3D viewer in 2026.9

Opening a model in the 2026.9 web app uses a new 3D viewer. Geometry starts appearing while the full file is still downloading. Selection, Filters, and Views sit in dockable panels, and sectioning uses cutting planes instead of a box. This page covers only what changed. For interface basics that still apply — sharing, federation from the project, and issue fields — see Interface and navigation, Exploration, Saved views, Issues, and Share your models. To ask questions about the models loaded in this viewer, use the sparkle. That flow is on Ask questions about your models with Speckle Intelligence.

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Open a model

Large models use a hybrid load. A first overlay can show Preparing 3D stream or Downloading model. Once geometry starts painting, the overlay goes away and a progress stack in the top-right corner continues in the background. The downloaded copy is stored locally, so opening the same version again prefers that cache. You should see objects in the scene before the background download finishes.

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Find your way around

Panels are dockable. Drag a panel icon onto another panel to make a labelled tab group, split it into the bottom dock, collapse it, or resize it. On a first visit, Selection is open so the canvas is not empty.

• Models, Filters, Views, and Issues sit in the left sidebar tab strip.
• Selection sits under those tabs by default and shows properties for the current pick.
• Elements sits in the bottom dock and lists every object in the loaded models.
• The status bar at the bottom holds panel icons, undo, redo, screenshot, shortcuts, and Settings.
• The navigation cube sits at the bottom-right of the canvas for canonical camera directions.

The status bar Settings menu holds Orthographic, Grid, and Reference points. Layout in that menu lists every panel as a checkbox. Models stays on. Lock layout stops accidental drags. Reset layout restores the default arrangement after you unlock. Right-click a panel icon in the tab strip or status bar to move it. The menu lists only slots that panel can occupy: Move to sidebar, Move to sidebar bottom, Move to bottom panel, or Move to bottom right. Remove panel hides it; turn it back on from Layout. Models has no Remove panel. With Lock layout on, the move verbs are omitted. These panels start hidden. Turn them on from Settings → Layout:

• Materials lists materials and colours in the loaded models. Select the usage count to pick the objects that use that material.
• Browse pages through tables in the published data.
• SQL runs a query against the attached models. $selected inserts the current pick’s application IDs.
• Inspector shows envelope relations as a diagram or rows, plus a raw property table. When nothing is selected it reads Select an object in the viewer to inspect its rows.

On narrower widths the left sidebar becomes a slide-over. Right-click the canvas for Hide or Show, Isolate or Un-isolate, Fit to view, Copy application ID, Add to chat, and Clear selection. With more than one object selected, Hide and Isolate (and their opposites) become Hide selection and Isolate selection (or Show selection and Un-isolate selection), and the chat verb reads Add selection to chat. Right-click a row in Models for the same verbs except Copy application ID. Right-click a scene-tree group to pin that group; the verb then reads Add "" to chat, using the group’s name. Right-click a selected object keeps the whole selection. Right-click an unselected object replaces the selection with that pick. Add to chat pins the pick for Speckle Intelligence. If too many objects are selected to pin individually, a toast reads Too many objects selected to add individually and tells you to right-click a scene-tree group instead.

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Use the Models card

Right-click the Models card header, or use ⋯, for Expand one level, Collapse one level, Group by…, Search this model, and Model placement. When the grouping strip is already open, Group by… becomes Hide grouping options. These verbs apply to the whole card, not to a tree row. When several models are federated, the same menu also offers Isolate model (or Un-isolate model, or Isolate model (partially isolated)), Hide model or Show model, and Remove from scene. Header glyphs show isolate and hide at a glance; they toggle the same state. Search this model opens a field on the card with the placeholder Search this model…. Model placement opens the inspect dialog described in Inspect model placement.

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Group objects in the tree

Group by… opens the grouping strip and its editor in one click. A collapsed strip shows Grouped by plus the current levels joined with ›. Select that summary to reopen the editor. The editor lists one row per tree level. Helper text reads Each row is a level of the tree — drag to renest. Drag the grip to reorder. Each row is a searchable picker; search with Search property or relationship…. Options show a label, a coverage count, and the full property path. Relationships such as Level, Collection, Model, and Network appear first when those relations exist. Properties follow; labels come from the path, so Family or Category appear when those paths are in the catalog. The default grouping is a spatial relationship (Collection or Level) over the highest-coverage property. Add grouping appends a row. Done collapses the editor. While the catalog loads, the strip can show Loading options…. If grouping is too fine to precompute, it reads Grouping too fine to precompute — the deepest level loads on expand.

