Anti aliasing breaks after printing

[mi.land]

Hey after printing my view is pixeled,

i thinks it is visual Arqs fault but i am not sure.

Anyone had the same Problem?

Restarting Rhino solves the Problem.

Systeminfo
Rhino 8 SR28 2026-2-10 (Rhino 8, 8.28.26041.11001, Git hash:master @ b7874a05a6982d0419fcc4f6009b510b48a09cb3)
License type: Educational, build 2026-02-10
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 10 (10.0.19045 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 64GB)
.NET 8.0.14

Computer platform: DESKTOP

*Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (NVidia) Memory: 10GB, Driver date: 2-25-2025 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 572.60

Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)

• Windows Main Display attached to adapter port 0
• Secondary monitor attached to adapter port 1*

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
GPU Tessellation is: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)

Anti-alias mode: 8x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 2-25-2025
Driver Version: 32.0.15.7260
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 10 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Users\Milan\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\8.0\Plug-ins\D5LiveSync (e0d5e210-02f6-4ee9-a2b0-1675e225d958)\D5Conv.rhp “D5 Live Sync for Rhino”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Tibidabo\Tibidabo.rhp “Tibidabo”
C:\Users\Milan\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\8.0\Plug-ins\Speckle.Connectors.Rhino8 (2153799A-0CEC-40DE-BC3A-01E5055222FF)\Speckle.Connectors.Rhino8.rhp “Speckle” 3.16.0.0
C:\Users\Milan\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\BlockEditNew\2.1.4\blockeditnew.rhp “BlockEditNew” 2.0.0.0

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.28.26041.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\WebBrowser.rhp “WebBrowser”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoScript.rhp “RhinoScript”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoBonusTools.rhp “Rhino Bonus Tools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoLabsTools.rhp “Rhino Labs Tools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\IdleProcessor.rhp “IdleProcessor”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.28.26041.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Legacy Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.28.26041.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.28.26041.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\IronPython\RhinoDLR_Python.rhp “IronPython” 8.28.26041.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.28.26041.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Grasshopper\GrasshopperPlugin.rhp “Grasshopper” 8.28.26041.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCode\RhinoCodePlugin.rhp “RhinoCodePlugin” 8.28.26041.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\System\netcore\export_PDF.rhp “PDF Export” 8.28.26041.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 8.28.26041.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”

[Toni_Osterlund]

@mi.land
I have had the issue as well sometimes, but I have not been able to isolate the trigger yet.

Can you explain what are you printing, view modes, and from which space (model, layout)? I could test it as well.

[enric (Enric Marquès)]

Hi @mi.land,

As @Toni_Osterlund suggested, please describe the required steps (including 3DM models, print settings, layout/details involved, etc.) so I can test if VisualARQ is the culprit and fix it.

Thanks,

Enric

[mi.land]

Same here hard to replicate.

As soon as i find it i will write more details.

Printing from layouts space. Multiple pages had happend also with 3 pages.

[Toni_Osterlund]

@mi.land @enric
Happened to me just recently. After printing multi-layout PDF with RhinoPDF, and exporting 2D-material to DWG.
This file did NOT contain VisualARQ information.

[mi.land]

But was the plugin enabled?

After i disabled VA , it never happend again for me.

[Toni_Osterlund]

@mi.land
Yes, the plugin is enabled. Cannot disable, as I use VisualARQ actively.

[mi.land]

@Toni_Osterlund
Did you use any VA - Display Modes.
I found them suspicous.

Or it is their “Vector-Creator” in the background that was there before R8 created their own.

Yes multiple Layout print seems to be the way to create it.

@enric FYI

[Toni_Osterlund]

@mi.land

Did you use any VA - Display Modes.

No, basic wireframe actually.
This might not be a VisualARQ thing at all, or then the existence of the plugin effects somehow.

Let’s see what’s the situation next time it occurs…

[fsalla (Francesc Salla)]

Hi @mi.land I haven’t been able to reproduce this issue.

@enric

please describe the required steps (including 3DM models, print settings, layout/details involved, etc.)

[mi.land]

@fsalla
I found a file to reproduce it.

The file has private information. Can i send it to you not publicly ?

[mi.land]

I printed to forcce the mistake and disabled the plug-in first to check if it happens also wiothout it.

But somehow with printing it trioed to load again and send this message:

But it is listed as still not loaded:

What means upgrading the document??

[fsalla (Francesc Salla)]

Hi @mi.land I got your file, followed the indicated steps, but could not reproduce this behavior.

Your screenshots indicate that VisualARQ is loaded, but you are running it unlicensed. That means that you won’t be able to use VisualARQ. Run the vaLicense command to set a license mode and restart Rhino.

Did the problem happen after you disabled VisualARQ?

[mi.land]

No the problem happens only with Visual ARQ installed enabling and disabling doesnt affct the bug.
I am quite sure about it.

The unlicensed problem happens only if i disable VisualArq and somehow it still tries to load itself after printing which i dont want…. so then it fails to collect the license.

The Bug only disapeared after i uninstalled Visual ARQ.

Why does Visual Arq try to load itself even though i disabled and restarted rhino ?