Speckle 2.11 Released!

• ✨ Navisworks connector (alpha)
• ✨ Sketchup connector is now in Beta!
• ✅ Section plane outlines in the viewer

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• ✅ Python 3.11 fully supported. It's ~ 40% faster🚀
• ✅ Render material support for Breps

• ✅ Brand new Blender installer (now supports Windows, Mac, and Linux)
• ✅ QGIS - Receiving BIM Models

Connectors

DesktopUI

• Hide the Receive tab for connectors that do not receive, e.g. Navisworks.
• Hide the Advanced Settings button when no settings are available for the connector.
• Fixed Preview issues #1961 #1960
• Improved error reporting

Revit

• Conversion of Revit Spaces without a zone
• Added length property (when applicable) to MaterialQuantities object
• Added support for groups, steel modifiers, and StructuralConnectionHandlers
• Fixed bug when receiving point clouds with points below the internal xy plane

CSI

• Add itemized report to summarize send and receive operations
• Added updating functionality for 1D and 2D elements
• Added support for ETABS v20.3.0

Tekla

• Added support for Tekla 2022
• Added support for Program Files install location
• Miscellaneous bug fixes

Rhino

• Fixed handling of invalid user strings
• Adds render materials to brep display values when sending
• Fixed receiving blocks and views in update mode
• Added support for new element types in our alpha mapping tool: https://speckle.guide/user/mapping-tool.html

Autocad & Civil

• Update receive mode fixed for better object updating using unique application ids
• bug fix for polycurve reporting on receive

Sketchup

• Advanced settings for user preferences and model preferences
• Include attributes on send/receive
• Combine faces by material under mesh on send (related bugs also are fixed)
• Merge co-planar faces on receive
• Layers support on send/receive
• Create Stream by UI
• Store soften property of faces on send/receive
• UI reinitialization problem is fixed
• Send back material to server as fallback of front material
• Subgroups fixed on send/receive
• Always face camera option available for components
• No account issue has been fixed

Navisworks

• Alpha release Connector rev3
• Supports Send from Selections and Saved Sets (search and Selection)
• Solid geometry conversion only
• Retains aggregate model hierarchy
• Permanent material, unit, and transformed overrides only
• Full property set inclusion (currently mimics advanced setting for internal and display versions of properties)

Blender

• New 0 restart installer, with better module installation and proper m1 mac support.

ArchiCAD

• Archicad Column send and receive
• Codestyle conformability
• Installer improvements (correct handling of user profiles, add-on registration)

QGIS

• receiving BIM! and applying 3d renderer (for 3d View)
• UI improvements: groups created on the top of the list; unnecessary refresh triggers removed
• receiving vector symbology from ArcGIS
• Fixes: units on receive; mesh DisplayValue; multiband rasters MinMax values ignored (for now, for stability)

ArcGIS

• send/receive from multiple registered accounts
• Sending and receiving raster- and vector symbology
• Preserving raster mesh color on send
• Fixed: (not) receiving too large integers in the attribute table

Server & Web

3D Viewer

• BVH Integration and Section Plane Outlines
• Orthographic Mode with comment bubbles
• Fixed https://github.com/specklesystems/speckle-server/issues/1267
• Fixed https://github.com/specklesystems/speckle-server/issues/1272

Server & Frontend

• Structured logging. Backend server components now log in JSON format by default and include relevant metadata within JSON properties.
• All server components now run on Node 18, the current long-term support version of Node.
• Many other fixes and dependency updates.

DevOps

• The Docker Image for Speckle Server is now based on a Distroless image, reducing file size and reducing security ‘attack area’.

.NET

• support for system HTTP proxy

Python

• Python 3.11 is now fully supported. Use it if you can, it's ~ 40% faster…
• The theme of this release is better alignment with the core:
• speckle_type definitions now work the same as speckle-sharp
• reworked runtime type checking system, with working Optional type support
• reworked path handling, macOS and Linux pathing were not always behaving as speckle-sharp
• refactored objects so that types and the default values match speckle-sharp better
• Fixed missing structural classes on deserialization