Beta Testing Features

Making Speckle
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Not yet available for me.
(But not sure if there is a RC for Blender too ?)

Edit, ok Blender still beta 0.
No Blender changes in RC change log.

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Correct, that link is just for our .net connectors, blender and other python/ruby connectors have a separate release pipeline so no RC for them yet :slight_smile:

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The Blender crew are as hard at work as you are enthusiastic to test for them :smiley:

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Can you add me too? I’m very interested.

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Hi @Phil_Southwell, just sent an invite your way for latest.speckle.dev. There’s not much difference at the moment between the mainline version of the server and the “bleeding edge” (emphasis at the moment, some big changes are coming :sunglasses:). If you’re looking for connector alphas, @teocomi’s reply above should get you going (manager settings → enable pre releases or something like that!)

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Happy Friday @Insiders and anyone else from the @Community ! :balloon:

We are working on a new user interface for our connectors and we’d really appreciate it if you could spare 5 minutes to help us test a prototype. :pray:

Info: The prototype only consists in a page with a button, as we first want to see if the technologies behind it work before spending time designing it further. For the curious ones :nerd_face:, this user interface uses web technologies and WebView2/Cef instead of being built in C# and Avalonia. One of the various reasons for the switch is that this will allow us to embed the 3D viewer directly inside most connectors :fire:.

How to test it

To test this feature, you must have either Revit 2022, Revit 2023 or Rhino 7 (for Windows) installed and Speckle Manager with at least one account. The more you can test with, the better!

  1. Install the beta version named 2.13.0-prototypeDUI3 of the Rhino and/or Revit connectors
    dui3-install

  2. Open a Rhino and/or Revit project containing some geometry/elements

  3. Click on the ribbon button in Revit or in Rhino (or run the SpeckleWebUI command in Rhino), this should open a new dockable panel with the test UI (NOTE: in Revit it will also automatically open the “DevTools” window)

  4. Click on “Send Everything Test”
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  5. There is no progress bar currently, but you should see a notification when the operation has finished
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  6. Open your default Speckle account and check if there is a new stream called "DUI Test Stream
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  7. If Dynamo user, make sure everything works there as usual too

  8. That’s it! Let us know below if it worked or not

  9. You can now go back to the stable version of your connectors and install 2.13.1 again

How to report bugs

If you’ve encountered any issues during the process, please drop us a reply below with:

  • What issue you have encountered, and when
  • Full version of Revit/Rhino
  • What other plugins have you installed in Revit/Rhino/Dynamo/Grasshopper
  • If the UI opened up correctly, click on “Show Dev Tools” > “Console” and take a screenshot

Thanks in advance to all of you for giving this a go!

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I’d add that you should test this with small files.

We aren’t testing the conversions here - just which host app versions the UI works with—no need to stress you or us out with massive model sends. Feel free to be creative, of course.

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Worked fine for me. With Rhino 7

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Thanks for letting us know @CCal!

The big suspects are old versions of Revit (2020-2022), also together with Dynamo OR pretty much with many other plugins. Things work fine on our end, but we want to avoid as much as possible the “works on my computer” effect, hence this call out. We’re also a bit PTSD’ed in this regard :slight_smile:

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Hi,
The UI doesn’t look like the one that you posted and I had to try the install a few times before it worked.
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Revit version:
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I also have Dynamo installed

I hope that it helps

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Hello,

For Revit 2022, it’s working fine with sending everything as mentioned in the test post.

For Revit 2022, and trying to send from the dynamo connector I get this error below when the DUI version is installed.
EDIT: Working fine I missed to install the respective Dynamo version.

For Revit 2021, not sure if it is relevant or not since you mentioned 2022/2023, but the WebUI button is not showing.

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Looks good on my system using the Revit Basic Sample Project, Revit 2022.

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Since I install it a chrome-devtools window appears every time I open Revit.

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hi @Thomas-Lcp - @teocomi will confirm or not - but afaik is that that’s the intended behaviour. Everything seems legit on your end, you can probably now go back to the mainline speckle release to get rid of this behaviour :slight_smile:

PS: Thanks for testing!

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Happy Tuesday @Insiders !

We’re about to release a new version of our desktop connectors, and as always, we would be very grateful if you could give it a spin and ensure there are no regressions on your current workflows and models.

You can install version 2.14.0-rc10 from Manager as usual, and here’s a sneak peek of the changes.

:pray: thanks in advance; this will help ensure fewer unexpected bugs end up in the mainline release, scheduled for the end of this week.

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Hey all :wave: ~ would be keen to be added to the testing server if possible!

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@lukxfnz you can join the insiders group, this will generate an invite

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Thanks Jonathon ~ looks like I was already invited, but hadn’t use the link you’d sent me :sweat_smile:

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Can i Join? please :grin: :grin:

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Hey @Jorgeluisg12,

To hop on board with the testers group, all you need to do is click on the link that Jonathan included in his response.

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