VisualARQ

|+ Release history

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! New features

| 2009, October 27{{Cite web | url = http://blog.rhino3d.com/2009/10/visualarq-10-is-shipping.html | title = VisualARQ 1.0 is shipping! | publisher = Rhino News, etc. | last = Pérez | first = Carlos | date = Oct 28, 2009 | format = blog }}

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| 2010, November 9

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• Level manager

| 2011, January 17

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• Beam object
• IFC 2x3 export
• Context help

| 2011, March 30

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• Stair slab
• Multi-core Hidden Line Removal engine

| 2011, July 25

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• Gable/hip roofs
• Jog sections
• Realtime sections
• Glass muntins
• Awning/hooper/hung windows

| 2012, February 9

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• Rhinoceros 5.0 (32 and 64-bit) support
• Real-time plan views
• New display mode 'Hidden'.

| 2012, July 24

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• Hatched section views
• Real-time plan views in page layout details
• Customizable wall joints.
• Wall components wrapping.
• Tables with length, area and volume of VisualARQ objects.

| 2013, January 21

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• New railing object.
• Multi-threaded regeneration of VisualARQ geometry (Rhino 5 only)
• Extrusion objects are used instead of breps when possible (Rhino 5 only).
• Faster display of VisualARQ objects.
• Identical columns and beams share the same instance definition.
• Smaller and better IFC output files.
• Doors and windows can be created from profile curves directly in the model.
• Added volume property to space object.

| 2014, June 5

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• New parametric Curtain wall object.
• Section attributes on VisualARQ and Rhino objects.
• New Level Manager to show and hide levels easily.
• Texture mappings now works on VisualARQ objects.
• New release of VisualARQ Grasshopper Components WIP 3.
• Improved IFC exporter.
• Full AISC and European standard beam styles added to VisualARQ templates.
• New Tag object: displays VisualARQ objects information in 2D labels.
• Plan View automatic update.
• Help also available in Spanish, German, Italian and French.
• Zoo support: shares VisualARQ licenses among users on the same network workgroup.

| 2015, May 8

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• IFC Import.
• IFC tag.
• Multilayer slabs
• Columns can be created from blocks for the 2D/3D representation
• Option to insert openings in Curtain walls
• Curtain walls with curved panels
• Added a control point to lean curtain walls
• Tag orientation
• Plan view depth of field

| 2017, September 29

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• Grasshopper styles: option to create dynamic blocks with VisualARQ objects from grasshopper definitions.
• New Element, Furniture and Annotation objects
• New commands to do boolean unions and differences between Rhino solids and VisualARQ objects
• 2D Vector output for printing the 3D model for a real time 2D drawings
• Custom parameters to add information to Rhino and VisualARQ objects.
• Custom parameters are exported as IFC properties.
• Quantity takeoffs for Rhino geometry
• New Section Manager to create sections and align viewports to sections
• New symbols for the Section object arrow, and Tag object shapes
• Beam end cuts and joints calculation
• Custom profiles with holes
• Multilayer Roof styles.
• Roof intersection calculations
• New toolbar and commands to select VisualARQ objects of the same type
• New commands to add and remove elements for space calculations
• New Grasshopper components added for creating Texts, Hatches and Blocks
• Added new "Conceptual" and "Realistic" display modes

| 2018, April 19

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• Support on Rhino 6
• Help available in Japanese
• New vaFlip command
• New "IFC Type" and "IFC Tag" components for Grasshopper
• New "New Parameter" and "Get Object Properties" components for Grasshopper
• Curtain walls are detected as spatial elements when inserting spaces.

| 2018, June 13

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• New vaSplit and vaFillet command
• New "Update Property" component for Grasshopper
• Element and Furniture objects created from Grasshopper styles can be rotated in 3D.
• Added new toolbars for the Railing, Curtain wall, and Stair objects

| 2019, September 26

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• Added support for HiDPI displays
• New "Section" component for Grasshopper
• New components Building and Level to reference buildings and levels.
• Added new toolbars for the Railing, Curtain wall, and Stair objects

| 2019, January 30

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• VisualARQ Script API available
• New components to create Section views from Grasshopper

|2019, July 18

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• Faster and improved Hidden Line vector drawings
• VisualARQ Object Pipeline component in Grasshopper
• Added a new component in Grasshopper to create Block definitions.

|2019, November 4

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• Extend Curtain walls vertically
• Support to render the model in section
• Wall height by layer
• Wall thickness by object
• Beam extension arrow

|2020, February 13

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• Plan View component in Grasshopper
• Curtain Wall Extend component in Grasshopper
• Section attributes for blocks

|2020, May 13

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• Floating licenses through Cloud zoo
• Overhead attributes
• Plan cut elevation to show objects above or below cut plane.
• Bottom control arrow to extend walls and curtain walls

|2020, October 22

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• Rhino 7 support
• Translation to Russian

|2021, February 11

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• Wall from SubD
• VisualARQ Zoo plug-in for Rhino 7
• Added control points for spaces created from curves

|2021, June 16

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• Wall layer offsets in Grasshopper
• IFC import and export dialogs, with the option to import and export IFC files with no parametric features
• Show custom parameters in space labels and tags
• Option to view only the sectioned geometry in section views and in plan views.

|2021, December 22

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• Section attributes and VisualARQ objects plan representations in worksessions
• Override attributes per plan/section view style
• Support for Grasshopper Player
• Translation to Portuguese
• Save changes on VisualARQ display modes

|2023, April 4

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• Component to get the start and end cut planes of beams in Grasshopper
• Reference VisualARQ objects with the Grasshopper Player
• VisualARQ Labs plug-in
• Translation to Chinese Traditional
• Support to VRay Interactive Render

|2024, October 9

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• IFC 4 and 4.3 support
• Objects Link to Levels
• Dynamic Table Report Panel
• Buildings with Boundary
• Clashes and Clearances Report
• Reflected Ceiling Plans
• Guides
• Walls and Curtain Walls from Grasshopper Styles
• Curtain walls from surfaces
• Command to extend columns
• Option to insert openings in roofs and slabs
• Handle component for doors and windows
• Objects Intersections and Interferences
• Profile Manager
• Manage tag contents by style
• Export Layouts to DWG
• Custom parameter filters by Type and Layer
• Expanded object library in templates

[https://www.visualarq.com/features/v3/ Complete list]

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