Some ideas for Speckle Rhino and web interface

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Hi there,
First of all great work with speckle. its comming together really well.
I started meddling with speckle a little in Rhino, while trying to prepare a file for some 2nd year students that i am teaching. I will teach them some basic rhino knowledge and i wanted to try out a collaboration between them based on speckle.
Meaning a very simple site plan, in which each one will draw a part of it then send it to a speckle stream branch, while the other can receive an updated version.

Below is the stream i am working on:

In this context i have some ramarks about speckle rhino functionality.

  1. When i started adding a new stream i was not able to make a new branch before any commits. when pushing the new branch button the window for a new branch appeared and then dissapeared quickly.
    As a result i creaded new branches on the we viewer.
  2. I love the filter for selecting geometry, but i would like to have this filter linked to a particular branch, meaning i got this branch for a terran mesh, link it to the layer for that mesh. I got a branch for lots, link it to the layer with lots.
    When i switch form one branch to another the filter should change appropriately.
  3. Still about the filters. now there is a select filter option and i would love a clear filter button. It is quite hard to find a certain layer that is checked when you have more than 10 layers.

and another request, i think this would be for speckle webviewer:
4. The ability to delete a certain commit.
I am working with students that will push all the buttons they can and will make mistakes. I need to be able to correct that mistake so nomatter what they do, they will end up with the right geometry. This means if they commit some bad geometry, i need to be able to delete that particular geometry.

Cheers!

Ionut

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Hey @Ionut_Anton ,

Thanks for the amazing feedback!

We’re working on a redesign of DesktopUI, the UI shared by most of the desktop connectors, so it’s a perfect time to hear your suggestions. We’ll demo it at the next Community Standup🌟!

Here’s some answers:

  • branch creation: this will (at least to start with) get delegated to the web UI only, to keep the connector UI simpler
  • filter per branch: in the new UI you will be able to add the same stream multiple times, so you’ll be able to set individual filters per stream/branch
  • clear filter: I think the new UI will also partly solve this, by making filter selection a bit simpler. But happy to hear if that’s not the case!
  • commit deletion: it’s been requested before (see) and although it’s not possible from the web UI, the API actually allows you to delete commits. I think it makes sense to expose it to users too, will discuss with the team!
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Hey,

Glad to be of some (if any) help.
Just to emphasise one little thing. About filters. I would love that the branch in a stream remembers the filter used to send data, so when i select that particular branch a filter will try to be setup as the filter that sent the last commit.
This would allow for a better and easyer deployment of a stream to multiple users.
In my example to a classroom of students that each one will draw a small part of a site plan, each branch will host a certain cathegory of geometry, ie. i have a branch for plot lines, a branch for buildings, each branch has its own layer and a filter linked to take all geometry in a certain layer to that branch.

Thank you again.

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