Speckle 2.9 Released!

A new version of Speckle is out! 🥳 Some of quality of life improvements including, but not limited to:

• ✅ New Viewer: It's much more robust and performative.
• ✅ Shadows are in: Now you have shadows in the viewer and you can easily control them.
• ✅ Ambient Occlusion: You read it right! Scenes already look better, with detail popping out.
• ✅ Multi-Select Actions: Easily move/delete multiple commits from one branch to another without getting into them.
• ✅ and much more...

Here goes the full list👇:

🌐 Web

Viewer

• We’ve swapped our viewer internals inside out for fun, profit and ~10x better performance. We’re finally in a place where we can start adding nice stuff on top of it - see below!
• Shadows are in🌤! You can control the sun position via a new set of controls in the application.

• We did the first run of an SAO implementation! Scenes already look better, with detail popping out✨. We’re working now on a better quality progressive AO implementation that is going to take things further!

Server & Frontend

• Multi-select actions: you can now organize branch commits in batches. Easily move them to another branch, or delete them in mass if you don’t need them anymore.

::: tip 📌Note
Only stream admins or commit authors can access this functionality.
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• Activity summaries: you’ll now be able to get weekly digests in your inbox about what happened in your Speckle streams 💌

• Numerous bug fixes and QOL improvements across the board.

Devops

• Helm chart updated; various improvements to assist in automating deployments of speckle-server.

🔌 Connectors

Manager

• 👮‍♂️Manager for Mac has been released🥳! Get it now from our brand-new download page!

Rhino

• 🌟 Added an Update mode for receive - replaces existing objects instead of creating new ones. Set as default receive mode.

• Fixed issues when launched as Rhino.Inside.Revit, the connectors get now disabled.
• 🆕 Now available for Mac (without menu bar issues :))

AutoCAD + Civil3D

• 🌟 Added an Update mode for receive - replaces existing objects instead of creating new ones. Set as default receive mode.
• Interactive reports allow you to select report items in your model for better troubleshooting
• Receiving Alignments improved: stations are now set correctly as well as offset alignments when applicable. Any parented objects (eg feature lines) should be preserved on update mode
• Can now receive TIN Surfaces as TIN surfaces instead of meshes

QGIS

• Stream search by URL added
• Support for sending and receiving geometries with curved edges
• Unpacking nested attributes upon receiving (that were stored as a dictionary)
• Added Read Receipts
• Better refined meshes constructed from polygons upon sending
• Raster layers - replacing extreme NoData values upon sending (so other connectors can receive it without issues)
• Some UI adjustments in the stream list and layer list display
• 💊 Numerous fixes, such as warnings while having connection troubles, type checks for sending and receiving geometry

ArcGIS

• Installer improved
• Added support for Raster layers
• Support for sending and receiving geometries with curved edges
• Unpacking nested attributes upon receiving (that were stored as dictionary)
• Added Read Receipts
• Better refined meshes constructed from polygons upon sending

Revit

• Stability fixes
• Added MEP spaces as a sendable category
• Added additional properties to objects being sent to Speckle, such as Phase, Category…
• Improved the “import family” functionality during mapping so that you can choose specific types from multiple families

Grasshopper

• Fixed an issue with displayValue only returning the first item when deconstructing an object.
• Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Blender

• 🆕 Now available for Mac via Manager!
• Clean Mesh: With this feature, a single surface is obtained by combining triangular coplanar faces. This is especially useful for geometry that is coming from applications that do not support NGON meshes.

• Fixed installation issues on Windows
• Improved Receive Scripts📜 to allow for more flexibility

Archicad

• Added support for Beams
• 🆕 Now available for v26
• 🆕 Now available for Mac

Unity

• Added support for receiving Blocks
• Using editor only receiving, Blocks can be saved as Unity prefabs (e.g. Rhino blocks, SketchUp components)

• Overhaul of the way we save assets
• Added support for saving Meshes as assets
• Materials and Meshes will correctly be reused during conversion. (our previous caching behaviour led to lots of separate instances of identical materials)
• Standardised the overriding behaviour of materials and meshes.
• In theory, it would now be possible for dev users to write their own asset saving/caching behaviour using the new INativeCache interface.

ETABS

• Better Material Support (WIP)
• 🆕 ETABSv20 support