New VisualARQ 3 Beta 9 released!

Hi everyone,

The new VisualARQ 3 Beta version is available for download.

If you own a VisualARQ 2 license key, you can download and try it out!

This version brings most of the new features expected in the final release. Some features are not yet available, but they will be as we get close to the final release. Check them out here.

Please, report all bugs, issues, or suggestions to us, using Rhinoceros Forums, or sending an email to visualarq@asuni.com.

:information_source:   While in Beta, only the Rhino 8 installer will be published.
        Final release will be available for both Rhino 7 and Rhino 8 (for Windows).

Enjoy it!

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VisualARQ 3 Beta 2 (2024-01-29) now available:

IMPROVEMENTS:

  • Parameter:
    • #13550: Filters feedback in custom parameters
  • Grasshopper: Style:
    • #13217: Show height parameter in the style properties panel window for wall created from a grasshopper style
  • Clashes:
    • #13557: Add hard clashes tolerance in clash tests

CHANGES:

  • Object: Openings:
    • #13532: “Auto” default value for leaf sizes
  • Interface:
    • #13225: Change name in section manager commands

ERRORS:

  • Crash:
    • #12120: Rhino 8 crashes at launch when using .NET Core
    • #13524: VisualARQ crashes when opening this file regenerating the model
    • #13429: Rhino hangs when opening this file
  • Parameter:
    • #13549: Duplicated object types in parameter filters
  • API: Script:
    • #13564: AddBeamStyleSizeProfile method returns an empty GUID
    • #13571: AddBeamsFromCurves method is not working if the curve is not planar
  • Level:
    • #13363: Sub-levels disappear from lateral views when I select a level in the level manager
    • #13535: Wall doesn’t move to new level’s elevation
    • #13556: No way to create building when no site is created yet in the document
  • View:
    • #13511: Jogged section corrupted
  • Grasshopper: Style:
    • #13543: Wall joint error of walls created as Grasshopper styles in millimeters file
    • #13520: 2D geometry from a Grasshopper file is not visible in an Annotation style
    • #7351: Curve in Annotation from GH style is generated as polyline
    • #13216: Wall grasshopper styles don’t keep the height value set in the Grasshopper definition
  • Object: Openings:
    • #13561: Door with variable leaves width is restored to equal width after editing it
    • #13530: Crash copying a door
    • #13531: It’s not possible to edit the leaf size by %
    • #13536: Crash after adding a glass to a door leaf
    • #13423: Door width by fixed dimension doesn’t work
  • Object: Guide:
    • #13555: Snap radius did not work when moving guides
    • #13548: Wrong guide color in Top viewport
    • #13545: Guides don’t hide in Top viewport
    • #13526: Guide bottom position changes when extending it from the top arrow
  • Object: Table:
    • #13434: Difficult to unselect objects from the table
    • #13521: The number of objects in grouped rows in the table panel are not highlighted properly
  • Object: Door:
    • #13537: Wrong plan view representation of a door with variable leaf widths
  • Style:
    • #13513: Plan preview is not showing the correct geometry
  • Clashes:
    • #13496: Crash when switching between clash/tables panel and the layer panel

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VisualARQ 3 Beta 3 (2024-02-13) now available:

FEATURES:

  • Object: Table:
    • #5749: Order tables by the “quantity” field

IMPROVEMENTS:

  • API: Script:
    • #13662: Having the option to set a None pattern using the SetObjectSectionPattern method
  • Layout:
    • #13597: Make the DWG command cancellable with the escape key.
  • Level:
    • #13229: Detect numbers in level name pattern when creating multiple levels
  • Object: Table:
    • #13582: Add Totals for the “Quantity” field
    • #11448: Use a different color to highlight objects in the model from the table panel
  • Parameter:
    • #13550: Filters feedback in custom parameters

CHANGES:

  • Grasshopper: Style:
    • #13642: Set heigh parameter ediable by object by default
  • Parameter:
    • #13579: Changes in Parameter filters names
  • Profile:
    • #12586: Do not show system profiles in the Profile Manager

ERRORS:

