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Power BI connector 3.0.0 is here
We just shipped the Power BI connector 3.0.0 and it's absolutely packed with features and fixes you've been asking for.
Guide: How to switch to Next-Gen connectors
This guide walks you through everything you need to switch to Next-Gen connectors smoothly, avoid compatibility issues, and get the most out of what Speckle offers.
Speckle projects get a new home and pricing plans
Learn what's changing, why now, and what you'll need to do to keep up!
Speckle’s New Era of Data-Driven Workflows
Next-Gen Connectors are driving Speckle’s evolution into a seamless, unified platform—here’s how it all comes together to make you work faster.
SpecklePod: Katherine Chimenes knows what AEC is missing to thrive
Welcome to SpecklePod, the only podcast focused on breaking free in the AEC industry!
Speckle Gets SOC 2 Type 2 Attested: Taking AEC Data Security to The Next Level
We’re excited about Speckle’s new data security attestation and want to tell you all about it!
Introducing Keyframe: Geo BIM Powered by Speckle
We recently met with the team at Keyframe, a Geo BIM platform, to learn more about their integration with Speckle.
How Speckle Generates Outlines from Geometry Data
Speckle's new view modes, inspired by Rhino, use advanced screen-space techniques like Sobel and Temporal Supersampling to deliver customisable outlines and consistent results across complex geometries.
Meet ShapeDiver for Speckle
ShapeDiver for Speckle combines interactive Grasshopper 3D model sharing with Speckle’s powerful data hub, improving collaboration and data management across the AEC ecosystem.
Speckle Workspaces: Out of Beta, Into Action
Speckle’s Workspaces, the easiest way to collaborate for teams of all sizes, is out of beta and ready to change how AEC works.
SpecklePod: Emma Hooper knows how to untangle the AEC web of chaos
Welcome to SpecklePod, the only podcast focused on breaking free in the AEC industry through ingenious solutions executed by some very bold individuals!
Speckle Next-Gen Tekla Connector: Upgrade Your Structural Workflows
Get up close and personal with Speckle's Next-Gen connector for Tekla Structures with bonus pro tips on how to boost your workflows using it today.
Speckle’s Next-Gen Connectors: What’s In It For You?
Explore the latest Next-Gen connectors built for smoother performance and faster results!
Everything We Announced at SpeckleCon 2024
We’ve already dropped some rather big product and fundraising news this year, but we kept the best for last!
Speckle Raises $12.5 Million to Build The First AEC Data Hub
We're excited to share some huge news for us and the AEC industry as a whole—Speckle has raised $12.5 million in Series A funding, led by Addition!
The Future of AEC is at SpeckleCon
Tune in to bold and innovative use cases, all leveraging the power of Speckle. Learn more about SpeckleCon’s expert talks lineup on November 13th in London.
Speckle vs Autodesk Data Exchange
We welcome Autodesk to the file-free future of AEC collaboration. Meanwhile, Speckle is already leading the charge. Today, we dive into the difference between leading and following.
Join Workshops Led by Speckle Experts at SpeckleCon 2024
Unlock the potential of automation, data analysis, geolocation and more with Speckle experts-led workshops at SpeckleCon on November 14th in London.
Ideas From the Speckle Retreat Hackathon
This October, we packed our bags, fired up Google Maps, and headed south to the rolling hills and vineyards of Alentejo, Portugal, for our latest Speckle retreat.
SpeckleCon: Workshop Your Way To AEC Innovation
SpeckleCon is coming up on November 13th and 14th in London! Join us to celebrate Speckle’s community and growth.
Workspaces: Driving Sustainable Design for AEC Teams
Speckle Workspaces was the digital foundation of the Design Modelling Symposium sustainability workshops.
Introducing SpecklePod
Introducing Next-Gen Connectors
You're a few clicks away from trying out Speckle's Next-Gen connectors for AEC!
