VisualARQ 1.5.4 (Apr-23, 2012)

Fixed bugs:

• Window sill didn't show in the preview in the window style manager.
• Sliding leaves in window or door style were misplaced in styles with two or more leaves.
• The installer failed when the name or company fields were blank.
• Document became corrupted when duplicating a schedule table style.
• Door and window command didn't detect the correct wall under the cursor.
• Fixed a crash when opening a 3DM with erased groups in a Rhino instance without VisualARQ loaded.
• Fixed a crash when undoing a grip movement in Rhino 5.0.
• Fixed a crash when inserting a schedule table with 8 fields or more.

VisualARQ 1.5.3 (Feb-29, 2012)

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed a crash when running some VisualARQ commands with Rhino cursor tooltips enabled.
• Fixed a crash when working on a document after doing a Cut/Copy and Paste operation.
• Fixed a crash in Rhino 5.0 when running command Insert.

Changes:

• Rhino 5.0 Beta (01/17/2012 or later) is now required.

VisualARQ 1.5.2 (Feb-24, 2012)

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed a crash in the vaWallSubtract command.
• Fixed a crash when undoing Trim or Split commands.
• Fixed a crash when opening a document with layers with the same name but inside a different parent layer.
• The installer didn't install the required Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 runtime libraries.
• Sometimes all objects disappeared when enabling dynamic section.
• Snap points of VisualARQ objects didn't work on plan views.
• Sometimes blocks weren't selectable in the hidden display mode.
• Sometimes "VisualARQ Locked Objects" and "By Parent" special layers were shown in the interface.
• Rhino was very slow opening VisualARQ 1.4 document containing section marks with several jog points.

VisualARQ 1.5.1 (Feb-15, 2012)

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed a crash when using dynamic section with disjoint polysurfaces.
• Fixed a crash when importing a DWG with empty dimension style names.
• The new installer failed at giving 15 additional days in computers where previous versions of VisualARQ had been installed.
• Some VisualARQ objects disappeared when changing display mode in a plan viewport.
• Dynamic section didn't work with Hidden display mode.
• Section lines in VisualARQ objects were invisible in wireframe display mode.

VisualARQ 1.5 (Feb-9, 2012)

New features:

• Rhinoceros 5.0 (32 and 64-bit) support.
• Real-time plan views.
• New display mode 'Hidden'.
• Control points in slabs.
• Improved object and style editor dialog.
• Walls can be extended to roofs and slabs.

Changes:

• vaWallsFromCurves command has been replaced by vaWall command option FromCurves.
• Installer remembers license user name, organization and product key.
• vaSectionView command picks existing selected section mark.
• It is now possible to change the order of style sub-components, like wall layers or door leaves.
• When changing the style of a door/window, if the new style has the same profile, the sizes are kept.
• Walls can be extended when the surface only covers its footprint partially.

Fixed bugs:

• The property list was empty when the property for a table field was selected.
• It was impossible to change the object type for a table style.
• It was impossible to add new fields to an existing table style.
• vaDoor and vaWindow commands didn't remember last entered values.
• When changing document units, slabs and door/windows using a block definition were wrongly scaled.
• Sometimes a roof disappeared when changing its type from hip to gable.
• Square edge cut didn't work in gable roofs.
• Gable roof slopes had different thickness if they had different slope angles.
• It was impossible to remove top cutting height in a gable roof.
• Sometimes a hip roof didn't cover all selected boundary curves.
• Hip roofs were cut at a certain height when adding a hole.
• It was impossible to specify the slope angle in a shed roof.
• In commands vaDoor and vaWindow, the "Other..." option didn't work.
• Automatic dimensions for some walls were too large.
• If a wall was completely occluded by door/windows or columns, it was generated without any hole.
• Slabs were drawn in plan views where they don't belong.
• In French, vaRoof command options Hip and Gable were swapped.
• Section hatches of VisualARQ object in plan views didn't hide when turning off the object layer.
• Fixed a crash when creating a section view.
• Sometimes dialogs disappeared when using more than one monitor.

