What’s new in VisualARQ 3. Complete list

VisualARQ 3.0

Attributes

• Restore the option to override text size to object styles
• Option to define linetype scale from the style attributes
• Support “By Material” color
• Allow custom print widths in section attributes and styles attribute
• Link Section attributes with Rhino Section Styles
• Change the term “By Parent” with “By Object” for style attributes
• Section attributes by Layer

Clashes

• Clash & Clear report panel
• Add hard clashes tolerance in clash tests
• Highlight clash issues on top of the geometry
• Add Zoom to Issue in Clashes context dialog
• Avoid having to click ENTER to end the “show issue” command in the Clashes panel
• Implement Clash level filter
• Add a button to Run and pause the clashes analysis in the Clashes panel
• Add “Zoom to issue” option in Clash and Clear panel items
• Show objects in Set A and Set B in different columns, in the Clash-clear panel
• Make description text wrap in the text box, in clash and clear styles dialog
• Automate clash&clear pre-configurations

Grasshopper: Components

• Add “Building” to Pipeline component
• Change the default Max Aperture % value of Door component in Grasshopper to 50%
• Guide components in Grasshopper
• Implement opening styles’ valid host input/output
• Handle component in Grasshopper
• Allow roofs and slabs as host for windows/doors created from Grasshopper
• Implement the Fixed Width and Height in the “Deconstruct Curtain Wall Fixed Dimension Cell”
• Implement “Fill Width” and “Fill Height” options for “Curtain Wall Fixed Dimension Cell” component
• Change the name of the “Set Property Value” component and its “Property” input
• Change the name of the “Get Property Value” component and its “Property” input
• Roof alignment in Grasshopper components
• Remove obsolete Curtain Wall Mullion and Frame components
• Add Custom profile to CurtainWall Frame/Mullion Grasshopper components
• Reorder inputs in the Openings Options component
• Max Aperture property missing in Door and Window Options
• Add Edge Cut value to Roof Style Create a Decompose components
• Define roof slopes individually from Grasshopper
• Make Get Level detect the location of the wall path curve instead of the wall bounding box
• The VA GH Pipeline component should support the retrieval of Block Definitions and Block Instances
• The Get Level should give a list of levels
• Show less Opening components on the VisualARQ GH Ribbon

Grasshopper: Styles

• Support non-geometry output parameters
• Wall styles from Grasshopper definitions
• Curtain wall styles from Grasshopper definitions
• Input geometry for slab and roof Grasshopper styles
• Extend walls created from Grasshopper styles upwards
• Show height parameter in the style properties panel window for walls created from a grasshopper style
• Possibility to order output parameters in groups
• Detect the “height” linked parameter in walls and curtain walls created as Grasshopper styles
• Leave the 3D and Plan view representations checked by default when you create a new Grasshopper style
• Join walls created from Grasshopper styles
• Join options for walls created as Grasshopper styles
• Be able to assign components to Model and Plan view at the same time
• Automatic Horizontal alignment for doors and windows created with Grasshopper styles
• Support for blocks inside Grasshopper styles definitions
• Use different icons for Texts and Hatch components in Grasshopper styles
• Do not convert extrusions into Breps in geometry output components used for Grasshopper styles

IFC

• Support to import and export IFC 4 files.

Interface

• Add Constraints icon
• Change names in the Section Manager commands
• “Filter by” option for output parameters in the Grasshopper Style Wizard
• Change the term for “Guide rules” in the Properties panel
• Show units for length property values
• Show icons for the object types in the import and export styles dialogs
• Profile manager command in the VisualARQ toolbar and Menu
• Menu entries for Guides
• Hide block name in VisualARQ object Properties panel
• Icons for total row types
• Group the Roof’s slope angle and area properties into one

Layout

• Export layouts to DWG
• Export multiple layouts to DWG
• Option to export only the current layout
• Make the DWG command cancellable with the escape key.
• Insert tables in Layouts