Speckle vs Autodesk Construction Cloud
This comparison can help you understand Speckle's and ACC's features, advantages, and limitations, helping you choose the right platform for your project needs.
Introducing Workspaces: Speckle For Teams
From the Great Rename to the New Web App and Automate, this year has been full of product announcements and development. Today, we’re announcing one more product development. This could be the most important one yet… You don't want to miss out!
Speckle Cloud vs Self-Hosting
Welcome to SpeckleContext! This is your go-to series for answering burning Speckle questions leading up to the November SpeckleCon conference.
Speckle: Project Management Made Easy
SpeckleCon was created for designers, architects, developers, and engineers looking to make a real change in AEC. SpeckleContext is your go-to blog series covering insightful topics leading up to the November conference. Let’s raise awareness of the things that matter in AEC!
How Speckle Makes Money: Unveiling Our Business Model
Connectors - 2.20 Release Is Here!
We’re thrilled to announce the latest release of our connectors, version 2.20!
Is Speckle Safe To Use?
Welcome to SpeckleContext! This is your go-to series for answering burning industry questions leading up to the November SpeckleCon conference.
Speckle: AEC Teams’ Top Pick
Speckle at FOSS4G Europe 2024: Bridging Geospatial and AEC Worlds
This July, the FOSS4G Europe 2024 conference in Tartu, Estonia, brought together professionals from the geoinformation software field to connect and discuss the latest innovations and trends in open-source geospatial technology. Speckle was there, so here’s what happened and why it matters!
SpeckleCon 2024: Don’t Just Talk About the Future of AEC. See it live!
It's back and bigger than ever! We're opening The Call for Proposals for SpeckleCon 2024, your favourite AEC conference, happening IRL in London from November 13 to 14, 2024.
Speckle's Prague Retreat: Bonding and Growing
The Speckle team had its first retreat of the year in Prague, allowing us to connect, collaborate, and celebrate our successes in person (sorry Gather Town, but nothing beats IRL). Join us as we recap our productive days in this captivating city.
Speckle vs Rhino.Inside.Revit: Which Tool is Better for Your AEC Project?
This comparison will help you understand each tool's features, advantages, and limitations, helping you choose the right tool for your project needs.
Beyond the Speckleverse: Hackathon Wrap-Up
Speckle's second hackathon exceeded all expectations, and here's why!
Meet the Automate Judge: Viki Sandor
Welcome to the Automate judge introduction of the Beyond the Speckleverse series. In this series we’ll dive into all things hackathon: from the category explorations to give you practical examples and fuel your inspiration, to introducing the judges for key pro tips and tricks!
Beyond the Speckleverse: Automate Deep Dive
Welcome to the Automate category deep dive! You're reading our Beyond the Speckleverse series, where we explore all things Speckle hackathon: from the category explorations to give you practical examples and fuel your inspiration to introducing the judges for key pro tips and tricks!
Meet the Project Pulse Judge: Martha Tsigkari
Welcome to the Project Pulse judge introduction! You’re reading our Beyond the Speckleverse series, where we dive into all things hackathon: from the category explorations to give you practical examples and fuel your inspiration, to introducing the judges for key pro tips and tricks!
Beyond the Speckleverse: Project Pulse Deep Dive
Welcome to the Project Pulse category deep dive! You're reading our Beyond the Speckleverse series, where we get into all things Speckle hackathon: from the category explorations to give you practical examples and fuel your inspiration, to introducing the judges for key pro tips and tricks!
Meet the Future Craft Judge: Murat Melek
Welcome to Future Craft judge introduction of the Beyond the Speckleverse series. In this series we’ll dive into all things hackathon: from the category explorations to give you practical examples and fuel your inspiration, to introducing the judges for key pro tips and tricks!
Beyond the Speckleverse: Future Craft Deep Dive
Welcome to Future Craft category breakdown in the Beyond the Speckleverse series, where we dive into all things hackathon: from the category explorations to give you practical examples and fuel your inspiration, to introducing the judges for key pro tips and tricks!
