Saving special files with a .dws extension

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ARES Commander Edition 2014 now supports Drawing Standards.

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You can now save special files with a .dws extension, which contain your Drawing Standards.

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This file is used to define all the common conventions, or standards,

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that need to be maintained and checked in your drawings.

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Let’s have a closer look.

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We open a drawing and link it to a Drawing Standard file

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that will be used as a reference to check if our drawing violates any of our standards.

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If so, we’ll be able to fix any violation that’s found in our drawing.

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The Drawing Standard file has been used to define standard values for LAYERS,

Dimension Styles, Text Styles and Linetypes

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Dimension Styles, Text Styles and Linetypes.

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In the current drawing, we can see that some text styles have been loaded,

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but also dimension styles,

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layers with various parameters,

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and line-types.

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Now, in the Manage tab, we find the command Drawing Standards,

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and click.

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In the dialog box, we load a Drawing Standards file.

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We’ll use this file created previously with our standards.

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We press OK.

Verify the standards

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Now, let’s ask the software to verify the standards.

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For this we use the command VerifyStandard.

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We can see that this drawing is violating a standard related to dimension styles.

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There is a style whose name does not match any in the DWS file.

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ARES allows us to pick instead, one of the styles existing in the Standards.

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This dialog box further informs us,

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that the dimension style uses an associated text style that also needs to be changed.

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We press Fix

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No more violations are found in dimension styles.

Fixing Errors in Spelling

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But for layers ,we are informed that a layer called “E – Walls” is found

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while in the DWS file, there is one called “E – Wall”, without an “s”.

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Let’s select it for replacement. We press Fix

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With this procedure, we can change any layers that does not meet the standard,

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until we comply totally with the DWS file.

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Doing so, we make sure our drawing fulfills the drawing standard expectations.

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Next, we find a violation in Linetypes.

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In this drawing there is a style called “Line Space”

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while the Standard file has one called “Space Lines”.

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To fix, this we just select – and click Fix

Renaming Files

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Now let’s check text styles We find one called “ARES 1_100”

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while the DWS file has one called “ARES TXT100”.

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When we’re done, we get a report to verify our actions.

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It’s that easy to check whether a file meets any set of desired standards.

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We can control the layers, dimension styles, text styles and linetypes  in any drawing

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by creating a Drawing Standard file.

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To create a new Drawing Standards file we open any drawing,

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configure the four types of elements, LAYERS, DIMENSION STYLES, TEXTS AND LINE-TYPES

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then go to SAVE AS, and choose the extension DWS.

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You’ll find more information about Standards in the Help section.

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