Speckle 2.10 Released!

Speckle 2.10 as just been released! This includes numerous new features and improvements, here are some of the highlights:

• 🆕 Our viewer keeps getting better, we have now added support for progressive ambient occlusion
• 🆒 We have greatly improved the performance of the IFC upload service, it’s now faster than ever before, try it now!
• Revit💘MEP: We have greatly improved suport for MEP elements
• 🆒 We have added support for previewing commits in Revit before receiving them
• 🆕 You can now open 3D comments directly inside your Revit and Rhino models as views
• 🆒🆒🆒 We’ve launched an experimental mapping tool send Rhino Geometry as Revit Elements

Here goes the full list👇:

🔌Connectors

DesktopUI

• Simplified Send and Receive pages
• 🔮 360 Previews

Revit

• 🆕 MEP networks: mep elements will be sent as part of a network and their connections are preserved on receive
• 🆕 Open Comments directly in the Revit document as views!
• 🆕 Preview commits before receiving them
• fix(revit): Duplicated mesh when sending nested familyinstance by @Zhuangkh 👪
• Added support for sending fabrication parts from Revit
• Added support for curtain roofs, fixed height columns, and host elements that do not know they are host elements
• ❌ Removed support for Revit 2019

Dynamo

• Fixed a bug in Blocks that had invalid insertion planes
• Fixed an issue where Arcs would not be able to be sent and received in Dynamo
• Removes the assignment of a "default color" list to Dynamo meshes. This would just bloat the meshes without any reason.

Rhino

• 🆕 Open Comments directly in the Rhino project as views!
• 🆕 Mapping Tool alpha ⇒ Send Rhino Geometry as Revit Elements https://speckle.guide/user/mapping-tool.html
• When receiving in update mode, new layers, materials, and block definitions will no longer be created if they already exist
• fix: successfully converts blocks on receive

Grasshopper

• 🆕 Initial support for Speckle nodes in Rhino.Compute/Hops environment

Autocad & Civil

• When receiving in update mode, new layers will no longer be created if they already exist

Sketchup

• Ruby codebase refactored almost completely.
• Fixed issue with Sqlite3, this fixed initialization problems on SketchUp 2021.

Blender

• Added support for Blender 3.3 LTS
• Blender connector will also now install to Blender 3.4 (beta), untested by us.
• Fixed bug with Clean meshes duplicating objects in scene.
• Fixed issue with Mac installers.

Unity

• Stream Manager component is now deprecated
• Replaced by new Speckle Receiver and Speckle Sender components!

• These add new features, like:
• Searchable stream/branches/commits, rather than the long, ugly dropdown.
• Preview image + more stream info
• Editor sending support.
• Reusable account/stream/branch/commit selection wrappers.
• Can be used in runtime (non-editor) contexts
• Still some improvements need to be made here, but the foundation is there.
• The runtime sample scene is yet to be updated, and still uses the old components.

Unreal Engine

• Added UE5.1 support

ArchiCAD

• Support of nested elements (Doors and Windows) in Walls

QGIS

• Installer from Speckle Manager!
• Support for conversion of larger Polygons to Meshes on Send
• Sending CompoundCurves preserving the arcs structure

ArcGIS

Receiving Revit BIM objects!

🌐Server & Web

3D Viewer

• Progressive ambient occlusion
• Various fixes

Server & Frontend

• 💪 IFC Import Service is much more powerful now
• Progressive rendering
• File import service was upgraded to the latest Specklepy version
• Fixes to frontend

DevOps

• Fixes to Kubernetes Liveness and Readiness checks
• Additional buckets in Prometheus histogram for preview service

.NET

• Deprecated old user queries in favour of new graphQL endpoints.

Python

• Deprecated old user queries in favour of new graphQL endpoints.