Niko G.

Speckle 2.20 is here!
The latest release of our connectors is bringing you cool improvements, bug fixes, and new features across multiple platforms.

Today's spotlight is on the #Archicad connector news:
✅Openings are now supported!
✅We updated the connector icon under the Interoperability dialog on Mac. (doesn't it look so much better now? 😍)
✅Added application icon to the #Speckle connector. When you use Command+Tab, you’ll see the Speckle icon instead of a generic terminal icon.
✅Added default version message. If you keep it empty, it adds the number of elements + Archicad version in the version message.

Go ahead, try it out! 👉 https://lnkd.in/db2nrvYA

After finding that our #QGIS AI Vectorizer was 2 times faster than digitizing a geologic map by hand, we were curious how it compares on aerial imagery. In a side-by-side test on the same lake, the AI was again 2 times faster than digitizing by hand!

The video shows the test, sped up 20 times original speed:
Top: AI Vectorizer plugin
Bottom: Manual digitization

It took 13 minutes and 39 seconds to digitize the lake with AI, compared to 27 minutes and 17 seconds to digitize by hand. And, the AI was more accurate than the manual digitization.

The AI wasn’t perfect though, and still required manual intervention when shade covered the edge of the lake. Even so, the shift key made it easy to manually intervene and return to AI digitization once I got past the shade.