I am trying to do the doors in the Villa Savoye tutorial. I could really use a proper manual. Is there one hiding somewhere?
Hi @stefank2 , are you following the tutorial on the VisualARQ website? Video tutorial - VisualARQ
You can find the chapter where you insert doors here: 2.6 Doors - VisualARQ
Remember that in order to see the full library of object styles, you need to have started the document using a VisualARQ template, or have imported the library from a .val file (I can't see VisualARQ object styles libraries. Why? How can I load them? - VisualARQ)
Please let me know if you get stuck at any point or have any questions.
Hi Francesc,
Yes I am following the videos.
I started with a VA template as one of the earlier videos shows.
No manual?
S.
Hi Francesc, I will take you up on your offer.
Door location alignment has me puzzled. I have gotten a little from VA for Grasshopper which has documentation though it doesnât correspond exactly. Door Vertical Alignment is clear. Exterior/Interior/Center is clear except that I wonder how Exterior and Interior are defined. But so far as I can see from experiment, Horizontal Alignment doesnât do anything. Left/Right/Center seems to have no effect on the door produced so I wonder what it does and how left and right are defined.
Regards
Hi @stefank2
The exterior/interior alignment of doors defines how doors are aligned to walls/curtain walls according to their thickness. However, in the case of doors whose frame is adjusted to the wall thickness, this alignment canât be appreciated.
The horizontal alignment defines the insert point of the door. So for example, if you define it as âCenterâ, when you change the doorâs width, it will grow from that center point.
The chapter â0. Overviewâ of the tutorial doesnât have written text, but the rest of the chapters do.
Thanks Francesc, that helps a bit. With that I will try to work out how left, right, interior, and exterior are defined. All this may be obvious to the other telekinetically intelligent users of VA, but it isnât to this one. I know about the text associated with the videos. By the way, if you could write the answer above, you are able to write the rest of the manual. (=;
I posted a related topic some time ago. You passed this link to me which is now bookmarked: Video tutorial - VisualARQ
Itâs actually hard to find that link just by browsing your website. The tutorials are good but dated. Most likely due to their age, the available tutorials donât do the capabilities of Visual ARQ and Rhino justice. Once I get into the program a little more Iâll be able to start contributing tips and tricks of my own (Iâm actually on a bit of a tangent - learning C#⌠for Rhino Common).
If you browse YouTube and search for Revit tutorials you might come across someone called âBalkan Architectâ. He does really good tutorials which kind of over-extend the practical capabilities of Revit. Most BIM programs (Visual ARQ is no exception) require the development of some sort of workflow to achieve the best result the respective program is capable of. To get Revit working as good as it is, itâs taken a lot of time and effort (and annoying work arounds)⌠and the results still arenât that great when you consider the amount of time and effort spent. Revitâs popularity is really more due to marketing than anything else; yes itâs the industry standard but itâs far from perfect, especially for certain niches.
The crazy part about Revitâs marketing (and having a company as big as Autodesk behind them) is that most of the âmarketingâ is actually done by their user base rather than Autodesk itself - they overcharge their customers and STILL get free marketing out of them.
High quality, up to date tutorials would go a really long way I think if the time is available.
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Totally agree, I have tried to learn Archicad before revit and because of the lack of updated tutrilas for the newest version I gave up and switched to Autodesk Revit.
Making a lot of tutorials for VisualARQ and just trying to recreate or model some existing pavilion, building ⌠etch, will catch peoplesâ eyes towards VisualARQ so they will earn many other users.
Unfortunately VisualARQ developers couldnât get this point as thousand of students and even professionals use the software than has plenty of tutorials online more than a perfect software without any tutorials .
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Revit also comes packaged with a fully-annotated and documented sample project - thereâs at least two of them (I havenât peeked into Revit in quite some time). These models are ultra-detailed and obviously took a serious amount of time to put together; so much time in fact that they probably wouldnât be feasible in a commercial setting. They do however flatter the programâs abilities.
The Villa is a decent little sample project but to my knowledge itâs not fully annotated and documented.
Iâm not saying that Asuni should stop everything and get a better set of tutorials/sample project out the door asap⌠but rather something that should consider updating some stuff in the future.
I think what @stefank2 was looking for was a manual or help file. Some sort of official documentation that goes over each command step by step. The visualArq villa savoye tutorial doesnât have anything on grasshopper styles for example. Is there a repository with all the commands and features documented?
Hi @Benjamin_Paolo_Fortu, you can check the VisualARQ Userâs guide for the full program documentation: vaHelp command.
On the website you can find also tutorials for the VisualARQ Grasshopper styles: Grasshopper styles - VisualARQ
thanks! It would be great if what ever is there in vahelp is also online.
Yes, we are planning to publish the help online! Iâll let you know when we do it!
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