Smart & Fast Selection Methods – ARES Commander

Smart & Fast Selection Methods

Searching for a smart & fast way to use CAD? ARES Commander offers a quick way to select objects in a drawing with Smart & Fast Selection Methods.

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Ares Commander 2016 offers a quick way to select objects in a drawing.

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For example, if we want to select all the
entities that are similar to this one, we select it,

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press the right mouse button
and choose SELECT MATCHING.

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As you can see, all the similar entities in the drawing have been selected,

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so that you can work with them.

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This function complements the tool SMART SELECT

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that ARES Commander was already offering in previous versions.

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Smart Select allows filtering and selecting
objects in the drawing.

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And it lets us determine whether we search in the current drawing

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or only within the current selection.

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We can also determine the type of object we want to select

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and filter by properties.

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For example, we apply the selection to the
entire drawing,

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choose BLOCKS,

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set the property to “layer”

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and the value to “bungalows 2”.

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We can determine also if we want to add this selection to a previous one

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or replace it.

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Now we want to add the current selection to the previous selection of 8 elements.

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We reach a total of 29 selected entities. In this case, they are all blocks.

Discover the new command “SELECT MATCHING”

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But what can we do with the new command “SELECT MATCHING”?

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Let’s have a closer look.

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Select the object, right click and choose “SELECT MATCHING”.

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Pay attention to the command line.

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Note that there are some options configured.

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It highlights that you search and select all
the elements sharing the same Layer and the same name.

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But where do we configure this?

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We type the command and press Enter.

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We can do this in the command line, or – thanks to the new QUICK INPUT feature – directly next to the cursor.

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Press ENTER.

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Among the options we have “SETTINGS”.

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We write “SE” and press ENTER.

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Or we press the down arrow key
and choose the “Settings” option.

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This is where we can find the options that
will be used when launching the Select Matching feature.

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We basically define certain settings or filters to select similar entities.

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In this case, the entities sharing the same
name and the same layer.

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This selection method work for entities like lines, arcs, circles, polylines, blocks,

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as well as table styles, dimension styles
and even text styles.

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We could say that “SELECT MATCHING” will behave similarly to “Smart Selection”,

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but in a simpler way and quicker way.

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Among the options of ISOLATE LAYER, we will find some new tools

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introduced with Ares Commander
2016.

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Remember how this command works.

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After selecting we can choose an entity in
the drawing and press ENTER.

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Ares Commander turns off all the layers of the drawing unless they belong to the one of the selected entity.

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The command ISOLATELAYER worked well until the previous version.

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Now, Ares Commander 2016 features a new option.

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Let’s go back.

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Select ISOLATE LAYER again.

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And this time, press the DOWN ARROW KEY to choose SETTINGS.

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There we have 2 options:

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The option OFF, which is what we knew so far,

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and the new LOCK AND FADE option.

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We determine a value between 0 and 90.

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In this example, we type 90 and press ENTER.

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Now, we select an entity in the drawing.

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Press ENTER, to see how all entities become transparent while locked –

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at least those belonging to the layer of the selected object.

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If we like, we quickly can go back to the
previous status using the new command “SELECT MATCHING”,

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that we already know from the previous version of ARES Commander.

 ISOLATE ENTITIES and HIDE ENTITIES.

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Among other new commands Ares Commander 2016 features ISOLATE ENTITIES and HIDE ENTITIES.

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To access ISOLATE ENTITIES, we write it in the command line and press ENTER.

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This command is used to isolate entities,
regardless of the layer in which they are located.

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Like this, we can select multiple entities at once.

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After pressing ENTER all unselected entities will be turned off.

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When we use the new command UNISOLATE ENTITIES and press ENTER,

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the whole drawing reappears.

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On the other hand, the new command HIDE ENTITIES

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allows us to select all entities, regardless of the layers to which they are belonging.

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To show all elements of the drawing again, we return to the command UNISOLATE ENTITIES.

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Finally, the NEW system variable OBJECT ISOLATION MODE

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allows to switch between the values 0 or 1.

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By default the value “0” appears.

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This means that if we keep a drawing that
contains hidden entities,

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after using commands like ISOLATE ENTITIES or HIDE ENTITIES,

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all objects will be automatically made visible again when we open the drawing in a new session.

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However, when the OBJECT ISOLATION MODE system variable is set to “1”

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and we open the drawing in a new session, the objects will remain hidden.

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We have to use the UNISOLATE ENTITIES command to make them visible again.

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To learn more abut what’s new in Ares Commander 2016

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please visit the HELP section offered by the software.

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