Introduction to Forge and Manufacturing

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Hi, my name is Bastien Mazeran.

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I will be your presenter today.

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We are going to talk about Forge and going over an introduction

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to the platform, and focusing primarily

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on the manufacturing capabilities of the Forge

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platform.

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I hope you'll find this introduction informative.

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Today, the goal is to cover and clarify the following point

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for you so that you understand what the Forge platform is.

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So the first thing we'll try to achieve

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is a clear understanding of the technology

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and the functionality that 4G offers in the manufacturing

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space.

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You'll hopefully gain some insights

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on setting up a development team for developing a new Forge

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application.

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You'll also understand the tools and the debuggers

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you'll need to develop Forge applications.

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And will also deep dive into how you can transition

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your automation that you may have already developed

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on desktop CAD to the cloud.

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So those covers Inventor Automation, AutoCAD Automation,

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Here's the agenda of today's presentation.

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We'll start with explaining what the Forge platform is

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and what you can do with it today.

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We'll go over some demos so that you have a clear understanding

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of what you can build with Forge, some example

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from other customers or from partners

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so that you see the potential of the platform.

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We'll go as well into how you form a development

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team, the kind of resources they'll

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need to learn the tools, they'll need to develop,

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and the best practices as well.

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And last but not least, we'll go over

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a quick overview of the Forge APIs, the functionalities,

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and the pricing of all those functionalities in more

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details.

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Here is the safe harbor statement.

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Essentially, I may make some statement here.

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They're forward looking.

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Please do not make a purchase decision based on that.

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All right.

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So let's go into the first section of this presentation.

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It's essentially covering what the Forge platform is

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and what you can build with it.

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So first of all, Forge is a cloud API platform.

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It is not a product, very different

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from AutoCAD or Revit.

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It's actually a platform.

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That is a collection of functionality

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that are very vast and diverse.

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Essentially the way you interact with this platform

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is by calling web APIs.

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API stand for application programming interface.

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And it's just a mechanism.

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It's actually industry standard in the web

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to allow web applications to communicate with one another.

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So in this image, you can see that you

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can connect to the Forge servers via multiple types of devices,

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from iPads, iPhones, laptops, desktop,

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anything that can connect to the internet or the web will work.

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You can see as well that every time you make a call to Forge,

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it has to go through the HTTP protocol.

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So essentially, you're making requests from your clients

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and you're getting a response back from the Forge servers.

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Earlier I mentioned it is a platform.

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We actually like to call Forge the platform

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for the digital transformation of design and make.

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The reason for this is because it

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is a set of functionality, a collection of APIs that

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allows you to extend and integrate

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with existing Autodesk web application.

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So you can essentially go through various use cases

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from Reality Capture to interacting

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with your BIM360 data, creating some visualization,

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as well as automating some of your design workflows.

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It's also important to note that it is a common technology

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stack for us.

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Forge is the foundation of many of our web application

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that we own today at Autodesk, BIM360 being one of them

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and Fusion as well.

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So all those-- all the platforms are actually running on Forge.

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I mentioned visualization.

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We do have a component on the platform, an API, that's

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specific to viewing.

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It's essentially some web technology,

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visualization technology that you

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can use to visualize in 3D or CAD models

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into any web portal of your choosing.

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So what can you do is Forge.

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The high level goal is to build online workflows

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and experiences around your design and engineering data

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so you probably have a lot of [INAUDIBLE] today

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in various forms from AutoCAD to Revit, to maybe Inventor.

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And you would like to create some online experiences

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and workflows around those files.

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Well, you can do that with the Forge platform,

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by simply uploading to the cloud those design files

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or engineering files and creating some automation

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connection with an enterprise system such as ERP, CRM,

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Financial, PLM.

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Today, we support over 65 formats.

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It's not just CAD file format.

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We also support PDF, Office Documents, et cetera.

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When I talk about online workflows and experiences, what

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I want to highlight as well is that you

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can interact with your design data in the sense

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that you can create design data.

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You can read it.

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You can update it, or delete it using the Forge APIs.

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You can also run CAD engines in cloud, very valuable use case,

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especially for democratizing CAD Automation to non-CAD users.

