Open Cloud

Viewer API supported formats

Viewer API Features

• Zoom, pan, 3D rotate, orbit
• Add markup information and save marked up views (compatible with all supported formats).
• Real-time sectioning (cutting planes).
• Explode assemblies for easy generation of part diagrams
• View modes including wireframe, shaded, HLR, etc., with custom modes such as x-ray via visual styles
• Selection & highlighting support, with ability to isolate or hide selected objects
• Streaming support allows large models to be visualized efficiently
• Upload custom fonts for accurate text display
• Generate custom preview images for models
• Sandbox to facilitate rapid application development
• Compatible with any WebGL-enabled browser

Common Data Access API Features

• Traverse model structure
• Extract property information from model elements
• Examine view information
• Extract geometry from model elements (under development)

Automation API Features – Under Development

• Automation API is intended to provide users with the ability to automate resource-intensive tasks such as conversion of file sets to PDF, 3D PDF, or other formats.
• The API will be customizable by users to allow arbitrary sequences of actions to be automated.

Open Cloud offers the following advantages to ODA members:

Open Cloud is developed on an agile release cycle, with new production releases appearing every 4 weeks. New functionality is being added regularly, and latest project status can be seen below.

• Viewer API
  • Measurement API scheduled December 2019.
• Common Data Access API
  • Object-level properties API scheduled for December 2019.
  • Geometry extraction API scheduled for December 2019.
• Automation API
  • Under development.

ODA strongly believes that web-based collaboration software for engineering should be open. Therefore, core Open Cloud development is funded by ODA, and Open Cloud technology is available to all ODA members as part of a standard membership. In addition, ODA offers a Open Cloud Special Interest Group (SIG) to allow interested companies to fast-track specific areas of development within the project.

How It Works. Companies interested in fast-tracking the development of a new feature area within Open Cloud can do the following:

• Join the Open Cloud SIG.
• Discuss your needs with ODA and determine a contribution level that will achieve your goals in the desired timeframe.
• ODA will hire additional resources for the project, applying your contribution dollar-for-dollar towards the stated goals.
• All developed code becomes part of the common ODA code base.
• Find out more about Open Cloud SIG