Heads up Floating Palette – ARES Commander

ARES Commander 2016 introduces the new “Heads Up” floating palette

Are you looking for Productivity Boost in CAD? Ares Commander 2016 introduces the new “Heads Up” floating palette.

This new contextual toolbar appears next to your cursor when you select entities.

Shortcuts include zoom to selection, change entity layer, change LineStyle or LineWidth, and the possibility to create a dimension or a block from the selection.

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Ares Commander 2016 is introducing the new “Heads Up” floating palette

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that appears when you select one or more entities.

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It offers some shortcuts to change the line type, line weight

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or to open directly from there the Layer Manager.

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You may also assign the current layer to the selected entities.

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For instance…

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at the moment we are working
on layer “0”.

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Let’s move some entities to the “viewport”
layer.

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The entity in this viewport is on layer “0”

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We can select the viewport and choose the “Entity to Active Layer” icon in the “Heads Up” palette.

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In doing so we assign the current layer to the selected entities.

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We could also do it with these two viewports.

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Another option is to change the layer, to
which these entities are assigned to.

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Press the down arrow and choose Layer Name.

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Then choose the target layer of the selected entities.

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Here we choose as destination the
layer “0”.

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After clicking OK the objects are asigned to that layer.

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“Heads Up” provides even more options.

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In this case we select the dimension and click on “Zoom to Selection”.

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We perform an equivalent
to “Zoom Extension” of the selected entity.

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In another example, we select several objects at once and click on “Zoom to Selection” again.

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Among the options available, we can also create a dimension.

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To do this, select an entity and click “Smart Dimension”.

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Now, determine the position of the dimension with one click.

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You can also select this line, press down
the arrow key to select “ANGLE”,

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select another line to define the angle and the dimension is created.

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Remember that, since the previous version, we can quickly edit a selected dimension with the related palette.

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We position the pointer over the icon,

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edit the value it contains, and may add text below, above, prefix or suffix.

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Many other options are available in this dialog.

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See our previous video about that.

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Another option of “Heads Up” is to quickly
create blocks from selected entities.

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In the dialog box we can define a name for the block and add a description.

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We can define an insertion
point,

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the units and other common options available when creating a block.

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Then, if desired, click OK to convert the selected objects into in a block.

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Another novelty that appeared in a previous version of Ares Commander is “Mouse Gestures”.

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To see this feature hold down the right mouse button and make a small movement with the pointer:

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A ‘wheel’ appears and you can access
commands like COPY.

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You may learn more about mouse gesture from our previous video.

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If you want to know more about the options of “Heads Up”

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You can use the HELP of Ares Commander 2016

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where you’ll find all the possibilities of this new contextual toolbar.

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