Hi Jeremy,
I havent read all your blog post word by word, but quite a few and most certainly all on Revit IO, I know all public ways (AU, blogs etc) it has been attempted. But I have my own way =)
I even contacted Jim Quanci after your "What can revit on the cloud do for you" post last year, but that after initial correspondance it came to an halt.
My problem with Forge, when it comes to Revit is that it doesnt do all the things I want it to and when you want to do 100s of Revit files every day, cost is becoming a factor. But we are sure following the Forge development with excitement. And also, we are much stronger in c# than in javascript =)
Things we are currently looking at doing:
- Extracting model benchmarks for all models every night (I dont think Forge comes near
- Converting IFCs back and forth from Revit (I think this can be done in some part, in Forge, right?)
- Exporting DWGs and PDFs
- Simplifying Revit models for delivery
- Generating room drawings.
Basically everything that we can think of that takes alot of time right now.
We are doing this right now, everything is working and we are adding more features by the day.
However exporting model geometry seemed to be a harder nut to crack than expected.
The backup plan is to keep the web service in a console window and find ways to ensure it doesnt crash without coming alive again, or finding a way to create an interactive windows service.