Productivity Features for Layers Management | ARES Commander

Working with new tools to organize and manage Layers

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ARES Commander Edition 2014 increases your productivity

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with new tools to organize and manage Layers.

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Among features related to layers, we would like to emphasize the new LAYER PREVIEW.

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We can access the command from this icon

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or write LAYERPREVIEW in the Command Line.

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LayerPreview provides a simple way to view the elements in each layer.

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Clearly, an extremely useful tool.

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Especially when working with projects created by another person or another company.

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With a click, we can get to know the elements on each layer.

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It’s just amazing!

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When you browse through Layer Preview, you are activating and deactivating layers.

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If we have selected some layers for Preview,

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we can decide what should happen when we close the dialog.

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We can use this check box to restore, or not,

Restore the state with Layer Preview

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the layer state before Preview

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By default, Layer Preview will restore the state,

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but I can uncheck the box – If I do so and close the dialog,

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the layers will remain like in the Preview.

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Now, I’ll return to Layer Preview.

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Something similar happens with this other option

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This enables us to restore the view we had before using Layer Preview.

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This option exists because, while we are previewing the layers,

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we have the ability to browse the project using the PREVIEW button –

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which includes the possibility to move, zoom and pan.

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Therefore, we are changing the view we had before using the Layer Preview.

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Selecting ESCAPE, I return to Layer Preview

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and so now I have a choice whether or not to restore the previous view.

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Given that we have used Zoom and Pan during preview

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We choose to restore the previous view, and select CLOSE.

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You’ll notice that there is a small zoom adjustment.

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Let’s return to Layer Preview.

Use different keystrokes to select layers

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Please note that, in Layer Preview, we can use different keystrokes to select layers.

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For example, clicking on the layers to activate them one by one.

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To activate several layers at once, you can drag the pointer to select them.

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This can also be done by selecting a layer, pressing SHIFT

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and selecting the last layer of the group.

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As a result, all the intermediate layers are selected.

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If we want to select all the layers at once,

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we can use Ctrl + A for all.

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If we are looking for a specific layer, we can use a filter.

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This button, DELETE,

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deletes the layers that are empty, that is, if we select a layer and there are no objects in that layer,

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the delete button will be enabled.

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If the layer contains any objects, the DELETE button will be disabled.

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But there’s more… Using this drop-down icon,

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we find more tools related to layers.

Activating Layers

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The first one, ACTIVATE LAYER defines the current layer by selecting an entity.

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For example, we select this text

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and, the layer of this entity becomes the CURRENT one.

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In this way, any entity that we create from now on will be created directly in this layer.

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The second option, allows you to change the layer of selected entities.

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For example, we select the street…

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… and select the layer to assign by clicking on an entity belonging to that new layer.

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We actually moved the entity from the layer “Street” to the layer of the “sign”.

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When selecting ” street”, we can see that the layer is now the same as for the sign.

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We also have tools to restore the previous state of layers…

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More to move an entity from one layer to the current layer.

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Others to delete layers but only those that are empty.

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What’s important – ARES now has the tools to allow us to be more productive

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when working on a complex project.

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If you want to know more about these tools,

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Just press F1 and in the search or filter area, write LAYERS

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and then go to LAYER TOOLS, where you’ll find all the help you need.

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