Copy a project’s current state into a new one, and leave the original untouched.
Cloning takes everything a project holds right now — materials, mappings, settings, team, and its history so far — and puts it into a brand-new project. The original is not changed in any way.It is the standard way to explore a design variant without putting your live project at risk: clone it, change the thing you want to test, and compare the two dashboards side by side.Open it from Settings → Manage → Clone, then Clone project.
New project name is prefilled with the original’s name plus (Clone). Rename it now to something that says what the variant is — Office Building (timber frame) reads better in the project list six weeks later than Office Building (Clone).
This is the decision that matters, and it is worth getting right the first time.
Create new project
A new Speckle project is created for the clone and the models are copied over in the background — they appear in the 3D viewer once the copy finishes. Materials, mappings, and emission factors come across too.
Use the same project
The clone reads the same published models as the original. One publish from your authoring tool feeds both projects.
Pick Create new project when the variant will diverge geometrically — a different structural system, a different façade — so each project can receive its own publishes.Pick Use the same project when the geometry stays put and only the assessment differs: swapping EPDs, testing a different calculation type, or trying alternative transport distances against one model.
Copying the models runs in the background. The clone is usable immediately, but its 3D viewer stays empty until the copy finishes.
The clone is an ordinary project: it appears in the project list, has its own history and revisions continuing from the point it was made, and can be cloned again. To compare it against the original, tick Compare on both cards in the project list.
