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Create & modify drawings with high accuracy 1 00:00:02,580 –> 00:00:09,230 ARES Touch offers you all the professional tools to create or modify drawings with high accuracy. 2 00:00:09,500 –> 00:00:13,260 Hold your finger on the screen when a drawing command is in use, 3 00:00:13,560 –> 00:00:17,540 and the Loupe will pop up to help you SNAP to points. 4 00:00:18,140 –> 00:00:21,851 The SNAP is like a magnet to select points with precision. 5 00:00:22,280 –> 00:00:26,740 Entity snap types can be defined from the Application Menu. 6 00:00:26,980 –> 00:00:32,540 If you don’t need accuracy you can also simply tap the screen to pick points. 7 00:00:32,860 –> 00:00:36,960 The options bar displays similar options as on the desktop. 8 00:00:37,220 –> 00:00:39,760 You can for example CLOSE the polyline. 9 00:00:40,20 –> 00:00:44,660 In the Action bar on the top, you will find the shortcut to
Capturing entities 1 00:00:03,300 –> 00:00:06,589 To select entities, you may simply tap on them. 2 00:00:08,000 –> 00:00:11,820 To unselect all, you can tap on FINISH. 3 00:00:15,100 –> 00:00:17,990 Now let’s see how to use selection windows. 4 00:00:18,300 –> 00:00:20,660 Hold your finger on screen without moving. 5 00:00:20,860 –> 00:00:27,259 If no command is launched, it will start the selection window. Then move your finger to the opposite corner. 6 00:00:27,420 –> 00:00:31,580 If you go from the right to the left, the window is green. 7 00:00:32,540 –> 00:00:37,860 This window will capture the entities inside AND partially inside. 8 00:00:38,900 –> 00:00:42,260 If you go from the left to the right, the window is blue. 9 00:00:42,560 –> 00:00:46,460 And only the entities completely inside will be selected. 10 00:00:46,680 –> 00:00:52,480 By default the selection is in the ADD mode to add entities
Note: CADblocks for DraftSight was discontinued by its developer. Unfortunately this plug-in is therefore no longer available. To learn more about the Graebert plugins currently available for DraftSightwe invite you to visit https://www.graebert.com/cad-software/plugins-for-draftsight/ CAD Blocks for DraftSight 1 00:00:09,160 –> 00:00:13,680“CAD Blocks for DraftSight” gives you access to thousands of blocks. 200:00:14,000 –> 00:00:16,860Many of these blocks contain intelligence. 300:00:17,60 –> 00:00:21,259In this example, we can see an office where you find blocks for furniture, 400:00:21,460 –> 00:00:26,260sanitary equipment, various labels and signs. 500:00:27,60 –> 00:00:30,340They all belongto blocks supplied by CAD Blocks. 600:00:31,220 –> 00:00:32,879The process is very simple. 700:00:33,220 –> 00:00:34,440We click here … 800:00:34,520 –> 00:00:40,820… go to the category we like, select with a click and look for the topic of our interest. 900:00:41,240 –> 00:00:44,300For example, we can insert this block. 1000:00:44,640 –> 00:00:50,920Here we have a larger preview, while in this area parameters will appear
Try 2D Constraints in your DWG files for free – Get a free trial of ARES Commander on https://www.graebert.com. Powered by Dassault Systèmes’ CDS solver, ARES Commander 2015 allows you to define geometric or dimensional constraints to add intelligence to your drawings and keep the design intent while modifying your drawings. Fixing constraints in DWG. 1 00:00:09,60 –> 00:00:12,400 ARES Commander 2015 is getting even smarter 2 00:00:12,580 –> 00:00:19,20 thanks to the tools that allow us to assign parameters to “parts” of the drawing or the drawing in general. 3 00:00:19,340 –> 00:00:23,740 In this example, we have a mechanical part containing various constraints, 4 00:00:23,900 –> 00:00:27,419 which are assigned to different elements of a drawing 5 00:00:28,320 –> 00:00:30,360 By changing this value 6 00:00:30,780 –> 00:00:33,560 or this value, you change the drawing. 7 00:00:34,300 –> 00:00:39,800 The CONSTRAINT we have here allows us to determine the
Learning QUICK MODIFY command 1 00:00:08,380 –> 00:00:14,840 ARES Commander 2015 brings us a new tool to quickly modify the objects we have in our drawing. 2 00:00:17,260 –> 00:00:21,520 This tool we find here in this drop-down menu. 3 00:00:22,70 –> 00:00:23,890 It is called “Quick Modify”. 4 00:00:24,640 –> 00:00:27,720 With this single command, we can combine commands known as 5 00:00:27,740 –> 00:00:30,860 Copy, Move, Rotate and Scale. 6 00:00:32,320 –> 00:00:34,320 Select the command. 7 00:00:35,300 –> 00:00:38,500 Note that here in this area of the drawing 8 00:00:38,920 –> 00:00:42,140 there’s a living room that doesn’t contain any furniture. 9 00:00:42,260 –> 00:00:47,420 However here in this other area we have another living room with furniture. 10 00:00:47,820 –> 00:00:51,480 What we’re going to do is copy the furniture and then rotate it. 11 00:00:51,840 –> 00:00:54,800 Select the entities of this room. 12 00:00:56,420
