Supported Elements

As Speckle develops, we are able to build further integrations with each of the applications we support. However, each application, and its API, comes with its own limitations that (alas) no programmer can overcome!

The tables below give an per-application indication of which object conversions Speckle is currently able to support, and to what extent.

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We're working hard to support additional elements. The list below will be updated as soon new conversion routines are added.

If you'd like us to add something specific, let us know on the Speckle Community Forum (opens new window)! We use community feedback to guide what features we'll work on next.

Rhino

Supported Elements

Almost all geometric elements are supported by the Rhino Connector. This includes:

Geometry	Send	Receive	Status
Point	✅	✅	Complete
Line	✅	✅	Complete
Plane	✅	✅	Complete
Arc	✅	✅	Complete
Circle	✅	✅	Complete
Ellipse	✅	✅	Complete
Polyline	✅	✅	Complete
Polycurve	✅	✅	Complete
Spline	✅	✅	Complete
Nurb Surface	As Brep	✅	Complete
Brep	✅	✅	Complete
Extrusion	✅	As Brep	Complete
Mesh	✅	✅	Complete

BuiltElement	Send	Receive	Status
View	✅	✅	Complete
ModelCurve		As Curve	Complete
DirectShape		As Mesh	Complete
Level		As Named Construction Plane	Complete

Other	Send	Receive	Status
RenderMaterial	✅	✅	Complete
BlockInstance	✅	✅	Complete
BlockDefinition	✅	✅	Complete
PointCloud	✅	✅	Complete
Hatch	✅	✅	Complete
Text	✅	✅	Complete
Dimension	✅	✅	Complete

Speckle supports sending BREPs from Rhino <-> Rhino, and Rhino <-> Revit, with some limitations imposed by Revit's API.

Note: If Rhino's unit system is changed by the user, this may result in incorrectly scaled blocks. Make sure blocks are created in the same unit system as they are intended to be sent in.

Unsupported Elements

Many non-geometric elements (such as text dots) and any geometric element not listed above are not supported.

Grasshopper

Supported Elements

Grasshopper supports the same geometry as the Rhino Connector:

Geometry	Send	Receive	Status
Point	✅	✅	Complete
Line	✅	✅	Complete
Plane	✅	✅	Complete
Arc	✅	✅	Complete
Circle	✅	✅	Complete
Ellipse	✅	✅	Complete
Polyline	✅	✅	Complete
Polycurve	✅	✅	Complete
Spline	✅	✅	Complete
Nurb Surface	As Brep	✅	Complete
Brep	✅	✅	Complete
Extrusion	✅	As Brep	Complete
Mesh	✅	✅	Complete

Other	Send	Receive	Status
RenderMaterial	✅		In Progress

The Schema Builder node also provides additional support for the following built elements:

BuiltElement	Send	Receive	Status
Adaptive Component	✅		Complete
Beam	✅		Complete
Brace	✅		Complete
Ceiling	✅		Complete
Column	✅		Complete
Curves (Model, Detail, Room Boundary)	✅		Complete
Direct Shape	✅		Complete
Freeform Element	✅		Complete
Duct	✅		Complete
Face Wall	✅		Complete
Family Instance	✅		Complete
Floor	✅		Complete
GridLine	✅		Complete
Level	✅		Complete
Opening (Wall, Vertical, Shaft)	✅		Complete
Parameter	✅		Complete
Railing	✅		Complete
Roof (Extrusion, Footprint)	✅		Complete
Topography	✅		Complete
View			In Progress
Wall	✅		Complete

Refer to the section below for additional information on the Schema Builder node.

Unsupported Elements

Non-geometric elements and any geometric element not listed above, such as text tags, hatches, etc... are not supported.

Revit

Supported Elements

BuiltElement	Send	Receive	Status
Area	✅		Complete
Adaptive Component	✅	✅	Complete
Beam	✅	✅	Complete
Brace	✅	✅	Complete
Building Pad	✅		Complete
CableTray	✅	✅	Complete
Ceiling	✅		Complete
Curves (Model, Detail, Room Boundary, Space Separation)	✅	✅	Complete
Direct Shape	✅	✅	Complete
Duct	✅	✅	Complete
Face Wall		✅	Complete
Family Instance	✅	✅	Complete
Floor	✅	✅	Complete
Freeform Element		✅	In Progress
Grid	✅	✅	Complete
Group	✅		In Progress
Level	✅	✅	Complete
Opening (Wall, Vertical, Shaft)	✅	✅	Complete
Pipe	✅	✅	Complete
Project Information	✅		Complete
Railing	✅	✅	Complete
Rebar	✅		In Progress
Roof (Extrusion, Footprint)	✅	✅	Complete
Room	✅	✅	Complete
Space	✅	✅	Complete
Stair	✅		Complete
Topography	✅	✅	Complete
View (FloorPlan, CeilingPlan, Elevation, Section, 3D)	✅		Complete
Wall	✅	✅	Complete
Wire	✅	✅	Complete

