Insert Center Lines in ARES Commander

Insert Center Lines

Insert Centerlines between pairs of lines, concentric arc and polyline segments

Very popular for Mechanical design but also very helpful in other situations, the CENTERLINE command will draw a line at equidistance of the pair of entities you selected. The CENTER line style will be assigned by default and you can fine tune the extension of the Centerline.

ARES Commander gives us the ability to quickly create a center line. We can choose 2 lines and ARES Commander draws a line that passes through its center. After selecting them we can know the properties of these lines, and determine a specific value of distance that will extend beyond the reference entities.

Working with CENTERLINES

In this case, we are going to relocate the center lines to match the sides of these tubes. Then we activate the possibility to set to a custom distance, choosing “YES” and typing a distance value.

Now we can see in the drawing how this distance is mapped out. Best of all, the specific LineStyle for centerlines is assigned automatically as required for mechanical designs. We can also create this type of center lines between 2 lines that are not parallel to each other. For example to define the axis of this elevation. We can select the centerline and modify its scale so that it looks appropriate in the drawing.

In another example, we can use the center line to check if the gear shafts match. For that purpose, we draw 2 tangent lines to the sides of the chain. After drawing those lines, we launch the CENTERLINE command and select the tangents. ARES Commander will draw a line that passes through the middle of these 2 and should match the axes of the gears.

We can also create a center line, for example, between 2 arcs. In any case, you can change the line type that was assigned by default, as well as the scale.

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