Level Manager

• Link Rhino and VisualARQ objects to Levels
• Building contours
  • Show building boundary when creating it
  • Set the Building Boundary as a rectangle directly on the model
  • Extract building boundary
  • Allow the contour of a building to be removed
  • Save Building contour to the document
  • Add “Set building boundary” in the contextual menu
• Allow buildings to be isolated
• Allow buildings to be hidden
• Allow levels to be hidden freely
• Command to isolate levels
• Sub-Levels
• Synchronize level states in all viewports
• Level states
• Add options to create multiple levels on a building
• Ask for confirmation after deleting a building
• Improve the performance when working with different buildings with boundary
• The isolate level action should change the CPlane to the isolated level
• Update the position of CPlane when changing the elevation of a level
• Detect numbers in level name pattern when creating multiple levels
• Show Level elevation reference marks of only one Building in Elevation views
• Tooltips in Level Manager
• Change the text for deleting a building from the contextual menu
• Icons for the floor/ceiling plan view options in the Level manager
• Detect level and floor type when inserting 2D plan views from the level manager
• “Set Plan View to Viewport” should adjust the view zoom to the building boundary
• Make Sync Levels and Toggle Level’s elevation button always active
• Organization of RCP commands in the Level Manager Toolbar
• Disable the “Isolate” option when the building has no boundary
• Set “3 meters” as the default value for Height between levels in the Multiple Level creation dialog.
• Switch between Building Elevation and Document 0 Elevation in viewport elevation marks
• Show Level Elevation in relation to the Z Document origin
• Multiple selection of levels in the Level Manager
• Show the tooltip for the Plan View Reference icon
• Duplicate Buildings and Levels
• Do not let a Construction plane be in a hidden level

Object

• Create boolean interferences between objects
• Command or Option to change the order of intersection
• Order new sizes alphabetically
• Cleanup edges between elements with the same material
• Be able to extract the subtracted or added solids individually
• Subtract a VisualARQ object from another VisualARQ object

Object: Beam

• Calculate the intersection between beams and walls, slabs, and roofs.

Object: Column

• Extrude / extend columns to surfaces
• Extrude / extend Column coating

Object: Curtain Wall

• Curtain wall joints
• Curtain wall from surface
• Custom profiles for Mullion and Frame components of Curtain walls
• Adjust division count in extended curtain walls
• Move “Rotation” parameter to the profile tabs
• Rename one of the two “length” properties in Curtain walls
• Add “Elevation” property to Curtain walls
• Change the default curtain wall height to “by style”
• Options to “Fill Width” and “Fill Height” in “fixed-sized grid” curtain wall style
• Rename curtain wall “gap” properties to “margin”
• Rotate Curtain walls using the gumball or the rotate commands

Object: Guide

• Structural guides
• Link Rhino objects to Guides
• vaGuideGrid command
• Guides from curves
• Manage guides through styles
• Stretch dimensions when moving guides
• Draw guides only in Perspective or Top viewports on the XY plane
• Guides should link with both wall edges
• Add option to do not link any object type to guides
• Choose which elements can be altered by a guide style
• Assign some default Top and Bottom elevation values to guides
• vaSelGuide command
• Control points to modify top and bottom elevation
• Show guides plane only when you select it
• Automatic naming control for guides

Object: Opening Elevation

• Show handles and knobs in opening elevations

Object: Openings

• Add Handle / Knob component for doors and windows
• Determine Openings leaf width by fixed size or by %
• “Auto” default value for leaf sizes
• Tell an opening not to get linked to a wall
• Option to control the Leaf Alignment in relation to the Frame component

Object: Plan view

• RCPs in 2D plan views (Reflected ceiling plan)
• Sort levels by elevation in the plan view “Level” property

Object: Railing

• Make the _vaFlip command work on railings

Object: Roof

• Control points for roofs created from surfaces
• Move roof “Alignment” property to the “Location” category or tab
• “All Slopes” property is not working when a roof is created from a surface
• Roof from surfaces do not show the slab’s layer structure
• Roof alignment
• Add “Slab areas” property to roofs
• Improve the creation of new roof styles