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So essentially you could have non-CAD users who

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don't have Revit, or Inventor installed

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on their machine and license.

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They could still start some automation,

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CAD automation in the cloud from a web browser.

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Another thing that you can go and use Forge for

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is Reality Capture.

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So it's the entire drone photography use

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case where you basically capture a lot of pictures

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and the output is a

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In terms of the community where we are today, the data you see

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is recent as of this month, we have

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around 2,500 monthly active developer

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accounts on the platform with 138 enterprise

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customers evaluating Forge today,

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and 37 Forge certified system integrators.

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So a lot of activity on the platform.

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And again just to reiterate, it is a developer platform

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in the cloud.

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So to users or the community that we're working with

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are mainly developers.

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Here is the portion where I will quickly

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go into a demo to show you the Forge portal,

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which is your entry point to anything Forge related.

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So to access Forge, you simply need an Autodesk ID.

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And you need a browser.

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And you can navigate to forge.autodesk.com.

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You'll find of course a lot of information from documentation

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and the APIs, to blogs, through how

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you get supports, the pricing, lots of valuable information.

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But the first thing you will need to do

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is to log in to the Forge platform with your Autodesk ID.

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And I will share with you the experience.

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So after you log in with your Autodesk ID,

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that Autodesk ID is converted to a Forge account user.

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You can see from the Autodesk ID avatar,

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you have access to your Forge application

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as well as usage analytics, so all the consumption.

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What I want to show you next is the process

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of creating a Forge application, which is the first thing you'll

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do as a developer.

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A Forge application is essentially a unique pair

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of keys, or credentials.

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And we'll see what that means.

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First thing that you need to do when you create a Forge

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application is to select the APIs that you will be coding.

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So always remember to limit access to the APIs

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you really need for your application.

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So if you're building an application that will solely

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focus on drone photogrammetry, the idea

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would be to just choose Reality Capture API in that case.

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So we'll give it a name and the description.

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Write a callback URL, and click on Create Application.

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So really very simple step here, process.

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What we've essentially done is we've

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registered a new Forge application on the Forge

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servers.

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And what you end up with is what we

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call the unique pair of keys, mainly the client

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ID on the client's secrets.

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Those represents your application credentials

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you will need those credentials to authenticate to the Forge

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platform with the Forged server to be able to interact

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with those APIs.

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So I'm not going to go into further details,

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but I just wanted to show you how easy it is

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to create a Forge application.

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Now another thing to consider that's quite important

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is potential business model for Forge application.

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So when you are creating a Forge application,

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the first thing you'll need obviously

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is a development team.

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You'll need to have developers on staff that

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are capable of writing front-end application

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web, front-end applications as well

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as the backend application.

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It will be on the backend application

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that most of the interaction with Forge will happen.

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At the backend of the web application

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will make HTTP calls, HTTP request to the Forge servers

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to retrieve information about the design data

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that you have on your Forge platform,

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on Autodesk cloud application.

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As an enterprise business customers,

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you can ask your customer success manager

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to add Forge to your contract.

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There's no fee with this.

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A simple email will suffice.

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Once you have Forge on your Token Flex agreement,

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the developers can start building

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the front-end application and the logic

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around calling the Forge APIs and building

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an online experience and workflow experience, a web

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experience with the Forge API.

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So essentially you'll end up with a web application.

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And the users could be internal users, your employees,

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as well as potential external vendors, contractors,

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these type of things.

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So any users that connect to your Forge web application

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will go through some workflows.

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They will go through some processes

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that your web application will offer to them.

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And as they progress and make HTTP request

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to the Forge servers, we will charge cloud credits

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based on whatever API they're coding that has

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a cost associated with it.

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So that's the business model, how it ties up together.

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So let's talk quickly about the pricing model for enterprise

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business customers.

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Again adding Forge to the platform,

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there's no access fee.

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Note that the use of Forge APIs can consume tokens

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from your token pool.

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Not all Forge APIs incur cost.

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Some are free.

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And we'll go into those details later.

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In terms of the rates, they're expressed as cloud credits.

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You'll have to know that 1 cloud credit is

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the same as 1 EBA token.