Editing tables interactively Interactive Table Editing is one of the new features in ARES Commander 2015. Get a free trial of this dwg-based CAD software on https://www.graebert.com. See how easy you can create and edit tables directly in your dwg drawings. 1 00:00:08,520 –> 00:00:14,379 ARES Commander 2015 gives us the ability of editing tables interactively. 2 00:00:14,549 –> 00:00:18,70 Thanks to the table editing tools and text editing, 3 00:00:18,70 –> 00:00:21,690 that are combined to help us improve the appearance of tables. 4 00:00:22,000 –> 00:00:25,259 Today, we will not talk today about the existing table options, 5 00:00:25,380 –> 00:00:28,720 when using the command INSERT TABLE. 6 00:00:29,360 –> 00:00:32,659 But about what we can do when we edit an existing table 7 00:00:32,800 –> 00:00:35,360 or import a table from another software 8 00:00:35,360 –> 00:00:38,570 such as Excel or other similar software 9 00:00:38,570 –>
Working with Commands Grouped in Panels ARES Commander allows you to add or modify panels in the Ribbon according to your needs. 1 00:00:08,920 –> 00:00:13,840 The Ribbon allows access to commands that are grouped in panels. 2 00:00:14,420 –> 00:00:17,80 The panel group is part of a tab. 3 00:00:17,460 –> 00:00:23,140 Ares Commander 2015 allows us to change the distribution of the panels and tabs, 4 00:00:23,140 –> 00:00:28,300 so we can customize the organization of the Ribbon according to our taste. 5 00:00:28,300 –> 00:00:31,40 At the moment the Ribbon is showing its default appearance 6 00:00:31,120 –> 00:00:33,980 with the Workspace “Drafting and Annotation”. 7 00:00:34,140 –> 00:00:39,860 If we go to the tab “MANAGE” and select “INTERFACE” in the “CUSTOMIZATION” section, 8 00:00:40,530 –> 00:00:46,719 we can go to the options of the Ribbon where all the 2D and 3D tabs are displayed. 9 00:00:48,760
Working with Default Workspaces 1 00:00:09,000 –> 00:00:15,998 ARES Commander 2015 provides three default workspaces that we see here. 2 00:00:16,000 –> 00:00:19,900 However, depending on the type of work that we have to do, 3 00:00:20,140 –> 00:00:23,260 it can be required to customize the workspace 4 00:00:23,260 –> 00:00:31,460 to suit better the needs for specific activities such as electricity, architecture, structure etc. 5 00:00:32,740 –> 00:00:36,480 For example, when we select the workspace “3D MODELING”, 6 00:00:37,760 –> 00:00:42,940 the program will give priority to tools that will allow us to work in 3D. 7 00:00:43,140 –> 00:00:49,180 By using the option “DRAFTING AND ANNOTATION”, we are prioritizing the 2D tools. 8 00:00:49,200 –> 00:00:52,520 We can also return to the “classic” look, 9 00:00:53,400 –> 00:00:57,160 without Ribbon but with drop-down menus and toolbars. 10 00:00:57,160 –> 00:01:01,640 But … how do we create a customized
Deleting Duplicate drawings in ARES Commander DiscardDuplicate is one of the new commands of ARES Commander. With this new feature, you can clean your dwg drawings and delete duplicates with advanced options. 1 00:00:09,000 –> 00:00:15,200 When we make drawings in CAD It is possible that at any time we have duplicate entities. 2 00:00:15,520 –> 00:00:18,919 Just like in this case where there is apparently 1 circle. 3 00:00:19,280 –> 00:00:22,540 However, when we make a window selection of this “circle” 4 00:00:22,720 –> 00:00:26,439 we can see in the properties palette that there are 4. 5 00:00:26,640 –> 00:00:32,800 ARES Commander 2015 easily eliminates the entities that are duplicated. 6 00:00:33,280 –> 00:00:38,740 To select these entities we come here to the dropdown icon, where we find DELETE. 7 00:00:39,300 –> 00:00:42,480 Choose the command: Discard Duplicates. 8 00:00:42,480 –> 00:00:45,980 Where it says ‘ignore entity properties’ select
Working with Dynamic Blocks ARES Commander is introducing Dynamic Blocks Editing. You can now edit these smart blocks and configure them using grips and options. 1 00:00:09,40 –> 00:00:13,919 ARES Commander 2015 can work with dynamic blocks. 2 00:00:14,260 –> 00:00:17,60 A dynamic block differs from a traditional block 3 00:00:17,500 –> 00:00:22,200 because it has assigned parameters allowing it to change shape … 4 00:00:30,40 –> 00:00:36,19 … in several drawings within the same file, or change its proportions through grips. 5 00:00:39,400 –> 00:00:41,920 In this example, the scale. 6 00:00:42,120 –> 00:00:45,339 Here, the length … 7 00:00:45,800 –> 00:00:49,400 … and here we modify how far the thread goes. 8 00:00:51,340 –> 00:00:53,700 In this example you see a tree. 9 00:00:53,880 –> 00:00:54,760 When selected, 10 00:00:56,480 –> 00:01:03,580 you can choose between an appearance with foliage, without foliage or a schematic look. 11 00:01:04,280
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