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Studio 3DX is proud to announce a formal strategic partnership with VisualARQ, one of the most dedicated BIM software for Rhino 3D. With the sets of goals in common, Studio 3DX and VisualARQ will strive to provide innovative solutions for architects and engineers throughout their process, from early-stage design with VisualARQ in Rhino and Grasshopper to real-time coordination in Studio 3DX with virtual meetings and live 3D sessions.

What to look forward to in this partnership?

Studio 3DX and VisualARQ share a common goal in providing the most useful solutions that enable customers to design and coordinate their architectural and engineering problems in real-time. Therefore, through this partnership, both Studio 3DX and VisualARQ will have opportunities to reach out to their customers from the early design stages with real-time coordination.

How do you benefit from Studio 3DX if you are a VisualARQ user and vice versa?

If you are already using VisualARQ in your workflow, you can benefit from a FREE Premium Studio 3DX account (Worth €588) for one year to coordinate and manage your projects with your team and clients. Start by designing in Rhino with VisualARQ and export your models to IFC. In the meanwhile create your own Studio 3DX account now and import your files on our dedicated BIM Matrix with phases and disciplines. Invite all your team and coordinate your design with Virtual Meetings, Live 3D Sessions, Issue Management and many more.

How are these two software connected?

Both VisualARQ and Studio 3DX are living in the magical realm of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for design and coordination. They will soon build an integration that synchronizes your VisualARQ-based models from Rhino 3D and Grasshopper to Studio 3DX to coordinate and host your meetings.

Are you a VisualARQ user? Claim your FREE Premium Studio 3DX account (Worth €588) here: studio3dx.com.

About Studio 3DX

Studio 3DX is a cloud solution for real-time BIM coordination. If you are working on a construction project, you have to try Studio 3DX, a cloud solution to coordinate and track everything your team is working on. Use it for all your projects, however small or big. Read more at studio3dx.com and get started for free at app.studio3dx.com.

About VisualARQ

VisualARQ is architectural design software that enhances Rhino by adding powerful architectural object styling and dynamic documentation tools which adapt to fit your workflow.

Check out the complete list of VisualARQ features here.

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BIM WORLD 2020

7-8 October 2020

Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles in the BIM village.

Space J20

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Rhinoforyou, resellers of VisualARQ in France, is exhibiting at the BIM WORLD 2020 trade fair on October 7 and 8 at Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles in the BIM village (space J20).

The Rhinoforyou team will show you the latest news on the Rhino.Inside.Revit technology, which lets you run Rhino, Grasshopper, and VisualARQ inside Revit, and provides live interoperability of 3D models between Rhino and Revit.

Rhino and Revit users have been waiting for years for a reliable and fast solution. In this sneak preview video you can see how it works also with VisualARQ.

The integration of Rhino in environments like Revit®, BricsCAD®, AutoCAD® … allows a new workflow between Design and AEC (BIM) or other software. Using Grasshopper, users can create parametric models in Revit® as well as in other software without the need to learn another parametric or generative design tool.

Rhinoforyou is pleased to offer you your free badge. Contact [email protected] for more details.

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to work with VisualARQ railings in Grasshopper, how its components work, you will get to know some useful tips, and how to implement the railing with a single click on a given example. The video also covers how to create your own custom railing style in Grasshopper and how to parametrically control it.

This video has been created by How to Rhino, a YouTube channel specialized in tutorials for architects using Rhino, Grasshopper and other related plug-ins.

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Even though VisualARQ adds BIM features to Rhino aimed at architectural projects, some of its features can be useful for the marine and ship design industry. These are some of the features that we would like to highlight:

Free-form parametric objects

The option to work with parametric objects, can be useful for some ship and yacht design models, where you can usually need to create curved beams, railings or walls that need to be trimmed or extended to Rhino polysurfaces.

The Grasshopper styles

The Grasshopper styles are those VisualARQ objects driven by Grasshopper definitions. This feature lets you create custom parametric elements. Watch in the video below an example of how a single Grasshopper definition is used to create a parametric seat through a Furniture object style, that can get multiple variations of dimensions in the model.

Quantity take-offs

Since it is possible to create custom parameters and assign it to any piece of geometry, any data stored in a marine design project can be reported in VisualARQ tables. And the parameters of objects driven by Grasshopper definitions can also be listed.

