Autodesk Forge viewer: Directly load a SVF?

Question

As the official documentation states, you can upload a source file to OSS and translate it, once in your bucket, to a SVF with the Model Derivative API.

But is it possible to skip the translation step, directly uploading a SVF project (for example, one of these: https://forge-rcdb.autodesk.io/gallery ) and loading into the web viewer?

I haven't been able neither to do it nor find any documentation yet.

Answer 1

Yes, that is possible. Instead of loading the Model Derivative service "manifest" using the Autodesk.Viewing.Document.load method, and then loading a specific "viewable" from the manifest using the Viewer3D#loadDocumentNode method, you can just call the viewer's loadModel method and provide an actual URL to your SVF file.

Note however that the Forge Viewer assets (JavaScript, CSS files, icons, etc.) should still be coming from the Autodesk domain. In other words, we do not officially support running the application offline. If you need to support workflows where your users could be temporarily disconnected from the inte.net, please refer to https://forge.autodesk.com/blog/disconnected-workflows .