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And finally, the current default model

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is a single user subscription model,

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which means that you can only assign the Forge entitlements

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to a single Autodesk ID user, but that

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can be adjusted as well.

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So I don't want to go into too much details,

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but it's really high level.

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That's kind of the pricing model for Forge on Token Flex.

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Here's the steps you need to go through

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to add Forge to your EBA agreement,

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and the person, the Autodesk ID that has the Forge entitlements

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will be the person creating the Forge application.

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So you saw me log in to the Forge portal

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and creating Forge application earlier on.

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It won't be that person.

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Whoever has the Forge entitlements,

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that Autodesk ID will have to log into the Forge portal

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and create the Forge application.

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That's how we connect the Token Flex entitlement

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to the Forge application.

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So now I want to go into some industry examples.

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So actual Forge application that were developed

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by all the customers, all their partners, some proof of concept

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application developed by our Forge evangelist team.

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So there's a lot of application today, code samples available.

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So I'm not going to go into all of them.

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But what I wanted to make you aware of,

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first, is of really cool websites

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that our Forge evangelist team has put together.

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It's called a Forge Showroom.

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And essentially it's a website where

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you have access to the collection of all

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the Forge application, the proof concept application that

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have been built so far.

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You can see that you can filter by applications.

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If you're a retail customer, you can click on Retail,

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see what's happening.

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If you're interested in Digital Twin Workflows,

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you can click on that.

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If you want to explore AR/VR with Forge,

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there's also some code samples for you.

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So here's their link.

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If you click on the Link to Showroom,

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it'll take you to that page and feel free to explore.

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Because this presentation is primarily

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focusing on manufacturing and how

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you can use Forge in the context of manufacturing application,

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I want to highlight the number one use

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case that you'll probably be looking at or considering

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as a manufacturing customer.

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And you're most likely using Inventor as your engineering

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design tool today.

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And there's a lot of use cases around product configurators.

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So what I want to walk you through

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is a video of a code sample that highlights

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potential use case for Inventor product configurator.

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So in this example, we have a web application

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where we have some Inventor models and assemblies that are

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stored on the Forge platform.

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So it's in the Autodesk cloud.

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And what the user is doing here is changing some

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of the parameters of the model.

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When you click Update, essentially the web application

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is sending a request to the Forge server

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asking Forge to do some design automation type workflow where

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we'll be running Inventor in the cloud

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or putting that Inventor assembly consuming

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the new parameters, the new dimensions,

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and generating a new Inventor model and drawing from it.

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And so what you can see here is essentially the workflow

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where we're generating new inventive

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models based on new parameters, all that from the web page.

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Let's move on to the next use case, Digital Twin.

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This is a buzz word, but essentially the idea

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is that you have a physical prototype.

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So let's imagine a jet turbine engine.

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So you have a physical prototype in your factory

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and you have instrumented it with IoT sensors,

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and you would like to create what we call a Digital

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Twin, which is a copy of the physical prototype,

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but in a digital shape and form.

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So with Forge, you can essentially

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build a web application where you can aggregate both the IoT

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sensor data with the 3D CAD model, the geometry,

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the visualization.

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So in this case, we're looking at the Forge Viewer.

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That's embedded into a Forge web application.

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We can also see that we have some IoT data showing

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in some nice graphs and charts.

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And you can connect the two.

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So you can create some real visualization experiences

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where you can overlay maybe the temperature information

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on top of the 3D model.

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You can also do some exploding.

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A lot of things can be done that way.

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So very powerful use case.

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These specific use case is on the Forge Showroom,

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so you just have to search for the Digital Twin.

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Another variation of a Digital Twin,

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this time instead of a jet turbine engine,

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we're going to look at the factory floor.

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So you can see you have conveyor belts with different assets

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in the factory.

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And we're going to go through some maintenance

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workflows, the factory, the visualization of it,

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again using the Forge Viewer.

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And you can see that you can create some web experiences.

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We're selecting components.

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Let's say a fire extinguisher.

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You can customize the Forge Viewer

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to open a PDF file that contains the specification

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of that asset.

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But it could be machine specification.

