VisualARQ 1.5 is now available for download. Owners of VisualARQ are encouraged to download and install VisualARQ 1.5. This is a free service release for all VisualARQ users.
What’s new in 1.5?
Rhinoceros 5.0 (32 and 64-bit) support.
Real-time plan views (video).
New display mode ‘Hidden’.
Control points in slabs (video).
Improved object and style editor dialog.
Walls can be extended to roofs and slabs.
VisualARQ 1.5 fixes all known bugs. There are also a number of enhancements.
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See the complete list in What’s new.
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vaWallsFromCurves command has been replaced by vaWall command option FromCurves.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:
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.
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.
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