Hi Speckle community and dev team,
Do you have an estimated release date for the Revit direct upload feature?
All the best,
Miguel G.
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Hey, no - not yet. We hate giving dates out, as we might be wrong and then everyone gets annoyed.
We’re quite close though - do you have a specific time constraint on your end?
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“Great question! A Revit direct upload feature would definitely streamline workflows. It would be helpful to know if there’s an estimated release timeline so users can plan ahead. Looking forward to any updates from the team!”
Do you have a company contact @Olivia_Emma so we can keep you posted? Also, discuss which workflows we can help you streamline.
For the time being, my teammates and I have developed a workflow that relies on Autodesk Application Services APIs to parse .rvt files. The only downside is we have to keep an eye on the credits, which makes it a bit tricky to iterate on our designs quickly.
A workaround will let us scale and speed up our design process across the organization.
Thanks for the hard work!
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@Miguel_Gutierrez2, that sounds like you might be interested in the ACC syncing that just became generally available… No credits are consumed.
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Thanks for keeping me in the loop @jonathon
I’d also like to add that for some clients we don’t have access to their ACC or they are not using ACC, and we receive raw .rvt files. In those cases, we might still need to account for credit expenses.
At the Community Standup, we revealed that drag and drop (programmatic upload) of RVT was coming soon in 2026
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I’ve just enabled rvt file uploads on app.speckle.systems for you to experiment with since we’re ready sooner than was previously announced. Feedback welcome.
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I did not really test RVT import yet,
but I can already confirm that I now see *.RVT as one of accepted upload formats in Finder here too. Great !
Now I wonder if there will also come a way to save files out from Speckle ?
I thought I had already read something about it here in the past but maybe I am wrong. At least I do not fin something to do so in the GUI.
Saving out files is not on the roadmap. There are several file types that you can programmatically convert speckle objects and versions and models into and everybody is free to do so it is not something that we are focused on.
I also thought it will be quite unlikely and if, maybe only a few of open file formats …
But thanks for confirming.
I do not even have a possible use case for it. Maybe besides that it would work better/faster than a regular import in an App. Was just curious.
But that would require a self hosted EDIT : local Speckle server ?
Or is the Speckle data somehow accessible from a browser cache or so ?
Of course not, we are a data company, so we have APIS and SDKs to make accessing your data as easy as possible as a developer. Certain other companies are not data companies; they are harvest-your-data companies, so this makes it challenging.
If you feel like it, there is a whole second half of our docs just for the purpose Introduction - Speckle Docs
Then we both wasted typing time addressing it
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For file uploads, you can re-download your uploaded file back.
This is under “View Ingestions…”
But I don’t think we make any promise to store your files long term or with any reliability.
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Interesting.
I think my idea of a File Download was about some virtual use case like …
I collaborate with someone using Archicad - which I don’t have …
Want to edit the Model in Bricscad - which has no Connector …
So I choose DWG or IFC as a Download …
Of course there tons of valid workarounds outside of Speckle, hence “no real use case”
It works.
There was no noticeable feedback, but I found the RVT in my download folder.
I think that isn’t a problem.
I imagine possible use cases …
I accidentally deleted my file but it was on the server drive and somehow time machine does not work … or … not now, I have work to do, grab it from Speckle if you are in a hurry …
Couldn’t make it to the standup. Thanks for keeping in the loop!
Great news @Jedd !
I’m sharing it with my team as well and will get back with some feedback
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Hi @Jedd
I tested the feature and identified some improvements:
- The percentage loader is not computed correctly.
- When parsing an RVT file, the BIM model in Speckle does not match the 3D representation of the original
.rvtsource file
That’s our feedback for the time being!
Is the source code for uploading .rvt files commited in the github repo? I would love to help with that
I also had initially seen only a reduced representation of my RVT file. But when I opened that model later again, it looked complete.
So I thought the Model was displayed before it was fully calculated (?)