VisualARQ 3 beta released!

VisualARQ 3 beta is now available

This first beta version works on Rhino 8 and is only available for users with a VisualARQ license. While in beta, only the Rhino 8 installer will be published, but the final release will be available for both Rhino 7 and Rhino 8 (for Windows).

Some of the new features include a level manager, a table report panel, buildings with boundaries, reflected ceiling plans, guides, a clash report panel, a profiles manager, and many more!

*If you don’t have a license, we offer a free upgrade to VisualARQ 3 if you buy VisualARQ 2 from January 2024 until VisualARQ 3 ships.

If you have a VisualARQ license, try VisualARQ 3 beta here...

Hull Shape Assistant plugin in open beta

Hull Shape Assistant (HSA) is a new Rhino plugin providing shape modeling assistance tools focused on design, fairing, and reverse engineering.

HSA’s geometry is composed of parts that may be surfaces or a set of curves prepared for lofting a surface. HSA also accepts as an input already existing polysurfaces in one part, with no specific option to modify it.

Functionality:

• Automatic joining and trimming of parts, according to defined limiting top, transom, or skeg shape
• Automatic generation of flat side and flat bottom
• Real-time information regarding distance from reference geometry, which can be points clouds, curves, meshes, surfaces or polysurfaces
• Real-time generation of sections, buttocks and waterlines
• Simplified control over surface curvature and zebra analysis
• Real-time information regarding ship hydrostatic parameters – HSA will try to fill small gaps in imperfect shape if the input is non-watertight
• Simple clipping over length
• Simple compact panel for control of plugin functionality

Currently, HSA supports only symmetric hull shapes.

Request a beta key on food4Rhino...