Other	Send	Receive	Status
RenderMaterial	✅		Complete
BlockInstance		✅ As Generic Model	Complete
PointCloud	✅		Complete

Supported Geometries

Generally speaking, Revit doesn't support raw geometry as it deals with families. Nonetheless, we've made it simple to receive some types of geometry directly, without the need of specifying family type, name or any other parameter.

Geometry	Send	Receive	Status
Line & Curve		✅ As ModelCurve	Complete
Brep		✅ As DirectShape	Complete
Mesh		✅ As DirectShape	Complete

Supported Geometries in Family Editor

Geometry	Send	Receive	Status
Line & Curve		✅ As ModelCurve	Complete
Brep		✅ As FreeForm	Complete
Mesh		✅ As FreeForm	Complete

Non Supported Elements

Various element and data types do not have a direct conversions in Revit. Therefore sending Numbers, Points, Vectors or other non supported elements will have no effects.

To use such data types in Revit you should check our our Dynamo Connector

TIP

If non supported elements are received in this connector, no errors are thrown.

Dynamo

Supported Elements

Geometry	Send	Receive	Status
Point	✅	✅	Complete
Line	✅	✅	Complete
Plane	✅	✅	Complete
Arc	✅	✅	Complete
Circle	✅	✅	Complete
Cuboid	As Box	✅	Complete
Ellipse	✅	✅	Complete
Helix	As Spline		Complete
Polyline		xα	Complete
Polycurve	✅	✅	Complete
Polygon	As Polyline	✅	Complete
Rectangle	As Polyline	✅	Complete
Spline	✅	✅	Complete
Solid			To do
Brep	As Mesh	As Mesh	Complete
Mesh	✅	✅	Complete
Revit Elements	xβ		Complete

^α: As Rectangle, Polycurve, or Polygon

^β: All Revit elements described here can also be sent from Dynamo

Unsupported Elements

Any geometric elements not listed above are not supported.

Civil 3D

Supported Elements

Geometry	Send	Receive	Status
Alignment	✅	✅	Complete
Corridor	✅		In Progress
FeatureLine	✅		In Progress
Grid Surface	✅ as Mesh		In Progress
Pipe	✅		In Progress
Profile	✅		In Progress
Structure	✅		In Progress
Tin Surface	✅ as Mesh	✅	Complete

Unsupported Elements

Subassemblies and Assemblies are not supported.

AutoCAD

Supported Elements

Geometry	Send	Receive	Status
Point	✅	✅	Complete
Line	✅	✅	Complete
Arc	✅	✅	Complete
Circle	✅	✅	Complete
Ellipse	✅	✅	Complete
Polyline	✅	✅	Complete
Polycurve	✅	✅	Complete
Spline	✅	✅	Complete
Plane Surface	✅		In Progress
Nurb Surface	✅		In Progress
PolyFace Mesh	✅	✅	Complete
SubD Mesh	✅	✅	Complete
3D Solid	as Mesh	as Mesh	In Progress

Other	Send	Receive	Status
BlockInstance	✅	✅	Complete
BlockDefinition	✅	✅	Complete
Hatch	✅	✅	Complete
Text	✅	✅	Complete
Dimension	✅	✅	Complete

Unsupported Elements

Labels and tables are not supported, as well as any unlisted element. There is a known issue with blocks containing text that is not updated with field values.

Blender

Supported Elements

The Blender Connector is still a work in progress and, as such, data sent from the Blender Connector is a highly lossy exchange. Our connectors are ever evolving to facilitate more and more Speckle usecases. We welcome feedback, requests, edge cases, and contributions!

In addition to geometry data, custom object properties are also converted, including ifc_definition_id (Blender BIM).