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If you have maybe a robot or a 3D printer,

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you could essentially connect the technical specification

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to PDF and connect that with the 3D you have.

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So very good experience here.

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So Moicon is a partner of ours, so you can go to their website

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and learn more about what they do.

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OK, another use case here is around part ordering.

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So parts ordering is another common use case

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in manufacturing.

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So let's imagine you have sold one of your machines

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to one of your customer and the customer

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has the machine installed on their sites.

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Unfortunately after three months of machine run, one of the part

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breaks.

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They need to order a new part.

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So we can create, again with the Forge APIs and the Forge

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Viewer, an online experience where

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a customer can go to your website

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to order a replacement parts.

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So you can see we have the shopping basket experience

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but also enhanced with visualization

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that is provided by the Forge Viewer.

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And again CADShare is also one of our partner.

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So I hope all those demos help you understand

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the breadth of web application you can build today

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with the Forge APIs and what the Forge platform can deliver.

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Now we're going to double click on how to successfully build

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a development team that will be successful at developing Forge

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application for you.

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Now you probably have been an Autodesk customer

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for a long time and you've most likely

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have used our primary Desktop CAD

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applications such as Inventor,

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And throughout the years, you probably

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have developed some automation with those Desktop CAD engines.

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And I'm pretty confident that you

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have some developers on staff that

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know how to build Revit in Inventor add-ins,

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AutoCAD Lisp routine to automate some of the work.

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Now when you're going to Forge, and the Forge platform,

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we're dealing with a cloud platform.

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We're dealing with cloud API.

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So we have to shift our mindset from desktop to cloud.

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What that means is that we're going away

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from files into URLs.

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So every time you interact with data with Forge,

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you need to interact through a file that has been uploaded

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to a cloud storage location.

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So maybe BIM360 Docs, maybe Fusion Team, maybe Box, maybe

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Dropbox, et cetera.

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You'll also have to worry about authentication.

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You cannot interact with your design data that's in the cloud

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without properly authenticating with the Forge server.

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So there is security concerns.

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And that's why there's some very strict authentication

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protocol that must be met before you can interact with your data

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in the cloud.

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You'll have to learn more about HTTP in general.

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What is a request?

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What is a response?

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How does that work?

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Because essentially all the APIs you

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have on the Forge platform are RESTful APIs meaning

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they're web APIs and essentially they're

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HTTP endpoints that you will have to interact with.

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And there's also some new technology

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that you need to start learning about, is WebHooks, essentially

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ways to listen to specific events in the cloud

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and react to it.

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So those are I would say things you need to start

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looking into reading about--

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there's tons of resources on LinkedIn Learning

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and other learning platform.

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Now what skills do you need to be

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successful at developing Forge web application

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or mobile application.

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As a matter of fact, you can create both web

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and mobile experiences.

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So the first thing that I want to highlight

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is that the Forge platform is a set of RESTful APIs.

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What does that mean?

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It means that their own HTTP web APIs.

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We're not asking you to learn any new programming languages.

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Essentially you can continue using any of the development

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programming languages you've used today as long

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as those programming languages have libraries that allows

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you to make HTTP request.

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So JavaScript can do that.

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Node.js can do that.

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ASP.NET, but also Python, Ruby, Java.

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You can continue using all those programming languages.

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There's only one exception, is that the Forge Viewer is not

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a RESTful API.

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It's technically a client-side JavaScript component.

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So this is the only time.

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If you want to do visualization workflows,

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you'll have to learn a little bit of JavaScript.

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But for anything else on the Forge platform,

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you don't need to learn JavaScript.

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You can continue using C-sharp.

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Now here's a quick glimpse at all the tools

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you'll probably be using to develop web application.

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So if you're a .NET programmer, please continue using Microsoft

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Visual Studio.

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Note that we have Forge SDKs on the NuGet server.

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So you can install those NuGet packages for Forge.

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That will greatly accelerate your development efforts.

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If you're a JavaScript developer,

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we have Visual Studio Code, very powerful IDE

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for web development.

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To note, we have a Forge extension on Visual Studio Code

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marketplace.

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So please use it.

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It will make your life so much easier.

