And one of the challenges associated with our job is to make information available on the internet which are contained in AutoCAD drawings. This space is especially interesting and rapidly changing, especially with AutoDesk’s new Forge initiative and the APIs they have released to allow developers to interact with their platform.

So I developed a proto-type application which takes AutoCAD information out of drawings and puts in them on the internet.

It’s pretty cool.

You can check out my work here:

Part I - Intro

Panel Status API - Intro (Part I) from Tek1 on Vimeo.

Part II – Data Extraction

Panel Status API - Data Extraction(Part II) from Tek1 on Vimeo.

Part III – Data Querying

Panel Status API - Data Querying - (Part III) from Tek1 on Vimeo.

Part IV – API in Action

Panel Status API - API in Action - (Part IV) from Tek1 on Vimeo.