Object: Section

• Create Sections with the “Clippable” option unchecked by default
• Move End text setting of section styles
• Change term “Length” by “Depth” in section lines
• Orient section arrows in the same direction
• Option to not show the apostrophe symbol in Section reference text
• Identify a section in the model from a selection in the Section Manager
• Mirrored section arrow symbols
• Identify a section in Section Manager from a selection in the model
• Allow ordering section list in the Section Manager

Object: Slab

• Join slabs
• Add Slab layer type
• Join stairs and slabs
• Join beams and slabs
• Intersections between walls and slabs

Object: Space

• Link spaces to levels
• Option to not print the space boundary
• Option to hide the space representation in 3D
• Allow rotating the space label
• Change the alignment of the text inside a space tag

Object: Stair

• Join stair slab with walls and slabs
• Edit the number of the first stair step

Table Report panel

• Quantity take-offs in a dynamic report panel
  • Show tables in a Rhino’s dock view’s report list
  • Identify the elements in the table by selecting them in the model
  • Identify the elements in the model by clicking them in a data table
  • Bidirectional tables: edit table items on click
• Add objects to tables, after having created them
• Remove objects from the table row or by picking them in the model
• Add total amounts at the ends of table fields
• Table filters:
  • Filter openings and spaces by levels in tables
  • Filter objects by Level and Building in tables
  • Filter objects by object styles
  • Filter objects by Layer
  • Visual feedback when filters are applied to a table
• Update VisualARQ 2 tables to VisualARQ 3 tables
• Add a check on table style to activate/deactivate any column’s total row at once
• Make tables always dynamic
• Checkbox to define if a table is dynamic or not
• Access table object or style properties from the layout
• Tables “quantity” property field redefined in table styles
• Possibility to change dots by commas
• Table styles shortcut icon in the Table panel toolbar
• Shortcut to edit the active table style
• Order numbers properly in tables
• Show table preview in the table styles dialogue
• “Apply” option is available in table styles when you modify a field name or change the grouping options
• Add a “Border” option to show the border of the total cell
• Export numeric values in tables to number format
• Do not add totals of openings Elevation in tables
• Remove the unit symbols when exporting tables
• Order tables by the “quantity” field
• Add units in tables next to values
• Assign automatically a name to the chosen property in the new style wizard

Object: Tag

• Manage Tag information by style
• Define the insertion point when creating a tag
• Show tag preview in the tag styles dialogue
• Allow formatting tag text

Object: Window

• Insert windows in slabs
• Insert windows in roofs
• Allow windows to be rotated in 3D
• Create windows from not vertical curves
• Window Leaf size modifications (%, Units, Equitative) in Window Style and Window Style Wizard
• Automatically update leaf size (%) in window styles

Performance

• Major performance improvements when activating sections
• Major performance improvements when activating levels
• Slow performance moving or deleting slabs
• Improvements in saving files

Profile

• Profile manager. Edit custom profiles.
• Specify the insert point when extracting the curve of a custom profile
• Extract the curve of a custom profile
• Rename “Profiles Table” with “Profiles”
• Do not show system profiles in the Profile Manager
• Categories of profiles by the object type they are created for
• Be able to delete custom profiles that are not in use

Reflected Ceiling Plans

• RCP (Reflected Ceiling Plans) in real-time views
• Indicate in viewport’s name that the level displayed is a reflected ceiling plan
• Ignore overhead representation of objects in RCP
• Create RCP as 2D dynamic blocks with the _vaPlanView command

Template

• Tables in mm template are too small

Toolbar – Menu:

• Changes in the VisualARQ long toolbar
• Add _vaSelGuide in the Select Toolbar
• Replace icon for Wall From Solid command
• Add the vaCurtainWallFromSurface command to the curtain wall toolbar
• Add the _vaExportToDWG command in the toolbar and menu
• Show a Column unextend command in the toolbar
• Show _vaSelSameType and the _vaSelSameStyle commands in the toolbar and menu
• Guide toolbar
• Add _vaProfiles command in the right click of the vaProfileFromCurve icon
• Add Clash and Clear icons in the toolbar
• Install toolbars on all computer users
• Add vaCurtainWallExtend command in the menu
• Add the Wall Extract Path command in the Menu and wall context menu

Zoo

• Include a dll necessary to add a VisualARQ license to the Zoo