Known bugs and limitations:

• VisualARQ objects are ignored when they are inside a block.
• Previous VisualARQ versions cannot open files saved with VisualARQ 1.5.
• Dynamic section doesn't work in Technical and Pen Rhino 5.0 display modes.
• Dynamic section doesn't work with block objects.

VisualARQ 1.4 (Jul-25, 2011)

New features:

• Automatic gable and hip roofs. (video)
• New window types: awning, hopper and hung.
• Added door/window leaf glass muntins.
• Automatic dimensioning in vaCreatePlanView command.
• New jog sections.
• Real time sections in display and render. (video)
• Table export to Excel and CSV.
• Added vaSelSameStyle and vaSelSameType commands.

Changes:

• A door/window leaf now can be fixed.
• Doors/windows/openings aren’t mixed anymore in the properties panel.
• Removed aperture properties in openings.
• Door aperture is now 50% by default in both plan and model representations.
• Door/window leaf frame is now editable.
• Hidden Line Removal engine (section and plan views) is now faster, more stable and generates a better output.
• VisualARQ objects are drawn much faster (2x-3x improvement).
• Unreferenced instance definitions (only those created by VisualARQ commands) are deleted after opening a document.
• Added “DashDot” linetype to VisualARQ templates.
• Linetype scale is now 100.0 in VisualARQ templates.
• Removed stop in all door and windows styles in VisualARQ templates.
• Added new windows styles in VisualARQ templates.
• Improved plan and elevation representation of doors and windows.
• Added beam plan representation.
• “vaWallFromCurves” command now explodes recursively the input curves.

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed some errors in the table style creation wizard.
• Door and window command dialogs now remember last entered profile size parameters.
• “vaWallExtendToSrf” command has been renamed to vaWallExtend.
• “vaWallExtend”: walls can also be extended to closed polysurfaces.
• “vaWallExtend”: Unextend option didn’t work.
• Fixed alignment of sliding doors and windows.
• Fixed a bug that made some walls disappear when inserting a door.
• Fixed a bug that made stair width non editable.
• Fixed a crash when exploding a windows creating from a block.
• Fixed some stair representation in plan and 3D.
• Fixed a bug that made that when reversing a wall path, some representation polysurfaces may be have reversed face normals.
• “vaCreatePlanView” command now keeps print color in projected curves.
• Fixed a crash when importing a document with VisualARQ objects and hatches.
• Fixed a crash when exploding all VisualARQ objects.
• Fixed a bug when changing the opening side of a door or window created from a block.
• Fixed a bug in vaCreatePlanView when projecting nested instance definitions.
• Fixed a bug when representing two intersecting linear walls with an angle very close to 90º.
• Fixed a crash when adding a closed polysurface to a wall.
• Fixed a bug in the hatch scale used in plan representation.
• Fixed a plan display bug that hid some door and window parts when hidding some layers.
• Fixed a 3D display bug that used a wrong color in meshes.
• Fixed some strange wall intersection, specially on nearly parallel walls.
• Fixed a random crash when calculating section or plan views.
• Fixed a bug in the properties panel that prevented to edit some properties when there were multiple objects selected.
• Fixed other minor bugs, crashes and memory leaks.
• Fixed a crash when opening a document that had a layer with a wrong parent layer uuid.
• Made an internal change in VisualARQ custom views (used in dialog previews) to prevent crashes in conduits of other plug-ins that may not support custom views.

• Arcs and circles where not projected and sectioned in section and plan views.
• Properties control didn’t steal keyboard focus when selecting VisualARQ objects.
• Section views didn’t take into account object visibility when using the “All” keyword.
• Doors were moved down twice the tolerance to fix a coplanar face boolean bug. Now, lower border is offset instead of moving the whole door.
• Fixed a bug related to steps in stair landings.
• Rhino 5.0 doesn’t complain anymore about VisualARQ plug-in at start.
• Fixed a bug in representation of stairs with an elevation different than 0.0.
• Fixed all known GDI resource leaks.
• Fixed “Close” keyword in command “vaWall”.
• Fixed a bug that selected an incorrect object or showed the selection dialog in shaded viewports.
• Fixed a bug that prevented to edit VisualARQ control points using Rhino commands like Move or Rotate.