  • API: Script:
    • #13613: GetBeamEndCutType is not working
    • #13612: GetBeamStartCutType is not working
    • #13610: DeleteParameter method is not working if the parameter has got a value
    • #13609: SetParameterValue method doesn’t accept Null values
  • Attributes:
    • #13498: Do not take into account sub-levels for the overhead representation of objects
  • Crash:
    • #13590: Crash opening VisualARQ 3 for Rhino 8
  • Grasshopper: Style:
    • #13660: Plan representation is not defined after importing a .val file made with VisualARQ 2
    • #13643: Rhino not responding after setting join type to None of walls created as Grasshopper styles
    • #13578: Height parameter is shown double in the Properties panel for objects created with Grasshopper Styles
  • Layout:
    • #13618: Wall intersecton lines appear in DWG exported from layout
  • Level:
    • #13592: Activating the Cut plane of a level should hide the upper levels
    • #13591: Add levels dialog changes the levels status in the viewport
    • #13589: Double-click on a level should hide the upper sub-levels
    • #13575: Building “plan reference” icon cannot be deactivated in VisualARQ 3
    • #13562: Crash after activating a plan reference view
    • #13244: I cannot add sub-levels in this file
    • #12930: I can’t edit the Level in this file
  • Object: Table:
    • #13594: Double-clicking a window in the Tables panel does uncorrectly the zoom extents
    • #13171: Crash selecting properties to group in the table styles dialog
  • Object: Tag:
    • #13599: Tag doesn’t display the border
  • Object: Wall:
    • #13611: I cannot select wall control arrows in Rhino 8
  • VisualARQ to Revit:
    • #13586: Shed roofs are transferred as hip roofs

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VisualARQ 3 Beta 4 (2024-02-27) now available:

FEATURES:

  • Object: Space:
    • #7353: Option to hide the space representation in 3D

IMPROVEMENTS:

  • Toolbar:
    • #13720: Replace icon for Wall From Solid command
    • #13637: Add the vaExportToDWG command in the toolbar and menu
  • Level:
    • #13684: Isolate level should change the CPlane to the isolated level

CHANGES:

  • Layout:
    • #13617: Option to export only the current layout
  • Clashes:
    • #13424: Clash report list behavior when selecting row items
  • Object: Table:
    • #11448: Use a different color to highlight objects in the model from the table panel

ERRORS:

  • Object: Table:
    • #13725: I can’t edit a tag value from the Table
    • #13676: Table report is erased if a 2D table in the model is deleted
    • #13674: Beam objects are not highlighted when selecting them from a table
    • #13175: Disable Sum and Average Total types for property fields using texts
    • #13666: After double click on a table row, objects remain selected
    • #13645: Double-clicking a door in the Tables panel does uncorrectly the zoom extents
  • Grasshopper: Style:
    • #13643: Rhino not responding after setting join type to None of walls created as Grasshopper styles
    • #13641: Join error of walls created as Grasshopper styles
    • #13660: Plan representation is not defined after importing a .val file made with VisualARQ 2
  • Level:
    • #13665: Walls don’t move properly when changing a level elevation
    • #13644: Error hiding a building with a boundary
    • #13634: Level Manager toolbar display issue
  • Layout:
    • #13703: Hidden objects are exported to DWG
    • #13618: Wall intersecton lines appear in DWG exported from layout
    • #13688: Export multiple layouts doesn’t work properly
  • Clashes:
    • #13383: Zoom to issue is too close
    • #13357: Clash issue is not calculated
  • Object: Openings:
    • #13691: Window is not properly inserted in a slab
  • Object: Window:
    • #13668: Wrong opening of a window in a roof
  • Material:
    • #13695: Texture mapping doesn’t work well on VisualARQ objects
  • Interface:
    • #13224: Ceiling plan options are not available in Rhino 7

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VisualARQ 3 Beta 5 (2024-04-26) now available:

FEATURES:

  • Attributes:
    • #13462: Option to define linetype scale from the style attributes
    • #5025: Section attributes by Layer
  • Layout:
    • #10644: Export multiple layouts to DWG
    • #6896: Export layouts to DWG
  • Object: Guide:
    • #12858: vaSelGuide command
  • Object: Table:
    • #12342: Identify the elements in the table by selecting them in the model

IMPROVEMENTS:

  • Attributes:
    • #11505: Link Section attributes with Rhino Section Styles
  • Clashes:
    • #13424: Clash report list behavior when selecting row items
  • Grasshopper: Style:
    • #13818: Extend walls created from Grasshopper styles upwards
  • Interface:
    • #13019: Show icons for the object types in th import and export styles dialogs
    • #11353: Group Roof’s slopes angle and area properties into one
  • Object: Column:
    • #13723: Add column extend commands to the VisualARQ menu
  • Performance:
    • #13655: Slow performance moving or deleting slabs
  • Toolbar:
    • #13362: Show a Column unextend command in the toolbar
    • #13297: Show vaSelSameType and vaSelSameStyle commands in the toolbar

CHANGES:

  • Attributes:
    • #8664: Change term “By Parent” with “By Object” for style attributes
  • Grasshopper: Components:
    • #11861: Change the name of the “Set Property Value” component and its “Property” input
    • #11860: Change the name of the “Get Property Value” component and its “Property” input
  • Menu:
    • #10576: Add vaCurtainWallExtend command in the menu
    • #9440: Add the Wall Extract Path command in the Menu and wall context menu
  • Object: Section:
    • #13813: Create Sections with the “Clippable” option unchecked by default
  • Toolbar:
    • #13728: Add vaSelGuide in the Select Toolbar
    • #13719: Add vaCurtainWallFromSurface command to the curtain wall toolbar
    • #13102: Change in the beams toolbar

ERRORS:

