No, v3 beta does not work for me either.
I got the Connector AddOn installed and it is activated. But I still can’t see any trace of Speckle in Blender’s GUI. No Speckle Tab in “N-Panel”
Blender official on Windows (from MS Store) is 4.4.1.
Also tried to copy v3 Beta bpy_speckle Folder over to my Mac.
Both, latest Blender official (4.4.3) and 4.5 Alpha, offer it in Settings/AddOns.
But when I try to activate Spckle AddOn, I will get :
cannot import name ‘AliasGenerator’ from ‘pydantic’ (/Users/micha/Library/Application Support/Blender/4.5/scripts/addons/modules/pydantic/init.py)
I thought I would need to also copy over the “modules” Folder from Windows … But in Windows “Roaming” profile there doesn’t even exist such “modules” or “pydantic” folder.
On the other hand, in Blender Settings on Mac, modules, pydantic folders and “init.py” are available …
Just no file that would contain that missing ‘AliasGenerator’ …
Our installer currently has a limitation when it comes to Blender downloaded from the Microsoft Store, and we’re aware of this issue. Rest assured, we have a ticket open to address it!
Yes, I did try to activate it in Settings and it is not successful and causes these warnings.
I think usually when you install a standard AddOn in Blender, it is already activated by default.
(May be different if you load them as an “Extension” version, AFAIR then you have to switch back to AddOns Tab and activate it manually. Like BlenderBIM/Bonsai)
That does also work on Windows for v3 with its external Installer exe - the AddOn is already activated when you start Blender.
At least for the first time. AFAIR, if you deactivate it (as you do not find Speckle in Blender GUI) I was not able to reactivate it again. AFAIR it also failed for later installation attempts.
v3 installation for me worked only 2 times. Both time I had booted Windows before.
I think the same should be on MacOS.
AFAIR, older Speckle AddOns installed by Manager were already active. If a classic AddOn is loaded but not activated, I think it is because it has problems and may not be activated manually too.
Has Blender a special version for App Store ?
Maybe.
So far I don’t test latest Blender builds on Windows, to see if there is a difference in AddOn behavior.
But For me it always looked like that Speckle so far just ignored any Blender installation above version 4.3 in general. Like as it forgot to add latest “official” Blender versions to its “allow installation” list since Blender 4.4.
While I see that Speckle installs in any orphaned older version’s Settings Folders.
Strange.
On Mac I saw these Installation Folders (for my 2 existing Blender installations) in the hidden User/.config/Speckle Folder.
But by the Installation Log beside and in reality you can see that Speckle only installed the AddOn into my orphaned Blender 4.3 Settings Dummy Folder.
I saw that behavior for Speckle v2, on both, Mac and Windows.
No installation/upgrade/change in all Blender Settings Folders above Blender 4.3 or lower.
While I currently only have true installations for Blender 4.4 or above.
I just left (or recreated) some lower version Blender Settings Folders to be able to extract the bpy-speckle folders
It was only the external Speckle v3 Installer exe on Windows that I saw installing into 4.3+ Folders.
Anyway,
I don’t want to makle too much noise or hectic from our small niche Blender and/or even Mac user group, just info about or state some experiences.