Send (Blender ⟶ Speckle)

• Supported geometry types work well with a few very minor tecnical limitations
• Only Principle BSDF, Diffuse BSDF, and the basic non-node based shaders are officially supported, other shaders are likley to look different when sent.
• Image and procedural textures are not supported
• Modifiers and Transform data (translation, rotation, scale) are baked before sending, so Blender -> Blender workflows will be quite lossy

Blender Type	Send	Limitations
Mesh	✅ as Mesh(es)	No Vertex Groups, Vertex Colors, or Vertex Normals
Material	✅ as RenderMaterial	Principle and Diffuse BSDF Shader Only
Bézier Curves	✅ as Curve	Sent as nurbs curve
NURB Curves	✅ as Curve	CU_NURB_BEZIER flag ignored
Poly Lines	✅ as PolyLine
Collection	✅ as Collection	No collection properties
Collection Instances	✅ as Block
Empty	🟨 as Point	Position only, No Axis type
Camera	🟨 as View3D	Aproximated; lense/sensor info lossed
Surfaces	🟨 as Mesh(es)	Converted as mesh
Metaball	🟨 as Mesh(es)	Converted as mesh
Text	🟨 as Mesh(es)	Converted as mesh
Lights	❌	Ignored
Light Probes	❌	Ignored
Armatures	❌	Ignored

Receive (Speckle ⟶ Blender)

• Mesh based geometries are well supported
• Many types of curves are fairly well supported although some have limitations

Speckle Type	Receive	Limitations
Mesh	✅ as Mesh
Render Material	✅ as Material	Principle Shader Only
Curve	✅ as Nurbs Curve
Brep	🟨 as Mesh	Uses mesh displayValue
View 3D	✅ as Camera
Collection	✅ as Collection
Instances and Block	✅ as Collection Instance or transformed empty
Curve/Polycurve	✅ as Nurbs Curve
Line/Polyline	✅ as Polyline
Circle/Elipse	✅ as Nurbs Curve
Arc	🟨 as Nurbs Curve	No trims
Text	🟨 as Polyline	Not as Text

Unity

Supported Elements

We've only started supporting Unity elements, please let us know what else you'd like to see, and do contribute if you have the skillz!

Type	Speckle > Unity	Unity > Speckle
Point	✅	✅
Line	✅
Polyline	✅
Curve	✅
Mesh	✅	✅
BuiltElements 3DView	✅

ETABS

Supported Elements

We've only started supporting with an alpha release of ETABS elements, please let us know what else you'd like to see, and do contribute if you have the skillz!

Geometry	Send	Receive
Point	✅	✅
Columns	✅	✅
Beams	✅	✅
Braces	✅	✅
Sections Profile (Catalogue)	✅	✅
User Defined Sections ~ refer to structural object kit (opens new window) for schema	✅	✅
Floor with Slab Sections + Deck Sections	✅	✅
Wall and Sections	✅	✅
Material Code definition		✅
Loading (1D,2D) note: node elements can only send	✅	✅
Results (1D,2D,Node)	✅
Restraints	✅	✅
Links	✅	✅
Stories	✅	✅
Springs (Point,Linear,Area)	✅	✅
Tendons	✅
GridLines	✅	✅

SAP2000

Supported Elements

We've only started supporting with an alpha release of SAP2000 elements, please let us know what else you'd like to see, and do contribute if you have the skillz!

Geometry	Send	Receive
Point	✅	✅
Columns	✅	✅
Beams	✅	✅
Braces	✅	✅
Sections Profile (Catalogue)	✅	✅
User Defined Sections ~ refer to structural object kit (opens new window) for schema	✅	✅
Material Code definition		✅
Loading (1D,2D) note: node elements can only send	✅	✅
Results (1D,2D,Node)	✅

CSiBridge

Supported Elements

We've only started supporting with an alpha release of CSiBridge elements, please let us know what else you'd like to see, and do contribute if you have the skillz!

Geometry	Send	Receive
Point	✅	✅
Columns	✅	✅
Beams	✅	✅
Braces	✅	✅
Sections Profile (Catalogue)	✅	✅
User Defined Sections ~ refer to structural object kit (opens new window) for schema	✅	✅
Material Code definition		✅
Loading (1D,2D) note: node elements can only send	✅	✅
Results (1D,2D,Node)	✅

SAFE

Supported Elements

We've only started supporting with an alpha release of SAFE elements, please let us know what else you'd like to see, and do contribute if you have the skillz!

Geometry	Send	Receive
Point	✅	✅
Columns	✅	✅
Beams	✅	✅
Braces	✅	✅
Sections Profile (Catalogue)	✅	✅
User Defined Sections ~ refer to structural object kit (opens new window) for schema	✅	✅
Material Code definition		✅
Loading (1D,2D) note: node elements can only send	✅	✅
Results (1D,2D,Node)	✅

SketchUp

Supported Elements

The SketchUp Connector is still in early Alpha and is therefore a work in progress. Let us know what else you'd like to see supported or if you would like to contribute!

