Autodesk Forge is our collection of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) that we use to develop our own web services. As part of our Autodesk Forge efforts, we share those APIs (including documentation and code samples) with customers and 3rd party developers (the Forge community) that want to leverage years’ worth of legacy and current data associated with projects.
Pierre Masson is a Premium Support Specialist on our Autodesk Worldwide Field Operations team. When it comes to Forge, we eat our own dog food [1], so Pierre recently shared a project that he has been working on based on the Forge Viewer.
Autodesk Forge can handle a lot of file formats, along with their metadata. When loading a design in the Forge Viewer, you have direct access to the related design properties. It can be very useful to display, side by side, the design and the properties. In this web application, you can browse your designs, and you’ll get access to the 3D model and its design…