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But if you are more familiar with WebStorm and NetBeans,

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feel free continue using it.

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In terms of web debugging, of course,

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you'll be dealing with REST APIs.

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So using REST clients such as Postman,

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Insomnia will become invaluable.

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So please consider learning about REST clients,

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how to use them.

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They will allow you to test all those RESTful APIs

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and essentially documenting all those HTTP requests

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that you are making to Forge.

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You can document them in collections

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and go back to them to validate.

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It will help you with the troubleshooting as well.

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Obviously, if you're troubleshooting some issues,

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you'll probably have to debug the client side as well.

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So that's where the developer console of your browser

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will become very useful.

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So please use that.

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Chrome has one.

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Microsoft Edge has one.

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Firefox-- so use those tools.

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For collaboration, you'll find that GitHub

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is the industry standard to store all your code samples.

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You can have private repositories as well as

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public repositories.

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So it's up to you to decide if you want to make it public.

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But to note, we have an entire site

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on GitHub called Autodesk-Forge that

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has all the proof of concept application, the code samples

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that we've developed today.

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We have over 60 code samples out there for you

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to download and play with.

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Because we are focusing today on manufacturing,

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I want to highlight a Visual Studio project

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template that our development team has created,

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and they will greatly reduce the time for you

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to get started with building Forge Design Automation

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application with Inventor.

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So here is the Blog Article.

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You'll find a link to download that Microsoft Visual Studio

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Project Template to do all set up for you, a new Visual Studio

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solution with three projects.

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One is the actual Inventor add-in.

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The second is how to deploy that add-in to the Forge platform.

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And third is the actual design automation piece

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of Forge on how to submit new Design Automation jobs

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and whatever else needs to happen to make it work.

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The other thing that I mentioned earlier on

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was the Forge Extension and Visual Studio Code.

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I personally find this tool extremely valuable.

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I've used it countless amount of time.

26:23

It allows you to support multiple Forge environments,

26:27

meaning you can look at the data and all the information

26:31

you have for different Forge applications.

26:33

So you can have environments that are

26:35

different per Forge client IDs.

26:38

There's also a nice blog article that walks you

26:41

through how to do design automation with AutoCAD

26:45

from Visual Studio Code without writing any code.

26:49

So very powerful example.

26:50

Please go through it and you'll understand why

26:54

I'm advocating for this tool.

26:56

Now in terms of resources, knowledge, things

26:60

you need to go through to become a Forge expert,

27:03

so we have obviously the API Documentation.

27:06

So please make sure you read through it.

27:09

There's a lot of details around HTTP request, the headers,

27:14

the bodies, et cetera.

27:16

And also rate limits, this type of information,

27:20

you'll find all of that in the documentation.

27:23

There's also a tutorial called Learn Forge.

27:25

The screenshot you're looking at is

27:27

an example of one section of that tutorial.

27:31

It's focused on modifying your model.

27:34

So this is Design Automation API for Inventor.

27:37

They'll take you step by step on how to build Forge web

27:41

application from scratch and to Design Automation

27:44

Workflows with it.

27:44

It's pretty powerful tutorial.

27:46

You can, of course, ask any question.

27:49

If you're a developer, you can go to Stack Overflow.

27:51

We have a presence on Stack Overflow for Autodesk Forge.

27:55

Go there, ask questions.

27:58

You can search to see if other people have

27:60

asked that question before.

28:01

So feel free to rely on the community.

28:05

If your question is more confidential,

28:08

you don't want to publicly ask it,

28:10

note that you can use the forge.help email alias.

28:14

So feel free to use it.

28:15

Also placed a link to Autodesk-Forge on GitHub.

28:19

That's the place where you'll find all the code

28:21

samples we've developed so far.

28:23

So a lot of good example for you to get started.

28:26

And of course, we have more Enterprise Priority

28:29

accelerators, such as the one I'm presenting today.

28:32

So please connect with your customer success manager

28:35

or designated support specialist,

28:36

and we can deliver more Forge content for you.

28:40

Now the final section, the Umbrella of Forge,

28:44

in this section we'll quickly glimpse

28:46

through the actual APIs, the functionality

28:50

available on the Forge platform today.