Known bugs and limitations:

• VisualARQ objects are ignored when they are inside a block.
• Rhinoceros 5.0 WIP (32 and 64-bit) is not yet supported.
• Previous VisualARQ versions cannot open files saved with VisualARQ 1.4.

VisualARQ 1.3 (Mar-30, 2011)

New features:

• Added stair slab.
• Added stair alignment in the properties panel.
• New multicore Hidden Line Removal engine.
• vaSection supports curves.
• vaCreatePlanView now shows projected objects on lower levels.
• New properties panel design.
• Properties panel can be scrolled using the mouse wheel.
• Categories and properties in the properties panel are now collapsible.
• Added IFC support for non-unicode character sets (ISO 8859-15).

Changes:

• vaSection regards the visibility state of objects and layers.
• vaSection keeps display attributes (color, layer, linetype, etc) on output curves.
• vaCreatePlanView asks the user for a selection.
• VisualARQ now shows angles in degrees and with one decimal precision, just like Rhino.
• vaSection hides tangent lines between different walls.
• An information message is shown when trying to hide or lock the active level.
• Window leaf glass component is drawn in a new "Glass" layer.
• Added a hyperlink to the help file in the Welcome dialog.
• Columns now can be rotated with the native Rotate command.
• Added vaWallSetCustomSolid to the VisualARQ toolbar and main menu.
• Update help file with new commands and features.
• Doors/windows: Separated aperture property into two different apertures for plan and model views.
• Doors are now closed in model by default.
• Window plan representation has been improved.
• Spiral stairs are now limited to 360º of turning angle.

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed stair representation in many cases.
• vaSection: fixed a bug when sectioning closed solid polysurfaces.
• Object bounding boxes are recalculated after changing layer visibility.
• Fixed a bug that may allow user to select objects clicking on invisible parts in a hidden layer.
• Fixed representation of stair sections of type landing (with no steps)
• Fixed spiral stair representation.
• Fixed many of small bugs related to stairs.
• Fixed plan representation of interior wall components when the maximum extension was smaller than the wall width.
• Fixed wrong display of imperial units in some controls.
• Fixed a crash when updating a linked external file.
• Fixed a bug that makes it impossible to use an offset curve as a wall path.
• Fixed a crash when undoing some polysurface commands.
• Fixed a crash in the vaWallSetCustomSolid command.
• vaWallSelect: command option "All" didn't work.
• vaWallExtendToSrf: command option "Unextend" didn't work.
• Fixed a hang when zooming too much in a viewport with the scale icon enabled.
• Fixed a bug in the auto-update feature.
• Sometimes stair meshes where not updated after an undo.
• Fixed stair landing contour types.
• Fixed a bug that made the ruler button invisible inside distance edit boxes.
• Spiral stair: interior radius changed to radius, and it now regards alignment.
• Fixed a bug in the properties panel that prevented its resizing to fit the properties window.
• Other minor bugs have been fixed.

Known bugs and limitations:

• VisualARQ objects are ignored when they are inside a block.
• Rhinoceros 5.0 WIP (32 and 64-bit) is not yet supported.
• Previous VisualARQ versions cannot open files saved with VisualARQ 1.3.

VisualARQ 1.2 (Jan-17, 2011)

New features:

• Beam object
• Context help
• IFC 2x3 export
• Plan visibility can be specified per object depending on its position on the level.

Fixed bugs:

• Opening alignment offset didn't work in 3D display.
• Fixed a bug that corrupted some door/window/column styles when using vaStylesImport command.
• Fixed a crash in vaCreatePlanView command.
• In VisualARQ object properties dialog, changes in edit boxes weren't applied when selecting a different object in the tree.
• Fixed wrong display of stairs under elevation 0.
• vaWallSplit: Doors and windows keep their position.
• Some closed contour curves couldn't be added/subtracted to slabs or roofs.
• Fixed a bug in plan display of walls with a NURB path.
• Slabs were drawn in all plan views.
• Fixed a bug when creating a wall from a solid.
• Fixed a wrong level display in documents in English (imperial) unit system.
• Fixed other minor bugs.

