Industrial Construction Demo

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

Live demo

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

Development

Prerequisites

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

Sample Data

This demo expects your 3D designs stored in APS to be named in a specific way:

<facility>-<area>-<type>.nwd

Where <facility> can be either el or montreal (these two names are currently hard-coded), <area> is an arbitrary number, and <type> is an arbitrary word describing the type of data in the design. Here's some examples:

• el-100-electrical.nwd
• el-200-structural.nwd
• montreal-300-electrical.nwd
• montreal-400-structural.nwd

With this naming, the application is able to present a matrix of checkboxes representing individual area codes and disciplines, and load their corresponding designs on demand.

You can modify the hard-coded facilities here, and the parsing of design names here.

Setup & Running

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

    export APS_CLIENT_ID=<client-id>
    export APS_CLIENT_SECRET=<client-secret>
    export APS_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": {
                "APS_CLIENT_ID": "<client-id>",
                "APS_CLIENT_SECRET": "<client-secret>",
                "APS_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), APS Developer Advocates