Hello VA team,
I believe I have found a bug related to va objects not reacting properly to custom section styles.
If I set the wall style section properties as per layer, and then set a custom section style, the hatch scale “Pattern Scale” seems to not have any effect on the shown hatch scale of VA Objects.
Thank you as always
Lourenço
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… Turns out I have to “vaupdate” the geometry to see the changes…
Odd when rhino objects just update live, so I would expect the behavior to be the same.
Feel free to close the topic.
Hi @lourencovp,
This is a cache problem. VisualARQ, like Rhino, has a cache to store section information for each VisualARQ object. When you modify the layer section style, this cache is not updated for all objects. As you have already discovered, making any change in any object, or running vaUpdate will recreate the cache.
We’ll try to fix this issue for the next VisualARQ release.
Enric
Hi @lourencovp
I’m glad to inform you this issue have been solved in VisualARQ 3 - Version 3.6 RC1 released, which is already available to download: VisualARQ 3 - Version 3.6 RC1 released
Hi @MCosta,
That’s great news! Thank you for all the hard work the team puts into VA!
Now we just need that pesky section cut line thickness bug to be resolved and VA will be in a much better state (from my point of view 
)
Thank you,
Lourenço
Hi @MCosta the hatch bug has indeed been fixed on 3.6 thank you!
But, the linetype and width scale aren’t working properly yet. They work fine in the model view, but when checking the layout and printing with the Hidden view mode, there is no effect.
Hi @lourencovp the widh scale in the Rhino section styles acts as a multiplier of the object’s print width. But if this has the print width set to hairline, it is difficult to control precisely which is the true print width. In the case of Rhino geometry, I recommend you assigning the Print widths from the Section attributes (in Rhino Properties panel), which use a real Print Width value:
(Unfortunately this “true Print Width” is not available in the Section Styles dialog, so it is not possible to manage it on geomegry by Layer, unless McNeel implements this feature.)
In case of the section linetype, I think it is an issue in Rhino, which we can’t help. Because in the Linetype drop-down (in in the section styles dialog), it is not possible to pick one of the system linetypes (Dashed, Dots, Hidden, etc…). If you select “Custom”, you can create a new linetype based on a system one, but it doesn’t seem to work. I’ve reported this to McNeel: https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-88990/Section-Boundary-Linetype-inconsistencies
Sorry I’m beyond confused.
Then how do I get actual thickness out of VA objects in a live section??
Nothing I do works, not the section style not by layer not by parent… it all just comes out with the same thickness and to make matters worse, projection lines seem to randomly be placed on top of section cut lines when printed to pdf…
this should be a simple immeadiate thing, i set the thickness I print. done.
Im using the VA recommended method, using the hidden display mode, and printing to vector rhino pdf at 600 dpi.
Are you guys able to get actual different line thickness in sections when printing in PDF?
Projection line of door on top of section line?
So just to make things simple from what I see, VA currently cant do section thickness.
Simple file to demonstrate the issue.
VA template file with a VA slab with a VA section, on a layout “Page 1”.
Works fine before printing. Once printed with vector rhino PDF, there is no line thickness difference.
The only thing I changed is the section boundary width scale from 1 to 100 which makes a visible difference in model space, but once printed its all gone.
Thank you,
Lourenco
VA_Section Issue.3dm (4.5 MB)
Page 1.pdf (5.8 KB)
Hi @lourencovp the “Width Scale” is an attribute in the Section Boundary (also in the Rhino Section Styles dialog) that acts as multiplier of the object print width. I agree it’s not intuitive to handle section print widths, and not usable if your object has a print width set to “Hairline”.
Instead, you can use the section Boundary “Print Width” below:
For assigning section styles by Object (necessary for Rhino geometry), this attribute is missing in the Rhino Section Style dialog, but you can find it in the VisualARQ’s Section Attributes, in the Properties panel:
This attribute has been already requested to be implemented in the Rhino Section Styles dialog (necessary for assigning section styles by Layer). You can track it here: https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-86305/Precise-Section-Boundary-Width-Requested
Thank you, replied in the other post