Meet the Business Intelligence Judge: Aaron Atkinson
Welcome to BI Judge introduction in the Beyond the Speckleverse series, where we dive into all things hackathon: from the category explorations to give you practical examples and fuel your inspiration, to introducing the judges for key pro tips and tricks!
Beyond the Speckleverse: Business Intelligence Deep Dive
Welcome to BI category breakdown in the Beyond the Speckleverse series, where we dive into all things hackathon: from the category explorations to give you practical examples and fuel your inspiration, to introducing the judges for key pro tips and tricks!
PowerQuery(QL) for AEC Data Analysis
Experience the synergy of GraphQL and PowerBI with Alan Rynne, as he guides you through optimising data queries for effective ETL processes.
Barcelona Win: Speckle Automate Powers Team to Hackathon Victory
Attending the Barcelona AEC Tech 2024 was a blast, and it turned out to be a big win for our team, with Speckle emerging as the most sought-after solution at the event’s hackathon.
Hackathon: Beyond the Speckleverse
Speckle's online global hackathon crafted for the dauntless, the innovators, and the perpetually curious within the AEC realm is back!
The New Way to Collaborate in AEC
We're excited to launch AEC's favourite collaboration hub: Speckle's new web app.
Security Advisory: Personal Access Tokens
Here at Speckle, we review our products to ensure continuous improvements. As part of a recent review we identified a moderate security vulnerability in Speckle server which may affect some users. We have patched Speckle server, and this new version (2.17.6) is available from our GitHub releases [https://github.com/specklesystems/speckle-server/releases]. This version is already available on speckle.xyz [http://speckle.xyz], app.speckle.systems [http://app.speckle.systems] , and all other Server
SpeckleCon: It's A Wrap!
Thank you for joining us at SpeckleCon this year! Over 1,500 of you tuned in to engage, discuss, and collaborate on topics that matter to us in AEC.
Automate with Speckle
We recently announced Speckle Automate, a new way to work in AEC. Keep reading if you want to learn more.
Making AEC Better with Automation
Speckle’s mission is to make the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry better. We believe it starts with unlocking data, and automating tedious and manual tasks is part of that. This blog post covers why.
Digital Sustainability & Open Source
Welcome to the SpeckleCon Series, weekly blog posts covering AEC topics leading up to SpeckleCon on November 14-15. This edition is a guest post contribution of Maximilian Vomhof, from opensource.construction.
Real Talk: The Balancing Act of Leading an Open Source Project
Welcome to the SpeckleCon Series, weekly blog posts covering AEC topics leading up to SpeckleCon on November 14-15. This edition covers the realities of leading an open-source project.
The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure
Welcome to the SpeckleCon Series, weekly blog posts covering AEC topics leading up to SpeckleCon on November 14-15. This edition covers the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry.
Contributing to The Open Source Ecosystem
Welcome to the SpeckleCon Series, weekly blog posts covering AEC topics leading up to SpeckleCon on November 14-15. Today, we'll delve into some of Speckle's open-source contributions.
Why Do Company Retreats Matter?
Company retreats are part of the Speckle culture. This article explains why while sharing our 5th retreat in Alaró, Mallorca.
What Is Your Data Strategy?
Welcome to the SpeckleCon Series, weekly blog posts covering AEC topics leading up to SpeckleCon on November 14-15. Today, we'll delve into every AEC professional’s tough decisions: do you choose the 'red pill' of open-source flexibility or the 'blue pill' of vendor lock-in?
Rethinking the One Truth Fallacy
Welcome to the SpeckleCon Series, weekly blog posts covering AEC topics leading up to SpeckleCon on November 14-15. Let’s talk about owning your data and unlocking your designs.
Innovating Beyond Zero Sum
Introducing Viewer’s New APIs
Read this article for an update on our latest Viewr APIs.