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Select and inspect

Click geometry, or click rows in Models. Selection highlights both ways: the 3D pick reveals the tree row, and the tree row highlights in 3D. Open Selection with Shift+O. Selection shows properties for the pick. The title uses the first non-blank of name, type, or category. Property groups auto-expand. A Pinned group stays at the top when you pin a path. Revit material quantity blocks are condensed into readable rows named like Area or Volume. A Relations group at the bottom lists related objects by relation kind. Search the list with Filter properties. When nothing is selected, Selection shows No properties. From a property you can:

• Add to filters — open an empty Filters card for that property. The scene does not narrow until you set the condition.
• Filter to this value — add a card already set to this value. The scene narrows immediately. Relation rows skip this action.
• Add as table column — add the path to Elements. If it is already a column, the menu reads Shown as a table column and opens Elements.
• Pin property or Unpin property.
• Copy value — copies the raw value, not the rounded display string.
• Copy path.
• Copy all properties — one path: value line per row.
• Copy group path — from a group header that has a real path. Pinned and Relations have no path to copy.
• Expand all groups or Collapse all groups — on a single-object list. Multi-select cards fold from the toolbar instead.

When you select several objects, Selection shows one card per object. Each card can zoom, isolate, or hide that element. In a wide dock the cards sit in columns. Fold or expand all cards from the toolbar. The count reads N selected. Selections larger than 1,000 objects start folded; you can still open one card at a time. Use Show all on the toolbar when objects are hidden or isolated.

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Browse objects in Elements

Elements is a table of the objects in the loaded models. It follows the active Filters stack. Double-click a row to zoom to that object. When several models are loaded, a scope control can limit the table to one model or to the current selection. Export view to Excel downloads the current columns, filter scope, and sort. If grouping or search is too large, a warning reads Showing the first … elements — narrow the scope (filters or selection) for a complete view. Update parameters turns columns whose path starts with properties. into editors. Other columns stay read-only and show a lock icon in the header. Staged edits do not change the published version. Submit change requests creates an issue that carries those deltas, so teammates can review the proposed values. Creating that issue needs permission to create issues on the project. When Update parameters is on and the table has 15 or more elements, Search rows… appears and narrows the table. It is not on the browse toolbar.

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Filter and color

Filters is a stack of property cards, not a single search box. Each card has operators that match the property type. Applied filters stay in place when you change selection or close and reopen panels. Open Filters with Shift+F. When the stack is empty, Filters shows No filters yet and an Add filter control. If the catalog fails, it shows Failed to load properties. If a resolve fails, it shows Failed to resolve filter matches. While a model is still attaching, it shows Attaching model…. Operators by property type:

• String: is one of, is not one of, contains, does not contain, has value, is set, is not set.
• Number: equals, is not equal, in range, has value, is set, is not set. Numeric equals and is not equal accept more than one value. Equals tolerates small floating-point differences.
• Boolean: is (True / False), has value, is set, is not set.
• Relation (for example a level or network hop): is one of, is set, is not set.

Has value matches objects where the property has a non-empty value. Is set matches objects where the property exists. Is not set matches objects where it is missing. With two or more cards, All keeps objects that match every card. Any keeps objects that match at least one. With All, each card’s value list is scoped to the enabled cards above it. With Any, the cards are independent. Drag the grip, or use Alt+↑ / Alt+↓, to reorder. Right-click a card for Change property…, Collapse or Expand, Color by values or Stop coloring, Disable filter or Enable filter, Move up, Move down, Duplicate, and Remove filter. A disabled card stays in the stack but does not hide objects. Clear all filters is in the panel header. Reset filters on the toolbar clears the same stack without undoing hide and isolate.

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Save and apply views

Views lists two kinds of viewpoint in one panel. Open it with Shift+V.

• Model views come from the source application when the connector published them. Select a row to fly the camera. These rows stay in Model views; converting one does not remove it. An orthographic published view can show a Parallel / orthographic (isometric) cue.
• Saved views are viewpoints you (or a teammate) stored in Speckle. The panel only lists views whose models are currently loaded. A view saved on an older version of a loaded model still applies.

