The digital catalog project is a Forge-powered responsive web application that enables companies to publish key models (Inventor, Fusion360) from Fusion Team or BIM360 Docs to their proprietary catalog. Companies can create the catalog structure they need as well as retire products, which have reached end-of-life, from the catalog.
External users can search the catalog and view a 3D representation of each catalog item using the Forge Viewer.
This digital catalog solution also delivers interactive instructions workflow (assembly / disassembly instructions) by supporting animations authored in Fusion 360 in the Forge Viewer.
This web application can act as a foundation for more advanced workflows, such as digital twin initiatives.
The AR/VR Toolkit feature enables translation of SVF to glTF file format.
To learn how to author augmented reality machine instructions, please go to: Augmented Virtual Reality
This section will guide you through getting the code up and running on your own system.
Installation process
git clone https://github.com/Autodesk-Forge/forge-digital-catalog digital-catalog
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cd digital-catalog
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npm install
Software dependencies
Please check dependencies
in package.json.
Because our frontend app (./src/client) is developed separately from our backend (./src/server) - i.e. our backend exposes an
API for our frontend to talk to, then our frontend is essentially a purely static app. We can deploy
the built content in the www
directory to any static file server, but we need to make sure to set the correct
publicPath.
You can review how the frontend app will be built by reading the configuration in the ./vue.config.js
file.
To build the frontend app: npm run build
This will create a new directory ./www
with the static files.
Set environment variables
FORGE_CALLBACK_URL=http://localhost:3000/api/forge/callback/oauth
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FORGE_CLIENT_ID=<Your Forge Client ID>
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FORGE_CLIENT_SECRET=<Your Forge Client Secret>
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MONGODB_URI=<Your MongoDB Uri>
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NODE_ENV=development
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USE_LOAD_BALANCER=false
Compile TypeScript
npm run tsbuild
Start Vue.js front-end app
npm run serve
Start Koa.js back-end app
On first run (only once): \
npm run init
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npm run setadmin init
Any time you start the server: \
npm run dev
(on mac) \
npm run windev
(on windows)
If you run into an error connecting to MongoDB, make sure you specify the database name in your connection string.
mongoose.connect('mongodb://username:password@host:port/database?options...', {useNewUrlParser: true});
To learn how to configure the WebHooks locally, please follow this link: Local WebHooks Instructions
Set environment variables
FORGE_CALLBACK_URL=http://localhost:3000/api/forge/callback/oauth
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FORGE_CLIENT_ID=<Your Forge Client ID>
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FORGE_CLIENT_SECRET=<Your Forge Client Secret>
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MONGODB_URI=<Your MongoDB Uri>
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NODE_ENV=test
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USE_LOAD_BALANCER=false
Compile TypeScript
npm run tsbuild
Run the tests
On first run (only once): \
npm run init
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npm run setadmin add <email>
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npm run tsbuild:test
Any time you run the tests: \
npm test
(on mac) \
npm run wintest
(on windows)
Set environment variables
FORGE_CALLBACK_URL=https://<Your Web Server>/api/forge/callback/oauth
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FORGE_CLIENT_ID=<Your Forge Client ID>
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FORGE_CLIENT_SECRET=<Your Forge Client Secret>
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MONGODB_URI=<Your MongoDB Uri>
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NODE_ENV=production
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USE_LOAD_BALANCER=false
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VUE_APP_KOA_HOST=<Your Web Server>
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VUE_HOST=<Your Web Server>
Compile TypeScript
npm run tsbuild
Build Vue.js front-end app
npm run build
Start Koa.js back-end app
On first run (only once): \
npm run init
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npm run setadmin add <email>
Any time you start the server: \
npm start
(on mac) \
npm start
(on windows)
To learn how to deploy this Forge application, please follow this link: Deployment Instructions
The online help for this application can be served through docsify.
To install docsify, please navigate to https://docsify.js.org/#/quickstart
The documentation markup files for this application are located under the ./docs
folder.
To preview the online help, simply run the command docsify serve ./docs
to start the local server.
You can then preview your online help site in your browser on http://localhost:3000
.
The models used in the live demo can be obtained from \ https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor/troubleshooting/caas/downloads/content/inventor-sample-files.html
You can check out the full license here
This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.
Bastien Mazeran (@BastienMazeran), Tony Mandatori, Autodesk Customer Success Org