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Create and Manage Groups 1 00:00:09,120 –> 00:00:15,719 Creating groups are now very easy with ARES Commander Edition 2014. 2 00:00:15,919 –> 00:00:22,699 We just select some entities, right click, and from Entity Group, we choose Quick Group 3 00:00:26,840 –> 00:00:30,920 In turn, to ungroup the entities we do just the opposite. 4 00:00:31,460 –> 00:00:38,600 That is, select the group, right click and choose Quick Ungroup. 5 00:00:42,520 –> 00:00:45,360 These commands also appear in the Ribbon… 6 00:00:47,920 –> 00:00:50,940 Creating groups are very quick and easy this way. 7 00:00:51,480 –> 00:00:54,199 We can use the QuickGroup icon, 8 00:00:54,420 –> 00:00:59,600 select entities and press Enter… and we have created a new group. Comparing Groups and Blocks 9 00:01:00,140 –> 00:01:03,20 If you compare Groups and blocks, 10 00:01:03,20 –> 00:01:07,780 one difference is that blocks have an Insertion Point while Groups don’t. 11 00:01:08,280
Working with new tools to organize and manage Layers 1 00:00:08,770 –> 00:00:14,469 ARES Commander Edition 2014 increases your productivity 2 00:00:14,600 –> 00:00:19,300 with new tools to organize and manage Layers. 3 00:00:20,740 –> 00:00:27,20 Among features related to layers, we would like to emphasize the new LAYER PREVIEW. 4 00:00:27,620 –> 00:00:30,360 We can access the command from this icon 5 00:00:30,940 –> 00:00:35,320 or write LAYERPREVIEW in the Command Line. 6 00:00:35,620 –> 00:00:40,660 LayerPreview provides a simple way to view the elements in each layer. 7 00:00:43,580 –> 00:00:46,260 Clearly, an extremely useful tool. 8 00:00:46,440 –> 00:00:51,699 Especially when working with projects created by another person or another company. 9 00:00:53,680 –> 00:00:57,820 With a click, we can get to know the elements on each layer. 10 00:00:58,240 –> 00:01:00,640 It’s just amazing! 11 00:01:02,60 –> 00:01:08,700 When you browse through Layer Preview, you are
In this video, we will show you some tips to learn how to change the color of the background, use mouse shortcuts to zoom, pan and rotate the view and create layouts with different views of your drawing. 1 00:00:09,600 –> 00:00:12,959 ARES Commander Edition 2014 2 00:00:13,180 –> 00:00:16,379 provides the ability to change the colors of the display 3 00:00:16,680 –> 00:00:19,80 to better fit your needs. 4 00:00:19,520 –> 00:00:25,200 To do so, we may select the Options box in a couple of ways. 5 00:00:25,900 –> 00:00:30,20 You can, either, find it here – in the application menu 6 00:00:30,180 –> 00:00:34,500 or in the contextual menu – by clicking the right button of your mouse, 7 00:00:34,640 –> 00:00:37,500 then you go to Display – 8 00:00:38,340 –> 00:00:40,340 Elements Colors – 9 00:00:42,200 –> 00:00:47,20 and from here, we can select the element to
Features of Rich-line editing The 2014 version of ARES Commander Edition, celebrates Graebert’s 30 years of innovation and expertise of CAD. More than just a high-productivity and cost-effective alternative to AutoCAD, Graebert’s CAD technologies are used by nearly 5 million of professionals in more than 100 countries and ARES Commander Edition is the third generation of our CAD software formerly known as FelixCAD and PowerCAD. 1-2 00:00:06,930 –> 00:00:10,530 ARES commander edition 2014 3 00:00:10,530 –> 00:00:13,920 introduces new features for rich line editing 4 00:00:13,920 –> 00:00:17,939 let’s examine how these intelligent lines can now be edited 5 00:00:17,939 –> 00:00:23,109 in the command line, we can use the command Rich line or use the drop-down 6 00:00:23,109 –> 00:00:24,519 that appears in the ribbon 7 00:00:24,519 –> 00:00:28,320 here in the drawer group the Home tab 8 00:00:28,320 –> 00:00:32,759 Riichline can draw a parallel lines by default
Discover and learn how to use the new Ribbon interface introduced in ARES Commander Edition 2014 1 00:00:00,80 –> 00:00:07,80 welcome to this video introducing ARES commander 2 00:00:10,980 –> 00:00:14,430 edition 2014 please note: 3 00:00:14,430 –> 00:00:19,669 we are using a Windows version of ARES but ARES commander edition 4 00:00:19,669 –> 00:00:22,800 is also the only CAD software 5 00:00:22,800 –> 00:00:27,149 available for Mac and Linux, first thing to notice 6 00:00:27,149 –> 00:00:31,239 when we open a drawing session is the new ribbon interface 7 00:00:31,239 –> 00:00:36,329 it is a modern environment organizing many tool shortcuts 8 00:00:36,329 –> 00:00:42,539 into a minimum space, by default there are two working environments 9 00:00:42,539 –> 00:00:46,550 one for working in 3d and another 10 00:00:46,550 –> 00:00:50,300 for 2d, when changing from one environment to another 11 00:00:50,300 –> 00:00:53,959 the ribbon adapts with tools 12
The 2014 version of ARES Commander Edition, celebrates Graebert’s 30 years of innovation and expertise of CAD. More than just a high-productivity and cost-effective alternative to AutoCAD, Graebert’s CAD technologies are used by nearly 5 million of professionals in more than 100 countries and ARES Commander Edition is the third generation of our CAD software formerly known as FelixCAD and PowerCAD. 1 00:00:09,940 –> 00:00:17,140 ARES Commander Edition 2014 introduces layer and entity transparency. 2 00:00:17,600 –> 00:00:20,600 Let’s add transparency to this Cross-Hatch. 3 00:00:20,800 –> 00:00:24,700 For that, the first option is to go the Layer Manager. 4 00:00:25,400 –> 00:00:27,400 Search for the layer of this entity 5 00:00:27,980 –> 00:00:30,480 and change the transparency factor. 6 00:00:30,800 –> 00:00:33,300 We select this layer 7 00:00:34,600 –> 00:00:37,100 and enter the transparency factor … 8 00:00:39,900 –> 00:00:40,800 …here. 9 00:00:41,600 –> 00:00:43,600 Let’s enter 40%. 10
Saving special files with a .dws extension 1 00:00:08,760 –> 00:00:15,40 ARES Commander Edition 2014 now supports Drawing Standards. 2 00:00:15,40 –> 00:00:21,820 You can now save special files with a .dws extension, which contain your Drawing Standards. 3 00:00:22,100 –> 00:00:26,980 This file is used to define all the common conventions, or standards, 4 00:00:27,120 –> 00:00:30,880 that need to be maintained and checked in your drawings. 5 00:00:31,140 –> 00:00:33,000 Let’s have a closer look. 6 00:00:33,160 –> 00:00:37,239 We open a drawing and link it to a Drawing Standard file 7 00:00:37,560 –> 00:00:43,580 that will be used as a reference to check if our drawing violates any of our standards. 8 00:00:43,780 –> 00:00:48,480 If so, we’ll be able to fix any violation that’s found in our drawing. 9 00:00:48,840 –> 00:00:54,700 The Drawing Standard file has been used to define standard values for LAYERS, Dimension Styles,
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