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Selection Tools and Contextual Editing with ARES Touch
- 08/06/2015
- Posted by: Graebert
- Category: Tips & TricksVideos
Capturing entities 1 00:00:03,300 –> 00:00:06,589 To select entities, you may simply tap on them. 2 00:00:08,000 –> 00:00:11,820 To unselect all, you can tap on FINISH. 3 00:00:15,100 –> 00:00:17,990 Now let’s see how to use selection windows. 4 00:00:18,300 –> 00:00:20,660 Hold your finger on screen without moving. 5 00:00:20,860 –> 00:00:27,259 If no command is launched, it will start the selection window. Then move your finger to the opposite corner. 6 00:00:27,420 –> 00:00:31,580 If you go from the right to the left, the window is green. 7 00:00:32,540 –> 00:00:37,860 This window will capture the entities inside AND partially inside. 8 00:00:38,900 –> 00:00:42,260 If you go from the left to the right, the window is blue. 9 00:00:42,560 –> 00:00:46,460 And only the entities completely inside will be selected. 10 00:00:46,680 –> 00:00:52,480 By default the selection is in the ADD mode to add entities
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CAD Blocks for DraftSight
- 01/04/2015
- Posted by: Graebert
- Category: Tips & TricksVideos
Note: CADblocks for DraftSight was discontinued by its developer. Unfortunately this plug-in is therefore no longer available. To learn more about the Graebert plugins currently available for DraftSightwe invite you to visit https://www.graebert.com/cad-software/plugins-for-draftsight/ CAD Blocks for DraftSight 1 00:00:09,160 –> 00:00:13,680“CAD Blocks for DraftSight” gives you access to thousands of blocks. 200:00:14,000 –> 00:00:16,860Many of these blocks contain intelligence. 300:00:17,60 –> 00:00:21,259In this example, we can see an office where you find blocks for furniture, 400:00:21,460 –> 00:00:26,260sanitary equipment, various labels and signs. 500:00:27,60 –> 00:00:30,340They all belongto blocks supplied by CAD Blocks. 600:00:31,220 –> 00:00:32,879The process is very simple. 700:00:33,220 –> 00:00:34,440We click here … 800:00:34,520 –> 00:00:40,820… go to the category we like, select with a click and look for the topic of our interest. 900:00:41,240 –> 00:00:44,300For example, we can insert this block. 1000:00:44,640 –> 00:00:50,920Here we have a larger preview, while in this area parameters will appear
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Discard Duplicates in ARES Commander
- 15/03/2015
- Posted by: Graebert
- Category: Press ArticlesTips & Tricks
Amit Kumar Practices How to Discard Duplicates in ARES Commander “ARES Commander has introduced a very effective command “Discard Duplicates”, this command deletes the duplicated and overlapped entities. In drawing many times we have duplicate drawing entities available, which are not required.” Read the full articles on CADBlogbyAmit here
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Learn Mouse Gestures in ARES Commander
- 14/03/2015
- Posted by: Graebert
- Category: Press ArticlesTips & Tricks
Amit Kumar writes about the Mouse Gestures in ARES Commander “ARES commander 2015 has very useful feature Mouse Gestures which is making this software different in 2D category. You can map up to eight commands to mouse gestures from the Mouse Gestures dialog box.” Read the full article on CADBlogbyAmit here
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Dimension Palette in ARES Commander
- 09/03/2015
- Posted by: Graebert
- Category: Press ArticlesTips & Tricks
Amit Kumar from CADBlogbyAmit lists down features in Dimension Palette “The Dimension palette appears when you insert or select a Dimension so you can change the properties and formatting of Dimension text. You can change the tolerance, precision, and formatting in the palette without going to the Properties palette.” Read the full article on CADBlogbyAmit here
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Function Keys Appearing in ARES Commander
- 09/03/2015
- Posted by: Graebert
- Category: Press ArticlesTips & Tricks
Amit Kumar from CADblogbyAmit writes about ARES Commander Function Keys “You probably know about Function keys and you might be using some of them. But we’re going to take an expedition to all these keys and I’m going to convince you that using them is going to make your work much faster. We all want to go faster when creating CAD drawing and we better.” Read the full article on CADBlogbyAmit here
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One Key Shortcuts for ARES Commander
- 07/03/2015
- Posted by: Graebert
- Category: Press ArticlesTips & Tricks
Amit Kumar Uncovers the One Key Shortcuts for ARES Commander “ARES Commander is available for Windows®, Mac® OS X and several Linux distributions. You probably know many of the Key Board aliases and you might be using some of them. I will give you a list of all the keyboard aliases for ARES Commander. And I’m sure by using this your speed will be 2 times faster. “ Read the full article on CADBlogbyAmit here.
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2D Constraints in DWG CAD
- 20/01/2015
- Posted by: Graebert
- Category: Tips & TricksVideos
Try 2D Constraints in your DWG files for free – Get a free trial of ARES Commander on https://www.graebert.com. Powered by Dassault Systèmes’ CDS solver, ARES Commander 2015 allows you to define geometric or dimensional constraints to add intelligence to your drawings and keep the design intent while modifying your drawings. Fixing constraints in DWG. 1 00:00:09,60 –> 00:00:12,400 ARES Commander 2015 is getting even smarter 2 00:00:12,580 –> 00:00:19,20 thanks to the tools that allow us to assign parameters to “parts” of the drawing or the drawing in general. 3 00:00:19,340 –> 00:00:23,740 In this example, we have a mechanical part containing various constraints, 4 00:00:23,900 –> 00:00:27,419 which are assigned to different elements of a drawing 5 00:00:28,320 –> 00:00:30,360 By changing this value 6 00:00:30,780 –> 00:00:33,560 or this value, you change the drawing. 7 00:00:34,300 –> 00:00:39,800 The CONSTRAINT we have here allows us to determine the
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QuickModify – Move, Rotate, Copy and Scale at once with ARES Commander
- 19/01/2015
- Posted by: Graebert
- Category: Tips & TricksVideos
Learning QUICK MODIFY command 1 00:00:08,380 –> 00:00:14,840 ARES Commander 2015 brings us a new tool to quickly modify the objects we have in our drawing. 2 00:00:17,260 –> 00:00:21,520 This tool we find here in this drop-down menu. 3 00:00:22,70 –> 00:00:23,890 It is called “Quick Modify”. 4 00:00:24,640 –> 00:00:27,720 With this single command, we can combine commands known as 5 00:00:27,740 –> 00:00:30,860 Copy, Move, Rotate and Scale. 6 00:00:32,320 –> 00:00:34,320 Select the command. 7 00:00:35,300 –> 00:00:38,500 Note that here in this area of the drawing 8 00:00:38,920 –> 00:00:42,140 there’s a living room that doesn’t contain any furniture. 9 00:00:42,260 –> 00:00:47,420 However here in this other area we have another living room with furniture. 10 00:00:47,820 –> 00:00:51,480 What we’re going to do is copy the furniture and then rotate it. 11 00:00:51,840 –> 00:00:54,800 Select the entities of this room. 12 00:00:56,420
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Discarding Unused References within ARES Commander
- 17/01/2015
- Posted by: Graebert
- Category: Press ArticlesTips & Tricks
Amit Kumar from CADblogbyAMit works with the Clean Command in ARES Commander “ARES Commander’s Clean command removes unused references from the drawing. You can remove Block definitions, EntityGroups, Layers, defined drafting styles (such as LineStyles, TextStyles, DimensionStyles, and RichLineStyles), and other references as long as they are not referenced by other definitions or entities in the drawing file.” Read the full article on CADBlogbyAmit here.
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