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The 2014 version of ARES Commander Edition, celebrates Graebert’s 30 years of innovation and expertise of CAD. More than just a high-productivity and cost-effective alternative to AutoCAD, Graebert’s CAD technologies are used by nearly 5 million of professionals in more than 100 countries and ARES Commander Edition is the third generation of our CAD software formerly known as FelixCAD and PowerCAD. To learn more about ARES Commander, visit our Youtube Channel: GraebertTV

Create and Manage Groups 1 00:00:09,120 –> 00:00:15,719 Creating groups are now very easy with ARES Commander Edition 2014. 2 00:00:15,919 –> 00:00:22,699 We just select some entities, right click, and from Entity Group, we choose Quick Group 3 00:00:26,840 –> 00:00:30,920 In turn, to ungroup the entities we do just the opposite. 4 00:00:31,460 –> 00:00:38,600 That is, select the group, right click and choose Quick Ungroup. 5 00:00:42,520 –> 00:00:45,360 These commands also appear in the Ribbon… 6 00:00:47,920 –> 00:00:50,940 Creating groups are very quick and easy this way. 7 00:00:51,480 –> 00:00:54,199 We can use the QuickGroup icon, 8 00:00:54,420 –> 00:00:59,600 select entities and press Enter… and we have created a new group. Comparing Groups and Blocks 9 00:01:00,140 –> 00:01:03,20 If you compare Groups and blocks, 10 00:01:03,20 –> 00:01:07,780 one difference is that blocks have an Insertion Point while Groups don’t. 11 00:01:08,280

Working with new tools to organize and manage Layers 1 00:00:08,770 –> 00:00:14,469 ARES Commander Edition 2014 increases your productivity 2 00:00:14,600 –> 00:00:19,300 with new tools to organize and manage Layers. 3 00:00:20,740 –> 00:00:27,20 Among features related to layers, we would like to emphasize the new LAYER PREVIEW. 4 00:00:27,620 –> 00:00:30,360 We can access the command from this icon 5 00:00:30,940 –> 00:00:35,320 or write LAYERPREVIEW in the Command Line. 6 00:00:35,620 –> 00:00:40,660 LayerPreview provides a simple way to view the elements in each layer. 7 00:00:43,580 –> 00:00:46,260 Clearly, an extremely useful tool. 8 00:00:46,440 –> 00:00:51,699 Especially when working with projects created by another person or another company. 9 00:00:53,680 –> 00:00:57,820 With a click, we can get to know the elements on each layer. 10 00:00:58,240 –> 00:01:00,640 It’s just amazing! 11 00:01:02,60 –> 00:01:08,700 When you browse through Layer Preview, you are

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. 1 00:00:09,600 –> 00:00:12,959 ARES Commander Edition 2014 2 00:00:13,180 –> 00:00:16,379 provides the ability to change the colors of the display 3 00:00:16,680 –> 00:00:19,80 to better fit your needs. 4 00:00:19,520 –> 00:00:25,200 To do so, we may select the Options box in a couple of ways. 5 00:00:25,900 –> 00:00:30,20 You can, either, find it here – in the application menu 6 00:00:30,180 –> 00:00:34,500 or in the contextual menu – by clicking the right button of your mouse, 7 00:00:34,640 –> 00:00:37,500 then you go to Display – 8 00:00:38,340 –> 00:00:40,340 Elements Colors – 9 00:00:42,200 –> 00:00:47,20 and from here, we can select the element to