  • Attributes:
    • #13910: Wall layer doesn’t take the proper hatch color
    • #13903: Component with section attribute assigned by Layer takes the attributes assigned by object
    • #13896: Section Style by wall Layer fails in some styles
    • #13893: Section attributes from VisualARQ 2 models are not recognized
    • #13878: Section Styles by Layer on the style components doesn’t work
    • #13812: Show the “Clippable” property also when the Section styles is not Custom
    • #13809: I can’t change the section hatch pattern in styles dialog
    • #13801: Section styles don’t work on VisualARQ objects
    • #7730: Section attributes are lost when using boolean commands on polysurfaces or extrusions
    • #5813: When an extrusion turns into a polysurface, it loses the section attributes
  • Crash:
    • #13895: Crash when clicking on the ifcTag icon after selecting a polyline
    • #13867: Crash opening this file
    • #13828: Crash when selecting the IFC Tag panel for a text
    • #13814: Crash after saving file
    • #13785: Rhino closes after clicking the CANCEL button in styles dialog
    • #13772: Rhino crashes when opening this file
    • #13767: Crash when opening this file
    • #13025: Rhino 8 crashes after opening this file
  • Grasshopper: Components:
    • #13842: VisualARQ objects can’t be baked from Grasshopper components
    • #13789: Guides return Null values in Grasshopper
  • Grasshopper: Style:
    • #13790: Wrong intersection of walls created from a Grasshopper style
  • Layout:
    • #13820: Missing geometry in a DWG file exported from a layout
    • #13780: Inexistent hatch is exported to a DWG file
    • #13765: vaExportToDWG only exports the detail frames
    • #13191: Preview error of a section in page layout
  • Level:
    • #13862: Crash after creating a new sub-level
    • #13751: Cannot hide levels on this model with multiple buildings
    • #13739: Level Cut Plane is not preserved when unsetting a building boundary
    • #13185: Ugly intersection line when I activate a cut plane
  • Object:
    • #13912: Osnaps don’t work on parts of selected VisualARQ objects occluded by walls
    • #13890: Intersection lines in wall joins appear in VisualARQ 2 documents
    • #13810: Control arrows don’t snap properly
    • #13763: Double click on the gumball doesn’t work with VisualARQ objects in Rhino 8
    • #11113: No VisualARQ objects are visible when VisualARQ is disabled
  • Object: Column:
    • #13766: Crash after selecting Other in the profile sizes of column properties
  • Object: Curtain Wall:
    • #13850: Curtain wall from surface error
    • #13843: Curtain wall frame rotates when panels are curved
    • #13821: Curtain wall from surface generates some triangulated panels
    • #13815: Rhino not responding after creating a curtain wall from a surface
  • Object: Guide:
    • #13811: Guides hide in page layouts
    • #13534: It is not possible to select guides from the Top viewport
  • Object: Openings:
    • #13869: Wrong 3D aperture of door with different leaf sizes
    • #13868: Wrong 2D representation of door with different leaf sizes
    • #13692: Door with different leaf sizes don’t update properly
    • #3317: When creating a new door or window style from the Wizard, the leaves widths are not divided equally
  • Object: Roof:
    • #13824: Roof from VisualARQ 2 doesn’t open well in VisualARQ 3
    • #13770: Error in hip roof corners when Edge cut is Square
  • Object: S"ection:
    • #7160: “Set Section View to Viewport” button doesn’t works well with jogged sections
  • Object: Stair:
    • #13788: Slab and Stair don’t hide the intersection line
    • #13787: Hide stair-wall intersection line
    • #13758: Wall is subtracted from a stair performing a wall extend
    • #12095: Spiral stairs don’t display their projection in top view
  • Object: Table:
    • #13865: Table grouping is not preserved from VA 2 models
    • #13858: Slow performance when navigating through the table styles dialog
    • #13741: Sums are not correct for grouped properties
    • #13725: I can’t edit a tag value from the Table
    • #13676: Table report is erased if a 2D table in the model is deleted
    • #13175: Disable Sum and Average Total types for property fields using texts
  • Object: Tag:
    • #13844: Some objects don’t show the properties
    • #13782: Tag doesn’t display the border if cut plane is enabled
  • Object: Views:
    • #13866: Incomprehensible increase of file size after updating a plan view that has less geometry
    • #13831: Creating a plan/section view increases 3DM file size too much
  • Object: Wall:
    • #13883: Wrong wall join of Grasshopper styles when inserting a door
    • #13724: Area is not recalculated after extending a wall downwards
    • #10413: Circular Wall join error
  • Object: Window:
    • #13754: Wrong window position in roof when alignment is not interior
    • #13664: Changing the style of a window instance affects other windows
    • #12355: Alignment is reversed for windows inserted in roofs and slabs
  • Other:
    • #11721: VisualARQ objects disappear if I open a model without having VisualARQ installed
  • Rhino.Inside.Revit:
    • #13585: Door changes its style without a reason
  • Toolbar:
    • #13593: VisualARQ spaces toolbar is shown twice when you are selecting which toolbars you want to have available
    • #13361: Weird toolbar behavior

If you own a VisualARQ 2 license key, you can download and try it out!

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VisualARQ 3 Beta 6 (2024-05-30) now available:

FEATURES:

  • Grasshopper: Components:
    • #9243: Add “Building” to Pipeline component
  • Grasshopper: Style:
    • #9627: Support for blocks inside grasshopper styles definitions
  • Object: Section:
    • #10511: Identify section in the model from a selection in the Section manager
    • #10136: Mirrored section arrow symbols
    • #9285: Identify section in Section manager from a selection in the model
  • Toolbar:
    • #4717: Install toolbars on all computer users

IMPROVEMENTS:

  • Clashes:
    • #13918: Improvements in the “Clashes” panel
  • Level:
    • #13920: Ask for confirmation after deleting a building
  • Object: Guide:
    • #14004: Stretch dimensions when moving guides
  • Object: Table:
    • #13901: Improvements in the “Tables” panel

CHANGES:

  • Attributes:
    • #8664: Change term “By Parent” with “By Object” for style attributes
  • Clashes:
    • #13959: Remove the Attributes tab from the clash tests dialog
  • Object: Roof:
    • #7167: Add “Slab areas” property to roofs
  • Zoo:
    • #6472: Include all necessary MSVC DLLs in the installer to add a VisualARQ license to the Zoo