Type	Send	Receive	Status
Brep		as mesh	Complete
Mesh	✅	✅	In Progress
Line & Polyline	✅	✅	Complete
Render Material	✅	✅	In Progress
BlockInstance	✅	✅	In Progress
BlockDefinition	✅	✅	In Progress

MicroStation

This is a community-contributed connector! We'll try to keep these charts as accurate as possible, but keep in mind some information may be out of date.

Supported Elements

Geometry	Send	Receive	Status
Point	✅	as LineElement	Complete
Vector	✅	✅	Complete
Plane	✅	✅	Complete
Line	✅	✅	Complete
Arc	✅	✅	Complete
Circle	✅	as EllipseElement	Complete
Ellipse	✅	✅	Complete
Polyline	✅	✅	Complete
Polycurve	✅	✅	Complete
Curve (BSpline)	✅	✅	Complete
Shape	as Polyline	as Polyline	Complete
Complex Shape	as Polycurve	as Polycurve	Complete
Mesh	✅	✅	Complete
Surface (BSpline)	✅		In Progress
ExtendedElement	as Base		In Progress
ComplexHeader	as Base		In Progress

Unsupported Elements

Note that 2d elements (like Point2d and Vector3d) are converted into 3d elements on send and receive.

Points are converted as LineElements with the same start and end point on receive, and LineElements with the same start and end points are converted as Points on send.

Ellipses with rotation are converted as a curve when sent to Speckle.

Breps, pointclouds, blocks, views, and any other element not listed are not supported in MicroStation.

OpenRoads and OpenRail

These are community-contributed connectors! We'll try to keep these charts as accurate as possible, but keep in mind some information may be out of date.

Supported Elements

In addition to supporting all of the geometry elements that the MicroStation Connector supports, OpenRoads and OpenRail also support the following built elements:

BuiltElement	Send	Receive	Status
Alignment	✅	✅	Complete
Corridor	as Base		In Progress

Unsupported Elements

Profiles, Stations, Featurelines, and anything else not listed are currently not supported.

OpenBuildings

This is a community-contributed connector! We'll try to keep these charts as accurate as possible, but keep in mind some information may be out of date.

Supported Elements

In addition to supporting all of the geometry elements that the MicroStation Connector supports, OpenBuildings also supports the following built elements:

BuiltElement	Send	Receive	Status
GridCurve	as Line		In Progress
GridSystem	as Base		In Progress

Unsupported Elements

Tekla Structures

Supported Elements

The Tekla Structures Connector is still in early Alpha and therefore will still be developed and worked on. Let us know what else you'd like to see supported or if you would like to contribute to make it finish the alpha phase faster!

Type	Send	Receive	Status
Contour plates (slabs/plates)	✅	✅	Complete
Beams	✅	✅	Complete
Columns	✅	✅	Complete
Spiral Beams	✅	✅	Complete
Curved Beams	✅		In Progress
Polybeams	✅	✅	Complete
Welds	✅		In Progress
Rebars	✅		In Progress
Bolts	✅		In Progress

Archicad

Supported Elements

The Archicad Connector is still in Alpha and being developed. Geometry and mesh based support is comprehensive and almost all of the built elements are supported. Let us know what would be particularly useful to you and we will make sure to prioritise them!

Type	Send	Receive	Status	Notes
Mesh / Direct Shape	✅	✅	Complete	All unsupported elements will go in/out as meshes
Floor (Slab)	✅	✅	Complete
Wall	✅	✅	Complete
Room (Zone)	✅	✅	Complete
Beam	✅	✅	Complete
Column	✅	✅	Complete
Roof	✅	✅	Complete
Shell	✅	✅	Complete
Door	🟨	🟨	In Progres	GDL parameters are not exported
Window	🟨	🟨	In Progres	GDL parameters are not exported
Skylight	🟨	🟨	In Progres	GDL parameters are not exported
Mesh	✅	✅	Complete
Morhp	✅	✅	Complete
Object	✅	✅	Complete	GDL parameters are not exported

Navisworks

Supported Elements

The Navisworks Connector is still in Alpha and is still being developed. Geometry and mesh based support is pretty comprehensive, but built element (BIM) conversion is non existant. Let us know what elements or properties you see as missing and would be particularly useful to you! Navisworks Connector is send only.

Type	Send	Receive	Status	Notes
"Solid" Geometry	✅	❌	Complete	All 3d elements will be sent as as meshes
Line Geometry	✅		Complete	2D and 2.5D Linework is sent as many lines as "dissolved" by Navisworks according to its facetting setting on appending
Point	🟨		Partial
Text			Unsupported