vaSpace wishes

Hello!
Quick question: is it possible to see the color of a vaSpace also in the elevation? In other words, can the volume of a space be shaded/rendered in some color, or is it always just a wireframe?
Thanks!

Hi Eugen,
That’s not possible. Spaces only show the hatch on the XY plane. I add your vote for this feature.

Thank you!
I slapped together a quick grasshopper script that creates an extrusion from spaces.
However, I can’t figure how to extract the vaSpace attribute hatch color. Is it possible?
Thank you very much!


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Hi Eugen,
There are no components to retrieve (or assign) attributes from/to VisualARQ objects in GH, unfortunately. Hopefully we can work on that in the future.

Allright, thanks!

Something else: are vaSpaces aware on which level they sit? Can’t find that parameter in the Table style wizard.
Thank you!

Edit: I created a parameter ‘level’ for that. However, the the type ‘integer’ does not support negative numbers (converted to a high positive number), and the type ‘number’ displays useless digits.
Using ‘number’ at the moment…

Hi Eugen, nice workaround! You can also use Grasshopper to retrieve the level where a vaSpace is located.

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Hello!
Also not in GH Python? Or maybe even GH C#?
Because that’s kind of the ‘roadblock’ when trying to auto-convert vaSpaces to extrusions.
Another problem is, which cost me a lot of time: those extrusions would need to be closed (have caps) to get hatches by section attributes (given they would work), and then the z-fighting problems in floor plans start, because the cap surfaces sit exactly on the slabs.
I will try something with vertical hatches…

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Hi Eugen,

Unfortunately not.

Do you also get the z-fighting if you use the Hidden display mode? If you put the volumes of the “extruded spaces” in a different layer than the spaces, you can turn them on/off by Detail view in the page layout.