Open Source Software: Breaking the Misconceptions with Speckle
SpeckleCon: Your Favourite AEC Online Conference Is Back!🔓
We’re opening a Call For Proposals to SpeckleCon, your favourite free and online AEC conference happening 14-15 November 2023.
The Future of Data Exchange: From Interoperability to Connectivity
Interoperability is a very loaded term; we’re moving away from it in favor of Connectivity which better communicates what AEC is all about.
When Speckle Meets Business Intelligence
This article explores the intersection of Business Intelligence (BI) and the AEC industry, highlighting the importance of data in decision-making and collaboration. It discusses the potential impacts of BI on the industry and introduces how Speckle enables better use of data in the context of AEC.
Introducing FE2, The New Speckle Front-End
Here is a small recap on the conceptual changes: Streams become Projects, Branches become Models, and Commits become Versions.
The Great Rename
We are renaming the core concepts in Speckle to be more widely understandable - in a backwards-compatible manner and with a graceful migration path forward.
Building an AI-Powered Speckle Commenting System
The buzz around AI is undeniable, and we wanted to share the behind-the-scenes of this project. This is Part 2, where we're diving into the code and show you how to replicate it yourself.
AI-Powered Conversations with Speckle
The buzz around AI is undeniable, and we wanted to share the behind-the-scenes of this project.
Introducing Speckle's Helm Charts
In this article, we’ll introduce Kubernetes and Helm and discuss why you would want to deploy Speckle Server to Kubernetes using our Helm Chart.
How We Build, Test & Ship Things At Speckle
Speckle is a complex product, which is why we’ve been looking for ways to work more effectively as a team.
How To Make The Most Out Of The Speckle Viewer?
Ashkan, Fabiana, and Victor have been using Speckle for years and have experienced the benefits of our 3D Viewer first-hand. If you’re reading this, you’re about to learn from innovative and impactful projects driving the AEC industry.
5 Speckle Viewer Features You Need To Try
Whether designing, building, or reviewing models, you know how important collaboration and communication are to ensure successful AEC project deliveries.
How to work with ETABS and Revit?
Here's how ETABS and Revit work together on Speckle.
Meet Speckle in Athens!
Here's what we achieved in Athens during our Speckle Retreat 🇬🇷
MasterClass: Become a Speckle Power User
We had the pleasure of giving a masterclass on how to “Become a Speckle Power User” at Thornton Tomasetti’s AECTech event in November of last year. Just like the previous year, we taught a 3-hour long Morning Only masterclass.
Speckle's Improved Ambient Occlusion: A Closer Look
In this blogpost we'll go over how Speckle's viewer handles two distinct ambient occlusions with emphasis on the stationary ambient occlusion.
TopSolid Connector for Speckle
Did you know? Speckle has a community-contributed connector for TopSolid! It is developed by Ahmed Wael Ismail and Thomas Hächler from CNPA lab at EPFL.
2022 Retreat Hackathon Projects
The Speckle team had a great week in Ericeira for a company retreat. Between beers and pastel de natas🧁, we actually managed to get some work done!
🌴Creating Unforgettable Moments at Speckle’s Retreat!
Portugal, here we come! As we are a fully distributed team, we had people flying over from various corners of the globe to join us for our yearly Speckle retreat.
Improving Speckle’s RTE Implementation
This performance blog post is a perfect example of how our Community supports our growth: Jonathon helped us formulate a better viewer experience by notifying us of an issue with our current RTE.
Rendering Dimensionally Large 3D Models in The Browser: Speckle’s Take On Spatial Jitter
3D data in Speckle comes in all shapes and sizes (ranging from 1mm to 100km) and at various distances from the “world” origin of (0, 0, 0). Most authoring software have dedicated display pipelines that handle this - to multiple degrees of success and with apparent limitations (one can’t model stuff on the Moon 😅).
Hackathon Wrap-Up!
