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Connectors - 2.19 Release is here!

We're excited to bring you the 2.19 release for our connectors! In this release we mostly focused on catching up with the latest software releases while addressing some critical fixes. Take a look:

Mücahit Bilal Göker
Product Owner
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What’s New

  • Power BI connector can now be installed from the Manager
  • Initial support for Rhino 8 on Windows
  • Added support for Revit 2025
  • Added support for AutoCAD 2025
  • Added support for Civil3D 2025
  • Added support for Navisworks 2025
  • Added support for SketchUp 2024
  • Added support for ETABS 21
  • Added support for Unreal 5.4

Improvements

Revit

  • Speckle connector will now initialize for Revit files that are opened directly (e.g. by double clicking) (thanks Mehdi-Lucas · GitHub)
  • Added support for exporting parameters on groups (thanks @samberger)
  • Element parameters that are not visible will now be excluded
  • Added DLL conflict warning when third-party plugins load conflicting dependencies

Power BI

  • Bumped version of the Viewer used in 3D Visual

Blender

  • Received Revit family elements will now include family type name in the object name - requested by @HeinrichBoldtGetinge here

SDKs

  • Automate SDK: support automate function input secrets in C# SDK
  • Automate SDK: Changed CreateNewVersionInProject to align with SpeckePy (thanks @chris.welch )
  • Core: Fixed bug in Commit Builder handling duplicated objects (thanks @andreas.lennartz )
  • Core: Replace BinaryFormatter with UTF-8 encoded bytes for SHA256 hash function (thanks @chris.welch ) This is a breaking change, see post

Fixes

Revit

  • Fixed issue with Revit wall by face in Revit 2022
  • Fixed stability issue where some objects were being deleted outside of a transaction
  • Fixed issue with type mapping dialog not picking up loaded families

ETABS

  • Fixed scaling issue reported here (thanks @Gab for reporting)

As always, to use all these new features and improvements, make sure to download the latest versions from the Speckle Manager.    

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Mücahit Bilal Göker
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