Hi,
I opened an existing VisualARQ project in Rhino 9 Beta using VisualARQ 3.12 RC3 and noticed several display/selection issues.
In Plan Views:
- Section hatches/fills are missing from walls and columns.
- In Hidden display mode, walls and columns cannot be selected, either by clicking or with window/crossing selection.
- If I switch to Wireframe, the objects can be selected normally, but the section hatches are still missing.
Dynamic Sections also don’t display correctly in Rhino 9 Beta. Section hatches/fills are missing there as well.
The same file works correctly in Rhino 8: the section hatches/fills are displayed and the objects can be selected normally in Hidden mode.
The hatch definitions themselves seem to be fine, since they are displayed correctly in the VisualARQ Style Editor preview.
The Cut Plane is enabled.
Rhino 9 Beta:
Rhino 8:
SystemInfo
Rhino 9 SR0 2026-9-1 (Rhino 9 BETA, 9.0.26244.12303, Git hash:master @ 5007fbd7b46c04cee8e766232af7a8896598fb4e)
License type: Commercial, build 2026-09-01
License details: Cloud Zoo
Expires on: 2026-10-16
Windows 11 (10.0.26300 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 15GB)
.NET 10.0.2
Computer platform: LAPTOP - Plugged in [97% battery remaining]
Non-hybrid graphics configuration using DirectX
Primary display: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (NVidia) Memory: 8GB, Driver date: 7-22-2026 (M-D-Y). DirectX(11)
Integrated accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port
Secondary graphics devices.
AMD Radeon 780M Graphics (AMD) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 12-5-2023 (M-D-Y).
Integrated accelerated graphics device with 10 adapter port(s)
- Laptop’s primary display device
DirectX Settings
Safe mode: Off
OpenBLAS: OpenBLAS 0.3.30 DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Cooperlake MAX_THREADS=64.
Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\Tibidabo\VisualARQ.rhp “VisualARQ”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\Tibidabo\Tibidabo.rhp “Tibidabo”
Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 9.0.26244.12303
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\3dxRhino.9.rhp “3DxRhino.9”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\UpdatesAndStatistics\UpdatesAndStatistics.rhp “UpdatesAndStatistics” 9.0.26244.12303
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 9.0.26244.12303
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 9.0.26244.12303
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 9.0.26244.12303
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\IronPython\RhinoDLR_Python.rhp “IronPython” 9.0.26244.12303
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 9.0.26244.12303
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\Grasshopper\GrasshopperPlugin.rhp “Grasshopper” 9.0.26244.12303
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 9 WIP\Plug-ins\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”
Update: I did some further testing and found that the major display and selection issues described above occur when Rhino 9 is using DirectX.
When switching Rhino 9 to OpenGL, VisualARQ works almost correctly again: the section hatches/fills are displayed and selection works normally.
There are still some issues with annotations in OpenGL, so the result is not completely identical to Rhino 8.
After updating Rhino 9 Beta to 9.0.26272.12303 (Sep 29, 2026), VisualARQ (Tibidabo.rhp) fails to load.
