VisualARQ 2.4 is available to download now.
This free service release includes some new features and fixes most of the issues reported by users:
- New components in Grasshopper to create 2D Section views.
- VisualARQ Script API: RhinoCommon compatible SDK to create, query and edit VisualARQ objects in the document.
- Added Parameter Grasshopper Component to select document parameters.
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Read on for the complete list of what’s new in this update:
New features
- VisualARQ Script API: RhinoCommon compatible SDK to create, query and edit VisualARQ objects in the document. Currently only about 30% functionality is exposed in the API.
- Added Create Section View Grasshopper Component.
- Added Section Options Grasshopper Components.
- Added Parameter Grasshopper Component to select document parameters.
- Added depth parameter in Create Section Grasshopper Component.
- TAB key works with VisualARQ control points to lock direction.
Changes
- Rhino 6 SR11 is now required.
- Unattended VisualARQ installation can set license mode to “Network”.
- Removed all videos from the context help as they may cause crashes in some computers.
- Improved speed when computing spaces.
- Added “Food4Rhino” link the VisualARQ main menu.
- vaStylesImport command replace existing styles with the same name as the imported ones.
- vaStylesImport command shows a warning when some styles couldn’t be imported.
- Improved display speed of VisualARQ objects, up to 5x in model and 3x in layout.
Fixed bugs
- Stairs
- Stair control points couldn’t be selected by windows or crossing.
- Fixed many stair slab generation issues.
- Fixed a bug that make some step slabs disappear on balanced stair with a small radius.
- Fixed some bugs when computing spiral stairs.
- Fixed a bug when increasing the “Bottom Slab Thickness” in spiral stairs.
- Fixed a bug that makes appear a hole between step and riser slabs in balanced stairs
- IFC:
- Fixed a bug that import doors and windows without the opening in the host wall.
- Fixed a crash when opening some IFC files.
- Missing objects when importing an IFC without required “Model” IfcGeometricRepresentationContext.
- Grasshopper Components:
- All profile creation components check that measures are valid.
- Some document parameters were duplicated when baking objects.
- Fixed a crash in the VisualARQ Set Property component.
- Grasshopper Styles:
- Doors and windows may not create the opening when there are more than one host wall.
- Doors and windows generate an opening bigger than necessary in some cases.
- Fixed a crash when changing a “Brep” parameter value of a Grasshopper Style.
- Fixed an issue that make difficult to control the wall to attach to when moving doors and windows from a lateral control point.
- Fixed a bug that make walls disappear when extending to some polysurfaces.
- Fixed a bug when extending walls to multiple polysurfaces.
- Section line marks weren’t correctly scaled when document units where changed.
- Fixed a crash when opening a 3DM.
- Flip direction context menu option is only shown in for elements.
- License mode dialog couldn’t be canceled when license was expired.
- Meshes were missing from 2D previews.
- vaWall FromSolid command didn’t attach door and windows to the wall in some cases.
- Some changed were not applied after clicking the Apply button in the curtain wall style editor.
- Solid modifiers in beams were moved or stretched when modifying the beam control points.
- Scale icon showed an incorrect measure in HiDPI displays.
- Level marks were shown in an incorrect elevation on HiDPI displays.
- Fixed scale icon blurry appearance.
- Fixed a bug when copying roofs between document with different units.
- Network license was not working in Rhino 5 (32-bit).
- Fixed a bug in vaSlabSubtract command when selection non-horizontal slabs.
- Some doors and windows were imported rotated 90º.
- “By Parent” material was not correctly handled in some cases.
- Fixed a crash in the vaFillet command.
- Fixed a crash when inserting a document with VisualARQ objects as a block instance inside another document.
- Rhino hangs when inserting a 3DM as block instance.
- Some elements and annotations were missing when opening some documents.
- Fixed a bug when creating a block from a column.
- Per object display mode was ignored when printing in vector output mode.
- Wrong realtime section color in Realistic viewports.
- Sometimes, VisualARQ properties tabs were missing in the properties panel.
- Fixed a bug that updates all objects when editing parameters in the style editor.
- Fixed a crash when VisualARQ was loaded after pasting a command in the command line.
- VisualARQ objects were not duplicated when using the Duplicate layer and objects context menu option in the layer manager.
- Layer off in detail was ignored when printing in vector output mode.
Notes
- File format hasn’t been changed in this release. Files saved with VisualARQ 2.4 can be opened with VisualARQ 2.3.
- This release requires Lands Beta VIII, previous versions are not compatible and commands may not work or cause stability issues.