Create Dimensions for a Technical Drawing on ARES Commander

Learn all about dimension styles in here

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ARES commander provides all necessary tools to correctly create dimensions for

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a technical drawing

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find these tools and the section annotation in the Home tab or in the

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annotate tab

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these tools are easy-to-use they are very intuitive for example you can

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easily create lines parallel dimensions as well as narrow angles diameters radii

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etc

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in this tutorial series we teach you how to create and save dimension styles in

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addition to using a different standard and annotated of styles

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as we can see in this example the drawing is shown at different scales

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while the graphical appearance of the dimension is the same in all of the use, this

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is because it’s a unique dimension style in this case and annotate of style

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it means that we shape the final appearance of the dimension the size

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that will be printed

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regardless of the scale that we are viewing on, the other hand the annotate

Define the scale

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of dimensions and annotated objects generally allow you to define the scale

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to be displayed as we can see in the example of these dimensions which appear

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only in the detail view something that can also be seen in the A&B texts that

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are annotated objects shown only in this other level regardless of the layer to

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which they belong

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for more information on this topic don’t miss our video showing the differences

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between annotated and non-annotated styles today all dimensions as well as

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text should be annotated but for some reason, many users not yet utilize these

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elements which are an effective time saver when creating and modifying

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technical drawings before we dive into the characteristics of the annotated

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dimensions we must learn to master the standard dimensions because then making

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them, annotated is easy in this example, we have the style standard and which

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are off the types non-annotated or standard we know this because they have

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an icon in the form of a cross out a the annotate of style displays an icon with

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an A indicating precisely that it is annotated to create a new dimension

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style we simply click dimension style here

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we also have this option in the annotate tab

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here are the same stars that we saw before when we select new we will create

Copy Parameters of an existing style

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a new style, look at this table besides being able to write a new name to this

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new style we can also choose to copy parameters of an existing style

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this means that all the parameters that appear in the new style will be

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identical to the style we have chosen as a base

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this option allows us to save time when we want to create a style similar to an

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existing one we choose the style I so 25 and name it example

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this new style will be used in all kinds of levels since we can also choose a

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specific group of levels if we like

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press ok we are now working on the new style as you see it indicates that it is

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not annotated in these sections we will be able to configure each parameter

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included in the dimension style at this time the dimension style and use is iso

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25 we know this because its name includes a small arrow now select the

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style and press activate example to activate it

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the style and use cannot be deleted

Compare the two styles

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even those styles that have dimensions associated with them instead we can

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delete the empty dimension styles we can also select the icon differences to

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compare the two styles of the existing levels to see their differences

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in this example the Styles imitative and example

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all dimensions data in this drawing style belong to iso 25 note that i

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select and confirmed that they belong to the style I so 25 now we can change for

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example the style called annotative in the drawing we see that the appearance

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of dimensions has changed

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let’s select this one and change the style to a standard like this we can have

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a dimensional drawing with different dimension styles but how do we modify

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the visual appearance of a dimension

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we have to know that each of the dimension styles parameters can change

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like that, we can customize the look of the dimension that best fits our needs

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please check out our YouTube tutorials to learn more about dimensions and their

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parameters and ARES commander

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