Create and Manage Groups

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Creating groups are now very easy with ARES Commander Edition 2014.

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We just select some entities, right click, and from Entity Group, we choose Quick Group

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In turn, to ungroup the entities we do just the opposite.

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That is, select the group, right click and choose Quick Ungroup.

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These commands also appear in the Ribbon…

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Creating groups are very quick and easy this way.

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We can use the QuickGroup icon,

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select entities and press Enter… and we have created a new group.

Comparing Groups and Blocks

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If you compare Groups and blocks,

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one difference is that blocks have an Insertion Point while Groups don’t.

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But the most important difference is, that when you create a block

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and make copies or new insertions of this block,

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all the blocks occurrences are related to the same block.

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If we redefine the block, all the block insertions in the drawing will be updated and redrawn.

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This will not happen with a group.

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Each copy of a group will remain independant.

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And any change we make to a group will not affect its copies.

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When we create a group, we can treat it as a single entity.

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Let’s make a copy as an example.

Mirror a Group

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If you perform a MIRROR of this Group,

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you can see that the text in the group, is also mirrored.

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To correct this, I can do the following: Use the command PICKSTYLE

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to enable or disable group selection.

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It is currently ON, so let’s switch it OFF by clicking the icon.

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Now we can work with the entities that belong to the group.

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That’s how we can fix both texts.

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We select MIRROR, and mirror the text about its center point.

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When ARES asks us if the first object should be removed, we enter “yes”.

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Now let’s make a MIRROR of the next text.

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We switch the groups selection ON from the Ribbon.

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Now, when we fly the cursor over the group

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we can see that the texts are also highlighted,

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indicating that they still belong to the group.

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Let’s switch PICKSTYLE again to do another test.

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We’ll make a copy of an element belonging to the group,

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For example, one of these elements.

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The first entity, belongs to the group

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This second entity, the copy, is not in the group

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Therefore, if we activate the group selection and fly the cursor over the group,

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we see that the copied item is shown separately from the rest.

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Now, pay attention to the text below this Group.

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We disable the group selection again.

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Now let’s mirror the text, but using different methods.

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For this text, we will mirror the entity about its center, keeping the original text.

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So we choose “NO” in the command line.

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For the second one, we will mirror answering “YES” to delete the original entity.

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So mirroring, may be used as a kind of copy.

Using the MOVE command

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When we perform a mirror, and decide to remove the original entity,

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it is like using the MOVE command.

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ARES considers the resulting text object to be the same but rotated about its axis.

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But if we use the MIRROR command, and keep the original entity,

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ARES believes that the result is a copy of the original entity. As a result, the original is kept in the group,

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while the copy is considered a separate object, which doesn’t belong to the group;

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this is just like earlier when we copied an entity of the group

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and this copy was not considered to be in the group.

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In this first case, we performed a MIRROR and kept both entities.

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The original is still in the group, while the copy isn’t.

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Now we’ll remove the original text, because its position is incorrect

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and we keep the new text, now readable.

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Let’s move this text a little to the right. In this case, remember we have removed the original object.

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Notice that for ARES it is as if this is the same original object.

Group Selection

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Now, let’s enable groups selection from the Ribbon.

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Flying the mouse over the group, we see that this text is highlighted,

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but not the other one.

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Simply because ARES considers the upper text is new and is not a member of the group.

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The same as in the previous example.

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Finally, let’s take a look at the Entity Group Edit command.

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With this command, we can add items in a group.

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For that – click on the icon. Select the group you want to modify,

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in the command line, choose Add, by typing “A” and pressing ENTER.

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We select the entities…

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… and press ENTER.

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Now, when you fly over the group,

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you’ll see that they all belong to the group.

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In previous versions, when we wanted to create a group, we had to use the command EntityGroup.

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That brings up this dialog box where you can choose New, then select entities,

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press ENTER.

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Enter a name and description for the group.  A new group was created.

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Press OK .

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A new group is created.

Quick Grouping

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But when you create a Quick Group, ARES automatically assigns a default name to the group.

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We can also use the same command to show us the unnamed groups.

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Unnamed groups are assigned a letter followed by a consecutive number.

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Using EDIT… we can change the description.

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Using HIGHLIGHT, we can highlight a chosen group in the drawing.

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But we can’t rename a group here.

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At least from this dialog box.

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To change the name, you must use the EDIT ENTITY GROUP command, we met earlier.

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After selecting the command, choose the Group you want to edit.

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From the command line, you can choose RENAME,

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typing R-E-N and pressing ENTER.

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It was called * A27 , now we will rename it as TOWER.

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If we return to the ENTITY GROUP command,

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you now see that the group is called TOWER, and may add a description.

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Creating Groups is now very easy

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with ARES Commander Edition  2014.

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