Changes:

• Wall layer is now black in template files.
• Removed all door styles narrower than 70cm/2' from template files.
• Rhino polysurfaces are now included in section views.
• Double-click on a level doesn't change active view to plan mode.
• vaSetView: Added command options to support buildings.
• Glass component is automatically added to windows leaves created with the window style wizard.
• Added vaWallSplit and vaOpeningArray command to VisualARQ main menu.
• If an object generates a bad object, it is not added to Rhino document.
• File format had been changed. VisualARQ 1.0/1.1 files will be automatically upgraded when opened.

Know bugs and limitations:

• VisualARQ objects are ignored when they are inside a block.
• Rhinoceros 5.0 WIP (32 and 64 bits) is not yet supported.
• VisualARQ 1.0/1.1 cannot open files saved with VisualARQ 1.2.

VisualARQ 1.1 (Nov-9, 2010)

New features:

• New dockable level manager dialog. It replaces the old floor manager:
  • Levels can be grouped into buildings.
  • Level visibililty/lock status per view (only works in plan views).
  • Fast access to set CPlane at level elevation.
  • Editable elevation and cut plane values.
• Added wall alignment offset.
• Added door/window alignment offset.
• Added door/window vertical alignment

Fixed bugs:

• Tangent snap point didn't work with walls.
• Fixed a random crash when creating new window styles.
• Fixed a bug when performing boolean operations between objects.
• Fixed a bug when mirroring a stair.
• Fixed wrong level display in documents in feet units.
• vaDoor command didn't ask for an open side.
• vaOpeningArray was using a wrong vertical offset value.
• Other minor bugs or crashes have been fixed.

Changes:

• The installer registers an icon for VisualARQ Styles Library (.val) files.
• The installer is now signed.
• vaWallFromCurves command filters continuous closed curves instead of failing.
• vaSection: Added keyword All to create a section of all objects instead of just the selection.
• vaSlab: The specified elevation will be at the top of the slab instead of the bottom.
• Added toolbar icons for commands vaCreatePlanView, vaOpeningArray and vaWallSplit.
• Glass component is automatically added to new window leaves.
• Stair step lines are drawn in plan views while creating or editing a stair.
• Selected objects in VisualARQ dialog previews are now highlighted with the selection color specified in Rhino color options (yellow by default).
• An error message is shown when creating a new style using a name already in use.
• Multiple wall components or door/window leaves are labeled with an index.
• File format had been changed. VisualARQ 1.0 files will be automatically upgraded when opened.

Know bugs and limitations:

• VisualARQ objects are ignored when they are inside a block.
• Rhinoceros 5.0 WIP (32 and 64 bits) is not yet supported.
• VisualARQ 1.0 cannot open files saved with VisualARQ 1.1.

VisualARQ 1.0 SR2 (Sep-28, 2010)

Fixed bugs:

• Alignment didn't work in doors/windows defined by blocks.
• Opening reference text wasn't correctly centered.
• Space objects were visible in all floor plan views.
• Stairs with an elevation different than 0 were drawn incorrectly in the plan view.
• Improved stair steps calculation.
• When scaling a stair, width wasn't correctly scaled.
• In the "Steps" dialog of a stair style, changes were not correctly applied.
• Some dialogs didn't apply changes when pressing the ENTER key.
• All reported crash bugs have been fixed.
• Other minor bugs.

New features:

• vaStairClearanceContour: Calculates the profile to subtract on a slab to maintain a minimum clearance height.
• vaSlabSubtractStairClearance: Creates the required hole in a slab to maintain a minimum clearance height.

Changes:

• Block objects can be included in a section.
• Added stair slope rule check using the formula: 2 risers + 1 tread.
• Added stair properties to the integrated properties window.
• vaWallExtendToSrf: Now walls can also be extended to solid polysurfaces.
• Rhinoceros 4.0 SR7 or greater is now required.

Know bugs and limitations:

• VisualARQ objects are ignored when they are inside a block.
• Rhinoceros 5.0 WIP is not yet supported.