28:53

So on the Forge platform, you'll find nine APIs available today.

29:00

The first one that you'll need to learn

29:02

is the Authentication API.

29:05

Without it, you won't be able to use any of the other API

29:09

that you see on this slide.

29:11

Without properly authenticating with the Forge server,

29:15

you won't be able to access your data that you've stored

29:18

in BIM360 Docs or Fusion Team.

29:21

The next API that you'll probably

29:24

be using with the first one is Data Management API.

29:27

This one allows you to interact with your data in the cloud.

29:30

And I'll go into the details.

29:32

BIM360 is all about interacting with the information

29:36

you have in BIM360.

29:38

However, the Viewer is the Visualization API,

29:42

the technology you can use to visualize your 3D.

29:45

Token Flex API is all about acquiring the consumption

29:50

information, the usage data, all your Autodesk products

29:52

that are on Token Flexs.

29:54

So this one can only be used by enterprise business customers.

29:59

We have also WebHooks API, Design Automation API,

30:03

Model Derivative API, and Reality Capture.

30:06

So let me go into the pricing, and then we'll

30:09

go into each API in a little bit more detail.

30:12

So when we make HTTP request to Forge,

30:16

depending on what we are doing, we'll be charged cloud credits.

30:22

Again, 1 cloud credit is the same as 1 EBA token.

30:26

So here is the translation.

30:28

Depending on what you are doing, the pricing model will change.

30:33

So if you're running a CAD engine in the cloud,

30:36

like Inventor through Design Automation or AutoCAD

30:39

through design automation, you'll

30:41

find that the pricing model is based on processing hour.

30:46

What that means is that it's the time it takes

30:49

to upload the CAD models to the cloud,

30:52

to run Inventor in the cloud.

30:55

Open those files, run the add-in, the command, the custom

30:60

command, and download the output.

31:03

So processing hour includes all those activities.

31:06

And so let's imagine you have some automation for Inventor

31:11

and it takes 20 minutes per job, you'd

31:16

have to run three jobs to be charged 6 tokens.

31:20

Model Derivative API, a little bit different.

31:24

Here it's not about the translation.

31:27

We don't count how long it takes to run on our servers.

31:30

We charge you based on each translation.

31:33

So Model Derivative API is the API

31:36

that you use to prepare your CAD files for viewing.

31:41

So this is the API you'll be using

31:44

prior to using the Viewer API so that you can visualize your

31:49

[INAUDIBLE].

31:50

Reality Capture API, again this is photogrammetry workflow.

31:53

In this case, we're dealing with pictures.

31:56

That's why we're charging against pixel process.

32:00

So you can see.

32:02

So just to be clear, those three APIs

32:04

are the only one today that will have a cost for you.

32:08

Authentication API.

32:09

So this API allows you to log in to the Forge servers.

32:13

And essentially what it returns is

32:16

what we call an access token.

32:18

And it's using the industry standard for authentication,

32:22

is the OAuth2 process.

32:25

You can see that it's a free API.

32:27

You won't be charged for logging in into Forge.

32:30

But essentially what you get back is an access token.

32:33

That access token is an encoded long chain

32:36

of strings and numbers.

32:38

Essentially you can see if we decoded,

32:40

it contains information about the Forge application client ID

32:45

as well as the scope prior to the permissions for that access

32:48

token.

32:48

That access token is valid for an hour.

32:51

And any other API you call, so let's imagine Data Management

32:55

API or Model Derivative API, whenever

32:58

you place the call to that, you'll

32:60

have to pass that access token information into the HTTP

33:04

request you make to the Forge server.

33:06

And obviously after one hour, if the token has expired,

33:10

you'll have to ask for a new one.

33:13

Data management API.

33:14

So this one also is free but very powerful.

33:18

And you'll definitely be using.

33:20

This one allows you to interact with your files in the cloud,

33:25

in the Autodesk cloud.

33:26

It's not just CAD files.

33:29

It's also a PDF, Office Documents

33:32

that you can interact with.

33:33

You can see that we have connectors

33:35

to BIM360 Docs to Fusion Team, to BIM360 Team as well.

