如何在Autodesk Forge Viewer中嵌入pdf？

Question

I am currently having trouble getting started with writing an extension that shifts the viewer to a pdf view. More or less, the extension button in mind, when clicked/activated, makes the viewer look like the first image here , and when it is clicked again/deactivated, it reverts back to the regular 3D viewer.

I tried looking into the code in the above link but I don't understand where the modelDocument object came from. I am using the Forge Viewer completely offline, so I am not dealing with any URNs, authentication mechanisms, etc. I already wrote extensions that can change the 3D model in the browser in some way, but this new extension is different.

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

The viewer can only load multiple models at a time but they have to be both 2D or both 3D, you cannot load a 2D model in the same instance if you loaded a 3D model.

You could simply instantiate a 2nd viewer that will load the pdf view, either overlay a div, or navigate to another page or display it side by side like in my demo . That's really up to you.

If you use the viewer offline, then I'm assuming you somehow downloaded the viewable resources that correspond to the translated pdf, in which case you can simply load a 2D model the same way you load the 3D one, using viewer.loadModel('path/to/your/.f2d/resource').

Hope that helps