ERRORS:

  • Attributes:
    • #13903: Component with section attribute assigned by Layer takes the attributes assigned by object
  • Clashes:
    • #13945: Crash after adding a clash test
  • Crash:
    • #14034: Rhino freezes at regenerating the geometry from a VisualARQ 2 file
    • #14027: Rhino crashes regenerating a VisualARQ 2 model
    • #14015: Crash opening this file in Rhino 8
    • #13990: Rhino crashes after regenerating geometry from a VisualARQ 2 file
    • #13984: Crash when inserting beam that intersects with various walls
    • #13977: Rhino crashes when loading VisualARQ
    • #13940: Rhino hangs after deleting all objects in this file
    • #13933: Rhino closes a few seconds after opening a file
    • #13922: Rhino crashes when opening this file
    • #13919: VisualARQ 3 crashes opening this file
  • Display:
    • #14024: Issue with a text in French in the Section styles dialog
  • Dynamic Section:
    • #14016: Two identical section volumes are added
  • Grasshopper: Style:
    • #13917: Window from Grasshopper style doesn’t generate an opening in a wall from a Grasshopper style
  • Installer:
    • #14040: VisualARQ opens from a Rhino template and without the toolbar
  • Language:
    • #14022: Untranslated strings in VisualARQ 3
  • Layout:
    • #14020: Crash when exporting a layout to DWG
    • #13955: Wrong export to DWG of an Element created from blocks
    • #13941: 2D plan representation of objects is not exported to DWG
  • Level:
    • #14031: It is not possible to edit levels when they are isolated
    • #14005: Sync levels doesn’t work with the CPlane
    • #13270: Undesired intersection lines on objects when hiding levels
  • Object:
    • #13912: Osnaps don’t work on parts of selected VisualARQ objects occluded by walls
  • Object: Beam:
    • #13968: Beams have an intersection line with walls and slabs when they have the same section attributes
    • #13926: Crash related to the intersections of beams with walls
  • Object: Curtain Wall:
    • #13980: Weird intersection of curtain walls
  • Object: Element:
    • #14017: Elements are displayed in plan view in the wrong level
  • Object: Plan View:
    • #14019: Spaces are not drawn in 2D plan views
  • Object: Space:
    • #13954: Space Hatch patterns from VisualARQ 2 are not imported in VisualARQ 3
  • Object: Stair:
    • #13999: It takes more than a minute to change a stair height
  • Object: Table:
    • #13921: Error in the Remove table message
  • Object: Tag:
    • #13983: Tag from block creates the block always at 0,0,0 coordinates
  • Object: Wall:
    • #13904: Wrong wall-slab intersection when the slab has the thickness edited by object
    • #7594: Avoid self extended walls in loop way
  • Performance:
    • #14023: The commands vaClashes y vaClashTests cannot be executed from the menu
    • #13750: Slow performance with VisualARQ 3 in Rhino 8
    • #13733: Rhino not responding after synchronizing levels
    • #13678: Slow performance in a Layout with a detail in Hidden display mode
    • #12150: Slow performance when cut plane is enabled
    • #12127: Slow performance when a cut plane is enabled in a model with just 2D geometry
    • #12045: Slow performance in a file
    • #11698: Very slow performance when section is enabled on a large project
    • #11675: Very slow performance when VisualARQ is loaded
    • #11674: Big difference of performance when VisualARQ is disabled in a model with many 2D lines
    • #11581: Slow performance when a cut plane is enabled
    • #7209: Slow display performance when activating a section
  • Print:
    • #13936: Section hatches don’t print to vector output
  • Profile:
    • #9561: When a new profile is created with a name that already exists it overrides the existing one instead of saying that it already exists
  • Style:
    • #14030: Crash when importing VisualARQ styles
  • Template:
    • #11490: VisualARQ templates are not removed after uninstalling
  • View:
    • #14037: Section styles by layer doesn’t work with some display modes
    • #14035: Sectioned geometry is not displayed in Hidden mode
    • #13938: The hidden lines of VisualARQ objects don’t appear in Technical display
    • #13911: Model displayed from jogged section view misses some edge lines

If you own a VisualARQ 2 license key, you can download and try it out!

