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The following video tutorial shows the process of listing custom parameters on VisualARQ objects with the Table tool.

The chosen example comes from the requirement of a VisualARQ user, who wanted to generate a list of openings, indicating the wall style name where they were hosted.

This video describes the process in two steps. In the first part, you can learn how to create a custom parameter by document (the “Host Style’s Name”) and prepare a VisualARQ table to list it.

In the second part, you can see how to automate the assignment of values (the host style name) to VisualARQ openings using the VisualARQ components in Grasshopper.

For this purpose, it is especially useful the “Update Property” component, which lets you “bake” metadata on geometry, without getting duplicated objects.

Finally, you can see how the table that was previously inserted in the model updates with the assigned values.

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VisualARQ and Lands Design: practical uses for Architects and Landscape architects

Tuesday April 13 2021, 6:30pm PDT

Cost: free for members, 15US$ for not members

Venue: Zoom Conference

Join this presentation within the AWA+D events to see an overview of VisualARQ and Lands Design, both plug-ins of Rhino that add “Flexible BIM” features for architectural and landscaping projects.

The AWA+D (Association for Women in Architecture and Design) is a Professional Society dedicated to supporting career and educational endeavors for women working in the built environment.

More information and registration details here.

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Tools for Architects

26 March 2021

VisualARQ presentation: 10h GMT+1

Free online event.

Registration

Bardins, VisualARQ resellers in Poland, invites you to participate in an international online conference dedicated to 3D tools supporting the work of architects and interior designers.

There will be excellent national and international experts that will talk about VisualARQ, Rhino.Inside, Grasshopper and other interesting tools.

The conference will be broadcasted live on social media: Facebook and YouTube. Lectures will be held in Polish and English and the event will be held for the first time. Participation in the event is free of charge.

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We are pleased to announce the awarded projects of the BIM Design Student Contest 2021.

1. S-House

The first prize goes to Kuang He, a student of Nanjing University who has presented a nice dwelling design.

Kuang he: “VisualARQ has helped a lot in the development of this project, especially co-working with Twinmotion”

Check out the full project here.

2. Nieuw Smak Gent

The second prize goes to Alberto Ferrero, a student of ETSAM (Madrid), who has developed a Contemporary Art Museum project for the city of Gent, in Belgium. Alberto explains how VisualARQ has contributed to his design: “Without the usage of VisualARQ the development of this project couldn’t have been possible”

Check out the full project here.

3. Twisted building

And the third prize goes to Gabriela Pinho and her team (who already published the “Hope Center” project on the VisualARQ’s gallery), a student in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, who has presented an interesting “twisting” building design for residential use.

Gabriela has taken advantage of the VisualARQ components in Grasshopper for the parametrization of the conceptual design process.

Check out the full project here.

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The webinar “VisualARQ Grasshopper Components” recorded last February 25th, is now available on YouTube. If you missed the chance to attend it, you can watch it now in the English and Spanish version.

This webinar covers an overview of using the VisualARQ components in Grasshopper through a few simple exercises. You can see how to create walls, doors, slabs or columns, as well as new object styles, and use them in parametric designs. You can also see how to assign data dynamically to different objects and a few other examples that can be used to optimze your workflow:

VisualARQ Grasshopper Components (English)

VisualARQ Grasshopper Components (Spanish)

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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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VisualARQ 2.10 is now available for download. This new service release includes some new features and fixes most of the issues reported by users:

Wall from SubD

VisualARQ Zoo plugin for Zoo 7 (download it here)

Added control points for spaces created from curves

See the complete list in What’s new.

Download it!

This is a free service release for all VisualARQ users and works on Rhino 5, Rhino 6 and Rhino 7.

If you are a VisualARQ user, download VisualARQ 2.10

If you are an Evaluation user, download the new Evaluation version to test the new features.

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VisualARQ Grasshopper components webinar

25 February 2021

English session: 4-4.30 pm CET. Registration

Spanish session: 5-5.30 pm CET. Registration

Free

Join this webinar and learn how to work with VisualARQ objects in Grasshopper. You will see how to automate design modeling workflows using BIM objects, how to assign, extract and manage data on geometry, and the different component types that VisualARQ provides for Grasshopper. This webinar will be presented in two identical sessions, the first one in English (4 pm CET), and the second one in Spanish (5 pm CET). Each session will take around 30 minutes, with some Q&A. Registration is free but seats are limited.

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Webinar: Architecture modeling in Rhino with VisualARQ and Grasshopper

January 13, 2021: 11am PT

Free

Register here

Learn the great advantages of using VisualARQ and its connection with Grasshopper to work with architectural projects in Rhino. You will learn how to produce BIM models in Rhino using VisualARQ’s Flexible BIM technology, how to generate 2D documentation, and how to exchange Rhino models with other AEC software through IFC file format. You will also see how to work with VisualARQ inside Revit using the Rhino.Inside new technology.

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Rhino 7 has been recently announced! Take a look at the most relevant new features: https://www.rhino3d.com/7/new/

VisualARQ is already available for Rhino 7 since version 2.9. That means that you can already try VisualARQ running inside Revit (check this video), the page layout manager, include SubD geometry in your architectural projects and many other amazing enhancements.

