Facilitate Interoperability with the Help of Direct Data Flows, Experimentation of an Open Distributed Platform

This study addresses the issue of software interoperability in the AEC sector, it is interested in the ecosystem of Speckle, the open collaborative platform, facilitating data exchange. We seek to characterise to design modalities that rely on a direct information flow (DIF). We present here the development of the connector Speckle.TopSolid, allowing a direct data exchange between CAD-CAM TopSolid environment and the platform. After reviewing the notion of ecosystem and collaborative processes, we give a detailed technical description of the connector. The overall objective is to offer an alternative to traditional interoperability methods, based on file-exchange or proprietary solutions in closed ecosystems, by suggesting direct exchanges between software, through direct informational flows. Our development is inscribed in free and open dynamism.