When nothing is saved and there are no groups, Views shows No views yet. A search with no hits shows No matching views. An empty named group reads Drop views here. Saving a view needs permission to create saved views on the project. Creating saved views needs the Contributor project role or higher. Without that permission, Save view and New group are disabled. Sketch is also disabled; its tooltip reads You don’t have write access. See Saved views for grouping and sharing rules that have not changed. To keep a connector-published viewpoint as a saved view, select Save as view on that Model views row, or drag the row into a saved-view group. Dragging into a group needs at least one named group and permission to create views. You cannot drop a model view into Ungrouped. New group creates an empty group as a drop target. Search with Search views. Cards show the author and a relative date. Private views show a lock with the tooltip Only visible to you. On a saved view the ⋯ menu is Rename, Make private or Make public, and Delete…. There is no Set as home view, Replace view, or Copy link on this menu. Use the eye control to show or hide that view’s sketches and measurements. On a group the ⋯ menu is Rename, Make all private or Make all public, and Delete group…. Ungrouped is a tail for views that were saved before grouping. You can drag views out of it. You cannot drop views into it. Its menu is Delete all views…. Deleting a view also deletes its sketches and measurements. The confirm dialog says so. A view created in the previous viewer can show Legacy view — not openable here yet. Re-save the look in this viewer if you need a viewpoint you can apply.

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Cut, measure, and sketch

The bottom toolbar holds Section, Sketch, and Measure. Shortcuts: Shift+B, Shift+K, and Shift+R. Press Esc to leave a tool. Cmd/Ctrl+Z undoes while sketching or measuring.

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Section planes

Sectioning is no longer a six-sided box around the model. You add individual section planes and move each one. Hide plane handles keeps the cut for a cleaner screenshot. Remove all planes clears the list. If Plane is disabled, the tooltip reads that all plane slots are in use.

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Measure

Types: Point to point, Perpendicular, Angle, and Area. Measurements stay on the canvas for the session. If you can save views, they are stored on the saved view with sketches. Without that permission they disappear when you leave the model.

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Sketch in 3D

Sketch draws on the model in 3D. Ink stays with the geometry as you orbit, pan, and zoom. It is stored on a saved view: saving the view keeps the markup, and opening that view restores it in place. Tools: Pen, Arrow, Revision cloud, Text, and Eraser. Preset ink colours are Red, Amber, Blue, Green, and White. Custom color adds any colour and opacity. Brush sizes sit next to the colours. Sketch is disabled without permission to save views.

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Navigation cube

The cube in the bottom-right of the canvas sets canonical directions. Alt+1–5 also move the camera to Top, Front, Left, Back, and Right. Fit and zoom still sit on the toolbar: Fit view to everything, or Zoom to selection when something is selected. Shift+Space does the same fit. Shift+P toggles orthographic projection. Explode, the older view-mode styles (Pen, Arctic, Shaded), and lighting controls are not on this toolbar. Projection and the grid are in Settings.

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Restore an issue’s view

Issues lists issues for the models in the scene. Open it with Shift+I. Opening an issue that was created in this viewer restores the camera, filters, and visibility stored with it. Select a card to apply that stored look. Right-click the card, or use ⋯, for Open issue page and Delete… when you can delete. Open issue page opens the full issue in a new tab. Create, assign, and field editing stay on Issues. The Issues tab is always in the strip. If the feature is not available on the project, the panel body shows that denial instead of a list. Empty states: No issues for this scene with New issue, No matching issues after search or chip filters, and Select an issue in the wide-dock detail pane.

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Inspect model placement

When several models are federated, Models can open Model placement for a model. That dialog shows the published placement, geometry storage, Project True North, and translation. Inspect placement option previews Internal Origin, Project Base Point, Survey Point origin, or Shared Coordinates. How Revit stores placement on publish is on Revit in 2026.9. Adding models to a scene from the project still follows Model federation.

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Keyboard shortcuts

Open the cheat sheet from the status bar or ?. Bindings use Cmd on macOS and Ctrl elsewhere.

• Panels: Shift+M Models, Shift+F Filters, Shift+V Views, Shift+I Issues, Shift+T Elements, Shift+O Selection.
• Tools: Shift+R Measure, Shift+B Section, Shift+K Sketch.
• Camera: Shift+Space Fit view / zoom to selection, Shift+P Orthographic projection, Alt+1–5 standard views.
• Display: Shift+G Grid, Shift+X Reference points.
• History: Cmd/Ctrl+Z Undo, Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Z Redo.
• Fly around: W A S D or arrow keys to move. E or Page Up moves up. Q or Page Down moves down. Hold Shift for faster, Alt for slower.

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