Some More Tips to Get Started | ARES Commander

In this video, we will show you some tips to learn how to change the color of the background, use mouse shortcuts to zoom, pan and rotate the view and create layouts with different views of your drawing.

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ARES Commander Edition 2014

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provides the ability to change the colors of the display

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to better fit your needs.

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To do so, we may select the Options box in a couple of ways.

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You can, either, find it here – in the application menu

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or in the contextual menu – by clicking the right button of your mouse,

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then you go to Display –

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Elements Colors –

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and from here, we can select the element to be modified,

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which, in our case is Model Background.

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Let’s change it to White

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and click OK.

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I’ll then press Enter to relaunch the last command, in this case, Options.

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The Command has a nice new feature, which is this search filter.

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This filter quickly helps you find any parameter –

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just by entering the first few letters.

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The software lists the options that can match the name we are looking for.

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To visualize our model, besides being able to zoom using the mouse wheel

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or scroll, by pressing it down

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When you hold down the Shift key

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while pressing the mouse wheel.

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The 3D orbit feature is activated and allows us to rotate the view very precisely and easily.

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Next, Allow me to remind you that just like in AutoCAD

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we have model space and paper space,

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which is represented by the feature – layouts.

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Layouts are used to set up sheets, views and scales of our project.

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If we press the right mouse button on one of these layouts

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the Sheet with tools such as Move or Copy.

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We can recognize the fimiliar UCS icon

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that now only shows x and y.

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Double clicking insice a viewport, we can activate it and change the point of view.

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Then double click outside,

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select the viewport. Now you can reduce its size

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and we can move

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and make a copy of the viewport.

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Again, we will enter inside a viewport by double clicking and change the point of view.

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More generally, we can then customize this sheet with tables, dimensions, and text-blocks

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or anything that matters for the final representation on paper of our project.

 

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