Can I call the OnShape CAD engine from a web application?

nvstartrek

Hello,
     Does anyone know whether I can call OnShape from another web application to perform 3D transformations?

Thanks,
NV

leon_poot

Correct me if I'm wrong, are you looking for the API? What kind of 3D transformations would you want to do?

I don't have much experience with Onshapes API, and I've only seen the connection between a Windows Application and Onshape, but I'd recommend you have a look at the API documentation and sample applications in the Developer Portal.

https://dev-portal.onshape.com/

billy2

The API is mostly data query and returns information in your documents or other people's documents. To work on other people's stuff, you have to add it to the app store and get permission from other people. If all you're working on is your data, then you don't have to mess with the app store.

The API works using rest calls so its: a console, web site or other cloud curl call. To talk to OS servers, you'll have to use oauth2 and verify you're not evil.

The API can also fire off featurescripts, which in turn can perform your transformations.

After the transformation, then you can ask the API for something like give me some updated data.

So to answer your question, yes the API can perform transformations from a website.

It's a little bit of work to get a matrix transformation using OS, seems like there should be a javascript math library with some linear algebra extension that's not so round-about.

Not knowing what you're trying to do,