Revit Add-Ons: Free Speckle: Open Source Data Platform

Thursday, April 28, 2022

Free Speckle: Open Source Data Platform

From the Autodesk App Store:

Description

Speckle is a platform with endless possibilities, organizations all over the world rely on our collaboration, interoperability and automation systems to deliver better buildings, faster.

Speckle is made of multiple parts, the main ones being the Web App and the Desktop Connectors.

This package includes a simple installer and manager for our Desktop Connectors.

Our Desktop Connectors are plugins for some of the most popular AEC software, including:

Autodesk® Revit®
Autodesk® AutoCAD®
Autodesk® Civil 3D®
Dynamo
McNeel Rhinoceros
Grasshopper
Unity
Unreal Engine
Blender
Excel
QGIS
PowerBi
Tekla
ETABS
ArchiCAD
SketchUp
...with more on the way soon!

The Web App lets you manage and coordinate your data directly from your web browser. It includes a management interface to help you administer your various streams and a 3D model viewer to let see your projects. You can create an account and use it from: https://speckle.xyz/

Our Desktop Connectors are plugins for some of the most popular construction industry software including Rhino, Revit, Grasshopper, Dynamo, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Unity, Blender (and more). They take care of sending and receiving data in your software to and from your Speckle Web App. The Connectors can handle almost any kind of data. Most commonly, this will be CAD and BIM data; essentially, geometry with attached metadata.

Each time the Connectors send data to your Speckle server, they also take care of transforming it from your software's native format to Speckle's own, neutral format. This makes accessing it from other software extremely easy and fast.

The Speckle Manager is a desktop application that handles accounts and connectors on your machine.