Tips & Tricks

PDFs are usually not editable like files with a .dwg extension. Graebert offers a simple solution; ARES Commander helps you to converts a PDF file into an editable DWG drawing. How to convert a PDF file to a DWG drawing with ARES Commander PDF files are often an important resource in a technical office. They are the quickest and most effective way to display and save a project for customers. Over time, it can happen that we lack the DWG version of an old project and we have only saved it as a PDF version. When you open the PDF project (created from CAD), it is common to have the layers of the original project. For this reason, a PDF reader can show or hide the different layers of the project. However, a PDF is not editable. At least not like files with a .dwg extension. The good news: ARES Commander

Ares Commander 2016 offers new tools to improve our productivity Some of them are grouped in the new “XtraTools” tab.In previous videos, we have seen how “Curved Text” and “Hatch Pattern” work. The “XtraTools” section offers nine more commands. You will gradually discover more XtraTools commands in the future versions of ARES Commander. The “Break Line” command allows you to draw a line containing a symbol, in this example, a break-out line. But it could be another file in DWG format, for example, to indicate a specific type of cable or a symbol containing the word “gas” to indicate a gas pipe or any other use we wish to assign or any other use we wish to assign. We simply load a DWG file and the symbol will be integrated into the line we’re going to draw. From this area, we will be able to control the size of the