Canvas allows users to interact with the CadX technology in the browser. The objectives of the API are:

Canvas HTML Component

Implements an HTML component where documents can be rendered and manipulated by the user.

Canvas 3D HTML Component

Provides a 3D model viewer for real time edition of designs.

Canvas Scripting

Provide an imperative view of CDL that support both simple and complext manipulation of documents.

var figures = canvas.selectedFigures();
canvas.group(figures);
canvas.commit$();

Canvas API Core services

Expose CadX Core services in packed an easy to use functions that returns concrete JavaScript objects (Document, Figure, Brush). Users should be able to load a document, change it and save it back in the server with ease:

Cx.Document.load$(id) .then(function(doc){
// Modify doc...
doc.save();
});