33:40

OK.

33:41

So data management API is API you

33:43

use to interact with your data in the cloud.

33:47

BIM360 API is also free, most likely

33:51

because you already have a BIM360 subscription.

33:54

So you're already paying for BIM360

33:56

through your subscription.

33:58

Therefore, access to the API is free.

34:01

So to note, allows you to access the accounts information,

34:06

issues, checklist, as well as some other workflows,

34:09

like publishing the documents, this type of things.

34:13

You can see there's also some beta APIs.

34:15

They are public, around cost management

34:18

and model coordination.

34:19

So we keep on adding more APIs to the BIM360 API area.

34:26

Model Derivative API is the API you

34:28

use to translate to prepare the CAD files for viewing.

34:32

So you have uploaded some Inventor files.

34:36

You can call the Model Derivative

34:37

API to translate that Inventor model into a file format

34:42

that the Web Viewer or Forge can actually read.

34:47

So you'll hear that on file format svf,

34:50

you'll hear it being mentioned, but that's essentially what

34:53

that translation is all about.

34:54

So it's a service.

34:55

It's a translation pipeline.

34:57

You can translate over 65 format through its Navisworks, Revits,

35:03

Inventor, AutoCAD.

35:04

You can see that it's not about just translating the geometry.

35:08

It's also you could just generate thumbnails.

35:11

You can also extract metadata from the files.

35:14

So if your Inventor file as [INAUDIBLE] properties,

35:18

you could extract that as well.

35:20

The Forge Viewer, so again this one is not a RESTful API.

35:23

It's the client-side JavaScript library.

35:25

But essentially it allows you to do 3D visualization

35:29

in the browser.

35:31

What that means is that you can integrate this Viewer web

35:35

component into any web application.

35:39

So if you have a custom portal today,

35:41

you can enhance your customer experience

35:43

by adding 3D visualization of your products

35:47

into your customer portal.

35:48

So a lot of things can be done with this.

35:52

As well as these Web Viewer can be customized.

35:55

You can customize the toolbar and add

35:58

new buttons, extensions.

36:01

And you can create some custom experiences

36:04

that your business needs, that can

36:06

be specific to your workflow, your need.

36:10

So it's customizable.

36:11

Design Automation, so we covered it.

36:13

It's essentially running AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit

36:16

and 3ds MAX in the cloud.

36:19

WebHooks, it's an API that allows you

36:22

to listen to specific events.

36:24

So I'll give you a concrete example.

36:26

Let's imagine you are uploading a new version

36:29

of a file to BIM360 Docs while you could register

36:32

WebHook for that event.

36:35

When that occurs?

36:36

When you upload a new version of a file in BIM360 Docs,

36:40

the WebHook will be called.

36:43

And that WebHook will make an HTTP request somewhere else.

36:49

That D else could be calling the Slack API or the Twitter API

36:56

or Salesforce API or even an Autodesk API.

36:60

And if we go back to Slack, we could maybe post a new message

37:05

to a specific user saying the new version of the file

37:08

has been created, please go check.

37:11

So this is the type of experience

37:13

that a WebHook allows you to do.

37:15

Reality Capture.

37:16

So we have two modes, the object mode and the drawing mode.

37:21

So you can do two type of things.

37:24

It's always about taking pictures and generating

37:27

a 3D mesh model from it, but those pictures

37:30

can be taken from a drone, or if you are on the factory floor,

37:35

you can use a camera and have an object rotate,

37:38

and you'll generate a

37:43

Last but not least, the Token Flex Usage Data API.

37:47

This API is only available to enterprise customers.

37:51

It's free of use.

37:53

It allows you to query your token consumption and product

37:58

usage for Token Flex.

37:60

So it allows you to build custom reports

38:03

on maybe your Revit product usage, your AutoCAD product

38:07

usage, but also cloud services.

38:10

Thank you for watching.

38:11

I hope you found his presentation informative

38:15

and that you'll have some ideas to start

38:20

new Forge application for manufacturing at your own pace.

38:25

And if you need any help from the Autodesk team,

38:29

please work with your customer success manager and designated

38:33

support specialist.

38:35

Thank you again for watching.