Forge Viewer CLI

Inspiration

I thought of how most of my programmer friends complain about GUI application and like to do everything in the terminal.

What it does

Gives a user the ability to interact with the Model Viewer via a command-line interface rather than with the UI toolbar

How I built it

I built this using NodeJS and an npm package called react-term which uses react to simulate an online terminal.

Challenges I ran into

I had trouble understanding the Forge Viewer API docs. As well as some minor issues with learning react-term

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Completing my first serious project in NodeJS

What I learned

I learned a lot about NodeJS (Javascript) I typically program in Java, but I felt as though it wouldn't be a good fit for this project since its pretty heavy weight.

What's next for Forge Viewer CLI

Possibly make it a Chrome extension I also plan to add more Viewer Events and also add more flags for each command

Built With

• autodesk-forge
• node.js
• react
• react-term