Issue with Sending Adaptive Generic Families from a revit file to another revit file using speckle

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Hi Speckle Community,

I’m encountering an issue when trying to send adaptive generic families from one Revit file to another using Speckle. Here’s the problem:

When sending adaptive generic families, they are not being transferred correctly.

The elements are received as generic models, losing their adaptive properties, type, and parameters.

What I’ve Tried:

Sending the families via Speckle – didn’t work. they are receved as generic models

Manually loading the families into the destination file – still didn’t resolve the issue.

Expected Behavior:

Adaptive generic families should retain their adaptive properties, type, and parameters when sent via Speckle.

inside speckle everything seems great

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but when receving again inside revit i receive a generic model, and sometimes i was receving all the elements placed at the same coordinate

Questions:

Is this a known limitation of the Speckle-Revit connector?

Are there specific settings or workflows to ensure adaptive families are sent correctly?

Are there any workarounds or plans to address this?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

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Hey @rebalj ,

It seems that you’re using our Next Gen Revit Connector - in this version of the Connector all the geometry is received as a Direct Shape.

You can use our previous connectors (v2) if you want to generate native Revit elements, please note that the family needs to be loaded in the Revit document for this to work.

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Hi Matteo,

Thank you for your response. I was eager to try the Beta version and proceeded to test Version 2. However, while attempting to transfer data between Revit files, I encountered the following error:

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• a Error!
stem.AccessViolationException - Attempted to
read or write protected memory. This is often an
indication that other memory is corrupt.

Could you please advise on how to resolve this issue? i saw in another post that it might be a bug

Best regards
Rebal

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Hey Rebal, sorry about this!

Could you share with us a minimal reproducible Revit file so we can investigate further? Google Drive / Dropbox etc

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hey Matteo,

I shared with you the files
many thanks

Rebal

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Yes we got them, our team is looking into it!

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Hi @teocomi ,

I’m following up on my earlier post about sending data from Revit to another file using Speckle. I tried sending the elements again, and it’s working now, but my colleague is getting this error:

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A problem has occurred with the Updater Builder Dynamic Updater from another provider. Its process had to be canceled.

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My Questions:

Could this error be related to Speckle?

Does Speckle use anything related to the IUpdater Interface or Dynamic Model Updater? (Like the one described in this blog post)

I’m not using any updaters in my scripts, so I’m trying to figure out if this is coming from Speckle or something else.

Thanks for your help!

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Hi Reb,

Our connectors do not use the IUpdater interface as far as I’m aware. Your colleague can try removing the installed addins one by one until the error goes away to find the responsible one…

Glad you issue is resolved!

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Hi @teocomi

Thank you for confirming that Speckle does not use the IUpdater interface. This helps narrow down the issue, and I’ll focus on investigating other add-ins.

As you suggested, I’ll work with my colleague to remove add-ins one by one to identify the culprit. The error seems tied to Autodesk Results Explorer or a third-party tool bundling it, so I’ll start there.

Thanks again for your help—it’s great to have this clarified!

Cheers,
Rebal