Connectors 3.5 Release - June Changelog

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Hey @Community !
We’ve hit another milestone release 3.5.0 for connectors :scream:
Here’s the full rundown of everything that’s changed since the end of May.

June Changelog

General

More of a reminder, but please refer to our documentation if you have any FAQs or troubleshooting issues for any connectors. This is a living document, and will be updated with new information or questions as they pop up in the forum.

Revit

  • Level properties (including parameters) are now published with every model. View them in your browser in Dev mode on the scene explorer:

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  • You can now properly load a model according to Project Base point and Survey point with our new load setting. Use this for reference point coordination when loading models from IFC, Civil 3D, Navisworks, and more!

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SketchUp

  • Revit Levels are now created as Section Planes when you load a Revit model in SketchUp.

Rhino

  • The Speckle toolbar now loads correctly in Rhino 7

Grasshopper (beta)

  • Grasshopper is now in Beta, and comes with a bunch of highly requested features including creating properties by key and value, and blocks support! Read about all the new features here.

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Blender

  • Blender is officially stable! If you missed the announcement, check it out here

Archicad

  • Composite elements are now published with all of their composite parts and properties!
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Navisworks

  • You can now publish models according to a saved view, using the new Saved Views Filter. Only visible objects in the selected view will be published.

Civil 3D

  • Solids and blocks are no longer missing their property sets when published
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Hi @clrkng, with regards to the latest Civil 3D connector, does it published the solids as solids and re-import as solids or still polymesh entities?

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Hi @Jerome ! Civil 3D solids are still published as meshes currently.

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Hi @clrkng,

With the new v3 connectors (Revit 3.5 and Archicad 3.0.2), it seems like you’ve dropped the concept of supporting native (smart) elements, as was the case with the v2 connectors.
Is that correct?
Are objects from both Revit and Archicad now published only as meshes?

Thanks,
Matthias

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Yes, our current connectors do not support native element creation at this point. We’re planning on enabling family assignments to generic models loaded in Revit, and perhaps an instance-mapping workflow from blocks to existing Revit families, but do not have any plans to create fully native elements yet.