Working with Panels in ARES Commander

Working with Commands Grouped in Panels

ARES Commander allows you to add or modify panels in the Ribbon according to your needs.

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The Ribbon allows access to commands that are grouped in panels.

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The panel group is part of a tab.

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Ares Commander 2015 allows us to change the distribution of the panels and tabs,

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so we can customize the organization of the Ribbon according to our taste.

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At the moment the Ribbon is showing its default appearance

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with the Workspace “Drafting and Annotation”.

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If we go to the tab “MANAGE” and select “INTERFACE” in the “CUSTOMIZATION” section,

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we can go to the options of the Ribbon where all the 2D and 3D tabs are displayed.

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We can create a new tab by right-clicking

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and we can assign a name to it.

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In this tab you can incorporate panels which are currently defined in Ares Commander 2015.

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Simply drag them.

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For this new tab, that is part of this workspace of the ribbon,

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we define it and apply the changes.

Selecting “UI PROFILES”

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Select the option “UI PROFILES”.

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From here we open the tabs of the Ribbon,

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drag our new tab from the side panel

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and drop it in this workspace.

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When you click OK … you confirm the incorporation of the new tab.

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Ares Commander 2015 allows us also to change
the look of the icons for each command.

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For example, we can see that some commands appear like this

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and others with a drop-down menu.

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Other icons display only a diagram without
text.

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These options are available for any of these commands.

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As an example, we will change the look of the commands in the new tab.

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Select “INTERFACE”.

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This time we go to “Panels”.

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We search for the panel we want to modify.

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There we find the corresponding commands.

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Now select one of them …

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… and change the button style.

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The other one …

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… and this one.

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We can see the changes here.

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Like this you can create your own panels, copy existing ones, modify the appearance of icons

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and even group them in a way that is most useful for you.

Another Example

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Let’s look at another example.

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Go to the “MANAGE” tab

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and select “CUSTOMIZATION”.

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Open the Ribbon, where we see the panels and tabs.

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In the “Annotate” tab we have the “TEXT”panel.

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At the bottom, in the panels section we find this “TEXT” panel.

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When you open it, this group of commands appear.

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By clicking here, we can see these commands.

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What appears in this menu can also be seen here.

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The “Sub-Panel” is divided into 3 parts.

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The third option contains 2 commands.

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These two commands appear over here.

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Let’s add a new command.

Using “Command Exlporer”

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You find the commands here in the “Command Exlporer”.

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In this case we search for “table”.

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All the commands containing the word table are listed.

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I will add EDIT TABLE by dragging it here.

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Here we see that it has been added.

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To change the appearance of the icon, select it and choose an option here.

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The changes in this panel will affect all tabs containing the TEXT panel.

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If we want to create a new panel identical to an existing one, and then customize it,

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we click here, then right-click

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and choose “DUPLICATE”.

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It appears here. Let’s rename it.

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Like this we can have a personalized copy and keep the original unchanged.

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Now we can add the new panel to this tab.

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To add the new panel, we search for it here.

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Simply drag to add it.

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This is how we can remove it.

Removing a Panel

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Alright, we now have our custom panel with the additional command.

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Without affecting the original panel.

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Thanks for listening.

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