Why is VisualARQ useful in Landscape architectural projects?
Architecture and landscape design often go hand in hand. VisualARQ can help you create the Architecture of a landscape project within the Rhino environment, while you can use other programs (such as Lands Design) to generate the garden or the environment around the building.
VisualARQ will help you to develop Landscape design projects from modeling with BIM objects, to creating project documentation, measurements, and collaboration with other professionals with IFC or Rhino.Inside.
Work with smart architectural objects
Parametric architectural object library
Fast 3D modeling with the library of parametric architectural BIM objects, such as walls, beams, windows, stairs, furniture, and many more. Edit them quickly through styles and properties.
Create objects from curves and surfaces
Walls from curved paths, curtain walls from surfaces, beams from free-form curves, windows from custom profiles, roofs from free-form surfaces.
Associative objects
Objects link to levels and guides, and calculate the intersections among them.
Create your custom objects
Create your custom parametric objects in any level of detail and design with the Grasshopper styles.
Complement it with Lands Design
BIM technology in your landscape projects
Lands Design, in combination with VisualARQ, will let you develop landscape projects with smart objects in the landscaping design, tools for producing technical 2D drawings, and quantity takeoffs.
Powerful terrain modeling tools
Lands Design provides tools to create terrains from curves, point clouds, DEM files, GIS data, or imported from the web. Lands Design also lets you edit terrains, add cuts and fills, paths, and holes, or calculate the volume of earthmoving.
Extensive Plant database
Lands Design provides more than 8000 plant species with their botanical specifications. Each plant species has different display modes in 2D and 3D, totally customizable.
Flexible BIM
Free-form BIM objects
Integrate free-form geometry into your project and turn any geometry into an informed object.
Assign metadata to any geometry
Create custom parameters, by object type, by layer, and feed any kind of geometry with information. Make reports and export geometry to IFC with these parameters as IFC Properties.
Parametric design
Explore design options iterations, automate modeling design processes, and data management with VisualARQ components in Grasshopper.
Navigation and coordination tools
Work with buildings and levels
The Level Manager lets you navigate through Buildings and Levels easily, show and hide them, display the model in 3D or plan view, and enhance the 3D/2D modeling experience.
The Section Manager
The Section Manager allows you to display your 3D model in section, organize the sections of your project for a better workflow, and 2D drawing setup purposes.
Guides
VisualARQ guides act as reference lines and aid in aligning and linking different elements of the project design so they contribute to the successful realization of a building project.
Dynamic documentation
Real-time 2D drawings
Produce 2D drawings by printing the 3D model to vector output in real-time sections, plan views, or 3D views, using the Hidden display mode.
Make 2D sections, elevations, plan views, and reflected ceiling plans
Generate dynamic 2D drawings from horizontal and vertical sections that are inserted in the model space and linked to the 3D model.
Quantity take-offs
Produce quantity take-off reports of your project. List custom information of any piece of geometry dynamically, edit objects from table panels, and export your reports to Excel.
Export layouts to DWG
Just export what you see in the page layout directly to DWG to share your project drawings with other collaborators.
Visualization
Beautiful section views
Show de model in section using the Level Manager, or the Section Manager for beautiful screenshots and renders. VisulARQ sections can be jogged.
Support for rendering software
Assign materials and textures to objects and render them in Rhino or with another compatible rendering tool such as VRay, Enscape, Lumion, or Twinmotion.
Collaboration
Deliver BIM models to IFC
Import and Export your architectural model designs from Rhino to IFC (2×3 and 4) for interoperability and collaboration with other professionals in the field of architecture, engineering, and construction.
Transfer VisualARQ models to Revit live with Rhino.Inside
Use Rhino and VisualARQ as your architectural BIM software modeler for Revit with the Rhino.Inside technology.
External references and worksessions support
Manage projects with multiple files and users with external references or worksessions support, so more than one user can work on a large project.
