QuickModify – Move, Rotate, Copy and Scale at once with ARES Commander

Learning QUICK MODIFY command

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ARES Commander 2015 brings us a new tool to quickly modify the objects we have in our drawing.

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This tool we find here in this drop-down menu.

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It is called “Quick Modify”.

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With this single command, we can combine commands known as

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Copy, Move, Rotate and Scale.

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Select the command.

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Note that here in this area of the drawing

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there’s a living room that doesn’t contain any furniture.

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However here in this
other area we have another living room with furniture.

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What we’re going to do is copy the furniture and then rotate it.

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Select the entities of this room.

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Press Enter.

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Note that down here in the Command Line we’re asked to specify a base point.

Specify a base point

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We will choose a point common to the two areas.

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For example this middle point.

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Now, we choose “Copy”.
Type “C” and press ENTER.

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We indicate thesecond point, that would be here.

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We left with this option with “eXit”.

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We therefore type “X” and press ENTER.

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Now select ROTATE.
Type “R” and press ENTER.

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In the drawing, move the arrow to find the right angle.

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When we find the right position we click and press ENTER.

Move and scale with Quick Modify

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With the command “Quick Modify” we can also move and scale easily.

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We will work on this tree.

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Select “Quick Modify”.

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We choose the tree and press ENTER.

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We indicate a base point with one click.

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Among the options we choose SCALE.

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To do this we write S and press ENTER.

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Moving the pointer increases or decreases the size of the tree.

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But we can also write a numerical factor.

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For example, to reduce it to 70%, we write “.7” (point seven) and press ENTER.

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Now we can MOVE by typing “M” and pressing ENTER.

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We determine its new position with a click.

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Now let’s choose “COPY” by typing “C” and pressing ENTER.

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We are now working on the copy.

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We leave the COPY option by typing “X” and pressing ENTER.

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Execute SCALE by typing “S” and pressing ENTER.

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We write a factor of “.6” (point six)

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and choose COPY, again, with “C” and ENTER.

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Make a copy here …

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another one here …

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and finally one here …

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We leave the COPY option by typing “X” and pressing ENTER.

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We call again the Scale command by typing “S” and pressing ENTER.

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With the new “Quick Modify” command in Ares Commander 2015

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we can COPY, MOVE, SCALE and ROTATE within the same tool.

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