Section tools

With the VisualARQ section attributes, line-weights, hatch patterns, and fill colors can be assigned to any kind of geometry in Rhino when the model is shown in section. And this applies also to ship and yacht design models. In addition, the VisualARQ Section Manager and Level Manager helps you to show the model in plan or section view, and using the Hidden display mode, get the model ready to be printed to vector output and generate the project 2D drawings.

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VisualARQ online webinar

19 May 2020

10.30h GMT+2

Cadesign base, main VisualARQ resellers in Denmark, organizes this webinar within the 3D Days Online event, where you will see an overview of the “Flexible BIM” features VisualARQ adds to Rhino. You will see how to work with architectural objects in Rhino, how to produce 2D drawings and quantity takeoffs, how to exchange Rhino models with other BIM applications through IFC, and how everything can be automated in Grasshopper.

The webinar is free but registration is required.

To register, fill the form “Sign up for 3D Days Online right here” and choose the VisualARQ webinar option.

VisualARQ to Parametricos

We at VisualARQ are glad to empower our users with a new collaboration with Parametricos. Visualize and collaborate with your 3D BIM IFC projects on the web using the Studio | Cloud BIM + GIS by Parametricos.

Watch here how it works: https://blog.parametricos.com/visualarq-to-parametricos/

Parametricos offer for VisualARQ users:

If you own a VisualARQ license, claim your 100€ discount now on the annual subscription to Parametricos by sending an email to [email protected] and [email protected]. You can register and start uploading your VisualARQ IFC projects at studio.parametricos.com.

In this post we share the article of Engineer Aurelien Blanc, who describes his experience of using VisualARQ in various of his projects:

Workflow with VisualARQ

“We at Aurblanc, are experienced users of Rhinoceros 3D and use VisualARQ in different projects. VisualARQ is an intuitive modeling tool that allows us to quickly model architectural objects such as slabs, walls, frames, beams, doors, windows, building elements, etc.”

“Its great flexibility lies in the ease of creating parametric architectural objects. We create certain elements directly on 2D plans or on an existing set of gridlines.

  We create other elements directly in 3D from curves. These objects are custom-made in the project library, and it is then possible to modify and edit them as we desire. They can be readapted throughout the project according to changes in their environment.

For example, we used VisualARQ on the technical development of the complex parts on one of the buildings of the Bassin à Flots in Bordeaux. VisualARQ allowed us to assemble the frames, complex parts, and frameworks in 3D to control the reality imagined by the architect on the entire building.

  This way we were able to modify certain parts or certain sections of the framework when necessary. Then we deployed the systems on the oriented facets of the building.

VisualARQ allows you to create 2D plans and location views of the modeled elements. We also use its nomenclature development functions to export and distribute this information. Thanks to this plug-in we were able to model and create the nomenclatures of the facades of the THALES campus in Mérignac:”

    VisualARQ and Grasshopper

“We develop objects or object systems using the VisualARQ tools provided for Grasshopper (GH), the programming module for Rhinoceros 3D. There is a large panel of tools for creating dynamic and complex objects. It is then possible to exploit these parametric objects directly in Rhino, through VA, from a GH definition.”

  “A couple of examples of custom VisualARQ objects created from Grasshopper definitions:

Buttonhole angled profile for fitting composite cassettes. Adjustment of the center distance and automatic adaptation of the number of buttonholes according to the length.

Parametric aluminum rail with distributed holes, adjustment of center distance and hole diameter.

These parts once created could be used directly for launching manufacturing.”  

Adding BIM ready parameters

“VisualARQ allows you to add information of any type to objects. This implementation of information makes it possible to participate in the BIM processes of the project while respecting the BIM standards and to design intelligent objects in the project. Another advantage, it allows us to use it during our “BIM TO DIGITAL FABRICATION” process, thanks to the information we need for launching and manufacturing and the object database that we create for manufacturing, monitoring, and management.”  

Export of shared digital models

“Sometimes software exports IFC objects as “dead geometries”. VisualARQ allows you to export IFC files, IFC2x3 certified, which are generated according to recognized standards.”

  “VisualARQ is a practical and easy-to-use tool for us. It allows us to assemble models from simple elements, and to model the assemblies with advanced levels of detail to bring the elements to manufacturing.”