not the tool to upload files and call web api's. But if you already have an online platform then I would suggest extending it to upload the files and handle all other stuff (like authentication)

Then APS can handle the translation of the files for you.

The viewer is a js script and a div in your HTML

Edit: I just saw that the real expert already replied 😉