The first-ever Speckle hackathon came to an end this past weekend with 90 participants from 26 different countries of the world! Over the course of 3 coffee-fuelled days, our talented hackers utilized Speckle's APIs and SDKs to come up with a total of 13 mind-blowing applications.
We stand with Ukraine 💙💛
It’s already been more than two months since Russian troops have invaded Ukraine, as the war continues to unfold we want to share a quick message with our community.
Devops at Speckle pt. 2
The one about building stuff Welcome back, this is the second part in our DevOps series. If you made the serious mistake of not reading the first post, head over here [https://speckle.systems/blog/devops-speckle/], before continuing with this one. Recap In the first post we’ve talked about some high level DevOps concepts and what they mean to us. In this article we’re going to deep dive into the topic of continuous integration. What is continuous integration? As with all things DevOps its a s
Growing The Speckle Seed
Raising a seed round is much more than just the money: it's the people that matter, as their experience and passion for open source are key to Speckle's success!
INTO THE SPECKLEVERSE
We are hosting a virtual hackathon, over three days teams from all over the world will get together online and hack something cool with Speckle.
Devops at Speckle
Update You can find the next posts of the series here: * The one about building and testing stuff [https://speckle.systems/blog/devops-at-speckle-pt-2/] A bit of intro This is part one of a 5 part blog post series, where we are going to walk through what the umbrella topic of DevOps means to us at the Speckle core team. Also we’ll take a look at how we apply these practices in the real world to build, deploy, update and manage the 15+ Speckle servers we currently maintain. So why should y
Workshop: BIM without BIM @ CAADRIA, Sydney
BIM without BIM: learn how to use Speckle to create a connected - and automated - workflow to deliver geometry and analytical data in a workshop by the CoDe team at Aurecon.
Our Mission and Values
We’ve just returned from a retreat in Barcelona, and had a chance to articulate our shared mission and values in writing.
AEC Tech Masterclass: building your first full stack Speckle web application
More about the masterclass below!
2021 Speckle Review
2021 has been a crazy but really amazing year for Speckle the product, the company and the wider community behind it. The last 12 months have flown by and all the achievements and milestones we have reached deserve some time to be properly acknowledged.
How to Contribute to Speckle
We have been asked multiple times by our community members and people new to Speckle: "How can I contribute?", in this short post we'll try answer this question and more!
Connect! Conference Session Recordings Now Online
Hello everyone! After some tedious editing and uploading work, we've finally uploaded all the sessions from our Connect conference to Youtube. 📺 You can find them here [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlI5Dyt2HaEsxl-566LKzwONAUh2Dze56&si=h4nORWaC6AK6svHl] 📺 . For more videos from Speckle, don't forget to subscribe! > Again, thanks to the 1200+ attendees and our generous speakers for making the time share their insights and experience with everybody else. We're committed to organising a
New features for Speckle server admins
Hey there Speckle server administrators! To make your life a bit easier, we've just added two new panels to the server administration page. One that lets you batch send server invites, and another, that helps with server user management.
Retreat Hackathon: Automated carbon cost reports with real-time notifications
Automated carbon cost reports with real-time notifications - a one day hackaton exercise!
Retreat Hackathon: Point cloud ML App
Hello world! The Speckle team spent a lovely week in Tuscany for a company retreat, and par for the course was a 1-day hackathon where many of us met and coded with each other in person for the first time 🙌 (confirmed: no deep fakes among us). We split into two groups, and Cristi, Reynold, and I (Claire) set up camp under our retreat gazebo to build a machine learning app that generates 3D point clouds from uploaded photos. Our underlying pitch was a simple one: we wanted to test how quickly a
Connect! 2021
Talks and workshops from the industry pioneers: leading startups and companies
Speckle Team Retreat
Speckle's on a retreat - in actual real, double vaccinated, life!
Digital Tools for Collaborative Workflows: Course at MaCAD (IaaC)
How to introduce students to new ways of collaborating in AEC, as our way of working is also shifting towards a connected environment? Read on to find out.
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