Speckle has announced a new hosted-service business model, scheduled to launch on February 2, 2026. The company says it is moving away from seat-based pricing toward plans based on projects and usage, arguing that counting individual users creates friction when model and project data needs to move between designers, coordinators, construction teams, project managers, and clients. ...

Speckle has launched an Autodesk Construction Cloud integration for Enterprise customers, automatically syncing ACC model data into Speckle so teams can use it in browser-based model access, dashboards, Power BI, Speckle Intelligence, internal analytics, and automation workflows. The integration is positioned as a way to turn ACC from a file-based system of record into a live source of normalized BIM data, including historical model versions and real-time project updates. ...

Bonsai v0.8.4 has been released with 1111 new features and fixes. The release brings Bonsai compatibility with Blender 5.0, which matters because Blender 5.0 is a major platform update and required compatibility work throughout the add-on. ...

Blender 5.0 has been released. The major headline is a redesigned color management pipeline with native wide-gamut and HDR support, including ACES 1.3 and 2.0 views, Rec.2100 PQ and HLG display support, AgX HDR, and improved image and video export for P3 and Rec.2020 workflows. ...

That Open Platform’s Release 3.2.0, presented in the “We Opened the Models. Now We Open Modeling” event, marked a shift from web-based BIM viewing toward web-based BIM authoring. The release introduced APIs for creating, editing, and deleting model geometry and data directly in the browser, positioning That Open Engine as a foundation for openBIM applications that are not limited to inspection and coordination. ...

The Blender Foundation has announced a major leadership transition. Ton Roosendaal, Blender’s founder and long-time chair and CEO, will step down from those roles on 1 January 2026. Francesco Siddi, currently Blender’s COO, will take over as executive director. ...

Bonsai v0.8.3 has been released with 770 new features and fixes. The release notes describe this as a polish-heavy update, with a lot of work going into bug fixes, usability, optimisation, and smaller improvements across the project. ...

The Castle Game Engine is a free, open source, cross-platform (desktop, mobile, console, web) 3D and 2D game engine. It comes with a powerful visual editor and support for open standards like glTF, X3D, … and now IFC - a key open standard used in BIM. ...

If you had to choose software to begin working in architectural design, which would be your first choice? Many might think that a BIM solution such as BlenderBIM or FreeCAD would be the ideal choice. In many cases, they offer numerous advantages. However, despite these advanced and modern workflows, a simple 2D CAD solution can still address most of our project needs. ...

Last week, a new stable release of FreeCAD has been published, tagged 0.21. This release is mostly there to provide a stable point before implementing Toponaming resolution functionality. Toponaming is how we call the problem of unstable reference names in FreeCAD (Edge1 might become Edge5 after a shape recompute), it is the last big issue the development team wants to solve before deeming FreeCAD good for the mythical 1.0 release. ...