Couple of questions.
1. Is there an BIM 360 API?
2. How / what event notification message can be programmatically sent to trigger the transfer (downloading) files from the Cloud to the user local cache folder, given the local cache path/filename.ext (with, or without a BIM 360 API) similar to what happens when using the BIM 360 Team folder right-click context menu Open command shown below?
Thanks,
Todd
Hi Todd,
Re. #1 - yes, there is.
Please take a look at:
BIM 360 and Forge Overview
https://fieldofviewblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/where-to-get-help-about-forge/
https://fieldofviewblog.wordpress.com/forge/
Webhooks:
https://developer.autodesk.com/en/docs/webhooks/v1/overview/
#2 -
Not sure where you see that UI. But there is Wenhooks APi with Forge, you may want to take a look.
If this becomes Forge question, I'd suggest raising a question to stackoverflow as this forum is for Revit API.
https://fieldofviewblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/where-to-get-help-about-forge/
Mikako Harada,
Thank you for your reply, I will review the links you have provided.
But in the mean time so that others who may be following this thread hoping for a solution, I will post a copy of the follow-up request sent to Support for additional information about the issues.
Yes we still need support with this issue, we are developing a Revit Add-in that needs to access Revit supporting design documents that are managed by BIM 360 Team / Desktop Connector / Cloud service. The Revit Add-in needs to read information contained in these external design documents when the Revit Add-in is first launched so that it may initialize its interface with the most recent data. Before this can happen, these design documents managed by BIM 360 Team / Desktop Connector / Cloud service need to have their local cache version on the Users local folder from where they are being accessed updated from the Cloud. It is a requirement of the Revit Add-in to make sure that this Transferring of Files from the BIM 360 Team Cloud service can be manually invoked and verified from our Add-in to insure that the latest versions of these design documents are being utilized and all times.
This same / similar action that our Revit Add-in needs to perform can be seen when an document being managed by the BIM 306 Team / Desktop Connector / Cloud service is Opened via the users local cache folder right-click context menu Open command shown below.
Thank you,
Todd
Hi Todd,
Thank you for the additional info. I think you are asking for API for C4R (Collaboration for Revit) and possibly for A360 drive sync.
First, C4R - as of 2018 release, we don't have an API to access models in C4R. Models you see in BIM 360 Team is a version that is "published" by the owner of the model. I wrote about it here:
https://fieldofviewblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/26/c4r-and-forge-api-access/
Accessing C4R model by API is highly demanded feature. As we are moving to cloud, it seems the must that we will need to support it.
(Some people seems to be using temporary cache. But it is not a supported scenario. As long as it works for you, It's okay to use it.)
On BIM 360 side, we have BIM 360 Team and Docs, A360 (along with BIM 360 Glue, Field, etc.). There has been a lot of "plumbing" work to have those seamlessly integrated. Once we have that, we expect we have more functionality added through API.
Forge API will be to get notification at BIM 360 Team and Docs side.
I hope this explains.
