Forge Use Case Demo: Industrial Construction

Autodesk Forge sample application demonstrating features relevant to the area of industrial construction.

Live demo

Master branch is deployed to https://forge-industrial-construction.autodesk.io.

Development

Prerequisites

• Node.js v10+
• Forge application credentials
• MongoDB database
  • for example, using the free tier of MongoDB Atlas
  • or running MongoDB locally: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/installation

Data preparation

The demo requires a Navisworks model that is split by area and discipline, and individual NWD files in a Forge bucket to be named in the following format:

<facility>-<area>-<discipline>.nwd

Where facility can be an arbitrary string, area is a number, and discipline is an arbitrary string as well. An example of such filename would be:

austin-123-structural.nwd

If you'd like to use a different naming of files or different extensions, you can modify the parsing logic in https://github.com/petrbroz/forge-industrial-construction/blob/develop/routes/data.js#L64.

Setup & Running

• clone this repository
• install dependencies: npm install
• run server with all the required env. variables
  • for example, on macOS:

    export FORGE_CLIENT_ID=<client-id>
    export FORGE_CLIENT_SECRET=<client-secret>
    export FORGE_BUCKET=<bucket-name>
    export GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY=<api-key>
    export MONGODB_URL=<mongodb-connection-string>
    npm start

  • or, when using Visual Studio Code, add this configuration to your .vscode/launch.json:

        {
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Launch Express Server",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}/server.js",
            "env": {
                "FORGE_CLIENT_ID": "<client-id>",
                "FORGE_CLIENT_SECRET": "<client-secret>",
                "FORGE_BUCKET": "<bucket-name>",
                "GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY": "<api-key>",
                "MONGODB_URL": "<mongodb-connection-string>"
            }
        }

• go to http://localhost:3000

Deployment

License

This sample is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.

Written by

Petr Broz (@ipetrbroz), Forge Partner Development Group