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VisualARQ 3 Beta 7 (2024-06-06) now available:

ERRORS:

  • Attributes:
    • #14078: Wall is printed with a wrong width
    • #14073: I cannot select the “By Display” option in the “Attributes” in the styles dialog
    • #14068: Transparency attributes don’t work for VisualARQ objects assigned to the style
    • #14054: Print Width attribute for section boundary is missing in the styles dialog
    • #14051: Wrong section boundary color in a wall layer
    • #14043: Section styles are not visible on VisualARQ objects with the section style set to “By Object”
  • Crash:
    • #14048: Crash when inserting a space
  • Language:
    • #14022: Untranslated strings in VisualARQ 3
  • Language: Spanish:
    • #14064: Resizing: “Clash Tolerance”
    • #14062: Strings not localized: By Object and Custom
  • Layout:
    • #14066: Wrong plan view in page layout
    • #13880: Wrong preview of section print widths
  • Object: Space:
    • #13242: Space print color bug
  • Object: Wall:
    • #14050: Wall layer doesn’t hide in plan view
  • Object: Window:
    • #13087: Difficulty in setting a 0 thickness to window glass
  • Performance:
    • #13877: Slow file open with VisualARQ loaded
  • Print:
    • #14045: Print section boundary on top of other edge lines in projection
  • Style:
    • #14063: Section styles don’t appear in the preview in styles dialog
  • Template:
    • #11490: VisualARQ templates are not removed after uninstalling

If you own a VisualARQ 2 license key, you can download and try it out!

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VisualARQ 3 Beta 8 (2024-08-05) now available:

FEATURES:

  • Object:
    • #14033: Create boolean interferences between objects
    • #9146: Subtract VisualARQ object from VisualARQ object
  • Object: Curtain Wall:
    • #8207: Curtain wall joints
  • Object: Openings:
    • #5874: Option to control the Leaf Alignment in relation to Frame component
  • Object: Space :
    • #5352: Change the alignment of the text inside a space tag
  • Object: Tag:
    • #10819: Allow formatting tag text
  • Toolbar:
    • #4717: Install toolbars on all computer users

IMPROVEMENTS:

  • Interface:
    • #13019: Show icons for the object types in the import and export styles dialogs

CHANGES:

  • Attributes:
    • #14121: Restore the option to override text size to object styles
  • Grasshopper: Components:
    • #14197: Change the default Max Aperture % value of Door components in Grasshopper to 50%
  • License:
    • #14218: Change the download link in the Rhino accounts
  • Toolbar:
    • #14140: Changes in the VisualARQ long toolbar

ERRORS:

  • API: Script:
    • #14249: API Method AddElementModifier does not work
  • Attributes:
    • #14078: Wall is printed with a wrong width
    • #14077: Text size is not consistent in VisualARQ objects
    • #14073: I cannot select the “By Display” option in the Attributes in the styles dialog
  • Clashes:
    • #14223: Crash after selecting tests in the clash panel
    • #14219: Clash crash
    • #14212: Crash after selecting a clash
  • Crash:
    • #14220: Crash after closing Rhino when the Clash panel was open
    • #14217: Crash after launching Rhino
    • #14139: Crash after activating the Print preview in a page layout
    • #14126: Crash when creating a plan view that includes a tag
  • Dynamic Section:
    • #14100: Wrong section plane flags
  • Grasshopper: Components:
    • #14179: Section style component gives error
    • #14080: Silent crash during creating Grasshopper style
    • #12689: Curtain Wall Extend component doesn’t extend curtain walls
  • Grasshopper: Style:
    • #14228: Annotation and Element objects created from Grasshopper styles with referenced planes can’t rotate
    • #14207: I can’t edit the height of a wall created from a Grasshopper style
    • #14175: Wrong intersection of a wall created from a Grasshopper style with a regular wall
    • #14174: Crash after changing the style of a wall object to a Grasshopper style
    • #12455: Grasshopper styles don’t follow text alignment
    • #11393: Text from GH style doesn’t read the Font
  • Interference:
    • #14120: Interference fail between a column and a slab
    • #14119: Interference fail between a column and a beam
    • #14106: New icons for manual object interferences
    • #14105: Toolbar & menu entries for new manual interference commands
  • Language:
    • #14082: Untranslated strings in VisualARQ 3
    • #14058: Untranslated strings in VisualARQ 3
  • Language: German:
    • #14083: Slightly different in German
  • Language: Spanish:
    • #14094: Resizing: Grasshopper Style Wizard
    • #14091: Resizing: Curtain wall styles, Cell Division dialog
  • Layout:
    • #14214: Crash after exporting layout to DWG
    • #14156: Geometry beyond the section line is exported to DWG
    • #13880: Wrong preview of section print widths
  • Level:
    • #14098: The bulb on a building shows as half on when a level is turned off
  • Object:
    • #14113: Wall doesn’t update after moving a solid used as interference
  • Object: Curtain Wall:
    • #14227: Curtain wall Cell Alignment doesn’t work
    • #14204: Curtain wall “Default” style in Rhino templates has no frame
  • Object: Guide:
    • #14185: Guides are hidden by other objects
  • Object: Openings:
    • #14111: Door between two walls only cuts one of them
    • #6029: Center alignment doesn’t work for a leaf whose frame width takes the wall thickness
  • Object: Section:
    • #14184: Text size by object doesn’t work on some objects
    • #14172: Sectioning a surface generates a wrong geometry
    • #14108: Model is not sectioned until the section line is moved or updated.
    • #13802: Wrong icon for Section object in the Properties panel
  • Object: Table:
    • #14246: Rhino crashes after editing a table style
    • #14200: Crash after selecting items in the model when the table report panel is open
    • #14128: Crash after editing a table style
  • Object: Wall:
    • #14159: Intersection gap between a wall from solid and other objects
    • #14049: Wall layer doesn’t hide in plan view
  • Parameter:
    • #12233: Parameters cannot be created if language is Japanese
    • #11641: It is not possible to create custom parameters when VisualARQ is in Chinese
    • #11462: Names written in non-roman alphabet languages are not accepted for new custom parameters
  • Performance:
    • #13942: Rhino hangs after a pan zoom
  • Print:
    • #14173: Pixels from a hidden object are printed in an elevation view
    • #14171: Some segments of an occluded object is printed to vector output
    • #14169: Section hatches on a polysurface are not printed
    • #13385: Linetypes are not properly printed in Hidden display mode
    • #13073: Unknown dirty lines appear in vector output results
  • Print: Hidden Vector:
    • #14254: Section hatch is not printed in Hidden Vector Output when section style is set to “By Layer”
  • Rhino.Inside.Revit:
    • #14162: VisualARQ doesn’t load when it runs from Revit 2025
  • View:
    • #14195: I cannot select anything with pick point
    • #13944: Real-time section views don’t update after moving a section line

If you own a VisualARQ 2 license key, you can download and try it out!

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VisualARQ 3 Beta 9 (2024-09-29) now available:

FEATURES:

  • Template:
    • #14359: Expanded library of styles in VisualARQ templates
    • #11375: Include different tag styles in templates

IMPROVEMENTS:

  • Attributes:
    • #14272: Add vertical text alignment options
  • Grasshopper: Style:
    • #11895: Keep values between parameters with the same name when changing object style
  • Level:
    • #13740: Improve the performance when working with different buildings with boundary
  • Object: Annotation:
    • #11419: Create a version of the Elevation mark with some text between the symbol and the elevation
  • Object: Guide:
    • #14308: Add property to a guide to enable or disable the linkage of objects to it
    • #14250: Guides are not visible in plan views
  • Template:
    • #13461: Include new slab styles in the VisualARQ templates
    • #13378: Include more roof styles in the VisualARQ templates

CHANGES:

  • Layout:
    • #14327: Create the first drawing set in DWG export on the 0,0 coordinates
    • #14326: Distribute 2D drawing sets horizontally in the vaExportToDWG command
  • License:
    • #14218: Change the download link in the Rhino accounts
  • Object: Annotation:
    • #9198: Update templates with Elevation mark that shows fractional feet-inches values
    • #8053: Set the “Axis Length Factor” in the Elevation mark style as “%”
  • Object: Guide:
    • #14330: Show guides only in visible levels
  • Other:
    • #11521: Remove vaWallSplit command
  • Template:
    • #13972: Assign the tag property to the serial number property field to the Beam table style
    • #13971: Set linetype for round and rectangular beam styles to “by Object”
    • #12254: Change Print Color of VisualARQ objects to By Layer
    • #12153: Unify Curtain Wall and wall styles height in all templates
    • #11778: Section style text is very big in Rhino Imperial templates
    • #11706: Add units suffix in Space label properties in VisualARQ templates
    • #9801: Replace Elevation mark with one that uses a Plane as insert point in VA templates
    • #8867: Use Rhino Render Default settings in VisualARQ templates
    • #8791: Add the Quantity field to the table of beams that comes with the templates
    • #8254: Imperial templates have tables with text size too large

ERRORS:

  • Clashes:
    • #14222: New clash tests don’t appear in the list
  • Crash:
    • #14329: Crash after inserting a wall with the clash panel open
    • #14288: Crash when moving objects
    • #13996: Crash when the table panel was open
  • Grasshopper: Components:
    • #14344: The VisualARQ Explode component doesn’t work well with columns
    • #14295: No value is baked when using the Create Object Parameter
    • #14292: VisualARQ components don’t load in Rhino 8 RC11
  • Grasshopper: Style:
    • #14369: Some styles created from the same Grasshopper definitions are reset with the same values
    • #12455: Grasshopper styles don’t follow text alignment
    • #11393: Text from GH style doesn’t read the Font
  • Interface:
    • #14234: Text visualization in French and untranslated term
  • Layout:
    • #14343: Missing section hatches in a exported DWG file
    • #14342: 2D representation of VisualARQ objects from hidden levels are exported to DWG
    • #14334: Missing walls in this exported DWG file from the layout
  • Level:
    • #14325: Intersection line appears when creating a building
    • #14321: The Cut plane doesn’t work
    • #14238: Level Elevation value changes when you click to edit it
  • Object: Annotation:
    • #14352: Elevation mark error in millimeters documents: digits are not properly displayed
    • #14294: Text in the Elevation Mark goes to the origin of coordinates
    • #10913: Text height/size cannot be changed in annotation styles
  • Object: Column:
    • #14285: Crash after selecting the properties of a multiple selection of columns
  • Object: Curtain Wall:
    • #14315: Wrong text in the Curtain wall styles dialog
    • #14302: Curtain walls start at the interior side of the frame
  • Object: Element:
    • #14371: Sink cabinet Element throws many Grasshopper Error messages
  • Object: Guide:
    • #14311: Column rotates when moving a guide
    • #14216: Blocks linked to guides rotate after moving the guide
  • Object: Openings:
    • #14291: Wrong handle position
  • Object: Slab:
    • #14279: Slab overhead representation is not visible
  • Object: Table:
    • #14270: Crash after renaming a wall style displayed in a table
    • #14246: Rhino crashes after editing a table style
    • #14200: Crash after selecting items in the model when the table report panel is open
    • #14128: Crash after editing a table style
  • Object: Wall:
    • #14275: Crash after extending a wall with the horizontal arrow control point
  • Performance:
    • #13942: Rhino hangs after a pan zoom
  • Print: Hidden Vector:
    • #14254: Section hatch is not printed in Hidden Vector Output when section style is set to “By Layer”
  • Template:
    • #12582: “Level Mark VisualARQ” style not working in the “Millimeters” and “Inches” templates
    • #11995: Increase the range of some parameters of Grasshopper styles in VisualARQ libraries
  • Toolbar:
    • #14360: VisualARQ toolbar is closed when installing VisualARQ 3

If you own a VisualARQ 2 license key, you can download and try it out!

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