Drawing Resources Palette – Productivity Center for Your Design

Working with Design Resources palette

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ARES Commander Edition 2014 introduces a new Design Resources palette.

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You can activate this new palette by pressing Control and 2.

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You may also activate it by entering DESIGNRESOURCES in the command line.

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Or from the Insert Tab, using this icon.

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The palette helps you to browse for content in your projects.

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The elements you find here from your computer or network can easily be reused in the current drawing.

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For example, we can access the blocks of a file.

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But we can also find: Dimension Styles, Layers, Line-types,

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attached external references,

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sheets created in paper space, Table Styles and Text Styles.

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If we click on BLOCKS, we see them in the CONTENT section of the table.

Drag and drop layers

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If we choose layers, for example,

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you can drag and drop any of them in the current drawing.

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Please note we are not importing the content of the layer,

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but only its configuration, that is to say, its name, color, line-types etc.

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We just Drag & Drop it.

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The same can be done with a block.

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Let’s select and drag any of these blocks to our drawing.

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With this action, the block is now inserted into our drawing.

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This is clearly an easy way to reuse content from other drawings and to increase your productivity.

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If you click the right button of the mouse, we will meet 2 more features.

Setting default location

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One of them is “Set as Home”.

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Now, this becomes the location by default.

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You can click on HOME at any time, and the software will bring you back here.

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You can use this to define your main folder for content,

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but also to select one specific drawing.

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Now let’s define this file as FAVORITE,

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but  also this one …

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… and this one.

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Now, If we go to Favorites, we can easily access the content of all these files.

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Design Resources is a great new feature

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that gives you quick access to existing best content

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and allows you to conveniently reuse them in future drawings.

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We hope you’ll enjoy this new palette as an intuitive, new tool that will increase your productivity.

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