If you own a VisualARQ license, you can update for free to VisualARQ 2.9 and use it in Rhino 7. You will receive the link to install VisualARQ in Rhino 7 (as well as the links to install VisualARQ 2.9 in Rhino 5 and Rhino 6).

If you are an evaluation user, you have now 90 days to try VisualARQ in Rhino 7.

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The issue of interoperability in the AEC industry is as old as time. Depending on the stage of the building project, different professions use different tools for design, planning, construction, and operations that do not necessarily communicate well with each other.

To address the shortcomings of fragmentation within the industry, the common IFC standard for BIM software has been gaining popularity as an ultimate solution.

Geometrid, a software for construction supply chain monitoring, takes a platform-agnostic approach by working with open standards such as IFC, which is supported by VisualARQ.

VisualARQ lets you open IFC files in Rhino, enrich them by adding custom data to geometry, tagging objects easily with ifc entity types, and exporting the model back to IFC. The team shares their experience at the Jewel at Changi Airport in Singapore.

Jewel at Changi Airport in Singapore. Photo by 贝莉儿 DANIST on Unsplash

Geometrid is a software that enables construction professionals to oversee their project progress across their supply network, for every building element at every stage along the supply chain. In addition to project monitoring, element tracking, and progress reporting, Geometrid enables granular overview with the model filtering function based on IFC properties. Using this option, project participants can isolate parts of the building and get progress information of the defined selection. VisualARQ came in handy with the Custom Parameters function, which enabled a quick and easy way of assigning properties to the existing 3D objects and exporting those as IFC elements. Bridging the information gap was achieved by setting parameters for assets that are essential for operations outside the design domain, such as supplier, structural system, installation sequence, or even cost. The structure is this way defined for receiving accurate progress information per those properties and tracking individual building elements using Geometrid.

VisualARQ’s Custom Parameters dialog in Document Properties (Facade model of Changi Singapore Airport)

This video shows how to create custom parameters (by Document, by object style, or by object individually) and list them in tables. This parameters assignment can also be achieved in an automated way using the VisualARQ Components in Grasshopper.

Upon assigning custom parameters, the IFC model is exported from VisualARQ and added to the existing project on the Geometrid software, where stages for tracking were previously set. Properties are then automatically mapped onto the filtering tab, which makes it easy for the users to filter the models and get the latest progress reports within their web browsers without any prior experience with BIM.

Facade model of Changi Singapore Airport in Geometrid software

The ease of use goes to updating the status of elements as well, where users can do it with a simple QR scan from any remote location – factories, warehouses, construction sites, etc.

To learn more about it, visit the Geometrid website and check out the product video.

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SIGraDi 2020

Workshops: 16-17 November 2020

Congress: 18-19 November 2020

VisualARQ workshop: Flexible BIM Flexible con Rhino, VisualARQ y Grasshopper

Language: Spanish

VisualARQ will participate at the SIGraDi 2020 event, running a 2-day online workshop on 16-17 November 2020.

SIGraDi, the annual Congress of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics was planned to take place at Escuela de Arquitectura y Diseño de la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) in Medellín, Colombia, but it will be finally held virtually.

The central theme of the SIGraDi 2020 is Transformative Design, emphasizing the crucial role of design, architecture, and the different design disciplines for the sustainability of life through synergy with conventional and disruptive technologies, promoting a balanced convergence between natural and artificial systems.

The VisualARQ workshop will focus on the Flexible BIM features it adds to Rhino, while developing a project in 3D, producing the 2D documentation out of it, and deliver a BIM model in IFC file format. It will be a special focus on how VisualARQ integrates with Grasshopper in order to automate modeling tasks with BIM objects, and how to custom BIM objects through Grasshopper definitions.

In addition to the VisualARQ workshop, SIGraDi will offer different workshops using Rhino and/or Grasshopper related to the congress’s topics, such as neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, BIM, biomimetics, parametric design, digital manufacturing, urban planning, among others.

Registration and cost information.

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VisualARQ 2.9 is now available for download.

This new service release includes some new features and fixes most of the issues reported by users:

Rhino 7 support:

Support to Rhino Inside technology (watch video)

Integration with the Layouts manager panel

Integration with SubD geometry in plan and section views or with the section attributes.

Added translation to Russian

Extended evaluation version of 90 days

See the complete list in What’s new.

Download it!

This is a free service release for all VisualARQ users and works on Rhino 5, Rhino 6, and Rhino 7.

If you are a VisualARQ user, download VisualARQ 2.9

If you are an Evaluation user, download the new Evaluation version to test the new features.

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VisualARQ Grasshopper styles webinar

6 October 2020, 5pm-5.30pm CEST

Registration

Do you want to use dynamic blocks in Rhino?

Do you want to learn how to create your custom parametric objects?

In this webinar, you will learn what the VisualARQ Grasshopper styles are. You will see some examples of how to bring your Grasshopper definitions into custom parametric objects in Rhino.

No Grasshopper knowledge is required to follow this webinar. But you will learn what’s behind a VisualARQ object created by a Grasshopper definition, and the unlimited possibilities this combination of tools offers.

The webinar will take around 30 minutes, with some Q&A. Registration is free but seats are limited.

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BIM WORLD 2020

7-8 October 2020

Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles in the BIM village.

Space J20

Inscription

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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